Three days has passed since Li Fu's death.
Li Bai didn't take the news to heart. This father was only one of his fathers in all his lives, so he wasn't as affected as the other clansmen.
Still, this father of his was the one he was most attached to, because Li Bai always relied on him as he was always harassed. As such, he was slightly closer to this father than all of the other fathers he had.
His sister was one of the most grieving about her father's death. She regretted that she wasn't able to do anything to help in the battle.
Hence, in the past week, all she had been doing was nothing but cultivating, absorbing Earth energy and refining it.
Always calling her was Li Bai but she never responded, since she was too focused on cultivation. Li Bai wanted to help by offering his sister to go into his ring as it would accelerate her training, but since he couldn't establish contact, he gave up on that idea.
Li Bai instead looked at the current problems. The Li clan exhausted a ton of resources to prepare for this battle, only for it to abruptly end once the clan head died.
In fact, the enemy clan head and the one who killed Li Fu, Liu Gong, actually felt remorse for his actions. He didn't even know what he was doing there when his rationality came back.
Liu Gong had done his best to compensate by providing money and resources to the Li clan, much to their vexation. For him to suddenly do a complete 180, it was determined that he was a psychopath, and they wanted nothing to do with him.
However, they couldn't afford to disrespect the Liu clan any further, not that they disrespected them in the first place. They could only reluctantly accept his support. Besides, they desperately needed some support anyway.
The position of clan head was temporarily transferred to the high elder. Since this elder was very old already, he needed an immediate successor.
Normally, it would be Li Bao who would succeed her father, but she was deemed too young to receive the position. Even if they did want to pass it onto her no matter what, there was also the fact that Li Bao was uneducated in these subjects. She would just lead the clan to ruin, at least more ruin than now.
This was being fixed by Li Bao herself, casting aside her carefree personality and becoming serious for once. Nonetheless, they didn't have that much confidence in her. She may be talented in cultivating, but in studies, she always did badly. This could be attributed to her airheaded character that rooted from her being spoiled by Li Fu when Li Bai hadn't been born yet.
Even with all these pessimistic remarks that Li Bao overhears, she continued to do her best to make sure that this clan would not fall.
Meanwhile, Li Bai thought about solutions to the various problems in the Liu clan. The Backwater City Tournament was arriving soon, and that clan was in shambles.
The Liu clan sustained losses as well, although not as much as the Li clan's.
The news of the Liu clan cutting all ties with the other major clans during a meeting about the tournament had naturally already spread. This caused some people to be skeptical about the tournament. Would it still proceed as planned?
Everyone knew that every major clan played a part in organizing this tournament, no matter how little their contribution may seem at first.
If the tournament lost the support of one of the clans, would the other clans shoulder the burden?
There was also the matter of the clan head of the Liu clan, Liu Gong, being labeled as a psychopath. After battling it out with the Li clan, they instantly helped them out, which made everyone baffled.
