"What do you think?" Yang Zhengshan looked at everyone, and they looked at one another.
There were some things they were not suited to say, especially when it involved the Yang Family. They could not voice their opinions recklessly.
Seeing everyone fall silent, An Yuxing pondered for a moment before saying, "Should we discuss this?"
Yang Zhengshan shook his head. "There's no need. I know what you're concerned about, but today I want to tell you this: cultivation comes first in everything!"
"We're cultivators. What we revere is the height of one's realm, not the size of one's power."
"Having Chengmao serve as the tower lord would be doing him wrong, not anyone else!"
What these people were concerned about was nothing more than the proper order of seniority. Ordinarily, Yang Chengye was the eldest grandson of the Yang Family's main branch. If Yang Zhengshan did not take the position of Ziwei Tower Lord, then Yang Mingcheng or Yang Chengye should have taken it—not Yang Chengmao!
That was the family inheritance model, but the problem was that the Spirit Source Land was no longer a single family. It was now a sect.
Since it was a sect, it had to follow the sect's model.
To a sect, the Sect Master was actually more like a Head Steward than the master of the sect.
Take the Lingxiu Three Sects, for example. Their Sect Masters were all Martial Gods. As for the Twelve Great Clans, their clan heads were all Heavenly Dipper Stage Martial Artists. Some families followed bloodline inheritance, while others looked only at ability, making no distinction between direct and collateral branches.
Immortal cultivation families were another matter entirely. Many Immortal cultivation families directly separated immortals from mortals, dividing them according to generation names.
For example, if a family disciple