only remembers those who can make them prosper and can gather more cultivation resources.
but in the case of the four prominent families, they cannot be able to abandon their family and run away by themselves. well not all of them, some had already run away as they don't have any direct descendants in their families, as their descendants had already recruited into cultivation institutions.
so those who have their morals and didn't run away immediately like some peoples with the cultivation resources, they gathered their entire family for an emergency meeting.
as they are elders in the family everyone gathered in one place to listen to the instruction of the elders. the four prominent families are interlinked with each other in one way or another. usually, they have maternal relations with each other.
the peoples from the four families gathered in one place, even though everyone is in grief due to the death of their family heads.