Luo Cang was paving the way for Luo Li.
Lu Yuan understood this.
The Seventh Commander, a Luo God Clan elder at the Fifth Grade Supreme level who was also in the hall and had previously remained behind to guard the Heaven Thunder Cliff Array on Luo Cang's orders, understood Luo Cang's intentions as well.
The Third Commander, Fourth Commander, Fifth Commander, and the others, who had returned at dusk and temporarily halted the campaign of extermination before learning the news at the victory banquet, also understood what Luo Cang meant, even though he had stopped just short of saying it outright.
However, no one objected.
The most important reason was undoubtedly Luo Li's status.
Luo Tianshen's legitimate granddaughter...
The person of her generation in the Luo God Clan most compatible with the Luo God Legacy...
The bridge connecting them to the Endless Fire Territory...
A Holy Daughter who had already become the young clan leader, lacking only a formal coronation ceremony...
With all those titles attached to her, anyone with a brain knew what to do. Besides, with Lu Yuan's current prestige and Luo Li's status, if she raised her arm and called out now, it was uncertain whom the Luo God Clan garrison atop Heaven Thunder Cliff would support. It was better to hand over power gracefully. At least that would preserve some dignity. After all, a power struggle within the family was entirely different from rebellion or surrender.
The troops, from top to bottom, would certainly never accept rebellion or surrender.
If they could accept it, they would not have fought on until now.
But if it meant following one of their own...
At the end of the day, it merely meant changing commanders.
There were indeed diehard loyalists of Luo Cang and the others within the