Published: March 8, 2025
Chu Yang's voice responded with a laugh, “Look at what you’re saying, the choice is entirely in the hands of Elder Xiao; it’s not that we want to make things difficult for you. I just want to ask you one question: These people are all your brother's family, descendants, are you sure you want to wipe out your own brother’s family completely? To utterly destroy your own social connections?”
Xiao Chenyu and Xiao Se spoke up, “As a loser, one should have the awareness of a loser. Furthermore… my brother is already dead, and if his wife and children fall into the hands of others, aside from being pillaged, they will also suffer great bullying; but with me here watching, I can guarantee they’ll die painlessly, this is already the limit of what I can do.”
“Do you really want them to fall from the pinnacle, directly into the depths of the abyss? Nine Calamity Sword Master, don’t try to impose your so-called grand morality onto me; which one of the nine great families doesn’t have this level of awareness? The once-in-a-millennium Nine Calamity reappearance, the cycle that happens once every ten thousand years, is already evident!”
Chu Yang sneered, “Awareness? Evident?! That’s simply nonsense! Why not ask these people in front of you, all of whom are your brother's family members; ask them if they want to die or if they want to live?”
Xiao Chenyu said, “Even if they want to live, I absolutely cannot allow them to live in humiliation and shame! If they are willing to disregard the face of the Li family in order to survive, they are not worthy of the Li surname; if they do not carry the Li surname, then what do I need to uphold brotherly loyalty for?”
Chu Yang chuckled coldly, “Fallacy, reversing your reasoning to suit yourself; with your ability, you could take good care of them. The Xiao family is large and prosperous; supporting a few more people is not a problem at all, right? Why must you kill them?”
Beside them, Ji Mo and Rocky Luo burst into laughter.
This statement truly dissected the hypocrisy of Xiao Chenyu to the core.
You say you don’t want your brother’s family to live in humiliation, so with the wealth of the Xiao family, what’s the problem in supporting a few more people? Moreover, these are your brother's relatives, so they are not outsiders to you.
However, Xiao Chenyu was clearly unwilling.
He led people to annihilate the Li family; how could he turn around and support so many Li family members? Furthermore, these are genuine enemies, who knows when they might become a future threat?
Although the Xiao family is large, can they really afford to support them? Moreover, they must always be on guard against retaliation; it is completely unfeasible.
Xiao Chenyu's eyes turned cold: “Is the intention of the Nine Calamity Sword Master to protect them? To make them slaves? Or cannon fodder?”
“I reserve, I protect, and even if I treat them as cannon fodder or slaves in the future, it has nothing to do with you! Because, I want them to live! I have given them hope!” Chu Yang mocked, “At the very least, even if I act as a villain, taking advantage of others' misfortune, I do so openly, unlike you who spouts morality with a knife in hand.”
“It has long been clear that you intend to kill, wanting to eradicate roots to eliminate future troubles, yet you dare to say you don’t want them to live in humiliation… Xiao Chenyu, do you still have any shame left as a person?”
Xiao Chenyu frowned in displeasure and said, “Chu Yang, you are the real despicable villain!”
Unable to counter Chu Yang, he simply turned the tables...
Suddenly, a woman from the Li family disdainfully spat, “Pah!” and said, “Xiao Chenyu, you are truly disgusting! By what right do you have to be compared to my family’s Ancestral Patriarch among the Nine Great Families?”
From this point on, the group of women instantly started clamoring, one sharp voice exclaimed, “Xiao Chenyu, whether we live or die is irrelevant, but the children must live, right… If you cherish the brotherhood with our Ancestral Patriarch, then supporting a few thousand people should be a piece of cake, right?”