Xiao Tao's wife, seeing her ex-husband's miserable state, still wanted to come up and plead for him.

"Since Xiao Tao likes you so much, you'd better take good care of him after you go down there, understand?"

Xiao Tao's wife was stunned by what I said. She was a very self-centered person, otherwise she wouldn't have forced Xiao Tao to quit. It's true that not many people who go out into the world end up well, but how many of those who have made a name for themselves can leave unscathed?

The underworld isn't something you can simply wash your hands of by saying you're retiring. People with that kind of thinking often end up worse off, and their whole family might even be killed.

If you want to make it in the martial arts world, you have to forge ahead until the day you die. Once you're a member of the martial arts world, you're a member for life. No one has the right to say they can leave the martial arts world.

After I finished speaking, two of my underlings came up and dragged away Xiao Tao's wife. They deliberately dug two holes and buried them in them.

When Xiao Tao's wife saw that I meant it and that I was really going to bury her, she started yelling and screaming, fully displaying her shrewish side.

But she forgot, or perhaps she simply didn't take us seriously. Because of Xiao Tao's influence, everyone had always given in to her, and over time it became taken for granted.

But this time nobody cared about her. The two henchmen slapped her across the face until it was covered in blood, then threw her into the pit and started filling it with soil to bury her alive.

We didn't leave until both of them were buried. It felt like our trip to Black Mountain was over, but I was still very uneasy. This kind of thing would never have happened if it had happened to Ermin or Crazy Donkey.

They were all old-timers who had been in society for over a decade and had long witnessed its cruelty and ruthlessness. They wouldn't still harbor illusions like Xiao Tao. Xiao Tao's story served as a wake-up call for me. Whether it was time travel or the original world, nothing had actually changed.

It's always the case that strength reigns supreme. The farts of the strong are considered truth, while the weak need the pity of the strong just to live peacefully.

Peace is the mercy of the strong, never the cry of the weak.

Strive to become the strongest, only then can my will be fulfilled.

I took a car all the way home, but neither Meiyao nor Sister Wang were home. They must have been invited out by someone. Some people who were turned down by me were thinking of trying to build a good relationship with Sister Wang and her family through their wives or daughters, so that they could say a word for them in a critical moment.

Although Sister Wang is very sensible and never interferes in my affairs, it doesn't stop her from going shopping and having meals with me.

I was feeling a bit down, so I didn't go out for a stroll. I was planning to stay home and have some peace and quiet, but then I was attacked by two little thieving cats.

The twins went back and made arrangements for everyone, but when they came back to find me, they were told that...

"The small world needs to be renovated before it's habitable."

Now the twins have nowhere to go, which infuriates them. They were so angry! Why didn't you do this sooner? I'm really sorry, I didn't expect the small world to be like this. I've already arranged for Apollo and Artemis to handle it, but it will still take some time to build a working weather system.

It was only then that I remembered the fairy garden I had set up outside Black Mountain City.