Wherever there was an old, powerful clan, private punishment was bound to exist. If a family wanted to continue on steadily, it had to use both kindness and authority.
If it cared only about cohesion and never spoke of punishment, how was it supposed to establish its authority?
So when True Immortal Cui took those people back, it proved the Cui Family had great standing, but after those few returned, there probably would be nothing more.
Yi He was ultimately a native of this world, and he understood the general meaning as soon as he heard it. "Ending their line is enough. Whether they're killed or not doesn't matter much."
For the Cultivation World, making sure someone had no descendants was truly far too easy.
After the two of them reached an agreement, the True Immortal of the Kong Family also spoke up, wanting to discuss a marriage alliance between the two sides.
They had originally been connected by kinship, and now renewing that bond was not a big deal.
"Wentian, you handle the arrangements. Just listening gives me a headache," Yi He said. He had always been an unaffiliated cultivator, and he not only had little interest in this sort of thing, he also had little experience with it.
After hesitating for a moment, he sighed again. "Ah, I originally didn't want to keep staying."
Before returning, he truly had wanted to go back to his roots, like fallen leaves returning to the earth. But once he came back and looked around, the feeling that things remained while people had changed was far too obvious.
Although the Yi Family's descendants had survived and continued on, he really... could not find that feeling anymore.
But now that his juniors had need of him, he finally had a reason to stay.