The major powers' answer to the Zhang Family was simple: no Great Saint was permitted to emerge from the Zhang Family. If the Zhang Family crossed that line, what awaited them would very likely be the frenzied counterattack of all the major powers.
Only then did the Zhang Family realize that they had thought too simply, too naively. They had believed that cultivating to the Great Saint Realm was merely their own family's affair, but in truth, matters were far more complicated than they had imagined.
Setting aside the families and sects that had deep grudges against the Zhang Family, those truly most wary of them were the other top-tier great families. The Zhang Family was already glorious enough. If it rose another step, would it not stand above them? That was something they absolutely could not accept.
The Zhang Family had gone far enough.
This was also the greatest obstacle facing the Zhang Family. If it had been an ordinary family or ordinary sect producing a Great Saint, it probably would not have drawn collective opposition, because they had never stood at the summit.
Originally, if the Zhang Family had waited until Zhang Li entered the Great Saint Realm before announcing it, then everything would have been a done deal. No matter how unwilling they were to see the Zhang Family advance further, they would not truly offend a Great Saint to the bitter end.
In their eyes, even defeating a Great Saint was extremely difficult, much less killing one. Not everyone possessed Ye Xiwen's monstrous strength.
Who could have expected the matter to leak before then? That was the root cause of why things had become so troublesome. And as the matter fermented, it would only grow larger. Now, whenever members of the Zhang Family went out, they