Wu Ming's tone turned harsher as he continued, "But when we asked what exactly Eldest Brother had been doing in the Holy Dynasty these past years, or what faction he had joined, he kept his lips sealed! When we asked dad, he refused to say another word as well. Eldest Brother only stayed home for a few short days before hurrying away! And not long after he left... Dad went completely mad! Overnight, he lost all reason! We searched far and wide for famous physicians and exhausted every effort, yet we could not even determine the cause!"
Wu Ming silently clenched his fists, his knuckles turning white from the force. Anger entered his voice. "Just as us siblings were discussing how, no matter what, we had to take our mad dad to the Holy Dynasty and seek Eldest Brother's help... calamity descended upon us!"
"A group of uninvited guests suddenly stormed into the Wu Family! They killed everyone they saw, regardless of age or gender! Our Wu clan... was almost slaughtered to the last! My other brothers and sisters... all died miserably in that massacre! Only Chuzhen and I, along with our already deranged dad... and a portion of our clansmen, escaped by sheer luck. Only then were we able to hide in this Spatial Vortex we happened to discover and cling to life until now!"
Wu Ming suddenly pointed outside, tears glinting in his bloodshot eyes. "Benefactor, General, do you know what chills the heart the most? The robes worn by those beasts who massacred my entire clan... were exactly the same as those worn by the subordinates Eldest Brother brought back all those years ago! Not a single detail differed!"
He continued with a low roar, "That means... it was my own eldest brother! He sent those people!