Xia Yi took a sip of tea. "You all know that my Xia family are the heirs of Ancestor Chen, and that we bear his bloodline. Ancestor Chen cultivated the Nine Clones, and one of them created the Heavenly Star Art, founding the Heavenly Star Sect that exists today. You know better than anyone how powerful the Heavenly Star Sect is. The inheritance of the Heavenly Star Art should have belonged to my Xia family from the start. My family's seizure of the Heavenly Star Jade Wall was both necessary and inevitable."
"Only the heirs of Ancestor Chen can unleash the Heavenly Star Art's true power. The Heavenly Star Sect was founded with a single art, the Heavenly Star Art, and rose to dominate the universe. The sect is nothing but a band of thieves, stealing my Xia family's inheritance."
Ku Pu frowned. "We know all that, but the Heavenly Star Sect has long since established itself in the New Universe. That's a settled fact. Senior Xia Ji's actions have made the rest of our families enemies of the Heavenly Star Sect too, and the same goes for Changtian Island. This will make it much harder for the heirs of the Seven Character Royal Court to travel the universe. We just want to know: is a single Heavenly Star Jade Wall worth it?"
Everyone here was clever. If this were only about the Heavenly Star Art, Xia Ji would never have gone this far. The art alone wasn't enough to make the Seven Character Royal Court openly hostile to both the Heavenly Star Sect and Changtian Island. They suspected Xia Ji had a deeper motive, and had come to probe him for it.
The Seven Character Royal Court shared its benefits and bore its consequences together. They wanted their share