Yang Lingtian gently pressed his palm against the wooden box.
Then, he roused the Chaos Power that had only just recovered a trace within his body and carefully channeled it inside.
This time, the indestructible seal did not erupt with terrifying energy as it had before.
Instead, as if it had encountered a dear relative, it let out a burst of cheerful humming.
The dragon-scale-like patterns on the wooden box lit up one after another, finally converging into the ancient character "Open."
Click.
A crisp, light sound rang out.
The mysterious wooden box that had troubled Yang Lingtian for so long opened with a snap.
Everyone's eyes turned toward it in unison.
Inside the box, there was no earth-shaking treasure or heaven-defying divine pill.
There was only a tiny jade platform carved from an unknown fine jade.
And atop the jade platform lay a damaged, circular jade pendant that was only one-third its original size.
The jade pendant was a deep, dark cyan throughout, with a lifelike divine dragon carved upon it.
The pressure of the ancient Divine Emperor, though faint, still made everyone present shudder inwardly.
"Mysterious Dragon Divine Emperor Jade!"
Lu Tian and the three old ancestors cried out in shock almost simultaneously, their eyes nearly bulging from their sockets.
"This... this is the Divine Emperor Jade belonging to the Wang Family? How did it get here?"
Everyone was dumbfounded. They never could have imagined that the thing the Wang Family had fought tooth and nail to seize—even going so far as to launch a war of extermination—had long since fallen into Yang Lingtian's hands!
Seeing the look on everyone's faces, as if they had seen a ghost, Yang Lingtian gave a faint smile.
"Now, do you understand why that City Lord flew into a rage?"
"So that's