Ye nodded but still shook his head "This is indeed so, but…" And the discussion began with that. Both sides seemed to have been in this argument for a long time, so although a better argument came one after another, no one seemed surprised and they continued.
Ludwig stood on the side and watched them act and behave. He naturally also saw that they repeated a discussion already said, but he also knew that this was how most discussions were, so he didn't think the two tried deceiving him. He just waited till they were over with their arguments, after all, they might say something convincing to him.
As it turns out, they didn't say anything truly convincing for Ludwig. It was to be expected, once he had something in his mind, there was hardly something that could change his opinion. Ludwig now knew the situation better at least and was even more sure of his thought.
So, when he saw that the arguments were only repeating what was already said, he raised his hand "None of your two's proposal is throughout. I can imagine that you have thought well and long about them, but they aren't very fitting. Little Wei, you mentioned it, the Southern Wilderness, why didn't you go on deeper into this since you are aware of that place?"
Wei and Ye looked somewhat confused, it was Wei who answered, "The place isn't suitable, the Rogue Cultivator Alliance has already many branches there, so do the other supreme forces, but there is also a pact between the top forces of humanity and the monsters to not interfere into each other's conflicts, so the benefits are all split."
Ludwig shook his head "I don't mean to fight against the monsters, we should trade!"
"Trade?" Ye looked awkward "But they are beasts and humans…"
Ludwig shook his head once again "Why would that matter for us? We are the neutral faction, not the righteous. They are a bunch of stuck-up people that will never openly trade with them, but who knows whether they trade in secret. As for the demonic faction, they are even worse, they probably scammed the monsters many times while they still kill numerous of them for their weird cultivation arts."
Ye and Wei smiled wryly. No matter what, Ludwig was talking about the two factions that are stronger than the neutral faction, so they didn't wish to say anything.
"The alliance probably also has their secret trading, but so many rogue cultivators go into the mountains, I doubt there are permanent branches for trading. And this is what we should do, after all, a permanent branch for the trade between humans and monsters is a way to success. Naturally there is already trade and there are other people that have thought the same, but since there is no big one that is known to all, it is obvious they are either on a very low level or failed.
With the background of our clan, there should be no issue to attempt this. We don't know about the negotiations of the higher forces, but even they won't trade lower ranked things, so at least we have a great foundation for the future."
Ye and Wei contemplated about the idea. In the end, it was true that this was the case, they weren't too sure, but wanted to know deeper.
Ludwig was happy that this worked quick, so he said "Alright, Ye, how far has your Alchemy progressed?"
Ye seemed very proud "Although alchemy is different from formations, they have some similarities, so in the past three years, I managed to put the alchemy on the same rank as my cultivation."
"That's good, and your formation?"
This made Ye even prouder "I am already at the semi-core formation stage!"
Ludwig smiled. 'What a good boy, if he was my son, I'd be a proud parent for sure, although my son is no less talented, naturally.'
Then nodded and said "This will be very good for the branch. Every being has their own specialty, the specialty of humans has always been flexibility.
There are races whose craftmanship is way ahead, others are great alchemists, formation master's is a common trait for very high intelligent monsters while talisman is something most races have at least a small foundation in. The humans specialty is and has always been flexibility and the ability to be proficient in many creation arts."
One could say that each race had their own uniqueness, Humanities specialty is focused on creation arts, but isn't specifically doing well one a single or even a few arts but has a good attitude towards all arts. This is good for a lower to medium race, but after all, it always meant that at least in the creation art way, they won't reach the true peak.
Then Ludwig switched the topic back to the branch "We need to decide on a proper location. Wei, do you have any thoughts regarding this?"
Wei nodded "The monster race in our world has three supreme forces, two on land and one at sea. The sea beasts are in minority since even though the ocean is large, it can't compare to the earth below, so it is lesser. As for the beasts, only two were able to prove themselves to be worthy to have a seat, all others lost and were annexed by the two winners or by the humans. After all, us humans have six supreme forces, three righteous, two demonic and one neutral.
The righteous force alone would be able to fight the beasts, so there is no need to explain why they barely managed to occupy the southern wilderness which is only one quarter of the world, while two and a half quarter are taken by humans and the ocean beasts only own a half quarter.
On the earth, the two monster factions are the Night Cat tribe and the Ferocious Blood Wolf tribe. The two are said to be in a long conflict. Although the ferocious blood wolf tribe is a supreme force, it is said that they are only a branch of the wolf tribe and not the ancestral tribe, the same is said about the night cat tribe, but I heard that unlike the ferocious blood wolf tribe, the night cat tribe is the ancestral tribe of an extremely strong tribe that also exists in the upper world.