"Ancestor?"
"You've emerged from seclusion?"
Seeing their ancestor appear, the members of the Li Family hurried to their feet and bowed respectfully.
The Li Family's ancestor glanced at everyone expressionlessly, making them all extremely nervous.
"Please calm your anger, Ancestor. This is all Yunhe's fault," Li Yunhe said hastily.
"Do you think the Li Family hasn't fallen far enough already?"
"With such a lax attitude, how can you restore the Li Family to its former glory?"
"Do you not understand how important the Saintess is?"
"The Li Family has waited for so many years, and now the Saintess has finally appeared. Is this how you're handling the matter?"
"Have you truly fallen this far?" the Li Family's ancestor demanded coldly.
"Please forgive us, Ancestor!"
"Ancestor, we... we were just..."
"That's enough. Since the person has appeared, we'll let this matter go. But you must remember this lesson."
"If anything goes wrong, you should know what that would mean for our Li Family."
"The Li Family... if we continue to decline, even our main branch may be struck from the Emperor Above Realm ranks!"
Hearing their ancestor's words, the members of the Li Family grew solemn.
All these years, the Li Family had remained stagnant. And once they began to decline, there would be no stopping it. Their greatest problem was that they had no one to carry on their legacy.
If not for the Eternal Land's special circumstances, where death did not exist, the Li Family probably couldn't even have maintained its current standing.
Moreover, every time the Li Family began to decline, they chose to drive out those clansmen who lacked potential and ability, so they wouldn't waste the main branch's resources.
That was why the Li Family had so many branches elsewhere.
"Ancestor, can you really only maintain