Chapter 41

Ruan He had won his gamble. No matter how much the ancestor despised Ruan He, he was still of the direct bloodline. The hierarchical system of the aristocratic clans was rigid, with the divide between the direct line and collateral branches cutting as deep as an abyss. The deaths of any number of collateral family members would never draw the attention of the clan elders, but the death of even a single direct-line member meant a waste of the cultivation resources the clan had provided for all these years— Jingqian simply could not fathom the bloodline obsession of these aristocratic clans. In the Ten Great Sects, ability always reigned supreme. A cultivator like Ruan He who was nearly a hundred years old and still only at the Nascent Soul stage would likely only qualify to be an ordinary inner sect disciple if he entered the Wanjian Sect.