Chu Xuan's pupils constricted slightly, and the Longyu Sword stopped abruptly three inches from the old man's brow. "Keep talking."
"Your mother wasn't hunted down over some precious medicinal pill at all!"
The old man's voice carried the madness of someone with nothing left to lose. "It was the Hua Family of the Ancient Clan who leaked the news that she possessed secret cultivation techniques! More than a dozen Ancient Clan factions... along with the top ten secular magnates, all acted on the Hua Family's word to jointly encircle and suppress her! All that talk about 'possessing precious medicinal pills and alchemy formulas' was just a smokescreen fabricated by the Hua Family! The real reason..."
Chapter 148