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"After everything that happened, Grandfather no longer dared let me leave any place where he could sense me. Since I had no grandmother, he killed and drove away all his secondary wives, devoting himself wholeheartedly to protecting and caring for me. And I... also worked hard at cultivation, to become his successor, to take revenge. I kept climbing upward, one step at a time..." Jing Xiaoman's delicate hands clutched my clothes tightly and refused to let go, as though only I was safe, as though my embrace were her grandfather's arms.
"I even remember my first battle. I was still trembling at first, but after killing my opponent, that exhilarating feeling... That was the flame of revenge burning fiercely... wasn't it?" Jing Xiaoman said excitedly.
"Did you kill that whole pack of beasts?" I sighed. Jing Xiaoman had clearly endured countless hardships. Her unruliness had not formed overnight. Because she trusted no one except her grandfather, she was never kind to anyone, often beating and cursing them, even keeping them at a distance. It was nearly impossible to enter her circle, and anyone outside it naturally received no mercy from her—she held an everlasting hostility toward them!
"I started with the weakest, one by one, step by step, slaughtering them in the Molten Fire Demon Realm. I cut off their limbs and tortured them again and again, just as they had tortured my elder sister back then. Tell me... my sister was so good to me. How could I possibly spare them? I wanted them to be afraid, to tremble in terror..." Jing Xiaoman said coldly.
I said nothing. Even if those beasts had been me, I would not have shown them the slightest mercy, so I continued listening.
"Grandfather gave me every resource he could obtain and everything