"Everyone! Were you waiting for me?"
Inside Haigu Castle's Council Hall, the higher-ups were discussing important matters when a gust of howling wind burst open the iron doors. Accompanied by an extremely strange accent, a Dark Gold Figure appeared in the hall.
"Who are you... Where are the guards? Where are the people of my Haigu Family?"
The current patriarch of the Haigu Family, a Great Dragon Knight whose strength had reached the Dragon Transformation Realm, shouted sharply. He circulated his divine power in an attempt to sense the outside world, only to find deathly silence beyond the hall. This was absolutely abnormal.
This was the Council Hall at the heart of Haigu Castle. In recent days, because Dark Creatures had been attacking cultivators in the Holy City, the Haigu Family had strengthened its defenses. Such an obvious disturbance should have drawn guards here long ago.
"Stay calm. The clansmen outside have merely fainted. Sir, may I ask why you have come to the Haigu Family?"
The Haigu Family's old ancestor slowly rose to his feet. He could not sense even a trace of living aura from the Dark Gold Figure before him, yet the heart-palpitating sense of danger told him that this was at least a terrifying existence on the same level as himself.
"I hope you will open the Haigu Family's treasury. I wish to take away all the ancient artifacts that belong to my country's ancestors."
The Dark Gold Figure opened his mouth and spoke, his tone as strange as ever. Yet his demand made every Haigu Family elder present turn pale with fury. It sounded reasonable enough, but to ancient nobles like them, it was an immense humiliation.
Abel Haigu shook his head and said gravely, "Sir, please leave. The Haigu Family cannot possibly open its