After the deity disappeared, the Void Mirror returned to Jiang Zhu's hand, occasionally giving off clear, resonant chimes, ignoring the Ji Family members entirely.
"You little wretch! What evil art did you use to deceive the Mirror Ancestor?" The Ji Family members' eyes nearly split with fury at the sight.
"I told you, I'm your ancestor. Why won't you believe me? Still spouting filth here."
Jiang Zhu tapped a finger, and the Ji Family Supreme Elder who had just spewed those insults instantly turned into a cloud of blood.
"No!"
"Impossible! This is all fake! I don't believe it! Jiang Zhu must have used some demonic art!"
Some of the Ji Family members felt as though the sky had collapsed when they saw that Jiang Zhu could still wield the Void Mirror even after its deity had manifested.
"Could he really be our junior ancestor? Does he possess the Void Emperor's bloodline?"
Other Ji Family members began to wonder whether everything Jiang Zhu had said was true.
Otherwise, why hadn't the deity destroyed him? Why did it let him control it-and even kill Ji Family members?
"Jiang, you little..." The Ji Family Saint began, but at the sight of Jiang Zhu's gaze and the Void Mirror, he timidly changed his address. "Junior Ancestor!"
Seeing that Jiang Zhu did not object, he continued, "Junior Ancestor, please stop! They're all pillars of our Ji Family, and the Void Emperor's blood runs through their veins just as it does yours!"
"The Ji Family today is obsessed with chasing fame and profit, accustomed to using its family's power to bully others, and even repays kindness with betrayal. A Ji Family like this has long since lost the glory it possessed when the Void Emperor was alive."
"Calling these disgraceful things the Void Emperor's descendants