"So, what are our countermeasures?"
Amid the silence, no one spoke.
But if no one spoke for too long, the discussion could not continue.
Thus, after a long wait, it was ultimately the Seventh Elder, the lowest-ranking elder present, who spoke up and asked this rather pointless question.
"My suggestion is to verify whether it's true first."
The Third Elder spoke instinctively, but quickly realized the flaw in his words and amended them. "I'm not questioning Lu Yuan. I simply believe that, from a strategic perspective, we need to verify the authenticity of this intelligence. First, confirm the ambush location. Then, confirm the identities of the ambushers. Only after that can we formulate appropriate tactics. That is the standard process of warfare, and the most basic one at that."
"But the enemies we're facing aren't standard enemies."
"Nor are they the most basic kind of enemies."
The Fourth Elder quietly drove the point home from the side.
Since everyone present was on the same side, those words could not really be called undermining him.
Nor did anyone interpret them that way.
Besides, the Fourth Elder was speaking the truth. If a family or race eventually became a one-man show, then the price would be that it was not far from destruction.
Many families could serve as examples of this.
The most typical was Hun Tiandi.
If the Soul Clan had not been Hun Tiandi's personal domain back then, it would not have ended up sacrificing its entire clan in a Blood Sacrifice.
The same applied to the Gu Clan led by Gu Yuan.
That was why Gu Xun'er had found it difficult to become the young clan leader shortly after returning to her clan. The Gu Clan was not Gu Yuan's one-man domain, so the upper echelons who did not