Su Yu glanced at Xia Huyou. Those words sounded wrong. It almost felt like he was joining the faction just for the sake of waiting for its inheritance.1

Xia Huyou did not care what Su Yu thought. He continued talking, "I'm telling the truth. Many people are trying to join that faction. A lot of them only want to join and wait for Elder Hong to go bankrupt. When he reaches his limit, he would sell his research center or finally allow investors to join. At that time, the members of the faction would all get rich. What a pity. It has been dozens of years but that has yet to happen." 1

Su Yu asked curiously, "Why didn't he open the research center to investors?"1

Su Yu didn't think that it was a big deal. After all, the academy still required their research centers to actually produce results.0

"There are many reasons. Firstly, Elder Hong has high requirements. He's not willing to work with just anyone.0

"Secondly, it's too expensive. Back then, Elder Hong had asked for no less than dozens of intact corpses of divines or devils from the potential investors. It would be even better if they could offer him a live specimen.1

"Thirdly, Elder Hong...0