Watching Ma Ran's carefree demeanor—neither immediately refuting him nor agreeing on the spot—Qian Changsheng's thoughts raced, and many ideas came to mind.
"Ancestor Ran!"
"That monster Xu Qingqiu reached the Twenty-Sixth Order of the Supernatural Era in a single day. He must have encountered some great opportunity or obtained some extraordinary fortune!"
"If Ancestor Ran needs it, my Qian Family will serve you tirelessly and do everything in our power!"
Unless absolutely necessary, Qian Changsheng was unwilling to put on a servile attitude. No matter how powerful someone else was, it had nothing to do with him.
As clan head, it was only right for him to lead the family's development and make it prosperous. But the clan's spirit and ancestral teachings were even more important.
Now, with Cangming Star migrating from the Red Lotus System to the Solar System and a period of global development about to begin, long-standing conflicts and contradictions had intensified as a result.
The Qian and Xu Families were a perfect example.
At first, the ancestors of both families had been close friends. The conflict between them had merely stemmed from minor differences in their ideals.
The ancestor of the Qian Family believed that all the humans on Cangming Star had benefited from Earth's civilization. If the two stars ever had a chance to come into contact, they would have to find a way to repay that debt.
The ancestor of the Xu Family, however, believed that Earth's civilization had ulterior motives toward Cangming. All those seemingly generous gifts had actually been secretly assigned a price long ago. A web of schemes had silently enveloped Cangming Star. They had to establish ancestral teachings, secretly control Earth's economy, politics, technology, education, and other fields after the two stars made contact, and secretly incite conflict between them,