Chapter 576
Chapter 576: The Grand Council of the Clan
Translator: StackThatCoin Editor: Hitesh_
The main hall in the middle of Yu Residence was an eye-opener for Wu Qi . Unlike the other palaces in Great Yu, it was very strange in appearance . The hall that was constructed with big, dark rocks looked like a bull's head with many horns . It had a total of eight pointed cornices, and was encompassed by a ring of three hundred and sixty huge stone pillars, each of which was carved with countless patterns of ghosts and deities . Naturally, a fire bowl was placed atop each pillar, where pale-green flames rushed up to a height of tens of feet .
Inside every cornice was an archer tower, where Feathermen were posted to guard the perimeter . A row of over one hundred Long Bo men stood guard before the hall's entrance, all clad in pure gold armors, which shone brilliantly and made them look mighty and glorious . There were also several thousand soldiers clad in heavy armors patrolling the surroundings, filling the atmosphere with a stern pressure due to their loud footsteps . Wu Qi gave those Long Bo men and soldiers a brief glance and discovered that all of them possessed the cultivation base of Heaven Immortal and above . They were all elites .
In the past, Yu Clan was not among the five strongest clans in Zhong Province . Although they did live an extravagant life, it was not as magnificent as today . Since Yu Mu betrayed Feng Lingling, and after the great purge was carried out in Zhong Province, Yu Clan had gained a huge political and economic benefit . Now, it was the number one clan in Zhong Province under the newly appointed Prefecture Overseer, Bo Zhongfu . As a result, no matter it was their buildings or private armies, both were significantly different from before .
One perfect example would be the stone pillars circling the main hall . Every day, each of them would burn off one hundred and fifty kilograms of incense oil extracted from the bodies of Mermen and whales . In the past, the Yu Clan did not have so many resources to erect so many pillars, and they had only built twelve to meet the custom . But now, they had three hundred and sixty of them which burned ragingly day and night, filling half of Zhong Ning City with the aroma of incense oil . It was the symbol of their wealth .
Led by the Elders of Yu Clan, Wu Qi and the others walked into the main hall .
From the outside, the hall was only a thousand feet in both width and length . But just like Yu Huai's great hall, its interior was deployed with very profound restrictive spells . Once inside, the hall measured about one hundred miles in circumference, high near the walls and ever lower toward the center, descending into a flat ground fifty miles in both width and length and surrounded by terraced seats . Dozens of chairs were seen floating above the flat ground in the center .
Countless giant stone carvings were carved on the walls in an extremely primitive manner . Wu Qi glanced at them with his Chaotic Divine Eyes and found that they were the tributes to the virtues and achievements of Yu Clan's ancestors . There were scenes of battling with dragons, fighting ghosts and deities, shattering meteors, harvesting various spirit items from stars, and many others . A few of them were of particular interest to him . Judging from the carvings, it seemed that a large number of humans had joined hands with Immortals and fought some enemies hidden in the smoke . He wondered when that had happened .
A large number of torches made of stone were fixed on the walls between those carvings, each burning with a pale-green flame . The fuel was the same as those stone pillars on the outside, the incense oil extracted from Mermen and whales, and blended with some rare spices . The hall was brightly lit with fragrance filling the air, but the faces of all were reflecting a miserable-looking green light, which added a bit of mystery to everyone .
The hall was so cavernous that it could house hundreds of thousands of people at once . More than a hundred lineal descendants of the Yu Clan, who were of the same generation as Yu He, arrived in it with their subordinates, yet they only totaled to tens of thousands . The hall still looked empty with them sitting at random in the seats .
Wu Qi looked around at these sons of Yu Clan . Each of them was separated from their brothers by a long distance, clearly portraying the alienation and isolation they had adopted toward their own kin . As all of them were rivals in the struggle for power of sixteen ninth-grade provinces, it was natural that none of them would show any affection .
This was the case with the sons of the big clans . The so-called kinship and friendship were worthless in the face of great interest .
Sitting beside Yu He, Wu Qi felt countless glances sweeping past him . But with his aura concealed by the Dark Evil Soul Beads, he appeared just like an ordinary human warrior . Therefore, after briefly glancing at him, no one was paying him attention again .
Exercising the Chaotic Divine Eyes, Wu Qi got himself a clearer look of those who would compete with Yu He .
No wonder Yu He said that there were seven brothers he could not defeat and dare not confront . Wu Qi saw seven youths who were tens of years older than Yu He, each with six to seven crescent moons embroidered on their sleeves . Apparently, they were far stronger than their brothers of the same generation . And among the subordinates who sat around these few youths, many of them had crescent moons on their sleeves as well . Compared with the two hundred Star Oracles who Yu He brought here, the gap in their overall strength was too great . It was no wonder that Yu He dared not to compete with them .
Most of the other brothers were weaker than Yu He in term of their cultivation base and subordinates . However, there were a dozen of them whose cultivation bases were at the same level as his, and were surrounded by a few subordinates who had crescent moons on their sleeves . Wu Qi nodded silently . From the look of it, if Yu He had not found him as a helper, it would have been very difficult to stand out and compete for the power of a ninth-grade province .
The door of the main hall was flung close when all the sons of Yu Clan were seated . A gust of chilly wind rolled out of the ground, and in the next instance, the dozens of large stone chairs floating in the middle of the hall were suddenly filled with people . Unsurprisingly, among the people who sat in the center of the chairs were Yu Mu, the Grand Oracle of Zhong Province, and Yu Miao, the Left Minister of Zhong Province . At the moment, these Elders of Yu Clan were smiling from ear to ear . Obviously, they were in a good mood .
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