To remain weak meant imminent destruction for his sect. A sect's fortunes, much like cultivation, were akin to rowing upstream—fail to advance, and you would be swept back.
Faced with the terms Fang Qingyuan had laid out, Yan Nanxing had to admit he was tempted. The value of the Tribulation Secret Technique alone was immense. And Chu Hongshang hailed from the Qi Yun Chu Family—compared to a cultivator like him with no powerful backing, she was a figure he could normally never hope to associate with.
And that wasn't even mentioning the friendship of the White Mountain Beast Taming Sect. He didn't ask for much—just that if the Yan Gui Sect were to decline in the future, the White Mountain Beast Taming Sect could put in a good word and keep the Spirit Wood Alliance from being too predatory.
