1442: Power Shift Among the Four Great Clans! Brotherhood Runs Deep! (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

Just as Jiang Dali was deep within the Heavenly Abyss, searching for the fallen immortal Guang Chengzi.

Outside, the Supreme Alliance's series of emergency remedial measures had also been swiftly put into effect.

First came the power reshuffle among the Supreme Alliance's Upper Four Clans, with the transfer of various interests and resources rapidly completed across a table thick with the smoke of conflict.

After the Ten Great Clans held fierce negotiations for an entire day and night and signed a series of intricate agreements, the Left Alliance and the Li Family were officially expelled from the Upper Four Clans.

The Hu Family and Le Family, originally among the Lower Six Clans, took over the Left Alliance and Li Family's positions. The heads of the Hu Family and Le Family would become two of the new Earth Crystal Core's wielders of power—the Four Giants.

Meanwhile, the Wang Family and Yun Family, who had not been eliminated from the Upper Four Clans in the reshuffle, not only had to provide enormous resource compensation to the other eight great clans according to the agreements, but also had to make extensive additional resource reparations for the Left Alliance and Li Family's voluntary withdrawal.

Moreover, the heads of the Wang Family and Yun Family also had to step down, to be succeeded by their respective second heirs, who would become new members of the Four Giants.

After all this upheaval, the former Upper Four Clans, whether they had withdrawn from the ranks of the Four Giants or remained within them, had all paid a tremendous price.

More than half of the resource dividends they had devoured while firmly seated among the Four Giants had been surrendered because of this enormous upheaval, leaving them with devastating losses.

The Lower Six Clans, meanwhile, became the greatest