The next morning, in the Lineage council's Grand Hall on Hundred Blossoms Mountain, Liu Changxu sat in the seat of honor. His father, Liu Shihao, Clan Head Liu Changshun, and the Liu Household's Foundation Establishment elders currently on Hundred Blossoms Mountain sat on either side.
Ever since learning that Liu Changxu had advanced to Nascent Soul, the surrounding great Lineages had grown increasingly reverent and deferential toward the cultivators of the Liu Household of Peach Blossom Mountain, allowing the Liu cultivators to hold their heads high at last.
Upon learning that Liu Changxu had returned to the Lineage, the Liu Household's Foundation Establishment Cultivators stationed throughout its lands had hurried back overnight. Every seat in the council's Grand Hall was filled, and the hall bustled with activity.
Liu Changxu surveyed the Grand Hall and found that the Foundation Establishment Cultivators seated there alone already numbered thirty-three.
They included his father Liu Shihao, his mother Lin Yulian, Third Concubine Shi, Ninth Uncle Liu Shijia, his uncle Liu Shi'an, Eighth Aunt Liu Shifeng, Clan Head Liu Changshun, Eldest Brother Liu Changyong, his second elder sister Liu Changxia, his sixteenth younger brother Liu Changjiang, his twenty-third younger brother Liu Changhui, his twenty-fifth younger sister Liu Changge, his thirty-third younger brother Liu Changyuan, his wives Li Zhenxin, Wu Yunyue, Lian'er, Zhang Wenjun, Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue, his younger sister Liu Changxin, his brother-in-law Liang Wei, his younger sisters Liu Changxue, Liu Changling, and Liu Changqin, his younger brothers Liu Changyan and Liu Changliang, his son Liu Fufeng, his daughters Liu Fujiao and Liu Fuqi, and his nephews of the Fu generation, Liu Fuming and Liu Fuyao.
Among them, his second elder sister Liu Changxia, sixteenth younger brother Liu Changjiang, twenty-third younger brother Liu Changhui, twenty-fifth younger sister Liu Changge, thirty-third younger brother Liu