The elders of the Ji Clan could not help recalling the old days.
Back then, they had thought they had landed an incredible bargain, so delighted they had nearly polished their ancestors' memorial tablets three extra times.
Now, though... the elders guarding the shrine looked at the door that had been kicked clean off, then at the newly minted "Ji Shuo."
For a moment, they actually could not tell whether their Ji Clan had gained an enormous advantage from that marriage alliance, or whether the Yun Clan had finally managed to package up this headstrong, overwhelmingly powerful Dao Lord and send her off to wreak havoc on them instead.
Yun Si could not be bothered to waste words on these old fossils. She tossed aside the brush, grabbed Yun Qing, who still stood beside her looking utterly bewildered, and turned to leave.
Just before stepping outside, Yun Si stopped.
"Announce what happened today to the entire Ji Clan."
The elders inside the hall all went wooden-faced.
Outside, Yun Qing himself clearly had not expected things to go this far either.
He had been hauled in by his collar, then hauled back out by his collar, and was still rather dazed.
"Mother-"
Yun Si gave him no chance to speak. She picked him up and left.
And Ji Huang happened to emerge from seclusion at precisely this moment.
The restrictions around his cave abode slowly dissipated. He had barely stepped through the stone doors when a Black Armor Guard silently landed at the foot of the steps.
"Young master."
Ji Huang did not stop walking. Fresh out of seclusion, the young man still carried Radiant Sun Dao Resonance that he had not fully reined in, golden spiritual light flickering along the hem of his robes. Wherever he passed, even the spiritual