Chapter 48: Hopeless

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Upon hearing what Coril had just said, Damien could be seen opening his mouth and trying to say something, however, due to being shocked by what Coril had just said, Damien was speechless and did not know what to say.

Initially, after Damien had just finished speaking disrespectfully to Coril, he was expecting Coril to fly into a rage and shout angrily at him.

He had never expected that Coril would admit that he had indeed given up hope for the Lisandris Family while with an indifferent look on his face.

Meanwhile, right as Coril had just finished his sentence…

When Coril saw that Damien was at a loss for words and didn’t know what to say to him, Coril continued on speaking while with an indifferent look on his face.

“Let me ask you, Damien.”

“What’s the point?”

“So what if I had chose to stay in the Lisandris Family’s manor and try to help out the Lisandris Family’s family members in any way I possibly could?”

“What would I have been able to accomplish by doing that?”

“Maybe… I would be able to allow most of the Lisandris Family’s family members to be able to continue cultivating without any worries?”

“Maybe… I would be able to help a few of the Lisandris Family’s family members who possess a decent aptitude to climb to higher cultivation levels and realms by giving them pointers and cultivation resources?”

“Maybe… I would be able to help maintain the Lisandris Family’s position within the middle district to the best that I could?”

“And maybe… I would be able to help attract more cultivators to be willing to join our family as married-in sons-in-law?”

“But after all of that… then what?”

“What happens afterward?”

Upon speaking up to here, Coril swept his eyes over everyone else within the conference room, then asked them the same question, “All of you. What do you all think would happen afterward?”

However, although Coril asked that question to everyone, it was obvious that he didn’t expect an answer from everyone, as he could be seen immediately continuing on with speaking to everyone, “Let me tell you all what would happen afterward.”

“Firstly, after trying my hardest to maintain the Lisandris Family’s position to the best that I could, with more than half of our Lisandris Family’s golden core realm cultivators having died at the incident from 20 years ago, Lisandris Family’s position would still fall from being the 2nd within the middle district, to at the least being the 4th.”

“Secondly, since most of our family’s cultivators are still able to cultivate without any worries, and I’m here to give pointers to the few cultivators who possess a decent aptitude, we will be able to gain an additional few foundation establishment realm cultivators and quite a number of high level energy refining realm cultivators within the ranks of our family, though, the numbers are still going to be nothing compared to the number of energy refining realm and foundation establishment realm cultivators our family possessed 20 years before the incident had happened.”

“Thirdly, with more cultivators that are willing to join us as married-in sons-in-law, we will be able to have a higher chance of being able to gain descendants who possess high aptitude. But regarding this… so what about it?”

“20 years ago, just how many babies were being born in our family every year? And yet, not even talking about special bodies, just how many babies ended up possessing spiritual roots, and how many of them even possessed a middle-quality spiritual root, top-quality spiritual root, or peak-quality spiritual root?”

“If you all had forgotten about it. In the span of 500 years since the Lisandris Family had been created, the Lisandris Family had only managed to give birth to 4 children who possessed peak-quality spiritual roots! And all 4 of them had died! 2 of them ended up dying while cultivating toward golden core realm, and the other 2 of them died during the incident from 20 years ago!”

Right as Coril spoke up to here, he could see that everyone had a dejected look on their face.

After pausing for a moment, Coril continued on speaking, “And now, lastly, as for what will happen in the end…”

“It would just be, right when we are hopeful about being able to slowly rebuild the Lisandris Family back to its glory days…”

“All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a certain higher being who is from the Celestial Realm, for reasons that beings like us could never understand, somehow opened a portal that connects the Celestial Realm to our realm, and more importantly, not just our realm, but the North Continent of our realm!”

“And right after opening that portal, this certain higher being then proceeds to say some words that we have no idea as to what he is truly trying to say, and after finished speaking, tosses 3 formidable weapons that will cause immense chaos right into our North Continent, not caring about the aftermath that he will end up causing by doing so.”

“20 years ago, just a mere tier 4 peak-quality weapon, which is the flaming spear serpent, was enough to cause such chaos to happen within the North Continent.”

“So, now, with 3 weapons that are obviously much more formidable than the flaming spear serpent appearing within the North Continent, what do you all think will end up happening within the North Continent?”

“Do you all think we will still be able to have the leisure time to be able to continue rebuilding our Lisandris Family back to its glory days?”

“Furthermore… as if those 3 weapons are not enough of a nightmare already…”

“We will soon learn that the main sect will be sending people from their sect over to Bright Moon Sect soon.”

“And what does this mean? It means that the forbidden land, Dragons’ Grave, will be opening soon!”

“Now, tell me, at this time, do you all still think that there’s any hope for our Lisandris Family to ever be able to rebuild itself back to its glory days?”

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