Within the Dongyang Mansion of the Dongyang Family in Luoyi.
In a quiet room in the rear courtyard, protected by layer upon layer of Spiritual Light, Dongyang Lige, Grand Priest of the Ancestral God Hall, knelt on the floor. The five bright-red finger marks on his old face were especially glaring.
Clearly, this Grand Priest of the Ancestral God Hall, Dongyang Lige, had been beaten again—slapped again.
And he was still kneeling there, willingly taking those slaps.
Given Dongyang Lige's position as Grand Priest, looking across all of Great Zhou—even the entire Primordial Continent—there was simply no one who could make him willingly kneel and take a slap.
Not even Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long of Great Zhou could do so.
Only one person could: the still-living Old Ancestor of the Dongyang Family—Dongyang Si Chen!
Dongyang Si Chen was a legendary Sacred Priest renowned throughout the Ancestral God Hall. Back then, his prestige within the Ancestral God Hall had towered into the heavens.
That same authority had also existed within the Dongyang Family.
Dongyang Si Chen had been the most centralized Clan Head in the history of the Dongyang Clan.
Whether they were from the direct bloodline or collateral branches, all had to obey the orders of Clan Head Dongyang Si Chen.
Those who refused his orders did not exist. Those who had existed had disappeared.
The grave grass atop the graves of the collateral branch leaders who had obeyed in public while defying him in private had already been replaced countless times.
This showed just how great Dongyang Si Chen's influence over the Dongyang Family had been in those days.
Even now, the Dongyang Family's power within the Ancestral God Hall still fed upon the old foundation Dongyang Si Chen had left behind. The various rules and systems used by