Junior Uncle is too cunning.

Of course, it depends on the situation. Some elders are very concerned about matters involving their own relatives.

Upon hearing Yin Hong's words, Wei Ziqi slowly nodded, instructing him to wait where he was. He then quickly left the Imperial Clan Court and headed deeper into the palace.

When Tang of Shang defeated the Xia Dynasty, he established the dragon vein in Chaoge. This dragon vein can be considered the ancestral vein of the Southern Continent. Although it cannot compare to a sacred mountain like Kunlun Mountain, the place where it was formed is no less impressive than the Penglai Immortal Island in the outer continents.

This is why so many Golden Immortals and even Grand Luo Golden Immortal Ancestors would suppress the Great Shang Imperial Court.

The deeper Wei Ziqi went, the denser the spiritual energy became. In the end, it even condensed into drops of spiritual rain, almost rivaling the environment of the Heavenly Court's Lingxiao Palace. In such an environment, even a pig could probably achieve enlightenment.

Wei Ziqi walked to a place shrouded in mist, stopped quietly, bowed respectfully, and said, "Wei Ziqi, the 276th generation patriarch of the Great Shang Dynasty, requests an audience with the Ancestor."

Half a day passed leisurely. Although there was still no movement inside, Wei Ziqi did not mind at all and waited quietly. Due to the excessive spiritual energy of the dragon vein, his face was red, and he felt that he was too weak to be nourished.

"come in!"

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, Wei Ziqi was about to burst when he finally heard a gentle voice. The mist in front of him slowly dissipated, revealing a path. This wasn't Wei Ziqi's first time here, so he walked in with practiced ease.

As the mist dissipated, a thatched hut was revealed. A middle-aged man dressed in purple sat cross-legged inside. If it weren't for the surrounding spiritual energy, it would be hard to believe that he was a powerful Golden Immortal.

The man in purple was the oldest ancestor of the Great Shang Dynasty, named Fan. He was the younger brother of the founding emperor of the Great Shang Dynasty, Tang, and can be considered the direct ancestor of the current emperor's lineage.

Yin Fan was also the first Grand Master of the Imperial Court of the Great Shang Dynasty. However, after the founding emperor Tang of Shang passed away, he abdicated and secretly cultivated in the land of the dragon vein. After hundreds of thousands of years, he had become a True Lord at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm. However, because his understanding of the Great Dao was insufficient, he was stuck at the gate of the Great Luo Golden Immortal.

In fact, there are quite a few Golden Immortal cultivators who truly belong to the Yin family, but the other Golden Immortal ancestors are basically branches of the Yin family, and they have very close ties with the current feudal lords. Some of them are even their ancestors.

The Great Shang Imperial Court stands atop the dragon vein, and most of those who can cultivate here are members of the Yin family. There are very few other Golden Immortal Ancestors; otherwise, the Su family patriarch wouldn't be stationed in the Jizhou Marquisate, but would have gone to Chaoge long ago.

Yin Fan glanced at Wei Ziqi and slowly asked, "What happened?"

He also knew that the Shang Dynasty's imperial court had been very unstable in recent years. This situation had started with the previous emperor, Emperor Yi, but it was eventually suppressed.

However, since King Zhou ascended the throne, there has never been a day of peace. In the past few years, the feudal lords have been constantly at war, and some have even completely ignored the call of the Shang imperial court.

Having finally subdued the feudal lords, King Zhou launched another major campaign against the four barbarian tribes. Although he expanded the territory, he also exhausted a lot of manpower and resources. In addition, with the deaths of his soldiers, the foundation of the Shang Dynasty, built up over a century of war, was completely depleted. It would take at least a thousand years to recover.

Just when things had finally calmed down, the Human Emperor was almost assassinated and nearly offended the Sage Nuwa. This nearly scared the Golden Immortal Ancestor to death, and he was even summoned and reprimanded for a long time by several Grand Luo Golden Immortal Ancestors.

It hadn't been long before Wei Ziqi showed up again. He didn't even need to think about it; it couldn't be anything good.

Wei Ziqi relayed Yin Hong's words directly, and Yin Fan's expression immediately became serious. He pondered to himself that he had no way to deal with the sage, even though he was usually a powerful and imposing Golden Immortal.

