A common man was innocent, yet he was guilty for possessing a jade.
The Yue Family Great Elder understood this very well. Since the people from Qianyun Mountain had ultimately tracked this place down, it meant the secret their lineage had hidden had been leaked.
No matter the reason, the fact that the secret had been exposed could no longer be changed.
Their tiny Yue Family, when faced with a colossal entity like Qianyun Mountain, was like an ant that could be crushed with ease.
If they continued clinging to those things, it would inevitably bring tremendous disaster!
Perhaps they could originally have handed the item over to Qianyun Mountain in exchange for their lives, but now that the conflict had already erupted, it was clearly beyond remedy.
Let alone the fact that, although Qianyun Mountain was the foremost Great Sect in the Northern Domain Cultivation World, its reputation outside was truly not very good.
Its domineering conduct was the label stamped upon that sect.
Even if no conflict had occurred, in order to keep the secret and prevent the news from leaking, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance that the people of Qianyun Mountain would wipe out their entire lineage after forcing them to hand over the item!
Qianyun Mountain was truly capable of such a thing.
It was precisely because of this,
That compared to handing the item over to Qianyun Mountain, it was better to give it to Zhang Qingyuan, whose background they knew and who, at the very least, had shown obviously better character during their time together these past few days.
He had spared no hardship to deliver his master's remains from afar, and had cared for his master's relatives, though their blood ties had already grown thin after who knew how many