A Great Cause for Celebration

Tang Shiyin moved with graceful, lotus-like steps. A rare frost now veiled her gentle, orchid-like face. Her clear, resolute gaze fixed on Elder Lin Lie's stern expression. Her voice was neither hurried nor slow, yet every word fell like pearls and jade striking the ground, carrying an unquestionable force:

"Elder Lin Lie, this is plainly a deliberate attack against my Tang Family and these friends. The Array Tower has stood in Myriad Tide City for tens of thousands of years and has always founded itself on fairness. Yet today, you throw wide the gates for the Duanmu Family while making every kind of difficulty for members of my Tang Family. You are openly destroying the Array Tower's rules—and smashing the Array Tower's own golden signboard!"

"Exactly, exactly!" Tang Xuanxuan's little face flushed crimson with fury, her bright, lively eyes rounded wide. With her hands on her hips, she pointed right at Lin Lie's nose, her crisp voice firing off like a string of cannonballs. "Duanmu Rui clearly ordered you to do this! You two are in league with each other, a pack of wolves in the same den! You ignore the Duanmu Family cutting in line, but when we pay, you refuse to let us in. You old thing, your favoritism has gone all the way to your grandmother's house! And you call yourself an Array Tower elder? Pah!"

"Impudence!"

Exposed in public, Lin Lie's old face turned the color of pig liver, burning with both shame and fury. As an elder of the Array Tower, he was ordinarily treated with respect. When had he ever been cursed at face-to-face by two little girls like this? Enraged, he erupted with the pressure of an Eighth-Rank Martial Venerable. Like an invisible mountain, it crushed down upon everyone as he shouted harshly: