Yet this man's sheer, relentless unreasonable arguing kept stirring up his emotions. Years of cultivation and careful composure nearly crumbled.
Great Elder Yun forced down his anger and said coldly, "Since you have no intention of negotiating, Yun Mou will take his leave. Even if my House must let these ancestral grounds fall to ruin, we will still settle this with you."
Xu Yi said, "If that's the case, what's left to discuss? Great Elder, please go back. Bring your troops, and we'll fight it out here among the Five Finger Strange Peaks. Though it'd be best if you took your time getting here. I've still got several pheasants that have just gone on the spit, and that divine tablet looks like good kindling. Roasted game over this fire ought to have a flavor all its own."
"You!"
Great Elder Yun swallowed his anger and calmed himself. "What is it you want, sir? Just say so. Since I came here, I naturally came in good faith."
How could Great Elder Yun stand by and watch the divine tablet be destroyed? Of the reasons he had come here, two tenths were for the burial chambers in the ancestral grounds, and eight tenths were for this divine tablet. It truly bore a wisp of the souls of the Yun family's ancestors.
Xu Yi picked up the gourd and took a long drink. "Words alone prove nothing. Since you speak of good faith, Great Elder, why not offer something practical?"
Great Elder Yun said no more. He raised a hand, and a streak of green light shot into the sky, bursting at once into a vast green flame visible for a hundred miles. The flame had barely erupted when a soft pop rang out across several thousand miles.
Xu Yi sent out his