Su Xin looked at the collateral disciples kneeling below and nodded in satisfaction. He had never expected these Su Family collateral disciples to submit to him completely. As long as they obeyed him for now, that was enough. In time, he naturally had other methods to bring them all under his control.
What Su Xin did not know was that his prestige among these Su Family collateral disciples was actually quite high.
After all, the Su Family had now officially stepped into the Jianghu. Though they had no intelligence network of their own, they still knew some of the rumors circulating through the Jianghu.
Precisely because of this, the Su Family's collateral disciples regarded Su Xin with a mixture of envy and admiration.
After all, Su Xin had once been no different from them, yet he had carved out such an enormous foundation and reputation for himself in the outside world all on his own.
They had been treated like servants in the Su Family, while Su Xin, upon coming to the Su Family for the first time, had been respectfully invited in. That was the difference between them.
Now that Su Xin had become the Su Family's new head, they could finally feel at ease. After all, in this Jianghu, unless one was a lone cultivator with no family to feed and no ties to bind them, the leader of every faction was immensely important.
Take Li Changhai, the Qingcheng Sword Sect's sect leader, for example.
Although the Qingcheng Sword Sect's destruction had not been entirely his fault, mediocrity itself was a mistake for the head of a sect. Though he was not wholly responsible for the Qingcheng Sword Sect's downfall, he still had to bear part of the blame.
Su Xin, meanwhile, had nothing to do with the