Xu Yi swept his hand, and more than a dozen Spirit Array Cannons were pushed out by three hundred armored soldiers. Xiang Tianwen forcibly checked his attack, his face cold as frost as he glared at Xu Yi, wishing he could swallow him whole. Pointing at the gate of Foolish Old Man Mountain, he said, "My Xiang Family has endured for five thousand years. Our household has been filled with high officials, generation after generation of prominent figures, serving the Heavenly Court for thousands of years. On Foolish Old Man Mountain hangs a plaque bestowed by the former Western Emperor Lord: 'Great Clan since Gengshen, Families counted among the Big Dipper.' Do you dare fire on an imperial plaque bestowed by the Emperor Lord? Aren't you afraid of eternal damnation?"
The former Heavenly Emperor had ascended the throne in the Gengshen year and was known in ancient times as the Emperor Lord Gengshen. In the present age, regions were named after the constellations, and Xiang Tianwen's pride in the distinction of his family was common knowledge. He was not exaggerating.
Xu Yi declared, "The Xiang Family's present prestige comes from serving the Heavenly Court and obeying the law. Duke Mingde and Duke Zhongzhen both gave their lives for the Heavenly Court's great cause of unification, and I hold them in the highest respect. But the illustrious reputation won by the Xiang Family's ancestors is no excuse for their descendants to defy the law. Today, I merely came to take Xiang Yingxin back for questioning, yet the Xiang Family dared to obstruct me at every turn. First, they sent people to persuade me; then, they had Xiang Yingxin falsely accuse me. Each and every one of these acts proves that the Xiang Family no longer takes the Heavenly Court's laws seriously.