"Qi Yuan, you should surrender without resistance. Your wife and child are in our hands. Even if you escape, do you think they'll be able to live well?"
A black-robed cultivator spoke from the air. Four other cultivators stood around him, their garments largely identical in style, differing only in two ways. One was color: the five wore white, green, black, red, and yellow respectively. The other was the spirit beast embroidered upon each of their chests.
The black-robed cultivator bore an embroidered water dragon; the white-clad cultivator, a qilin; the green-robed cultivator, a Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox; the red-clad cultivator, a Fire Phoenix; and the yellow-robed cultivator, an Earth Divine Ape.
Facing those five was an elder in purple robes—the master of Qilin Manor in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom. All six possessed early Dao Integration Stage cultivation. Qi Yuan's cultivation was somewhat deeper, at the middle Dao Integration Stage, while the other five were at the early Dao Integration Stage. Yet Qi Yuan's face was pale, clearly showing that he had suffered grave injuries.
Qi Yuan gave a bitter laugh. "I truly never imagined that Spirit Island would openly violate the oath made all those years ago. Are you really not afraid of the Heavenly Dao's backlash?"
The black-robed cultivator said, "Do you still remember that oath? I fear your ancestor has been gone for so long that you've already forgotten it."
Qi Yuan said, "Back then, the lord of Spirit Island swore upon his entire clan that if he broke the oath, his clan would be utterly extinguished."
The black-robed cultivator said leisurely, "That's right. The island lord of that time was Fire Dragon, and his clan has already gone extinct on Spirit Island. The Fire Dragon clan now on Spirit Island is no longer descended from him. So