"Why? Why did you want to kill me? I'm your father!" Gu Kehan demanded in anguish.
"Because you were stubborn and refused to change! Because you were an old fossil! Because you caused my wife's death!" Gu Shutai answered.
"What are you talking about?"
"I suggested countless times that you relocate the entire clan, move the Ancient Clan to another continent, or at least send some of our people away. But you clung to the Ancestral Teachings and refused no matter what. The Ancient Continent is plagued by endless disasters. It simply isn't fit for people to live in. Most of our clansmen and descendants never live long lives. Living in a place like this is utterly foolish. We should have abandoned the Ancestral Teachings and left long ago. You stopped the relocation. You killed so many people!"
The more Gu Shutai spoke, the more agitated he became. There was not the slightest trace of father-son affection in his gaze toward his father, only naked hatred.
Back then, his beloved wife had been killed by a natural disaster. If they had not lived on the Ancient Continent, she would never have encountered such a disaster. He believed that the Ancient Clan's Ancestral Teachings had harmed his wife and harmed generations upon generations of the Ancient Clan.
The Ancient Clan had Ancestral Teachings requiring its members to live on the Ancient Continent for generation after generation, never leaving this place. They believed this was the only way to temper the clan.
Gu Shutai had repeatedly advised his father to defy the Ancestral Teachings and relocate the entire clan, but every proposal had been met with rebukes. This had driven him to murderous intent. He believed that only by killing his father could he change the Ancient Clan and bring about the