Gu Family's Response, Tier 4 Treasure Pill (Author's Note at the End Discusses Plot Development-Fellow Daoists, Please Set the Tone! Monthly Pass Requested)

"What? They refused?!"

Feiyu sent word. Sword Hiding Elder had just finished reading the message when astonishment filled his face. He clearly had not expected this outcome.

This marriage proposal had Shen Linyuan, a Celestial, marrying down to a Gu Family Elder. Yet the Gu Family—

Had actually refused?

He steadied the change of mood within his heart, his gaze sweeping over the information below. Then his expression twisted with rage.

"Outrageous!"

Sword Hiding Elder's gaze fixed on the final line.

Our lineage Elder already has someone in her heart. Do not—

Raise this matter again!?

This Gu Family, this Gu Family...

How dare they be so bold!

Sword Hiding Elder's beard and hair flared out, thunder blazing in his furious eyes.

Though he had cultivated his character and nature over these years, back in the day, he had possessed a temperament as fierce and sharp as thunder. Otherwise, he could never have achieved the feat of splitting mountains with a single sword strike.

Compared to Sword Hiding Elder's fury, Shen Linyuan's reaction was far calmer.

"Someone in her heart?"

Shen Linyuan's gaze was placid, but the faint ringing of his longsword betrayed his inner thoughts.

"Who is it?"

The Gu Family's response had been fiercely worded and so utterly decisive that he had never expected it.

According to his plans, this proposal brought the Gu Family more benefits than drawbacks. Though he did intend to press forward with the grand momentum of his Celestial status, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance that the Gu Family would agree.

Yet he had never expected them to refuse—nor to refuse so decisively, without leaving the slightest room for retreat.

With a single "do not raise this matter again," they had severed every possibility that could follow.

"Linyuan, you proposed as