"Clan treasury! Mine! It's mine!"
"Don't touch it! None of you are allowed to touch it!"
Two hours had passed since Xu Yi and the other two left.
Wei Lan was still pressed against the light screen, refusing to give up.
The clan elder's brow furrowed deeply, his heart filled with anxiety.
Just as Wei Lan once again slammed his hand against the light screen, the screen beneath him suddenly vanished. He didn't react in time and his chin slammed onto the ground.
He paused for a moment, then scrambled to his feet on all fours and ran frantically towards the direction of the clan treasury.
The other members of the Wei family also reacted at this moment and dashed after him.
However, no matter how fast they were, they couldn't outrun the teleportation of a Tribulation Passing stage cultivator.
In the blink of an eye, the clan elder had already appeared inside the Wei family's treasury.
The empty treasure shelves seemed to narrate the brutal ravages they had just endured.
The clan elder felt his head spin, and his body swayed violently.
The Wei family's accumulation of hundreds of years had vanished today.
Was this retribution?
The Wei family had prospered because of its direct lineage, and now it was declining because of it.
The clan elder's eyes changed, no, there was still a chance!
The treasures in the clan treasury were gone, but he still had his private treasury, and the contents of his private treasury were enough for him to use.
He looked up at the wall of the treasury, walked in quickly, a sense of relief gradually appearing in his eyes.
Anyway, the Wei family was to be handed over to Wei Lan, so this matter could be left for him to worry about, and he could still peacefully be the clan elder.
The clan elder, harboring his own selfish thoughts, opened the mechanism.
"Click!"
The drawer popped open.
The clan elder used his spiritual power to retrieve the drawer and peered inside. A surge of heat shot straight to his head.
Inside the small drawer lay a single, low-grade spirit stone. A simple smiley face was carved above the spirit stone.
As the clan elder's arm swung, the low-grade spirit stone jiggled in the drawer, making a rattling sound.
This sound seemed particularly grating to the clan elder's ears.
The clan elder, holding onto his last breath, reached out to the storage array.
"Ah!!!"
As Wei Lan approached the treasury, he heard a heart-rending scream.
It was the clan elder's voice!
His legs went weak, and his heart was filled with an ominous premonition.
But without seeing the situation in the clan treasury with his own eyes, he wouldn't give up.
He circulated his spiritual power to its extreme and finally reached the treasury door within a few breaths.
With just one glance, he collapsed to the ground, his body devoid of strength.
Gone, all gone.
Haha, nothing was left! Nothing at all!
He stiffly pulled up the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile that was more ugly than crying.
He had no energy to pay attention to the clan elder lying on the ground. He had only one thought: his decades of hard work had all gone up in smoke. What was the point of him becoming the Wei family head?
Without spirit stones, spirit herbs, magical treasures, or formation plates, who would obey his command? Who would wholeheartedly work for the Wei family?
He, the Wei family head, would become an empty title, a mere decoration without power.
His situation was even more tragic than when Wei Qingyun was in charge.
The remaining Wei family members arrived shortly after, and their reactions were not much different from Wei Lan's.
Only Wei Qian could still maintain her composure. She grabbed Wei Lan's collar and said fiercely, "Second Brother, are you planning to give up just like this?"
Wei Lan gave a wry smile.
What use was it whether he gave up or not?
The Wei family had already fallen. It had fallen the day Wei Qingyun died.
"It's just that the clan treasury was emptied! We can accumulate again. As long as the Wei family members are still here, the Wei family will not disperse!"
Wei Qian's eyes held a stubborn defiance.
Since the ancestors of the Wei family could establish such a grand family, they could too.
Wei Qingshan must be very smug right now, right?
Then she would prove to Wei Qingshan that even if she stole the Wei family's treasures, the Wei family could still regain its glory.
Unexpectedly, Wei Lan slapped her hand away and sneered, "My dear sister, how can you still be so naive? Ask the others, are they willing to stay and work together?"
Wei Lan had always known that Wei Qian was ambitious. She was also the most easily swayed person back then.
But he hadn't expected Wei Qian to have such a foolish side.
The reason they had united to resist the direct lineage was because they felt their lives were not as good as the direct lineage, and they wanted to enjoy better cultivation resources.
But now, with the Wei family's clan treasury emptied, it meant starting everything from scratch, which was completely contrary to their original intentions. How could they be willing to stay and rebuild the Wei family? They were probably already planning how to leave.
Wei Qian looked at her clansmen in disbelief.
However, the clansmen she had placed her hopes on one by one avoided her gaze. Even Wei Xuan awkwardly turned his head away, unwilling to meet her eyes.
Wei Xuan, who loved fine clothes and delicacies and was extravagant, was unwilling to stay here and advance or retreat with the Wei family.
Wei Qian laughed in extreme anger, "Good, good. If that's the case, those who are unwilling to stay can all leave. I won't stop you. The remaining people will rebuild the Wei family with me!"
"Hmph."
Wei Lan sneered, was the first to stand up from the ground, turned around and walked out.
"Fourth Sister, the Wei family has no more value. Why don't you leave with me?" Wei Xuan, uncharacteristically kind, advised.
"Scram! You are nothing but trash! How can a sparrow understand the ambition of a swan!" Wei Qian scolded unceremoniously.
Wei Xuan was startled, then his face became ugly as he turned to leave. "Wei Qian, I'll wait to see you regret this!"
The rest of the Wei family members also followed and walked away, leaving behind six or seven clansmen whose cultivation was not outstanding and who usually just idled around in the clan.
The reason they stayed was not to rebuild the Wei family, but simply because they didn't know where to go, so they intended to stay and observe the situation first.
Wei Qian was well aware of their intentions, but due to the limited manpower, she had no choice but to let them stay and help, suppressing her frustration.
Three days later, the once prosperous Wei family began to show signs of decline.
The vast mansion was empty, and the silence was deafening.
Wei Qian sat on the main seat in the Wei family's main hall, her expression gloomy, a stark contrast to her once spirited demeanor.
She had thought Wei Lan and the others were speaking in anger, but in just three days, they had packed their bags and left the Wei family without any hesitation. Even half of the people who had initially stayed had left.
Before Wei Lan left, he even sent someone to persuade her to leave quickly, but she had cursed the person away.
She firmly believed that as soon as the clan elder woke up, it would be the day the Wei family regained its vitality.
As she was concentrating on how to revitalize the Wei family, a noisy commotion suddenly came from the entrance.
"How dare you return..."
Wei Qian's scolding came to an abrupt halt. She looked at the elder beside the leader of the group and said incredulously, "Elder Fan?"
Elder Fan was the medical cultivator who had had a friendship with the Wei family for centuries and was later persuaded by Wei Lan to conspire in poisoning Wei Qingyun to death.
Wei Qian had met Elder Fan just yesterday. Because the clan elder had not woken up for a long time, she had invited Elder Fan to examine the clan elder's condition.
But what was this today...
Elder Fan stepped forward and said, "Young girl Wei, this is the head of the Fang family from Qinghua City. He is very interested in your Wei family's mansion. Hearing that your Wei family is in trouble, he has specifically offered ten top-grade spirit stones to purchase your Wei family mansion to alleviate your worries. Why don't you step forward and thank the head of the Fang family?"
"Ten top-grade spirit stones?" Wei Qian frowned. "Elder Fan, are you joking? Ten top-grade spirit stones can't even buy the spirit lions guarding the gate of my Wei family, let alone my Wei family's ancestral mansion. You should leave. Hurry and leave."
"Young girl Wei, you usually seem quite clever, but I didn't expect you to be so stubborn. To tell you the truth, ten top-grade spirit stones were what I specifically interceded for, and only then did the head of the Fang family agree. Otherwise, you would have been sent away with one top-grade spirit stone. You should pack your bags and leave quickly."
Wei Qian's heart sank, and she feigned calmness, saying, "Elder Fan, Head of the Fang family, I cannot make this decision alone. I will make a decision after I report to the clan elder."
The Fang family had always been suppressed by the Wei family because the Fang family elder was a Body Integration stage cultivator, inferior to the clan elder's cultivation.
Now that the clan elder was brought up, the Fang family would definitely not dare to offend them.
However, Elder Fan had expected this. He revealed a sympathetic smile. "Young girl Wei, why don't you understand yet? Your clan elder will never wake up. Not to mention, the poison of the Shadowless Slug is indeed effective. Even a Tribulation Passing stage cultivator will be affected."
Wei Qian was struck by lightning upon hearing this and stood there in a daze.