Are you looking for death?

Xu Yao, with a sinister expression, was incredibly smug at this moment.

He and Xia Xuan had a long-standing grudge, and now, he could finally torment Xia Xuan properly.

He wasn't in a hurry to kill Xia Xuan.

After all, death was a release for an enemy.

He didn't want Xia Xuan to find release so quickly!

The more pain Xia Xuan felt, the more excited he became!

"Xia Xuan, Xia Xuan, three years ago, after our battle, you returned to the Sword Pavilion to heal."

"I secretly snuck in, wanting to strike while you were weak!"

"So I disguised myself as an alchemist."

"Coincidentally, at that time, your good wife, Madam Liu, was looking for a top-tier Precious Pill for Xia Wudao and wanted someone to teach Xia Wuhui alchemy. So, she came to me."

"She pleaded with me, even taking off her clothes in front of me, and served me for seven days and seven nights, hahaha!"

"Finally, I told her to bring me the Crimson Blood Sword, and then I promised her a top-tier Precious Pill for her son Xia Wudao and to teach her daughter Xia Wuhui alchemy!"

"She actually brought the Crimson Blood Sword."

"Of course, I lied to her. I took the sword and left, hahaha!"

"If it weren't for this Crimson Blood Sword, which allowed me to comprehend your Sword Pavilion's Xia family's Crimson Blood Heart Sutra, how could I have broken through to the Primal Energy Realm?"

Xu Yao's words were like needles piercing Xia Xuan's heart!

Covered in blood, Xia Xuan couldn't accept the truth. Instead, he roared at Xia Wuji again, "It was you... it was all you, Xia Wuji, you scourge! You stole the Crimson Blood Sword and gave it to Xu Yao. You and Xu Yao are birds of a feather!"

Xu Yao glanced at Xia Wuji and laughed again, "Xia Xuan, Xia Xuan, Madam Liu accompanied me for seven days and seven nights back then, and she told me a secret."

"You only have one son, and that's this Xia Wuji!"

"As for Xia Wudao and Xia Wuhui, they aren't your offspring. As for who their father really is, even that slut Madam Liu doesn't know. After all... she's been with so many wild men behind your back, you couldn't even count them with both hands!"

"No! This is impossible!" Xia Xuan shook his head frantically.

"Xia Wuji, you ungrateful wretch, colluding with foreign enemies to persecute your own father!"

"And conspiring with foreign enemies to slander the matriarch of the Sword Pavilion!"

"You are simply wicked to the core, you deserve to go to hell!"

Xia Wuji, who had been silent all this time, thought he could remain detached and not get angry.

But at this moment, he was still provoked by Xia Xuan's words.

Even now, in Xia Xuan's eyes, he was still the culprit, the source of all evil.

"Then let Madam Liu, that wicked woman, tell you herself whether I caused all of this!" Xia Wuji roared, raising his hand and grabbing. A powerful force condensed into a hand seal, pulling Madam Liu, who was not yet dead, out of the secret chamber!

Madam Liu had already heard the conversation outside in the secret chamber.

Facing Xia Xuan's predatory gaze.

Madam Liu cried out, "Husband... I didn't know he was Xu Yao back then... he deceived me... If I had known he was Xu Yao... I would never have given him the Sword Pavilion's Jinghong Sword..."

"As for whether Wudao and Wuhui are your biological children, so what? Haven't they called you 'father' day and night? What more are you not satisfied with?"

"Husband... Xia Wuji killed Wuhui... Wudao is also barely holding on, and I'm dying soon..."

"You must help us... help us get revenge... let this Xia Wuji... be buried with us!"

"Ah!" Xia Xuan went completely mad, roaring, "I'll kill you first, you slut!"

He lunged at Madam Liu, and with a single sword strike, he severed her head!

Then, he looked at Xia Wuji.

His body was trembling.

This blow was too much, too much for him.

Xia Wuji was his only descendant.

And he had believed Madam Liu, misunderstanding Xia Wuji all along.

He believed Xia Wuji had thrown the Sword Pavilion into chaos, and he also believed Xia Wuji had stolen the Crimson Blood Sword.

Moreover, over the years, the fatherly love he hadn't given to his biological son, he had given entirely to Xia Wudao and Xia Wuhui, those bastards of unknown origin!

