Kneel and Accept Punishment

Facing the Yellow-robed Old Man's threat, Xue Huaining sneered. "When the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival arrives, whether my Cui Family suffers some shocking upheaval or not, what business is it of your Qu Family? Why should you be the ones worrying about it?"

Her words were utterly unceremonious, carrying a note of rebuke.

The Yellow-robed Old Man's expression immediately turned somewhat unsightly.

Xue Huaining ignored him and turned her gaze toward a middle-aged man in black robes seated elsewhere. "What has your Hong Family come here for?"

The middle-aged man in black robes came from the ancient Hong Family. At her words, he said gravely, "Three thousand six hundred years ago, Lord Judgment Underworld Lord acted in 'Youdu' and seized my Hong Family's ancestral treasure, the 'Crimson Calamity Sword.' Hong has come here in hopes that your Cui Clan will return it to its rightful owner."

The Crimson Calamity Sword!

It was an Innate Divine Object, said to have been born in the perilous forbidden ground known as the Myriad Sin Abyss, which had originally been under the jurisdiction of the Evil Ghost Division. It possessed all manner of inconceivable divine might by nature and could be called a peerless innate Dao weapon!

However, three thousand six hundred years ago, when an old monster of the Hong Family ventured into Youdu Hell, he was utterly defeated by Cui Longxiang while fighting over a stroke of fortune.

That Crimson Calamity Sword had thus become Cui Longxiang's trophy.

"Return it to its rightful owner? When my Old Ancestor returns, you may go ask him for it yourself."

Xue Huaining's words were sharp as blades as she responded forcefully. "I only worry whether your Hong Family will still have the nerve to ask for it by then."

The black-robed middle-aged man's expression shifted