"Family Head, Family Head, this is bad! Someone has come knocking at our gates!"
The Shen Family was, after all, the foremost lineage of the age, an existence comparable to the great peak powers. It was not somewhere just anyone could enter at will.
Even the man who had come to report the news was one of those responsible for guarding the gates.
It was impossible for him to meet the Family Head without hindrance.
The moment he arrived here, led along by acquaintances, he was stopped.
The anxiety in his heart made him cry out at the top of his lungs.
His piercing shout passed straight through the gates and courtyards, reaching the reception hall where the Shen Family Head was.
At this moment, the Shen Family's reception hall did not contain only the Shen Family Head.
Under ordinary circumstances, he might have been allowed in.
But this was clearly no ordinary time.
That man's shout instantly startled the few people who had been chatting merrily in the reception hall.
The Shen Family Head, Shen Xinhai, had his face turn the color of pig liver in an instant.
The Shen Family, one of the overlord powers of the Vast Continent.
It had been unknown how many years since anything unexpected had happened.
Over the years, more and more experts had come seeking refuge because of the peace and prosperity, to the point that they had begun considering whether they ought to drive away some unnecessary experts.
Who could have imagined it?
They had only just concluded a deal with the Cangming Palace Envoys today, and something like this had happened.
How was he, the dignified Shen Family Head, supposed to keep his face?
"Who is making such a racket outside? Let him in!"
Shen Xinhai was a man who