The entire group of men and women across clans bowed some with reluctance others with true reverence. The ones that vowed in true reverence were too few in numbers when compared to the entire group.
That's because Ji Yao was a Qilin and the fact that their generation and several generations before that hadn't been under a king's rule ever. The only persons they respected were their clan leaders and no one else.
Now that there was someone who could suppress them without even lifting a finger it was quite unsettling. When the power holding them down vanished they raised their heads and were about to further admonish Ji Yao when they found that their voices wouldn't come out.
This punishment only applied to the ones vocal against Ji Yao. He didn't want to listen to them if anything that would come out of their mouths was criticism and anger. He really wasn't in the mood to have this discussion.
