"The Azure Steel Sword... is there truly no one left?" Du Gu Fu asked in a low voice.
"That should be the case," Chen Shurui sighed. "From then on, the name of the 'Azure Steel Sword' truly became a vanished echo."
Chen Xiaojun's tone was slightly subdued. "According to what's passed down in the clan, back then, when Founding Ancestor Chen Ling received the news and rushed to the Chen Family's main branch... all he saw was devastation. In that vast encampment, he could barely find anyone still breathing."
He paused. "In grief and fury, the founding ancestor made his move and killed on the spot the Heaven Holding Sect elder who had been stationed there and led that massacre of an entire family... a genuine Super Douluo."
"The others from the Heaven Holding Sect were also wiped out by the various clan branches that arrived afterward."
"And at that time," Chen Xiaojun's voice grew even heavier, "the Chen Family Head of that generation was lying in a pool of blood, his life like a candle guttering in the wind."
"Then, at the very last moment before his death, he forced himself to hold on to his final breath and personally entrusted the Ancestral Technique Disc, which symbolized the inheritance of the main line and bore the core secret repository and laws of the main branch, into Founding Ancestor Chen Ling's hands."
"For no other reason than that, at the time, Founding Ancestor Chen Ling... was still a direct-blooded, legitimate descendant of the Chen Family."
"The handover of that technique disc was the entrusting of an orphan, and also the heavy transfer of the responsibility of inheritance."
His final words fell like the lingering note of a sigh, heavy and weighty.
Another fierce collision between the Seven Kill Sword and