"Fellow clanswoman?"
The fox woman snorted coldly at those words. "Shut your mouth. Your branch is unworthy of calling itself my kin."
Coldness surfaced in the Fox Woman's eyes. "Back then, your branch's Supreme Elder actually stole her dear elder sister's man. Shameless."
"Her descendants must be shameless creatures too."
This was the root of the old feud between Great Elder Yuheng Lineage and the Jade-Faced Fairy's lineage.
It was ancient history from a million years ago. Elder Yuheng had been convinced that the Jade-Faced Fairy's Supreme Elder had seduced her dao companion. From then on, the two branches had turned against one another, becoming enemies for generations.
The truth had long since become impossible to establish.
But once hatred took root, it spread like poisonous vines, unextinguished for a million years.
"You..."
The Jade-Faced Fairy was furious. Rage assailed her heart, and her delicate frame trembled as she pointed at the other woman, unable to speak.
Though she had awakened the Eight-Tailed Bloodline, her cultivation was ultimately only at the early stage of the True Immortal realm, with Five Apertures. Facing the pressure of a peak-stage True Immortal cultivator, even speaking up to refute her required tremendous courage.
Li Qingyuan stepped forward and pointed his sword. "If you want to fight, then fight. Why insult anyone?"
Zhen Youde's face was warm and kindly, but now held a barely perceptible edge. Though the fluctuations of his eighteen-aperture True Immortal mid stage Law Power were unremarkable, simply standing there, his bearing rivaled that of a True Immortal peak stage cultivator.
The Jade-Faced Fairy felt a little safer.
"Very good. You dare provoke me."
Murderous intent surged in the fox woman's eyes as she pointed her sword straight at Li Qingyuan and his companion. "Jade Face, although the clan rules forbid killing