Seven Star City, Pei Residence.
Inside the Pei Family ancestral hall, the lantern flames swayed, and dozens of scarlet candles flickered faintly.
These were no ordinary candles, but Bloodmark Spirit Candles refined by the Pei Family using precious materials and the heart's blood of their direct descendants. Placed within the ancestral hall and sheltered by the fortune of the Pei Family's forebears, they could not only nourish the Lineage's foundations, but also detect the life auras of its direct descendants.
Suddenly, the altar in the ancestral hall shook violently, and the ground trembled faintly.
One of the red candles abruptly went out with a "puff." Black smoke curled from its wick, and moments later, the candle exploded with a thunderous bang.
The old man guarding the ancestral hall's restricted grounds changed color at once. He scrambled out of the hall and sprinted toward the Pei Family's main courtyard.
In the main hall of the Pei Family's main courtyard, a stern-faced middle-aged man in brocade robes sat in the seat of honor, reviewing Lineage affairs.
Upon hearing the old man's report, he abruptly rose to his feet. The jade brush in his hand fell onto the desk with a slap as his eyes locked onto the old man, filled with disbelief. "What did you say? Yuerong's Bloodmark Spirit Candle... shattered?"
This man was the head of the Pei Family, Pei Tianxiong, and the father of Pei Yuerong and Pei Yuesheng.
"Family Head, it is absolutely true!" The old man bowed shakily, terror lacing his voice.
"Take me there!"
Pei Tianxiong gritted his teeth until they creaked, his raging fury threatening to devour his reason.
He strode swiftly toward the ancestral hall, his blood and qi churning violently. With every step he took, the ground faintly quaked.
On the way, his face