Back then, at Glow Mountain in Black Dragon County of the Jiuzhou Realm, we had already severed our brotherly ties. Now that I had to kill him, I felt no pressure at all. But what about the explanation he had given me in the Divine Court back then? If that assumption turned out to be true, how was I supposed to explain it?
"Back when we were in the Divine Court, you said that everything was controlled by the High God, that everything you did was under his threat, all to protect Mother and Xiao Xue. Was that true or false?" Watching his back, I still found myself asking the question. ?
Xia Ruize stopped, then let out a burst of laughter. Soon, his disdainful voice came from ahead: "Was there really such a thing? Xiao Xue was far too meddlesome. It seems your childhood sweetheart still thinks the two of us brothers can reconcile and return to how we were. But Mother is so clever—could she really have believed that was true?"
"I see." A wave of despair rose in my heart. Xia Ruize was beyond saving. It seemed the information had come from Xiao Xue. Otherwise, what reason would Xia Ruize have to slander his own wife? In my eyes, though he was deep and calculating, at least he would never slander or deceive Mother, his wife, or his daughter.
After Xia Ruize finished speaking, he walked straight into the sacred hall, while I took Jing Xiaoman with me and headed toward the Realm Dock. Jing Xiaoman studied my face for quite a while before saying, "Brother Tian, you don't have to be so angry. He was even more arrogant and outrageous the last time he came to the hall. But now he has the Holy Venerable's authority