Having a mortal manage a cultivator like Yuan Tian was far too difficult.
Without sufficient strength of his own, it would be hard to keep his subordinates under control.
Xu Tong really had handed him a thorny problem.
But Zhang Yuanrang also knew he had to solve this problem himself.
If he could not even control Yuan Tian now, Xu Tong would only have more and more people under him in the future. Without any value of his own, what right would he have to remain by Xu Tong's side?
And so, each of them traveled with their own thoughts weighing on their minds, looking at one another in silence.
Meanwhile, Yuan Siyuan had just hurried back to the Yuan Family. He went straight to the council hall and summoned the family head and the elders.
"Fourth Elder, why are you back so soon?"
The speaker was the Yuan Family's Second Elder. He had always been at odds with several of the family's elders and its head.
When Yuan Siyuan returned, the Second Elder did not give him a friendly look.
Back when Yuan Chang was still a wastrel, the Second Elder had singled him out for punishment many times.
Objectively speaking, the Second Elder was the one who genuinely had the Yuan Family's interests at heart.
He was also the elder responsible for enforcing the family rules. But in this world, what determined right and wrong was often not right and wrong itself, but one's circumstances and the people around them.
The Second Elder's strict enforcement benefited the Yuan Family, but it restricted too many disciples and elders. As a result, everyone turned against him, gradually stripping him of his authority until he was nothing more than a figurehead.
His former authority had all been taken over by the