There were only a few brief lines on the Parchment Scroll, but Yang Qing had already understood them.
And precisely because he understood, his heart thundered.
The Yang Family's lineage had actually been born solely to perform sacrificial rites? And this did not concern just one generation. Every direct descendant of the Yang Family had to abide by it.
Back then, when the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom fell apart following Emperor Zhetian's unexpected death, the mission of the Yang Family's ancestors had come to a temporary end.
To prevent certain people from tracing their whereabouts, the Yang Family's ancestors had relocated their entire household to a place where no one knew their past, recuperating and allowing their clan to flourish.
Others might not have known the importance of the Yang Family, but members of the Eastern Splendor Royal Family knew it perfectly well.
That was also why Yang Qing had seen an Ancestral Shrine housing the spirit tablets of generations of Yang ancestors in the Four-Square Land.
That Ancestral Shrine had not been established by descendants of the Yang Family, but by members of the Eastern Splendor Royal Family.
Fan Liyou had gone to Four Directions City with Yang Qing back then, so naturally, he too had seen that Ancestral Shrine. The only spirit tablets enshrined there belonged to ancestors of the Yang Family and the Fan Family.
Because Fan Liyou's ancestors had passed down their teachings through an unbroken lineage, they knew that the Yang Family's standing differed from that of others. But they did not know the deeper reasons behind it.
There was, however, one thing the descendants of the Fan Family knew very well: if they ever encountered a direct descendant of the Yang Family, they had to protect that person with all their strength.
As for