That night, Sun Jiashu was supposed to be meeting with a certain important figure from the Great Southeastern Continent, but he made a last-minute decision to cancel this meeting. This was a very rude and inappropriate thing to do, to the point that the steward, who barely ever raised any objections to Sun Jiashu's decisions, couldn't help but ask him to reconsider. 0

However, Sun Jiashu didn't reconsider, nor did he offer any explanation. Instead, he severed the communication between the Sun Clan's ancestral residence and the Sun Manor before making his way to the small ancestral hall in the back.0

The steward was left at a complete loss for what to do, and the Sun Clan's Nascent Tier patriarch knew that he had to step in. 0

Hence, he appeared in the Sun Manor for the first time in over a century, then personally instructed the steward on how to handle this matter, instilling within him a great deal of calmness and reassurance.0

After taking a bath and changing into some new clothes, Sun Jiashu stood alone in the ancestral hall, offering up some incense before standing in silence, as if he were pondering his mistakes.0

Aside from spirit tablets, there were also portraits of the Sun Clan's past clan leaders hanging on the walls of the ancestral hall, most of whom were depicted wearing simple and unadorned attire like Sun Jiashu. Sun Jiashu had inherited the position of clan leader directly from his grandfather, while his father's generation had been skipped. 0

After relieving himself of the position, Sun Jiashu's grandfather had left to travel the Middle Earth Divine Continent. At the time, Sun Jiashu had only been in his early twenties, and with such a massive responsibility dumped onto his shoulders, he had suffered through a great deal of hardships over the years.0

Sun Jiashu looked up at the portraits on the walls. Some of them had saved the clan during time of great peril, some had established new trade routes, some had befriended cultivators of the Upper Five Tiers for the sake of the clan's prosperity, some had done nothing with their lives and had only negative impacts...0