The giant hand dragged Marquis Anyuan straight over. The old man tapped several points on his body, sealing his Primordial Spirit Star River completely.
The First Prince and Third Prince stood nearby with different expressions, but neither dared utter another word.
Now that the ancestor had spoken, Marquis Anyuan was utterly finished.
The gray-robed old man crooked a withered finger through the air.
Marquis Anyuan turned deathly pale and coughed up a mouthful of blood. The divine sense imprint he had left on his storage artifact had been forcibly erased.
The old man casually shook the jade pendant.
A dense array of jade boxes immediately appeared in midair.
Their lids flipped open in unison, and an extraordinarily rich, strange fragrance instantly filled the skies above Greenstone Manor.
Inside lay crystals gleaming with a dark golden sheen.
"Heavenly Mang Divine Crystal!" several people cried out.
This was the very lifeblood of the Heavenly Mang Royal Clan.
Across the entire Primordial Ancient Star, only the Ancestral Vein beneath the Heavenly Mang Royal Clan's lands could produce it.
Neither the other three great royal clans nor even the lofty Primordial Imperial Clan possessed such a rare treasure.
It was a core divine material for forging artifacts and even constructing clan-protecting formations. The Royal Court's laws were ironclad: not a single piece was permitted to leave the royal clan's territory.
"A full three thousand cubic measures." The gray-robed old man's voice was icy. "Marquis Anyuan, you have some nerve. Who were you planning to sell all this heavenly mang divine crystal to?"
Marquis Anyuan trembled all over, casting a sidelong glance at the grim-faced Third Prince nearby.
He knew he was finished.
But if he implicated the Third Prince, his death would be even worse.
He gritted his teeth and rasped, "It was my