"Since Tianhu Mountain couldn't properly safeguard this item, it naturally falls to us to take over."
Upon hearing this, Zheng Fan finally understood. The Jade Order must be that blood-sucking artifact. It seems to be some kind of evil object that had been suppressed, whether at Tianhu Mountain or in the Ancestral Temple of the Wenren family in Li Tian City. However, with the Yan Army's defeat of the Wenren and Helian families, the Jade Order was lost amidst the chaos of war. And now, it has surfaced here in Yinlang County.
"Tianhu Mountain has established procedures for suppressing the Jade Order!" the middle-aged Taoist shouted.
"Enough," the man in black retorted. "Soon, all the newly recognized sects in the New Jin Territory will be required to send their leaders to Yanjing to pay homage to His Majesty, the Yan Emperor. You have established procedures? Then simply submit them. It amounts to the same thing."
"This is utterly outrageous!" the Taoist protested.
