"We don't need to borrow trouble," Li Ping'an said with a smile, his voice gentle: "Chiyou was troublesome back then because of his demon army, along with his eighty-one brothers, who were the experts cultivated by the Ancestral Witch Xuan Ming.
"Even so, the real threat to the Human Race was the Hundred Clans' Great Army backing Chiyou, with the Chi You Clan merely serving as the vanguard.
"It was because Chiyou faced the Human Race early on with uninterrupted success that the Hundred Clans decided to thoroughly follow Chiyou, intending to eradicate the Human Race a second time.
"Therefore, even in ancient times, Chiyou himself was just a tribal leader; now the Hundred Clans are scattered like sand, their vitality constantly being depleted by us, and it's not easy for the Western Sect to recreate the peril of the ancient Human Race."
Zi Yao reflected briefly, then said slowly: "I actually think that the Western Sect's meticulous plotting must have another purpose."