"Elder Liu, stop!"

Inside the Heaven-Sword Sect, several figures came sweeping in across the sky, each trailing a presence terrifying in the extreme.

The eight great elders were all White Jade Capital cultivators who could open at least two cities, and the two ranked highest among them, like Liu Xingshan, had the strength to open the third great city, Shanghuang.

For experts of that order, very little was left in the world that could stir them.

But a Dao-son and a sect elder turning weapons on each other under one roof was certainly one of the few.

"Me?!"

Inside the light-curtain, Liu Xingshan almost could not get his breath.

Stop? He had watched his cave estate wrecked in front of his eyes. Where had he ever had the chance to lift a hand!

With a temper like his, if it had been anyone else out there, he would long since have called up the great city's shadow, drawn out a Dao weapon and cut his way out.

Unfortunately, when it came to temper, nobody in the whole Heaven-Sword Sect could outdo that woman.

Liu Xingshan knew perfectly well that neither the Sect Master nor the other elders would stand by and watch this duel happen.

However exalted Su Hongxiu's standing, for the moment she was still only a Dao-son.

It fell out exactly as he had expected.

The elders who had rushed over shouted coldly and called Liu Xingshan's name, and yet their bodies were quietly closing a ring around Su Hongxiu.

"Hongxiu, you calm down too. Whatever this is about, put the Primordial heavenly weapon away first and then we'll talk."

A scene like this had happened once many years before. Liu Xingshan had genuinely been brought within an inch of his life that day; Su Hongxiu had won by a hair, and had not come off well herself.

But the reason that time was that Liu Xingshan had challenged her standing as Dao-son.

Put less kindly, it was a fight over the Dao-merging treasured site.

After that battle Liu Xingshan had no chance at all of ever receiving…