I had been listening to Yao Bachǐ tell his story and hadn't paid much attention to other details. As soon as Ye Yang spoke, I immediately reacted.

Yao Bachǐ hadn't had good intentions from the start?

Yao Bachǐ repeatedly told us to withdraw from the martial world as soon as possible and avoid the tribulation.

In reality, it was all nonsense.

He knew that Ye Yang and I were Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren, so he should have known that Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren couldn't stay away from the martial world.

Moreover, the tribulation can be known but not avoided.

If Ye Yang and I were destined to be involved in this tribulation, even if we escaped to the ends of the earth, we would return to the tribulation through countless coincidences.

Yao Bachǐ's repeated talk of avoiding the tribulation seemed to be for our sake, but in reality, it was just to gain our favor and pave the way for him to swindle away our Sirius Golden Hall for nothing.

I looked at Yao Bachǐ with a gloomy expression. "Old coffin, you do business, and I do business too. No one in this world wants to do a losing business. You open your mouth and want our brothers to leave the Sirius Golden Hall here, which we risked our lives to get back. Aren't you asking for too much?"

Yao Bachǐ smiled. "Besides leaving the Golden Hall, do you have any other choice?"

"The Sirius Golden Hall is too hot to handle. Without strong bones, you can't hold onto it. It's better to leave it with me, and we can form a good relationship. Wouldn't that be better?"

I said coldly, "I certainly won't leave things behind for nothing. As for a good relationship, I don't care for it. We might as well form a bad one."

Yao Bachǐ's face darkened. "Don't forget, you're talking to me inside the Coffin Gate. According to the sect rules, a branch disciple's status is lowered by one generation when they meet a member of the main branch."

Before he could finish, I took off the half coffin from my neck, held it in my hand, and slapped it in front of Yao Bachǐ.

The coffin pendant was slammed into the wood, and the open coffin mouth was like a grinning mouth, sneering at Yao Bachǐ.

I stared at Yao Bachǐ and said, "Old thing, what era do you think this is? Still playing the main branch and branch game with me? Are you trying to say: 'The ruler asks the subject to die?'"

I looked at Yao Bachǐ with cold eyes and said slowly, "In the past, if the ruler asked the subject to die, the subject had to die. Now, if the ruler asks the subject to die, the subject will kill the ruler first."

Many sects in the martial world have branches, and the relationship between those so-called branches and the main branch is like that between feudal lords and the emperor.

When the emperor is strong, the feudal lords fear!

When the emperor is weak, the feudal lords rebel!

This is an unchanging truth.

"You..." Yao Bachǐ slammed the table and stood up.

I grabbed the hilt of my saber. "Want to spar? I'll keep you company!"

Ye Yang didn't speak, but the sword intent emanating from his body locked onto Yao Bachǐ's throat.

Yao Bachǐ's face changed several times before he said, "I won't lower myself to your level. You can leave."

I pointed to the pendant that I had slapped on the coffin board. "Keep this thing for yourself! From now on, the Coffin Gate is the Coffin Gate, and the Yin-Yang meridian is the Yin-Yang meridian. We'll stay out of each other's business."

Yao Bachǐ's face was as dark as could be. "You want to betray the sect?"

I raised an eyebrow. "According to you, I wasn't originally a disciple of the Coffin Gate. I was just cooperating with you."

Yao Bachǐ was choked by my words.

I continued, "Also, those Great Coffin Handlers and Great Shopkeepers of yours, if you really feel displeased with our Black White Sect, you can come and find me. We brothers will take on any trouble, no matter how big!"

"Let's go!" I stood up, and Ye Yang and I picked up the coffin and left, not even looking at that old thing Yao Bachǐ.

I originally thought that Old Liu would scold me after knowing about this, but I didn't expect Old Liu to nod and say, "You did the right thing."

"Throughout history, branches that blindly obeyed the main branch have never had a good end. In fact, the relationship between the main branch and the branches is one of mutual utilization."

"The main branch relies on the branches to accumulate wealth and enjoy the benefits, while the branches rely on the main branch to support them, accumulate connections, and dominate the martial world."

"This kind of relationship may be very harmonious at the beginning. But as time goes on, irreconcilable contradictions will inevitably arise between the main branch and the branches. Either they will fight each other, or they will separate completely."

"Since the two ancestors didn't mention letting you obey the Coffin Gate, it's no big deal for you to establish your own sect directly, but..."

Old Liu changed the subject. "Won't that Yao Bachǐ cause you trouble?"

"Just a pretentious incompetent!" I curled my lip. "Soon after I entered Yao Bachǐ's Coffin Shop, I realized that Yao Bachǐ actually didn't have much cultivation. He's all talk."

"That act he puts on in the coffin shop outside is just him deliberately pretending to be an expert, making people who come in feel apprehensive and unwilling to easily fight him. There's no need to pay attention to him."

Old Liu nodded after listening, but there was clearly some worry between his brows.

This is the older one gets in the martial world, the more timid one becomes.

Old Liu was silent for a moment before saying, "Li Po, I still say the same thing, you need to deal with not just one person, but many combinations. Without your own power, you can easily be eaten by others in the struggles of the Jie Ming Ren."

"Are you interested in building your own power?"