The reason why we were able to gain the full support of the Ge family and persuade both families is due to this elder.

He was one of the three cultivators at the peak of the Purple Mansion realm on their side. One of them was Pang Hongbo, and the third was the guardian in charge of security, who was stationed at the Heyuan mine.

The second elder of the Ge family was at the early stage of the Purple Mansion realm, while the Liu and Li families were cultivators at the middle and early stages of the Purple Mansion realm, respectively.

Including He Chengji and the Dharma Protector, there are two late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators, four mid-stage Purple Talisman cultivators, and the rest are all in the early stage.

Ge Yun, the eldest elder of the Ge family, has reached the peak of the Purple Mansion realm. His ultimate goal is simply to obtain the resources needed for a breakthrough to the Upper Realm.

With his abilities and the full support of his family, he broke through to the spiritual realm and gathered most of the necessary items, but he had been searching for the most crucial main ingredient without success.

Breakthrough spiritual items that reach the Golden Core stage are extremely rare in the outside world. Even if they exist, they appear at auctions, with prices far exceeding what ordinary families can afford. They are usually reserved by medium to large-sized cultivation families.

Especially in the Great Yue region, there are basically no spiritual objects available for acquisition from the outside world; the primary source is large secret realms.

For cultivators from small and medium-sized families, unless they encounter a personal opportunity, they can only rely on large sects to obtain resources from higher realms.

Now that the Ge family has established a connection with the Yunxiao Sect, coupled with a timely opportunity, they were extremely welcoming when Lin Xiuyuan came to visit.

Lin Xiuyuan was generous and provided a guarantee of resources, enough to help Ge Yun refine at least one batch of Chaoyuan Pills.

The other party is a cultivator at the peak of the Purple Mansion realm, leading an entire family to contribute their efforts; this deal is still quite worthwhile.

With his current contribution points, exchanging for one or two main ingredients of the Chaoyuan Pill shouldn't be a problem.

The other two players also knew this, but they couldn't help but admire it. With different cards in hand, the results would naturally be different as well.

Given the limited resources available to each individual, any opportunity to even slightly expand their family business is already a rare one.

More importantly, unlike the Sun and Chen families, their core base was not severely eroded for a period of time, leaving them with no way to sustain their foundation and forcing them to reluctantly change their stance.

Their current interests haven't been significantly impacted, giving them the confidence to take a gamble. Even if the situation becomes turbulent, the forces of good and evil will eventually retreat, and ultimately, the various factions of the Great Yue will dominate the area. Making a bet early, in the long run, might not be a bad thing.

Despite the high risks and uncertain, even tangible, returns, according to the descriptions of the various families' disciples, were such an extraordinary person that Lin Xiuyuan was bound to accomplish something remarkable during his tenure. Coupled with the Ge family's persuasion, both families ultimately decided to retreat and fight alongside Lin Xiuyuan.

In their eyes, Lin Xiuyuan was a golden opportunity to bet on, and the risk-reward ratio was undoubtedly much higher than the latter!

Therefore, all three families are now firmly on the same side as Lin Xiuyuan, and have mobilized all their forces to help him!