A Disagreement

The pitch-black warship blotted out the sky and sun as it descended toward Crouching Dragon City.

Within Crouching Dragon City, all living beings were gripped by panic.

"Look, it's the Pei Family's warship."

"What an enormous warship!"

"Rumor has it that something went wrong with the marriage alliance between the Pei Family and the Xiao Family. With the Pei Family's warship arriving this time, I'm afraid nothing good will come of it."

"What went wrong? How could a perfectly good marriage alliance run into trouble?"

"You don't know this, but the Xiao Family was originally considered a middle-tier family among the hundred clans. For certain reasons, they suffered suppression from the Pei Family and gradually fell from the middle tier to a third-rate family. To change the situation, they had no choice but to approach the Pei Family and seek to ease their relations through marriage."

"I heard that the Xiao Family girl chosen for the marriage alliance suddenly rose to prominence afterward. In just a few months, she broke through all the way from the Meridian Opening Realm and reached the Void Refinement Realm."

"Only eighteen years old, yet already in the Void Refinement Realm—such an achievement had never been seen before in either the Xiao Family or the Pei Family."

"According to the Xiao Family's clan rules, descendants who reach the Profound Origin Realm cannot be married off."

"The Xiao Family wanted to send another girl to marry into the Pei Family, but the Pei Family was unwilling."

"Thirty days ago, Pei Guangyin, an elder of the Pei Family, personally arrived at the Xiao Family and made it clear that they would not accept the Xiao Family changing the bride at the last minute."

"It seems the Pei Family has taken a fancy to that Xiao Family descendant