Xie Tian understood that the only reason he'd been able to avoid becoming enemies with the Nine-colored Dragon was entirely because Ao Xu had been mediating from the middle.
But whether that mediation succeeded or not depended completely on the mood of that half-dead old ancestor of Ao Xu's.
So when Ao Xu said she would take him to pay respects to the old ancestor, even if he was unwilling, he could only resign himself.
Ao Xu couldn't see any reluctance in his expression; even Xie Tian himself avoided thinking about what lay behind that reluctance.
Only, Ao Qing's attitude toward Po Shan kept circling in his mind.
A clan so proud that even as he lay dying Ao Qing refused to call Po Shan his son-in-law—such a race was extremely unlikely to let Xie Tian go so easily.
Of course, Ao Xu's actions didn't just leave Xie Tian helpless; they also made the old ancestor in the giant coffin nervous.
