Wen Haishan lightly raised his palm.
A blue palm condensed in the void and, with a sharp smack, struck Xiao Zhentian across the face!
"Defying your parents? Do you really take me for a senile fool? You were clearly the one trying to seize Chen'er's Dao Tree, which sparked this battle. How did he defy his parents?"
Wen Haishan looked calmly at Xiao Zhentian, but towering fury already filled his eyes.
"Father, I..."
"Shut up. Wait until I return! Then I'll settle accounts with all of you properly!"
Xiao Zhentian still wanted to defend himself, but Wen Haishan swept his sleeve and left with the black-robed elder, turning into two streaks of light that vanished beyond the horizon.
Xiao Zhentian covered his face and stood frozen in place, his expression dazed.
"How could this happen? How did he find out?"
He could not understand how things had taken such a sudden turn for the worse!
His eldest son's talent had exceeded all expectations, and Wen Haishan had noticed that something was amiss as well.
He had originally believed himself as steady as Mount Tai, with everything firmly in his grasp. Yet now, he realized that was not the case at all.
After Xiao Lingtian obtained the divine pill, condensed a Dual Core, and soared into the heavens in a single leap, Xiao Zhentian's mindset changed.
His eldest son possessed only a single core and was afflicted by the Evil Curse, with little time left to live. His younger son was blazing like the midday sun, with a radiant future ahead of him.
The two bore a deep-seated hatred for one another, incompatible as fire and water. His eldest son also refused to return with him, kneel before his younger brother, admit his guilt, and let bygones be bygones. After weighing