Within the Azure Fields Directorate, the city's Golden Core Grand Cultivators, nearly every local clan head, and all the gentry had gathered under one roof.
Mo Hua, dressed entirely in black, sat at the head of the hall, his figure slight.
He said nothing, and not one of the Golden Core cultivators filling the hall dared speak.
Only after an unknown length of time did Mo Hua slowly speak:
"Let us discuss the matter."
His voice was soft, yet it rolled like hidden thunder, shattering solid ice. The frozen atmosphere in the hall thawed with it.
Everyone unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, then exchanged looks, their startled gazes heavy with apprehension.
This Master Mo had such an overbearing presence... Things were looking rather bad...
The hall fell silent for another moment before Lü Jingxiu, head of the Lü Family, stepped out from the crowd. He walked to the center and cupped his hands toward Mo Hua.
"My respects, Master. Our Lü Family's tomb... must not be opened... Please forgive us."
This was his family's affair to begin with. The other clans and Golden Core cultivators had come to argue his case, support him, and keep the situation under control-
Though now, it seemed they had barely controlled anything. So many Golden Core cultivators had instead been cowed by a single person.
Under the circumstances, as head of the Lü Family, he had no choice but to speak up.
Once he spoke, the other Golden Core clan heads and members of the gentry seemed to find their footing, chiming in one after another:
"The Lü Family is a benevolent and righteous household, renowned far and wide for its virtue. Its ancestors' tomb must not be disturbed recklessly."
"Not to mention that the body buried there may well be Great Benefactor