Shen Qingyue shook her head, a trace of gloom passing through her eyes. "I can't be the one to say it. You saw those female cultivators who were rejected. If I said it, how would I be any different from them?"
At this, she raised her head again and looked earnestly at Gao Yang, her face bearing a pleading expression he had never seen before. "Could you help me?"
An ominous premonition immediately rose in Gao Yang's heart.
The jade flute was Xia Jue's Life-Bound Treasure, but he rarely used it. More often, he used the supreme-grade Spirit Artifact Ning Hai had given him, the Voidfang Sword.
Now, Xia Jue stood before the Zheng Household's gates with the Voidfang Sword in hand and the Azure Tide Sect disciples behind him. The Flowing Radiance Sword Sect disciples were there as well.
There was no shortage of shrewd people in the city who realized the Zheng Household was in serious trouble. They poked their heads out of their homes, while the bolder ones even came over to watch.
Someone quietly asked a person beside them, "Has someone finally come to deal with the Zheng Household forcing the city's Foundation Establishment cultivators to refine pills?"
"Shh. It seems there's more to it than that."
The bystanders discussed it among themselves, but none of them learned anything about the spirit-draining stones.
Just then, the Zheng Household's gates slowly opened.
A servant came out.
The servant had never seen such a gathering before, and his legs immediately went weak with fright.
"The h-head of the household invites you inside."
Xia Jue stood on no ceremony. With a wave of his hand, the group strode inside.
As Su Jiu followed them in this time, she discovered that every formation within the Zheng Household's courtyard had been