Clue

"Clan Leader Wu, have you made a decision?"

Inside the reception hall of the Wu Clan residence, a young man in white sat leisurely in the seat of honor. He accepted a cup of tea from the tea table beside him and took a sip, his calm voice devoid of the slightest emotion.

The atmosphere throughout the great hall was somewhat oppressive.

Several people sat in the guest seats arranged in two rows to either side of the seat of honor, each wearing a different expression.

Several gazes converged upon the Wu Clan Leader standing in the middle of the hall, making beads of sweat seep from his forehead.

"Esteemed Immortal, it truly is not that we are concealing anything. It is that the Old Ancestor truly left nothing behind. Even regarding the Old Ancestor's whereabouts, he never told us a single word!"

As he spoke, bitterness appeared on the face of the middle-aged Wu Clan Leader.

Ordinary people only knew that their Lineage had produced an Old Ancestor at the True Essence Realm Peak.

But who knew that this Old Ancestor's relationship with the Lineage was practically that of strangers?

More than three hundred years ago,

that Old Ancestor had been born into a collateral branch of the Wu Clan. His parents had died when he was young, and with no one to rely on, he had been bullied by the children of the then Clan Leader's branch. His family property had also been forcibly seized. Even the Spirit Item that had set him upon the path of cultivation had been an heirloom left by his parents, which he had hidden away and refused to reveal even unto death.

It was precisely because of this that Wu Zhengzong had publicly declared that he was severing his blood ties with