To any disciple of the Lin Sword God Clan, the "ancestral hall" was a sacred place in their hearts.
There, it not only signified solemnity, reverence, respect, and remembrance for their ancestors—it also represented the core of the Lin Clan's authority.
Branch masters were merely the ones who called the shots within their respective branches.
The Lin Clan's decision-making power, leadership, and even its foremost martial forces were all housed within the "ancestral hall."
Anyone who could step into the ancestral hall held a status higher than a branch master.
People often said that half of the Lin Clan ancestral hall was occupied by the living, and the other half by the dead.
The living made every decision before the dead.
Though the dead had passed on, the spirit, will, and clan soul they left behind remained within this ancestral hall, watching the other half—the living.
To enter the ancestral hall, one needed strength, status, contributions, and seniority. Not one could be lacking.
Yet even if one possessed all four, the moment they betrayed the Lin Clan or brought shame upon it, they would be expelled from the ancestral hall at once.
Lin Xiao and Dongshen Yue were examples.
Members of the ancestral hall came from every branch, yet stood apart from every branch!
Many Lin Clan disciples imagined that the "ancestral hall" would be a place of dazzling gold and jade.
In truth, it was not!
The true Lin Clan ancestral hall retained the plain traditions of the most ancient era. Built somewhere within the Myriad Swords Divine Mausoleum, it looked entirely unremarkable from the outside.
Inside the ancestral hall stood rows of simple wooden chairs.
Before the chairs were rows upon rows of wooden tables, upon which neatly rested orderly wooden grave tablets, roughly three thousand in total.