These words completely overturned everyone's worldview.
Setting aside Shen Yuanbao's status as Shen Chengyi's adoptive father.
Even based solely on his identity as a God Realm Expert, no one had expected Shen Chengyi to dare act so outrageously toward him.
Even Shen Yuanbao himself widened his eyes, his face full of disbelief.
As for the title "Adoptive Father," rather than an honorific, it was more like the simplest and most brutal way of laying bare the conflict between the Adopted Son Faction and the Bloodline Descendant Faction.
Even if there truly were irreconcilable differences between the two sides, making such a conflict public was something neither side was prepared to accept.
Shen Chenglie stepped forward and grabbed Shen Chengyi's Spirit-Powered Prosthetic Limb, saying in a low voice, "Chengyi, you've had too much to drink. You're talking nonsense. Get back, now!"
"Big Brother, at a time like this, you still harbor fantasies about the Shen family?"
Shen Chengyi flung Shen Chenglie's hand away and sneered repeatedly. "Do you think that as long as we adopted sons swallow our grievances and give up what we fought for through blood and battle, we can still retain a place in the Shen family?
"You're far too naïve!
"That's right, I admit it. Back when Dragon City stood at the brink of life and death, when the Shen family and Cosmos Group had yet to rise, Adoptive Father treated us well. He even saved our lives with his own hands.
"But we also gave the Shen family and Cosmos Group returns generous enough. With our blood and even our corpses, we paved the road for the Lineage and the Group to rise.
"If this was a transaction, then it was an exceedingly fair, win-win transaction. No one lost out, and no one owed anyone anything.