"It seems that this box has brought trouble to this honored hall, then lady should we just retract it from here, we already have another gift for his lordship," Servant Mao said.
He clearly knew that opening the box was no good, even if he didn't know why, he felt that it would cause problems so might as well just remove it entirely and then offer something else. He could then make a full background check on the prisoner and understand better who that person is.
Usually, these acolytes always work alone and at best they'll have a few followers of their own, they never join any of the forces of the Vast Expanse since they are all despised by all of the forces.
Du Shen had caused too much grief for any of the forces of the Vast Expanse to ever want to deal with his descendants or followers.
"They say you can't look a gift horse in the mouth," Zhang Tian said, "Open it," he said.