The moment these words were spoken, all the sorrow and grief inside the ancestral hall was swept away.
The women of the family all looked up, their grief turning to elation, faces beaming with joy.
A clan elder began to brown-nose. "I knew it! That boy, Si Yuan, has been destined for greatness since he was little!"
A tsunami of cheers echoed throughout the ancestral hall.
The last vestiges of the sorrowful atmosphere vanished without a trace.
...
「The border of You Province」
Qin Xuan received the message from the Bone-Transforming Corpse Beetle. His expression froze. Like a bird startled by a bowstring, he spun around and fled.
'A Purple Mansion Daoist!'
This time, however, his Golden Finger hadn't issued a warning, and Qin Xuan had no time to overthink it.
'Too bad, Old Zhao. You're on your own.'
Qin Xuan's figure flickered like a phantom, vanishing in a near-instantaneous flash.
All that remained was a fleeting afterimage of blood, formed from his dissipating Blood Qi.
