A Small Figure Caught in the Cracks

"Ancestor, what do you think?"

The younger members below watched this family elder of the Core Formation Realm with some nervousness. They were merely a small cultivation family. In the past, they had only fenced off a patch of land to make a living; a scale that did not even qualify as a sect naturally came with no great burdens.

Thus, during Heyang City's period of rapid development, after the clan elders gathered for a meeting, they grandly relocated the entire family to Heyang City.

When they had made that decision, the controversy it stirred had truly been no small matter.

After all, though their former scale could not be called invincible, they had at least been the unquestioned authority within their own territory.

As the ancients said, better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix.

Why give up being perfectly good local tyrants to come to Heyang City and become people who followed the rules?

Then what had their entire family worked for all these years?

The voices of opposition were loud, and most came from the family's younger generation, who had only just come of age.

After all, with the great era of the spiritual energy tide upon them, the old fogies who had pressed down from above had vanished without a trace, while the juniors below advanced by leaps and bounds with each passing day. Once they had gained some means, who would still willingly remain obedient filial sons and worthy descendants?

Once internal divisions arose, conflicts naturally erupted. Quite a few hot-tempered people even renounced the family on the spot, taking others with them to build their own futures.

Under the oppression of the aged rulers, the newly risen young people had no fear of letting facts speak for themselves.