As news of Xiao Lin's "grave injuries" spread, forces friendly with the Xiao Household, such as the Nalan Family and the Mu Household, came to visit him one after another.
Nalan Jie and Mu Chen, in particular, came in person!
In addition, the Jia Ma Royal House, the Mittel Family, and the other forces all sent people to visit Xiao Lin.
To be fair, there was one upside to Xiao Lin being "gravely injured."
Everyone who came to visit brought gifts.
Even those who came with ill intentions had to prepare at least a few gifts to give themselves a legitimate reason to call on him.
Still, since Xiao Lin remained "gravely injured and unconscious," the visitors could only leave their gifts and depart after seeing him.
Taking it all in, Xiao Lin hardly knew how to feel.
How should he put it?
He kept getting the feeling that he was already dead, and all these people had come to pay their respects.
In a way, he really had experienced a different sort of death.
But although Xiao Lin lay bedridden, "gravely injured and unconscious," he still possessed heavenly realm soul power!
As such, everything happening within the Xiao Household remained under his control.
Xiao Lin could sense that his "grave injuries and unconsciousness" had cast a pall of unease over the entire Xiao Household.
After all, if he really succumbed to his injuries!
Many of the forces currently on friendly terms with the Xiao Household might no longer treat them the same way.
Hadn't the Xiao Clan and the Gu Clan once been friends for generations?
Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan had been all but sworn brothers!
But what had that mattered?
In the end, hadn't the Gu Clan merely preserved a portion of the Xiao Household's bloodline?
Then