Inheritance?

His words echoed through the chamber, ringing in everyone's ears.

Faced with the youth's icy gaze, most of the councilors, including Lin Qianyi, You Moxuan, and Song Zhi, instinctively felt ashamed and guilty, lowering their heads in silence.

Yet a small number of them frowned slightly, clearly unconvinced.

"General!"

A middle-aged man took a deep breath, seemingly bolstering his courage. Then he abruptly rose to his feet and pointed at the Star Chart.

"The General cares for the people's livelihood. Naturally, we admire that. But this talk of a 'stage' is far too one-sided!"

"The council chamber belongs to Yougu Seat, and the great Lineages have taken root in this Stellar Sea for hundreds of millions of years. How could we possibly turn a blind eye to the people's welfare?"

"I cannot speak for others, but my Fang Family..."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man raised his hand and traced across several points of light on the Star Chart, his expression grave.

"The Yinping System, the Water Valley System, the Ziyu System..."

"My Fang Family commands fifteen star systems in total, all of which have always been managed in perfect order. Even if Evil Entity incidents occasionally occur, the local Evil Slaying Department handles them at once. All of this has already been covered in the submitted case files."

"Furthermore, the Fang Family's ancestor rose from humble beginnings and understood well the hardships of passing down a Lineage, as well as the peril of one wrong step leading to eternal damnation.

"Thus, he upheld the principle of governing the family strictly, leaving behind ancestral precepts so severe they were nearly harsh!

"Every descendant of the Fang Family must remember those precepts, take revitalizing the Lineage and protecting humanity as their duty, and never become one of those wastrel scoundrels who