The Ye Family's Elder Council was the highest authority within the Ye Family. It included every giant of the Ye Family at the Celestial Realm Seventh Stage and above. One could say that even the family head could not casually overturn a resolution passed by the Ye Family's Elder Council.
It was the only authority capable of checking and balancing the family head. However, the Elder Council was not convened under ordinary circumstances, because every grand gathering required even many old monsters who had been in seclusion for years to be summoned forth.
Unless they were in death seclusion, every giant and overlord of the Ye Family at the Celestial Realm Seventh Stage and above had to attend.
Generally speaking, whenever the Elder Council needed to be convened, it meant a matter that truly determined the Ye Family's life or death.
Ordinary matters could be easily decided by the various overlords themselves. Greater matters could be handled by the family head. Even major events could be resolved by the family head convening a high-level meeting with the leaders of the various factions, such as the previous joint pressure from the various factions demanding that Ye Xiwen hand over the Yin-Yang Life-Death Diagram. That had only required a high-level meeting.
But this time, it concerned not only the Ye Family. It could even be said to involve cooperation between the human race and the Ancient Phoenix World, so it was no longer merely the Ye Family's own affair. That was why the Elder Council had been convened with such solemnity.
Of course, even within the Elder Council, those who truly held the right to speak were still the experts of the Celestial Supreme Realm. They were the Ye Family's real decision-makers. Although Celestial Realm Seventh Stage experts were also called giants,