Go around the Upper Court and see for yourself; which official isn’t more dignified than you? Even a two-hundred-year-old ascendee could walk all over you. Over eight hundred years old and this is the state you’re in? What a failure.” Xie Lian smiled. “I am quite the failure. Not like my cousin, already a wrath after eight hundred years.” Xie Lian knew way too well how to put Qi Rong down. Next to him, Hua Cheng snorted, and Qi Rong’s face darkened for real.