As for Liu Xuan of the Great Ancestor's branch, along with the other cultivators who had been imprisoned, Li Yan did not mention them at all. Neither did Dai Yun and the several Golden Core Realm clan elders dare to ask.
When they had migrated, Dai Yun had seen Liu Xuan and the others being swept together into the spirit-storage space when Elder Hao gathered all the clansmen.
Yet after arriving here, they never saw those people again. Moreover, quite a few people from the Great Ancestor's branch had vanished as well...
Li Yan, however, knew exactly where Liu Xuan and the others had ultimately gone. They had long since gone to the netherworld to reincarnate!
That also included the people from the Great Ancestor's branch who had disappeared afterward. They were all clansmen connected to Liu Xuan and his group, and they too had stepped into the cycle of reincarnation.
By the time Elder Hao brought up this matter, the sacrificial ceremony had already ended. He merely mentioned it casually to Li Yan.
When Elder Hao spoke of the three ancestor branches here—the people of the lower realm's "Soul-Suppressing Palace"—his Divine Sense had still caught quite a few inappropriate remarks.
Thus, he immediately carried out another purge. People like Liu Xuan, who had continued harboring dissatisfaction in private even after being confined, were all dealt with in one sweep.
Li Yan actually had no objection to Elder Hao's habit of massacring large numbers of disciples at the slightest provocation.
He was not a three-year-old child. He understood that Elder Hao's method was to crush every bad sign dead while it was still in the bud.
Elder Hao showed not the slightest mercy toward disciples unfit to be clansmen. When he killed, regardless of gender, age, or status, he felt