Why did you provoke her? Even Heaven itself is afraid of her.

In the palace.

After returning to the palace in a hurry, Xuanyuan Yi went directly to his father, the emperor, and told him about Ling Yun.

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yuanzhenting rested his chin on one hand and tapped the table with the other, seemingly lost in thought.

After a long pause, he finally spoke, "I heard that the twin brothers from the Ling family crippled the cultivation of the son of the Spirit Beast Guild's president some time ago?"

"It's true."

"Has the Spirit Beast Guild taken any action in response?"

"No action has been detected from the Spirit Beast Guild so far."

"What about the Ling family?"

"The Ling family has not made any statement, and seems to be very hostile towards the Spirit Beast Guild."

"hostility?"

The Yellow Emperor was somewhat confused.

Logically speaking, since the Ling family destroyed someone's cultivation, they should have come to apologize. Why were they so hostile?

Do you know what happened in all of this?

"I don't know the answer to that, but judging from the current situation, the reason why the Spirit Beast Guild has not taken any action is probably because they are waiting for their leader to come out of seclusion."

Back then, their guild leader had already reached the peak of the Saint Realm when he went into seclusion. His seclusion was in order to break through to the Heaven Realm.

The members of the Spirit Beast Guild must be extremely anxious right now.

After all, Feng Chen was the son of one of their elders!

Similarly, many people feel that the Ling family's status as the number one aristocratic family has come to an end.

Everyone believes that the Ling family's strength is not what it used to be, and that even if Chairman Feng does not break through to the Heavenly Realm, the Ling family will not be able to resist a peak Saint Realm expert.

As for why this view is held?

It was entirely because the second young lady of the Ling family was divorced by the Mu family, and no one in the Ling family said anything.

But Xuanyuan Yi doesn't think so.

The Ling family is not just a hidden great family in the Azure Dragon Kingdom.

They are the leaders of the four great hidden families of the four kingdoms.

However, apart from the emperors of each of the four kingdoms, no one else knew about this matter.

Even though they have basically stayed out of the world and have almost faded from everyone's sight in recent years, what have the other three great families said?

As for why the Ling family faded from public view more than a decade ago, probably no one except the Ling family members knows.

Most importantly, it was that woman.

If she is indeed the patriarch of the Ling family, let alone a spirit beast guild, even if the three major guilds joined forces, they might not be able to gain any advantage.

For some reason, he was actually looking forward to it.

"The Empress Dowager's birthday is in a few days. You should go to the Ling family in person. The eighth girl of the Ling family should be back soon. You two haven't seen each other for several years. As her fiancé, you should go and make a good impression."

"Yes, Father."

Hearing his father's words, what did Xuanyuan Yi not know?

As for Ling Wanxin, the eighth young lady of the Ling family.

Their marriage was arranged by their mothers from the time they were born.

The two were childhood sweethearts and had always had a good relationship.

Xuanyuan Yi liked Ling Wanxin, after all, he had treated her as his future crown princess since childhood.

However, after Ling Wanxin was taken as a disciple by the Holy Lord of the Temple, they did not see each other for several years.

After watching Xuan Yuan Yi leave, Xuan Yuan Zhen Ting summoned the royal guards.

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The next day, Ling Jun summoned several elders of the Ling family early in the morning, even calling out the elders who were in seclusion.

"Master, did you call us out at this time because those guys have come knocking on our door?"

"They dare to do it again? Patriarch, we absolutely cannot let them off so easily this time."

“That’s right, Patriarch. Our Ling family has kept a low profile for more than ten years. Outsiders almost thought that our Ling family was about to decline. Now, anyone dares to bully us.”

"That's right. Putting aside the two Ling brothers, just look at Wanrou. How did the Mu family propose to her? How did they promise us they would treat her well? And what was the result? This is how they treated her? They divorced her without our consent and spread rumors about her having affairs with other people."

"That's right, that child is so obedient, how could he possibly do such a thing?"

"Alright, alright, stop arguing."

A group of elders kept talking non-stop.

Ling Jun had a headache from listening to this.

Another day where I don't want to be the head of the household.

"I've called you all here today not for any other reason than to tell you that our ancestor has returned."

Instantly, everyone fell silent.

The Ling family members may not know the Ling family patriarch, but they absolutely cannot be unaware of him.

They all knew that the Ling family had an ancestor, who was the ancestor of all ancestors and the strongest being in the Ling family.

"Patriarch, are you telling the truth? The Ancestor has really returned?"

After a long while, the Grand Elder spoke.

"Yeah, Hong Yuan has also left the forbidden area and is trying to make his presence known to the ancestor."

The thought of that shameless guy staying with the old ancestor made his teeth itch.

He didn't want to be the head of the household for even a day longer.

Hearing that even the Hongyuan Ancestor had left the forbidden area, they had no choice but to believe it.

"Our ancestor doesn't like to be disturbed, so you don't need to bother him anymore. Besides, Ling Xiao and the people from the Northern City have arrived in Dragon City. Go and make arrangements."

These guys aren't any better.

Who knows, they might all come looking for the ancestor again for no reason.

......

"What do you think the patriarch and elders are doing?"

"I don't know, but something big must have happened."

Even the elders who were in seclusion were summoned out.

Amidst the crowd, Ling Wanrou listened to the discussions among the Ling family disciples and couldn't help but look towards the tightly closed door.

Ling Wanrou knew that the woman was indeed their Ling family's ancestor.

Considering the current situation of the Ling family, perhaps it wouldn't be difficult for the patriarch to return.

I thought of what Ling Yun said back then.

Was the ancestor targeting her back then?

"Second sister, I never expected that we would actually be able to witness the ancestor's splendor yesterday."

Ling Jiu had already learned about Ling Yun's identity through Ling Wanrou's explanation.

Thinking back on it, Ling Jiu was incredibly excited.

She never expected that her ancestor would be so handsome.

"You should not be so reckless when you see the ancestor in the future. Even if the ancestor does not blame you, the patriarch and the others will probably not let you off the hook."

The extent to which the patriarchs respected their ancestor can be seen in the bamboo garden where no one is allowed to enter.

Soon, everyone in the Ling family knew that their legendary ancestor had returned.

They had never met this patriarch, but they all knew how powerful he was back then and how he led the Ling family to become the number one family.

Everyone was so excited they wanted to meet them.

Meanwhile, the person in question was leisurely lying in a chair.

She had witnessed everything that happened at the Ling family's house early that morning.

What exactly is the Spirit Beast Guild?

Upon hearing the mention of the Spirit Beast Guild, Ling Yun noticed the anger on Hong Yuan's face.

Ling Yun became even more curious about this.