Only after the Clan Emperor spoke those words to An Ning did the elders present feel a slight tremor in their hearts.
An Dingtian's attitude toward Li Tianming had mainly been one of urging and spurring him on, making him strive for first place.
Yet toward his granddaughter, he bestowed rewards so lavish they made others green with envy!
The clan assembly had rewarded her heavily once barely over a hundred years ago, and now she was being rewarded heavily again!
One had to know that from childhood to adulthood, An Ning had received scarcely any attention from this grandfather. He had far too many grandchildren, and as for Ninth's children, he basically only remembered their names and had hardly even met them.
Now An Ning was already more than eight thousand years old, yet she had consecutively received lavish rewards that a peripheral granddaughter like her would not have dared dream of in the previous eight thousand years!
To put it bluntly, even someone like An Tianyi, a direct descendant among direct descendants, had never received rewards on An Ning's level. Coupled with the An Source Council's recent approval of Li Tianming receiving twenty million Nebula Sacrifices and the Astral Realm Eonic God Path, King Anyang's branch had truly reaped a historic bumper harvest!
Receiving rewards was one matter. The Clan Emperor personally making an exception to reward her was another matter entirely—the implications and signals it released were something else altogether.
The question was—
Li Tianming had obtained those two great treasures because King Anyang had labored for ten years. But An Ning had received ten portions of Star Soul Zhaos for no reason at all—why?
With a single sentence, "You have rendered merit," An Dingtian left no one daring to refute him. But the question was, what