Upon hearing Duan Jinyan's words, I looked at him with a grim expression: "If what you want to talk to me about is just threats, then there's no need for us to continue this conversation! I'm right here. If you want my life, then try!"

"I don't want to kill you, but that doesn't mean I can't. If you want to be with me, you first need to correct your attitude."

Duan Jinyan was somewhat dissatisfied with my attitude, but he spoke in a low voice without any emotion, which made him seem even more authoritative: "Your hatred for me stems from our blood relationship. You think I gave birth to you but did not raise you, so you hate me, right?"

Hearing Duan Jinyan bring this up only fueled my frustration: "Shouldn't this be a reason for me to hate you?"

"We did not choose to come into this world; neither did I, nor you."

Duan Jinyan paused for a moment: "If I had a choice, I wouldn't actually want to be a member of the Duan family, and I certainly wouldn't want you to come into this world! Unfortunately, very few people can truly control their own destiny in this life, let alone control the destiny of others!"

Although I said I wanted to chat with you, I actually wanted to explain something to you! You hate me because you have feelings for Duan Hongyu and feel that I hurt him…”

"You have no right to mention my grandfather's name!"

When I heard Duan Jinyan say my grandfather's name, I glared at him furiously: "He is your biological father, yet you call him by his name here. You are unworthy of being a son!"

“You said it yourself, he is my father, how I address him is between us.”

Duan Jinyan smiled and said, "According to you, you're still my son. Doesn't your attitude towards me now seem equally immoral?"

I glared at Duan Jinyan and said, "I don't acknowledge you as my father! You don't deserve to be my father!"

"That's the same principle I'm trying to tell you."

Duan Jinyan continued the conversation, saying, "Since you have the right to disown me as your father, don't I also have the right to disown Duan Hongyu as my father? You can take my life if you want, so why can't I even mention his name once?"

I did not respond to Duan Jinyan's fallacious and heretical arguments.

Besides not wanting to argue with him about such a pointless thing, it was also because I was so angry that I couldn't speak.

Seeing that I remained silent, Duan Jinyan continued, "You keep saying you want to kill me to rid the Duan family of this scourge, but who is the Duan family in your eyes? Just people with the surname Duan? If that's the case, can I also represent the Duan family?"

Ultimately, you hate me only because you were raised by Duan Hongyu; otherwise, I don't believe you would fight to the death with someone you have no memory of.

I don't know what kind of ideas he instilled in you, but I want you to understand that this is just a matter between father and son, just like your relationship with me! Our issues are for us to resolve ourselves; similarly, my conflict with Duan Hongyu is a matter between father and son!

"You are not worthy of being a member of the Duan family!"

I glared angrily at Duan Jinyan: "You have long been expelled from the Duan family! You are a scourge to the Duan family, and a disgrace to the Duan family! Neither you nor I are qualified to represent the Duan family. The true Duan family has a history of thousands of years, and you are not worthy to be a member of the Duan family!"

“I’ve said it before, people have no choice about whether they are born into this world. I didn’t want to be a member of the Duan family, but I had no choice! Just like even though I don’t acknowledge you as my son, you still have the same blood as me flowing in your veins. The Duan family’s disownment of me doesn’t mean I don’t exist.”

Duan Jinyan looked at me with a mocking gaze: "As for the thousands of years of heritage you mentioned, it's nothing more than the despicable and shameless act of digging up graves! It's strange, really, that the Duan family has done so many despicable things like digging up graves for thousands of years, yet it has still been able to continue to this day. It's quite a miracle!"

You say I've let the Duan family down, and I really can't agree with that. After all, we were all doing the same thing; I just stopped robbing tombs for the Duan family... No, I just said, you don't represent the Duan family."

"The Duan family's ancestral precepts dictate that cultural relics must never be allowed to fall into foreign hands, yet you are working for foreigners! This is a betrayal of your ancestors!"

I saw Duan Jinyan's indifferent expression and glared at him angrily: "Not only that, you also caused the death of your own sister! Duan Jinyan, don't you feel even the slightest bit of remorse?"

"Guilt?"

After hearing what I said, Duan Jinyan gave me a contemptuous and puzzled look: "I really can't understand why I should feel guilty!"

You're also a tomb raider, having entered the tombs of so many kings, nobles, and high-ranking officials, yet you still haven't grasped one crucial truth! In this world, nothing is permanent—nothing is permanent, whether it's money, land, power, or fame… all of these are vanities. The only thing a person can take into the grave, and that truly belongs to them, is the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness they experience in this life!

What you call family, honor, and grudges lose all meaning the moment you close your eyes! Once people understand that we will all die, everything becomes unimportant and meaningless!

You feel I gave birth to you but didn't raise you, but your arrival was simply my animalistic instinct to reproduce! For me, the meaning of life is to do as I please and enjoy life to the fullest! So all those things you're talking about mean nothing to me! I don't care about them either!

"What a wonderful thing it is to do whatever you want!"

I clenched my fists, my nails digging deep into my flesh: "Your willful actions are like those of an animal, causing the deaths of your fellow disciples! The deaths of your own sister! And you feel absolutely no remorse for any of this?"

"It's not entirely true that there isn't any."

Duan Jinyan shook his head slightly: "The fact that you are still alive and sitting here talking to me is good proof. In any case, I am a member of the Duan family. Although your birth was an accident, I handed you over to Duan Hongyu to continue the Duan family line, which can be considered as repaying his kindness in giving me life!"

Killing you would be a piece of cake for me. The reason you're still alive is because I have some compassion for you, and because you haven't stood in my way. But what you've done recently has become a threat to me.

I'm sparing your life as a way of repaying the Duan family. By clarifying things with you today, I've settled my debt of gratitude! From now on, if you push your luck again, you're just asking for death!