The Family's Shame
An hour later, a middle-aged man appeared at the foot of a towering black mountain.
The entire mountain was shrouded in a vast expanse of black mist, obscuring everything within.
"Grandfather, Seventeenth Sister still refuses to admit her mistake. She's set on being with that man." The middle-aged man bowed toward the mountain and spoke respectfully.
"Hmph! I locked her up for over a hundred years, and she still won't admit she was wrong. That brat is a human, after all. So what if he's reached Spirit Transformation? Plenty of young talents would leap at the chance to marry my granddaughter, yet this girl is determined to be with a human. She even bore an abomination, sullying our clan's bloodline. Does she really think I wouldn't dare kill that brat?" An elderly man's voice came from the mountain.
"Enough. Why get so angry with the younger generation? If you really killed him, with that girl's temperament, she'd take her own life. Let her reflect in seclusion for a while longer. We can say she's in closed-door cultivation."
"Old woman, there you go again. Every time I discipline that girl, you take her side. You spoiled her rotten."
The middle-aged man kept a straight face and quietly listened to the two elders bicker.
"Enough. You came here—do you have anything else to report?" The old man's voice rang out abruptly.
"On Blue Sea Star in the Tianlan Star Domain, there's a small sect called Sacred Void Sect that has swallowed up several cultivation forces in a short time..."
"Get to the point. Spare me the nonsense..."
The middle-aged man hurriedly agreed. "Sacred Void Sect's Supreme Elder is a Spirit Transformation Cultivator named Li Xuan. Word has it that he's a descendant of the Qingluan Clan. People outside the