"You can rest assured, I won't let Ziyi join the Wangyue Sect. Nor will I make her follow the sect's rules. Give her back to me. I'm begging you." Fairy Qionghua pleaded gently.
Nong Zhu said calmly, "Ziyi doesn't even know who you are. She won't go with you, and she won't like staying with a group of women who abandoned their husbands and children. Stop dreaming."
Those words were like steel needles, viciously stabbing into Fairy Qionghua's heart. It was as though she had been struck by lightning, and she staggered back several steps, her face deathly pale as she asked, "You truly refuse to give Ziyi back to me?"
Nong Zhu turned his back to her, facing the surging, roaring sea. He said faintly, "There is no need to ask again. Even if you ask ten thousand times, I will not let Ziyi go with you."
"Shameless!" Fairy Qionghua said, trembling. "If you won't let her go with me, I'll find her myself. I'll go to the South Sea Purple Bamboo Forest myself to find her."
"Then feel free to try." Nong Zhu whirled around, enunciating every word. "If you dare go looking for Ziyi, I will raze the Wangyue Sect to the ground and exterminate your entire clan. To me, that is no difficult matter.
"I mean what I say. Whether you go find Ziyi or preserve every member of your Wangyue Sect, you can decide for yourself."
Hua Ruyi and the other elder instantly went pale. Hua Ruyi had still been hoping that Sister and her brother-in-law might reconcile, and that with her brother-in-law protecting the Wangyue Sect, things could not get any better. Who could have expected her brother-in-law to speak of razing the Wangyue Sect and wiping out its entire clan? His attitude was