The Void Sword Formation Crushed the Ramparts; Resounding Night Lessons Shook the Clan Hall

The Li Family had waited far too long for this moment.

The Sun Family had used a banquet as a pretext to place Second Uncle Li under house arrest, then sent tokens twice, threatening them from a position of superiority and constantly warning the Li Family. Such treatment was really no different from a monarch being imprisoned by an enemy kingdom, subjected to the sheep-leading humiliation, and made to sleep in a pigsty.

In this Sealed Land, what did the great clans care about most?

Face!

Standing!

Authority!

These seemingly intangible things represented solid interests once put into practice. Once a great clan lost its authority and face, it would gradually be looked down upon and despised. Then those with ulterior motives would test and provoke it, followed by all manner of uncontrollable incidents, internal conflicts, and an eruption of hidden problems. Resolving each of these incidents would inevitably come at a price.

Thus, in this Sealed Land, where achievement determined precedence and the strong preyed on the weak, the best response to a great clan losing face and authority was an overwhelmingly fierce counterattack-a fight to the death that reestablished the clan's unrivaled standing.

No one should think Second Uncle Li's imprisonment was a little-known secret. The overt and covert factions in Delusion Village were all crafty operators who kept their eyes everywhere and never acted without something to gain. The people of the Clan Hall, the Enlightenment Academies, the Sun and Zhao Families, and those scholars shrewder than monkeys were all closely watching the Li Family's response and attitude.

Why had the Yin Family dared to challenge the Li Family openly? Why had they dared to establish another Pill Academy just across the street and compete with the Li Family face-to-face? Wasn't it because rumors kept circulating that