Puppet?

Enduring through the ages!

Orderly succession!

Eight words that had once seemed only natural, even long since taken for granted, now bore down on everyone's hearts like a Great Mountain.

The great Lineages had Ninth Order leaders with lifespans exceeding ten million years, controlling vast stretches of starry-sky resources. Only then could they steer their Lineage's development and preserve the succession of Councilor seats.

But Fang Han's "Lineage" before them...

Though it had endured for only a hundred thousand years, beginning with the first-generation ancestor who had walked out of the Public Rearing Center.

Every generation had lived no more than a century, yet its inheritance had already spanned over a thousand generations—far exceeding the number of generational turnovers among the great Lineages.

More importantly,

Within this terrifying "thousand-generation inheritance," ever since the first ancestor had chosen to work as a kitchen helper, the Fang Family had never once left that profession!

Generation after generation! Ancestor after ancestor!

Compared to the word "inheritance," this was more like a...

Curse!

In an instant, Lin Qianyi, You Moxuan, Song Zhi, and indeed every Councilor present went pale, fine beads of sweat seeping across their foreheads.

Before this, they had believed their consciences clear, and so they had been able to stand calmly before the Formless General of Patrol the Heavens and Slay Evil.

They had even borrowed Li Qingshan's power to stage a spectacle of scrambling for power and profit within this venue.

But now,

The Evil Entity had been hiding right beneath their noses. Fang Han's "Lineage" had already been passed down for a hundred thousand years, and perhaps even...

"May I ask, General,"

Lin Qianyi's heart rose into his throat. He swallowed and asked cautiously,

"Other than Fang Han, might there also be..."

"Chairman Lin, worthy indeed of being a