A document from the Elder Council sent shockwaves through the martial world.
The Tang Family had transformed overnight into the Fifth Great Family, standing on equal footing with the Four Great Families.
What was more, they had been given half of the Jiang Family's authority.
Everyone knew this was a suppression and weakening of the Jiang Family.
For no other reason than that the Jiang Family and the Yan Zhao Sect—or more precisely, Lu Chengwen—had become one family.
Jiang Yuanshu had been injured by Shan Jianqing and nearly miscarried, provoking Jiang Shang's fury.
Now Jiang Shang had made it clear that he would not give the Elder Council any face and would protect Lu Chengwen at all costs.
Then the Elder Council's Old Dean had suddenly died under mysterious circumstances. Grand Dean Song Sheng Chaoying announced to the public that his old wounds had flared up during a battle with the Yan Zhao Sect, leading to his death.
Now the Elder Council wanted to kill the Yan Zhao Sect's Three Heroes, while the Jiang Family wanted to protect Lu Chengwen. The conflict had emerged.
If they directly cut down the Jiang Family, the Jiang Family would inevitably retaliate like mad.
A great family that had operated for so long possessed such deep foundations that even the Elder Council was not confident it could suppress them in one fell swoop.
And so, this method came into being.
Naturally, they dressed it all up in pleasant words. They said the Jiang Family's burden was too heavy; that the current structure was too outdated to keep up with the needs of the times and required new forces and families to help manage things; that the Tang Family had recently performed exceptionally well and could share much of the Four Great Families' practical work...