System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

"Ning'er, listen to me, the tribal crisis is only temporary. Once the crisis is over, the chief will definitely bring you back."

With tears welling in her eyes, Yao Xue looked at her son Jiang Ning and comforted him, "Mother will be waiting for you to come back in the clan."

Jiang Ning believed it to be true and finally nodded.

Seeing this, Yao Xue hugged Jiang Ning in her arms and shed tears of reluctance.

In such a large clan, the number of bloodlines truly qualified to be sent out by the clan leader before the great calamity arrives is naturally not large.

After all, there is an unwritten rule in the cultivation world: if a clan is exterminated, then all witnesses must be silenced.

The fewer the number of fleeing bloodlines, the easier it is to hide. If the number is large, the enemy will expend a huge amount of effort to hunt them down.

As the Grand Elder finished reading the names of the clansmen on the list, he shouted to the crowd, "Those whose bloodlines were called, stay here. All others, except for those with the cultivation level of the Opening Mansion Realm, step down and return home to wait quietly."

"Yes!"

Fewer than two thousand members of the Jiang clan were able to enter the core clan hall, while members of the collateral branches were not even qualified to know this news.

“Mother, Mother…” Jiang Ning looked at Yao Xue, whose face was covered in tears, and also cried.

"Ning'er, now that you're away from your mother, you're an adult. You must live strong and never slack off in your cultivation. If the tribe is safe, you will all be brought back immediately." Yao Xue looked at her son with great reluctance in her eyes, but with the tribe facing a life-or-death situation, this was a choice that the higher-ups had to make.

"I know, I will remember Mother's teachings!"

Two Red Armor Guards were taking away clansmen whose names had been called by the Grand Elder to the clan hall to meet the clan leader.

Jiang Ning cried out and waved to grab his mother Yao Xue, but in the end, he was still led into the clan hall by two red-armored guards.

Meanwhile, similar incidents were unfolding in other parts of the square as well.

Inside the clan hall, only the clan leader Jiang Tianxiao and the Grand Elder were present at the moment, while the other elders were urgently going to various parts of the territory to gather core combat forces.

More than twenty young men and women knelt below the main hall, weeping and wailing.

Ancestor Jiang Tianxiao also waved his hand, and more than twenty storage magic treasures flew to each person's front.

"These storage treasures contain the core heritage of our Jiang clan. This is the hope and foundation for your outsiders to rise and rebuild your tribe after the destruction of our Jiang clan."

Standing next to Jiang Tianxiao was none other than the Firewing Bird that had returned with the message, while Bai Li sat in a corner of the hall watching this scene.

"Yes, Ancestor, we will certainly not let the tribe down!"

"We will never forget our ancestor's teachings!"

One by one, the younger generation accepted the suspended storage treasures, responding with resentment.

Jiang Tianxiao nodded, then turned to the Grand Elder and said, "Take them away."

The elder shook his head and sighed, then walked up to the group of tribal youths and shouted, "If you have received news of the destruction of the Jiang clan, then you must live in anonymity from now on. If you have not, it means that my Jiang clan has not been destroyed."

"Yes!"

Then the elder waved his hand, and a magical artifact was used to collect all the younger generation of the tribe.

The elder bowed to Jiang Tianxiao and said, "Clan leader, after I have exiled the clansmen to various places, I will rush back to the clan and help it overcome this difficult time."

"No, you are the protector of the future hope of the Jiang clan. If you receive news of the destruction of the Jiang clan when you leave, then preserve one branch of your bloodline and leave Qushan forever."

The two elderly men had worked together for nearly two hundred years and were as close as brothers; the meaning behind their words was clear to both of them.

"Chief, I promise!"

"ensure!"

The Grand Elder said nothing more and turned to fly away.

With the Grand Elder leaving with the hopes of the Jiang clan, only Jiang Tianxiao, the Firewing Bird, and Bai Li remained in the main hall.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the dark sky began to lighten with the first hint of dawn.