Returning to Dongyang Mansion at top speed, Dongyang Lige rushed straight to the secret vault where the Life Soul Tokens of important family members were kept.
The instant he stepped inside, Dongyang Lige's body swayed violently again, as though struck by lightning.
Reading an urgent report was one thing. Seeing it with his own eyes was another.
On the western side of the secret vault, the jade plaques carefully arranged on their shelves had all shattered into powder.
The western side of the entire vault held the Life Soul Tokens of the Dongyang Family's direct-line elite descendants.
These so-called direct-line elite descendants had been selected over the past two hundred years through the Dongyang Family's long-term, continuous observation, testing, and comparison of their younger direct-line members. They were descendants with high potential for future growth, capable of assuming important posts and standing on their own.
After two centuries of continual selection, only one hundred and eighty-one direct-line elite descendants deemed worthy of focused cultivation had their Life Soul Tokens gathered here.
But now, one hundred and thirty-three of them had all shattered.
In other words, seventy percent of the Dongyang Family's next generation of elites had been wiped out.
At that moment, Dongyang Lige's heart ached so fiercely that he could barely breathe. Muddy tears streamed from his aged eyes.
Among the one hundred and thirty-three elite direct-line descendants of the Dongyang Family who had previously vanished mysteriously and were now confirmed dead was one of his own direct grandsons.
That had been the descendant of the next generation he valued most, one he had even intended to cultivate as the next family head. Yet now, he had died for no reason at all.
However, Dongyang Lige, who had weathered countless storms and waves, quickly suppressed his grief.
He summoned