In the Song Family's "Funiu Mountain" Council Hall in Qinghe County.
Song Yuanfang and Song Yuanhao, the two Golden Core Elders, sat in the seats of honor, while over thirty Foundation Establishment Elders of the family stood in rows on either side below them.
Apart from the few who were away or had been unable to return due to ongoing assignments, most of the Song Family cultivators at Foundation Establishment and above had gathered here.
So many Song Family Elders had assembled because today was the family's annual "summary meeting."
At almost this time every year, the Elders managing the family's various businesses had to set aside their affairs and return to "Funiu Mountain" to report the previous year's business results and discuss plans for the coming year.
Back when Song Qingming still lived at "Funiu Mountain," he, as clan leader, would also appear to take part whenever he had time.
However, ever since moving to "Crimson Cloud Mountain," Song Qingming had scarcely managed family affairs over the past several decades, delegating the family's authority to Song Yuanfang and the others.
Thus, Song Yuanfang, the family's First Elder, had now become the one presiding over such family deliberations.
As usual, Song Yuanfang sat in the seat of honor this year, seriously listening as the Elders stepped forward one after another to report the previous year's income and expenditures from the family's various businesses, as well as matters that had occurred.
The only thing that struck everyone as somewhat strange was that Song Yuanhao, the family's Golden Core Ancestor, who had always focused single-mindedly on cultivation and rarely liked involving himself in family trifles, had appeared rather unusually in the family's "Council Hall."
This made some of the family Elders present unable to stop themselves from secretly wondering whether some important