For a time.
The Spirit Sky Great Elder, like the clan elder, found it difficult to make up his mind.
Yet with the Ancestor absent, they too were the rulers of the Spirit Sky clan.
They were not the Ancestor's direct descendants.
The Great Elder controlled the [Council of Elders] and presided over all clan affairs.
The clan elder controlled the [Council of Clan Elders], commanding the many powerful experts within the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan.
[Council of Clan Elders].
It was also where the Spirit Sky clan's greatest strength lay.
There were no fewer than ten experts at the half-step Demon Venerable realm within it.
As for the Spirit Sky Ancestor's direct descendants...
Though they enjoyed privileges within the Spirit Sky clan, those privileges were not extensive. This was the greatest difference between the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan and clans such as the Golden Flood Dragon Clan and the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan...
Within the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan, the greatest privilege was the rank of one's innate bloodline. Even the Ancestor's direct descendants were no exception.
This also meant that within the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan, the higher one's innate bloodline rank, the higher one's status naturally became.
And vice versa.
Bloodlines elevated through later cultivation held status far beneath the former, separated by several levels.
After all.
Those powerful experts capable of breaking through to the Demon Venerable realm?
They had always been clan demons with exceptionally powerful innate bloodlines.
Thus, the Demon Race not only valued bloodline grades—they valued innate bloodline grades even more!
In this regard.
The Spirit Sky Tiger Clan embodied it most thoroughly.
Just then...
A sigh echoed through the ancient great hall.
"Then invite the Twelfth Forefather to emerge from seclusion!" The Spirit Sky clan elder looked at the Great Elder,