No one expected that Ye Chen would change the Ancestral Ritual, which was held once every 12 years, directly to once a year.
One must know that although the ancestor worship ceremony is of great significance, it is also a laborious and costly event in itself.
So, an older member of the side branch in the crowd said, "Ye Chen ......'s ancestral ceremony is once every twelve years, it is a rule set by the old ancestors, you want to change it to once a year, it is too frequent, right? I personally think that it may not be a good thing for us to disturb the ancestors' peace so frequently! In case the old ancestor is displeased, then this is a great disrespect to the ancestor!"
Ye Chen looked at him and said in a cold voice, "It's because it used to be once every twelve years, so all of you surnamed Ye have long forgotten the old ancestors to the ninth heaven! When people said they were coming to dig up your old ancestors' graves, you all fled Yanjing in the night! Is that how you respect your ancestors?"
The old man was suddenly red in the face and hurriedly shut his mouth.
Seeing that he was silent, Ye Chen questioned, "Why aren't you speaking? Weren't you quite capable of speaking just now?"
After saying that, Ye Chen pointed towards the ancestral tomb of the Ye family behind him and asked him in a cold voice, "Come, in front of the old ancestor, explain properly to the old ancestor, how exactly did you respect the old ancestor?"
The old man was ashamed and said, "I ...... I was wrong ......"
Ye Chen said in a cold voice: "Don't tell me! Come out and tell the old ancestor yourself!"
The old man could only walk out from the crowd and face the more than a hundred graves of the ancestors of the Ye family and said in shame, "In the presence of the ancestors of the Ye family, the unworthy grandson Ye Weiming was wrong! I hope the ancestors will forgive me!"
Ye Chen snorted coldly and ignored the old man, continuing to address the seven hundred or so Ye Family side branches in front of him and said in a stern voice, "You should not think that you are Ye Family side branches and that I, the head of the main family, am bullying you by making demands of you!"
After saying this, he pointed at Ye Changkong and Ye Changyun, as well as Ye Feng and Ye Hao, who were kneeling on one side, and said in a cold voice, "Open your eyes and take a good look at these kneeling around you! All of them are members of the Ye family! Here are my own eldest uncle, my own uncle, my own aunt, and my cousins, who have made mistakes and still have to kneel here for three days and nights for me!"
With those words, Ye Changkong and the other members of the Ye family's original family, all bowed their heads in shame, while the seven hundred or so members of the side branches, all of them were dumbfounded!
Only then did they realise that Ye Chen's iron blood was not just directed at them, the outsiders.
He had dealt more ruthlessly with his own family than he had with them!
Ye Chen continued to speak shockingly at this point, "And I might as well tell you that most of them, from now on, will have to stay at Ye Ling Mountain for the next three years to observe mourning for their old ancestor!"
"For the next three years, even if a sword falls from the sky, they are not allowed to leave even half a step!"
"Even if anyone gets seriously ill and has to stay in the ICU, I will build the ICU for him to come to Ye Lingshan!"
When this group of Ye family side members heard this, the whole group had already started to be a bit terrified, just now they thought that Ye Chen making their family members kneel here for three days and nights was already cruel, but they didn't expect that there was something even more ruthless!
At this moment, Ye Chen looked at them with cold eyes and continued, "So listen carefully, from now on, if any of you dare to betray the Ye Family or cause the Ye Family to suffer losses, then one of you will be counted as one, and you will definitely end up worse than them!"
Seeing this, no one dared to raise any objections to the ancestral ritual.