The talks were initiated by the Bai Family's Patriarch, who arranged for the upper echelons of the Yuan Family and Yu Long Island to visit the Ling Family on the same day.
This move was, of course, to bolster their own presence and add weight to their negotiations.
After all, the Ling Family Patriarch's cultivation was currently the strongest. Even the combined high-ranking members of the three families would struggle to contend with her, so banding together was the only logical outcome.
If they didn't, this resource-rich new territory, the Changqing Continent, would be swallowed whole by the Ling Family, and they wouldn't even get to sip the soup.
In the Council Hall.
Ling Qiyue, clad in an ink-black Feather Cloak, cold yet alluringly beautiful, sat in the main seat. Tang Qiu Yao and Ling Changqing sat at her side, along with many of the Ling Family's Core Elders.
