The queen consort said faintly, "When you denied my child his rightful position, did you ever think about the sadness in a mother's heart? Without my support, how could you have ever become the clan leader back then? Yet for a human woman, you’re even willing to let someone who’s not even a pure-blooded member of the clan inherit your position. How can you face our ancestors?"0

As she spoke, the queen consort made a grasping motion in the air with her right hand, and a silver scepter appeared in her grasp. The silver scepter looked magnificent, adorned with a silver peacock head, and behind the head, silver feathers spread out like a fan.0

"I, the Grand Elder of the Peacock Demon clan, request that the Heir Apparent undergo the Hundred Birds Greet the Sun Ceremony," she said, raising the scepter high.2

Seeing the scepter, all the Peacock Demon Clan members...0