In the dim secret chamber, Venerable Golden Light's pudgy fingers clutched the yellowed Qin Family Genealogy. His gaze roamed its pages, as though searching for some secret hidden within the aging paper.
His expression shifted like the weather in June, sunny one moment and overcast the next. At times he clenched his teeth; at others his eyes grew as deep as a dark pool.
"Bitch!"
Venerable Golden Light suddenly erupted, his withered palm wreathed in blood-red spiritual power as he slammed it down.
With a boom, the table crafted from millennium rosewood exploded. Splinters flew, yet the Qin Family Genealogy hovered eerily in midair, its yellowed pages rustling and turning without a breeze.
"Wretched slut!"
His eyes were blood-red. That humiliating scene kept flashing through his sea of consciousness-the woman who had once knelt at his feet now dared to stand as his equal!
Worse still, she had betrayed him!
The candle flame suddenly twisted, its core taking on Enchantress's face. Venerable Golden Light reached out and crushed it in his fist.
"I saved all seventy-two members of your Su Family..."
"Gave you fine clothes and fine food, vermilion towers and golden threads..."
"Taught you the Immortal Ascension Art... and after all that, betrayal was what I received."
The bronze mirror on the wall abruptly shattered, every fragment reflecting his savage face.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Venerable Golden Light's voice was low and steeped in hatred, like a curse rising from the abyss.
After this ordeal, Venerable Golden Light had lost all interest in women. Only endless revulsion and resentment remained in his heart.
At the time, the mad thought of Kill-Wife-for-the-Dao had even surged through his mind—he wanted to slaughter every wife and concubine he had left at the Seven Mysteries Sect.
Unfortunately, the Seven Mysteries Sect lay far away,