He looked up and saw that the newcomer was an old man with white hair and beard, with a withered face, but his eyes were cloudy yet majestic, and he exuded the pressure of the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm!
"Ancestor!" Xiao Lie and the other elders bowed respectfully, their expressions filled with awe.
This is the old monster hidden by the Xiao family. He has been in seclusion for many years, but I never expected him to come out of seclusion today!
The elder slowly released his grip, looked at Xiao Chen, and said in a displeased tone, "Xiao Chen, you've just returned to the clan and you've already started killing people one after another. First Li Hao, then Xiao Meng. Do you have no respect for the clan's rules?"
Xiao Chen looked at him, and the humiliation and anger that had been building up for years finally found an outlet. His voice trembled slightly, but it was exceptionally clear:
"Rules? The ancestor is telling me about rules?"
"Back then, when all my meridians were severed, I was banished to another courtyard. Xiao Meng and his men came to my door every day, tied me to a pillar and whipped me, calling me a bastard of the Xiao family. When they took my last piece of dry food, why didn't anyone talk to him about the rules?"
"He threw me into a cesspool and made me eat garbage like a dog. When the kids around him were laughing so hard they were doubled over, why didn't anyone talk to him about the rules?"
“I was expelled from the family and left to wander the streets, chased and beaten like a stray dog. Where are you, my high and mighty elders and ancestors, now?”
Xiao Chen's voice grew louder and louder, each word seemingly squeezed out from between his teeth, laced with blood and tears: "Now that I'm back, and I have the ability to take revenge, you're talking to me about rules? About family?"
The hall was completely silent; everyone was stunned by Xiao Chen's words. They only knew that Xiao Chen had fallen on hard times, but they didn't know that he had suffered so much humiliation.
The elder's face darkened, and after a moment of silence, he slowly said, "Xiao Meng was indeed wrong back then, but he was a member of the family and the only son of the Grand Elder. Killing him would chill the hearts of the family members and would not be conducive to the unity of the family."
"For the sake of the family, let's drop this matter, shall we?"
It was all for the sake of the family.
Xiao Chen laughed, a laugh utterly cold: "For the sake of the family, you expect me to forget those humiliations? For the sake of the family, you expect me to let go of this person who treated me like a dog?"
He abruptly pulled back his rusty iron spear, pointing the tip at the patriarch, his eyes devoid of any warmth:
"I don't care about your family."
"In this life-or-death battle today, one of us must die."
Before the words were even finished, another gunshot rang out, this time more swift and deadly than ever before!
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