He understood what King Zhou meant, but he couldn't make the decision at the moment. He had to consult with several Grand Luo Golden Immortal Ancestors, and the final decision would have to be made by them.

Since its founding hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Great Shang Imperial Court has had three Grand Luo Golden Immortal Ancestors presiding over it.

One of them was their ancestor Xuanyuan Ming, the founder of the Yin Shang dynasty, and also the founder of the Great Xia imperial court. This ancestor was a descendant of Emperor Ku of the Gaoxin clan, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and was a relatively close bloodline.

Emperor Ku, whose original name was Ji Jun, was born in Gaoxin and was also known as Gaoxin Shi. He was the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, his grandfather was Shao Hao, and his father was Qiao Ji. He was the third emperor among the "Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors" and the cultural ancestor of the human race. He was the common ancestor of both the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Great Shang Dynasty.

When Emperor Ku was five years old, he was enfeoffed as Marquis Xin. At the age of 130, he inherited the throne and became the ruler of the world. He was insightful and wise, and he combined benevolence and authority. Because he established the twenty-four solar terms, he achieved perfect merit and cultivated into a Great Golden Immortal. He then voluntarily abdicated the throne to Emperor Yao and went into seclusion to cultivate in the Fire Cloud Cave.

Xuanyuan Ming is the fifth-generation descendant of Emperor Ku. Although he did not become the successor of the Human Emperor and his aptitude was not particularly good, he was an ascetic monk. From birth to the present, he has cultivated step by step for more than a dozen eras and finally reached the realm of the late stage of the Great Luo with all three flowers in full bloom.

Besides their unwavering dedication to the Great Dao, Xuanyuan Ming's descendants also possessed strong genes. Although his sons and grandsons had long since passed away because they had not cultivated to the level of Golden Immortals, his descendants were still remarkable, producing Yu the Great, the first emperor to establish a feudal dynasty after the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

Although Yu the Great's achievements were no less than those of the Five Emperors, and he even forged the Nine Cauldrons, a supreme treasure of the human race, successfully establishing his rule over the world and propelling humankind onto the path of hegemony once again, he still could not escape the will of Heaven. Instead of accumulating immeasurable merit, he faced the calamity of his lifespan. Despite his Golden Immortal cultivation, he did not survive more than ten thousand years before passing away in the imperial palace. Afterwards, his son Qi the Great established the Xia Dynasty and became the second human emperor of the Great Xia Imperial Court.

From the time of Yu the Great, the concept of the Human Emperor became a taboo for cultivators, with each generation having a shorter lifespan than the last, as if it were a curse, where supreme power and immortality could not be obtained at the same time.

Thus, Xuanyuan Ming became an ancestor of the Great Xia Imperial Court. As time passed and after many years of separation and migration, his other branch, Shang Tang, slowly rose to power and eventually defeated the Great Xia Imperial Court, establishing the Great Shang Imperial Court. Xuanyuan Ming, feeling that both sides were his own flesh and blood, did not participate in the process and instead became the ancestor of the Great Shang Imperial Court. By this time, he had successfully broken through to the mid-stage of the Great Luo realm and activated the Earth Flower.

He only takes action when facing foreign tribes; otherwise, he basically doesn't manage the internal affairs of the imperial court. Therefore, he is essentially a laissez-faire, or neutral, when it comes to the internal affairs of the Shang imperial court.

As for the other Grand Luo Golden Immortal ancestor of the Great Shang Imperial Court, he is also from the Yin family, named Ji Huo. He is at the early stage of Grand Luo cultivation and his blood relationship with Xuan Yuanming is not too far, less than ten generations.

However, he is now very far removed from the current royal bloodline of the Great Shang Dynasty, but is very close to the bloodline of the current Marquis of Dongbo.

The other one is the Yin Ancestor, who was truly cultivated by the Great Shang Imperial Court. He was a eunuch by the side of the founding emperor, Tang of Shang. However, unlike the previous two ancestors, the Yin Ancestor followed the path of martial arts and became a Great Luo Golden Immortal through martial arts. Although he did not break through as far as the previous two, in terms of combat power, although he could not compare with Xuan Yuanming, Ji Huo was no match for him.