After a brief deathly silence, the crowd around them erupted into earth-shaking cheers.
"Alliance Leader Ye! It's Alliance Leader Ye!"
"Alliance Leader Ye has emerged from seclusion! Alliance Leader Ye has finally emerged from seclusion!"
"Wonderful! With Alliance Leader Ye taking action himself, let's see if the Ye Family still dares to bully us!"
"Alliance Leader Ye is wise! Long live Alliance Leader Ye!"
The cheers echoed above East Street like rolling tides.
Countless people fell to their knees and kowtowed deeply in Ye Wudao's direction.
Among them were merchants who had been bullied by the Ye Family, traveling traders who had been harassed by Inspectors, and ordinary cultivators who had dared to rage at the Ye Family's arrogance but dared not speak of it.
Five hundred years. They had endured for five hundred years.
The Ye Family's influence had grown ever greater, their arrogance ever more rampant. Before the Ye Family, the law was no more than an empty shell.
They had thought such days would go on forever.
They had never expected Alliance Leader Ye to emerge from seclusion.
And on the very first day after emerging, he had encountered Ye Family disciples bullying merchants and stopped them on the spot.
What did this mean?
It meant Alliance Leader Ye was going to set the Ye Family in order.
It meant the laws established five hundred years ago would take effect once more.
It meant low-level cultivators like them would finally no longer suffer the Ye Family's oppression.
Everyone was so stirred that tears filled their eyes, and the cheers rose wave after wave.
Ye Wudao stood amid the cheers, his face utterly expressionless.
He looked at Ye Yu, who was kneeling on the ground, and slowly spoke.
"Ye Yu."
"Your son is here."
Ye Yu kept his