Shangguan Hong raised his eyes to the sky above. "Your Majesty?"
Lin Shan replied, "Her Majesty is wise and harbors no suspicions towards Our Sect."
Shangguan Hong fell silent for a moment.
If not the Empress, then it must be the other Royal Family members and nobles.
My Shangguan Clan will be the first to bear the brunt!
He had heard of some changes within the Shangguan Clan in recent years.
Hearing Lin Shan mention it now, Shangguan Hong felt a surge of complex emotions.
"Some of the Royal Family members are also restless," Lin Shan continued in a gentle voice. "However, the main reason isn't that Eldest Apprentice-Sister has achieved the Ninth Heavenly Layer. It's because of the methods Eldest Apprentice-Sister and the Sect Leader used to break through the Lin Clan's ancestral lands in Youzhou and Jiangzhou."
