"HAHAHA!!"
"Go die with Ayao! Ayao, we'll hold our wedding again in the Yellow Springs."
"..."
"Pant, pant, pant~"
A Golden Thunder Sect menial disciple struggled to pry open that tiny dog hole.
This dog hole had originally been used for sneaking in and out on ordinary days, but now it had become his only path to survival.
The entire Golden Thunder Sect had already become a sea of blood.
Especially the inner hall where the wedding had been held.
Blood had dyed the ground red, layer upon layer, until it had finally congealed into black clumps.
Corpses lay scattered everywhere, nearly all of them beheaded by a single sword strike.
Half of the menial disciple's body had crawled through the dog hole when he suddenly stiffened.
A voice came from behind him.
"Not a single one of you is allowed to run today. Where are you going? We're going underground to reunite. Come attend my wedding with Ayao!"
"Second Senior Brother..."
His words abruptly stopped.
"..."
A sea of flames. The Golden Thunder Sect had fallen into a sea of flames.
The Golden Thunder Sect's Sect Master had first witnessed his daughter and his second disciple committing an illicit act before the wedding. Then he had watched his daughter die beneath his eldest disciple's sword, while his eldest disciple killed himself afterward.
The Sect Master had simply killed himself as well.
Afterward, the second disciple, Wuxiu, had fallen into demonic cultivation, slaughtering nearly the entire Golden Thunder Sect before killing all the guests present.
Wuxiu held Ayao's corpse. "Hahahaha, ahahahaha... Father, I finally understand you. I finally understand you."
He remembered that when he had been young, his father had been the same.
After his mother died, his father had locked himself in his room all day.
One day,