"Even without your coming out to welcome me, I would still have come to trouble you a little. Why must the Acting Alliance Leader be so polite?" I gave a mild fist salute, paying no attention to the old woman's awkward smile. But she was the Acting Alliance Leader, after all; surely she had enough insight not to be unable to see even this much. Thus, she smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Xia, you came from so far away this time for the Saintly Dao Divine Sword, didn't you?"
"Indeed. I'll take the sword and leave. After all, I've already troubled the True Immortals of your Southern Immortal Alliance more than once or twice. I can't keep escalating things again and again, can I? The Saintly Dao's Pinnacle was taken by Yin Qian'tu after he murdered my brother Ye Yunqiu and seized it from him. In reason and in emotion, I have to reclaim it. As for seeking justice—there is a head to every grievance and a master to every debt. I'm not an unreasonable person, so naturally I won't come looking for your Southern Immortal Alliance." I went straight to the point, not wasting time trading nonsense with her.
The old woman looked at me calmly for quite a while, then suddenly laughed. "Didn't Fellow Daoist Xia say before that this sword once belonged to the Divine Emperor of the Ancient God Realm? After the Divine Emperor fell, the sword rose from the Heavenly Gate and soared into the Ancient God Realm, ultimately falling into the hands of the founding patriarch who established the Saintly Dao Sect, and over the years it became the foundation of the Saintly Dao Sect? And this sword originally belonged to your sect master, who was both the guardian of the Ancient Kingdom's Human