Whatever became of the Ji mansion afterward, Yino neither cared nor felt like managing.
Puppeting Ji Zichen that one time had already given him the answer he was after.
In the game, the Ji mansion had a mysterious head of house.
Rumor held that this house head was the Li family's Old Ancestor, the one who had gone into seclusion in the Northern Region Ruins. After waking from that long slumber, he returned to the Ji mansion, and with formidable strength and vicious, underhanded methods he swept the rival clans aside, lifting the once-declining Ji descendants into a position of dominance within the Jianlan Sect.
The strange part was that this Old Ancestor never showed his face. Always the black cloak, always the mask, a tall and broad silhouette issuing orders to the Ji elders from behind the curtain.
At first, of course, the Ji mansion had its doubts about this masked Old Ancestor.
