Si Chen was one of the landmark figures in the history of the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall.
He had once served as the Second Grand Authority Priest, acting as regent over the Ancestral God Hall for twelve hundred years. Later, he was promoted to Grand Priest of the Ancestral God Hall and continued governing it for more than six hundred years. Altogether, he had ruled the Ancestral God Hall for over eighteen hundred years.
He was the Authority Priest and Grand Priest who had wielded the greatest power in the history of the Ancestral God Hall.
Later, after his cultivation entered the Sacred Priest realm, he still interfered in worldly affairs. Nine Sun Divine King of the Heaven Temple led nearly a hundred Creation Realm Divine Beings to force his hand, leaving him no choice but to retire into seclusion and cultivate according to the Covenant of the Gods.
That was what the official history of the Ancestral God Hall recorded.
However, Princess Changle had also seen secret palace archives that ordinary people could never access.
Among those palace archives was another classified file that even the Authority Priests of the Ancestral God Hall were not qualified to view.
Although Si Chen had been the most domineering Authority Priest and Grand Priest of the Ancestral God Hall in the past fifty thousand years, and although under his control its power had become more concentrated and more overwhelming than ever, even suppressing the Heaven Temple for a time—
It was precisely his dominance that had allowed the tangled, deep-rooted family powers within the Ancestral God Hall to grow too large to restrain.
The Dongyang Family in particular.
Even though successive Grand Priests had painstakingly weakened the family powers entrenched within the Ancestral God Hall for more than ten thousand years,