As their eyes met for a moment, he knew that this was the youth who had sent his third brother back.
He noticed another youth sleeping soundly at Li Hao’s feet and recognized him as one of the Ji Family’s proud juniors.
Ji Tian Chao’s gaze swept over Ji Yun Yue, and he nodded slightly to this fourth sister before turning his attention to Ji Qing Yuan.
All Ji Qing Yuan did was look back indifferently, but the exchange of glances seemed to conceal countless undercurrents colliding and sparking invisible fireworks.
Ji Tian Chao’s eyes were icy, but he did not erupt in anger. He waited until the whole place had quieted down before taking a deep breath and bellowed:
“My Ji Family is an Ancient Holy Clan, honoring martial prowess above all!”
“Regardless of this youth’s background, by returning the War God Yunge to us, he has done a great service to our clan!”
“Who dares to act recklessly here?!”
His words resounded through the hall, causing those of lower realms to feel their blood and qi vibrating and their eardrums aching.
The spectators floating in the air, drawn by the commotion, felt their Divine Souls shaken and quickly retracted them, no longer daring to float aloft.
Such was the might of the Ji Family’s War God, silencing tens of thousands in the square, all fearing to utter a word.
Ji Qing Feng’s complexion changed slightly, and looking to speak, but upon catching Ji Tian Chao’s frosty look, the words died on his lips.
He might argue with this aunt, Ji Yun Yue, but faced with this ninth uncle, his fear was genuine.
“Are you the ones causing trouble here?!”
Ji Tian Chao turned his gaze to Ji Mingque and the other proud young members of the family.
Ji Mingque and several other young elites turned pale, wishing to explain, but Ji Tian Chao’s next words sealed their lips:
“Have your parents come to me!”
“We’ll speak of family law, of clan rules. Today, I will enforce our clan rules. Has the decorum of our Ji Family been lost in our Guest Reception Hall, where you dare to engage in conflict?!”
With Ji Tian Chao’s shout, everyone was struck with fear and trepidation.
This War God Ji Tian Chao was not like Ji Qing Yuan. He had been a War God for many years, fighting side by side with the War God Yunge, and his accumulated authority was immense.
Moreover, with Innate Holy Bone, he might step into the Saint Realm at any moment!
Ji Qing Yuan’s eyebrows knitted slightly as he replied, “Tian Chao, chastising our clan’s proud youth for an outsider seems somewhat inappropriate, does it not?”
Ji Tian Chao glared, his body bristling with rage like a lion ready to roar at any second:
“You have objections? Qing Yuan, as a War God, you should be maintaining order instead of permitting their insolence. What is this if not a total disregard for our status and dignity!”
He publicly reprimanded Ji Qing Yuan without any regard for face!
Ji Qing Yuan’s face turned, about to respond, but Ji Tian Chao’s angry retort interrupted him:
“What outsider, he too carries the blood of our Ji Family!”
“By returning the War God Yunge to us, to let the War God’s Divine Soul rest peacefully, who among you can claim to have done such service, to have earned such merit?!”
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The crowd’s expression shifted slightly at his words, and they fell silent.
“Ji Tian Chao, these are two separate matters. We naturally rejoice at the return of War God Yunge…”
Ji Qing Yuan began to say.
But before he could finish, Ji Tian Chao cut him off again, his rage seeming to fly about him as he roared:
“Rejoice? My third brother has not yet departed, and you are already troubling the child who brought him back. Do you wish for me to leave with grievances in my heart?!”
“Have I secluded myself for so long that you think all of us of the Yun generation are gone?!”
The more Ji Tian Chao spoke, the angrier he got, pointing at Ji Qing Yuan, he accused: “Who among you did not benefit from the demons slain, the evils eradicated, the retreat and flight of other Holy Families at the hands of War God Yunge? Whose shadow did you not sit under, from whom did you not receive blessings?”
“Just for returning War God Yunge to our Ji Family, he deserves your reverence! How dare you disrespect him in such a manner?!”
“This is not merely an insult to him, but an insult to my third brother, an insult to the War God of our Ji Family!!”