When Jin Lai's ashes were delivered before Jin Long, he did not take them. He merely said coldly,
"After Jin Lai committed such acts that disgraced the family and implicated the clan, he was expelled from the family. He must pay the price for what he did."
With a flick of his sleeve, he scattered Jin Lai's ashes into the air. This was truly grinding his bones to dust and scattering the ashes to the wind. The surrounding people reacted differently, but Yunxi could tell from their gazes that they had grown even more wary of the Jin Family. For the sake of extricating themselves from the matter, they could go this far—one could see just how ruthless they were.
No one believed that Jin Lai had excavated the immortal stone mine vein all by himself. Besides, the Wanqi Family was no nameless clan in Wanhao Immortal City, yet they had still been robbed blind. A single Daluo Golden Immortal could never have accomplished such a thing. That meant the entire Jin Family must have been involved; Jin Lai had merely been unlucky enough to become the scapegoat.
The Jin Family had abandoned him so decisively and thoroughly, which showed that their ambitions were far from small. There had already been rumors circulating through the city. Although people believed they had most likely been spread by the Wanqi Family, after seeing Jin Long's attitude today, they believed at least half of them. They would investigate the other half themselves. After all, having a venomous snake lurking at one's side was never reassuring.
Jin Long seemed not to have noticed the change in atmosphere. After reducing Jin Lai to ashes, he prepared to leave, only for Wanqi You to flash forward and block his path.
"Jin Long, can the Jin Family