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Chapter 1132 - 1126 Recognizing Ancestors and Returning to the Clan

Chapter 1132: Chapter 1126 Recognizing Ancestors and Returning to the Clan

These life experiences are something the System cannot teach him.

Ye Haoshen created this System to make him stronger and to quickly obtain those ten Divine Artifacts.

Undoubtedly, Ye Haoshen is extremely powerful, but compared to a family, compared to the long river of history, he is still merely a drop in the ocean, not the most powerful one.

Li Guorui said a lot, and Li Changlin noted them all down.

After his consent, Li Guorui nodded towards Li Chengde on his right.

Thus, Li Chengde loudly announced, "The ceremony of recognizing ancestors and returning to the family officially begins, please welcome our esteemed guests!"

Following Li Chengde’s shouts, the voices of Li Family descendants also loudly echoed outside the ancestral hall.

Despite being in an era of rapidly advancing technology, this form of ceremony persists as a heritage, and the Li Family members did not use walkie-talkies for announcing.

Li Changlin was re-invited into the side chamber, where he would participate in a ceremony, but before that, he needed to change into a set of clothes tailored specifically for him.

This was a set of Hanfu; just now, when Li Guorui was introducing the core senior members of the Family, Li Xiaoya and others had already quietly brought the clothes into the room.

Seeing Li Changlin enter, several girls came forward together, helping him to change out of his clothes.

The situation was somewhat awkward, but fortunately, the ladies only removed his coat, and then they helped him put on the Hanfu.

Li Changlin knew this was also part of the ritual, and although he felt somewhat depressed, he could not object and thus let it proceed.

Soon, the attire was properly worn, and outside the ancestral hall fireworks began to crackle, the guests observing the ceremony began to enter one by one.

The ancestral hall was quite large, covering at least three hundred square meters, and many chairs had been set up inside; esteemed guests took their seats one by one, and Li Chengde loudly declared the start of the ceremony.

As Li Changlin’s father, and the successor to the Li Family Head, today Li Chengde was the master of ceremony for Li Changlin’s ancestor recognition ceremony.

After he announced the official start of the ceremony, intense fireworks sounds erupted again outside the hall.

Then, Li Chengde invited the ancestral tablets, and it was the large painting of Laozi leaving Hangu Pass that Li Changlin had seen before, placing it into the shrine of the ancestral hall. The Taoist priests who had entered with the guests began to play the suona.

This process lasted a few minutes, roughly the duration of one song. Everyone inside the hall was solemn, even the representatives from the Seven Great Families who had covert conflicts with the Li Family, especially the Bai Family, maintained a dignified silence.

Then, Li Changlin made his appearance. Accompanied by Li Xiaoya and Qiu Yingying, the three, all dressed in Hanfu, came together to Li Chengde’s side, standing facing the shrine.

The two ladies supported Li Changlin’s arms, their faces openly displaying their joy. Li Chengde began introducing Li Changlin. In fact, before the ceremony, core descendants of the Li Family had already gotten to know Li Changlin; the main purpose here was to introduce him to the guests.

After the introduction, Jiang Yiyun was also invited forward, and as Li Changlin’s foster mother, she gave a speech during the ceremony.

Then came the bowing to the ancestors, starting with offering wine to the ancestors above the shrine, Li Xiaoya took a wine cup and handed it to Li Changlin, while Qiu Yingying picked up a wine jug brought by Li Family descendants and poured the wine.

Li Changlin respectfully bowed three times, followed by kneeling to acknowledge his ancestors.

Accompanied by this, Li Changlin paid respects to the great ancestor and the Family Head, continued by bowing to his parents; the whole process took about half an hour.

Then, naturally, he had to pay respects to the senior relatives of the Family. This ceremony was crucial for both Li Changlin and the Li Family; hence, even Li Chengyang was invited.

Yesterday, Li Changlin had a dispute with Li Changfeng and ended up crippling his cousin’s cultivation. To prevent Li Chengyang from potentially acting out due to excitement during the ceremony, the great ancestor personally talked to him to pacify his thoughts.

At this time, Li Chengyang was very calm; in fact, he held no significant resentment towards Li Changlin in his heart.

Of course, to say he wasn’t sad would be a lie.

But Li Chengyang understood his son well and knew that his chances of competing for the position of Family Head were gone, and for Li Changfeng to restore his Dantian in the future, he couldn’t oppose Li Changlin.

Moreover, there was an even more important point; Li Chengyang genuinely cared for the Family and knew that under Li Changlin’s leadership, the Li Family would only prosper.

If his son learned from this and managed to repair his Dantian, he would surely mend his past mistakes.

As long as his son could improve, perhaps today’s setback might actually be a good thing.

Li Chengyang was very open-minded and also understood the principle that there were always opportunities as long as one lived.

Li Changlin had shown mercy under those circumstances, which was already quite generous.

Having learned from the pain, Li Chengyang realized that he had been too lax with his precious son, so after a heartfelt conversation with the great ancestor, Li Chengyang harbored no more biases against Li Changlin.

To all of this, Li Changlin didn’t think too much.

After completing the process, he was genuinely accepted back into the family and recognized by everyone.

After that, Li Chengde introduced the guests to Li Changlin. Li Changlin toasted a few cups of wine, and the guests presented their gifts, from which Li Changlin profited handsomely.

Regardless of the underlying thoughts, the representation of each major Family was naturally all smiles, even the delegate from the Bai Family, appearing completely harmless.

First-rate Families always maintained their dignity and, being at the same level, resorting to physical fights was seen as below them; now, the competitions were mostly in business, resources, and the capabilities of the younger generation.

In this era, martial competitions were not as critical because every Family had its background. At the tier of first-rate Families, initiating a life-and-death battle would be immensely serious.

Thus, even between the Li Family and Bai Family with centuries of grievances, no force was used in resolving their issues.

Each Family had its boundaries; conflicts among the younger generation were trivial, but the Family Heads or the old guards generally did not intervene directly.

This naturally lessened the overall impact significantly.

Yet, such a situation undoubtedly provided a great opportunity for Li Changlin.

Earlier, while changing outfits in the side room, Li Xiaoya had explained these matters to him. Therefore, as Li Chengde announced the end of the ceremony and the guests began to rise to leave, Li Changlin suddenly smiled and called out, "Ladies and gentlemen, could you please wait a moment?"