Victor sensed the shift in the air before their arrival and decided to get out of the courtyard.
Up ahead, the six eldest members of the family, each a senior elder or branch leader—faced him as he stepped out.
They were an impressive group by local standards. Elder Qin Mu, the first among equals, carried the rare air of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
Beside him stood Bai Xian, the chief Bai representative whose Qi aura quivered with barely restrained anger, around early Nascent Soul.
The four other elders hovered between the middle and early Nascent Soul stages. All of them combined could muster a decent force, or so they assumed.
"Fang Chen," Elder Qin Mu intoned with an overbearing voice. "You've stirred unrest in our family, incited rebellion, freed slaves, and have undermined every plan we put in motion. We demand answers: who are you, and by what right do you sabotage us?"
The chamber doors closed behind him with a resonant thud.