He had indulged those two bastards excessively.

Whatever those two bastards wanted, he would do his best to satisfy them.

But towards his only biological son, he had been so harsh...

In fact, just now, he had even cooperated with that slut Madam Liu to poison his biological son, all to fulfill the desires of those two bastards!

"Wuji... Father... was wrong!" Xia Xuan, at this moment, was filled with extreme regret, his voice filled with immense suppression.

"Pavilion Master Xia, whether you were right or wrong has nothing to do with me."

As he spoke, Xia Wuji turned and left.

Without looking back.

All of this was Xia Xuan's own doing!

His retribution!

Xia Xuan's apology was merely a desperate attempt to grant himself a sliver of redemption.

But Xia Wuji didn't need it!

Just as before, he disdained to offer Xia Xuan even a single explanation!

"Hahaha, what a spectacular drama this has been, I've enjoyed it immensely!" Xu Yao roared with laughter, then suddenly unleashed a crimson sword light!

The crimson sword light, impossibly precise, pierced Xia Xuan's abdomen, crippling his dantian.

Xia Xuan let out a scream and collapsed onto the ground.

Xu Yao cackled, "Xia Xuan, I won't make it that easy for you to die. After all, we have many old scores to settle, and we'll do it slowly!"

"Next, I'll hang an iron chain around your neck."

"I'll hold the chain."

"Wherever I go, you'll crawl after me like a dog!"

"Hahaha!"

Xu Yao's laughter echoed through the heavens and earth.

Xia Xuan's heart was filled with utter despair.

At this very moment... his heart turned to ash.

And Xu Yao, of course, was not satisfied yet.

He glanced at Xia Wuji, who was preparing to leave, and sneered, "Did I say you could go?"

Xia Wuji looked at Xu Yao, his face devoid of emotion. "You seek revenge against the Pavilion Master of the Sword Pavilion. I have no connection to the Sword Pavilion."

Xu Yao maintained his victor's condescending demeanor. "But you still carry the Xia surname, and I, Xu Yao, believe in cutting weeds by the root!"

"Of course, there is another way."

"For example, you can kneel before me, acknowledge me as your father, change your surname to Xu, and then every day, you'll lead that dog chain for me, dragging your own father, Xia Xuan, like a dog, and serving me!"

"Then, you may live!"

This was the most brutal way to torment Xia Xuan!

To have Xia Xuan's only son lead the chain-bound Xia Xuan by the neck every day, and to call him 'father' in front of Xia Xuan every day.

Thinking of this, Xu Yao's body trembled with excitement.

This was a pleasure that penetrated the soul!

Xia Wuji sneered, "You've taken revenge on Xia Xuan and destroyed the Sword Pavilion. Your objective is achieved, but you have no right to provoke me!"

Xu Yao's gaze instantly turned sharp and cold. "You little brat, I gave you a chance, but don't be ungrateful!"

Xia Wuji stared at him. "Are you seeking death?"

Xu Yao coldly retorted, "What an arrogant whelp who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"

"Since that's the case, then die!"

As the words fell, the violent aura emanating from Xu Yao surged!

His cultivation, Primal Energy Realm second level, erupted!

The ancestral supreme treasure sword in his hand, once belonging to the Sword Pavilion, slashed fiercely towards Xia Wuji!

Sword Qi like a torrent!

Swift and fierce!

In his eyes, Xia Wuji's aura fluctuations were merely that of the Sea of Qi Realm.

A single casual sword strike from him could easily kill a swarm of such ants!

Xia Xuan, lying on the ground, wishing for death, watched the crimson sword energy slash towards Xia Wuji. He believed his only son was doomed. After all, even in his prime, before his cultivation was crippled, he, a peak Sea of Qi Realm cultivator, couldn't withstand this strike.

Just as the crimson sword energy was about to land on Xia Wuji, cleaving his body in two.

The light in Xia Wuji's eyes seemed to flicker with sword Qi.

Within his dantian, the Sword Seed trembled, and Sword Essence instantly poured out!

A sharp, piercing aura erupted from him, soaring into the sky!

"Swish!"

The Jinghong Sword was drawn!

Slash!