Azure Wood Staff glared in fury. "What my son did is irrelevant! All I know is that he died at the hands of someone from Dragon Abyss! And you! You turned a blind eye and chose to indulge them, refusing to punish that murderer!"
"It was indeed our Old Six who killed him," Qingtian said with a stern expression. After a pause, he declared righteously, "But your son deserved to die. Not to mention that Old Six had done it by accident at the time—even if it had not been an accident, even if he had deliberately killed him, I would not blame him in the slightest. Your son truly deserved death!"
"How outrageous!" Azure Wood Staff's eyes reddened with rage as he roared savagely, "My son is already dead. I will never allow you to insult him again!"
As he spoke, his aura surged explosively, and he made as if to break free from Qingtian's hold and rush forward to fight to the death.
Crack!
The sound of bones shattering rang out again.
Qingtian exerted only the slightest force, yet it interrupted Azure Wood Staff's secret art and forcibly suppressed his wildly rising aura.
With both hands broken and the backlash of his aura damaging his meridians, Azure Wood Staff had completely lost his ability to fight for the time being.
Qingtian coldly tossed him aside.
Ghost Mask Flower Fox approached Azure Wood Staff with a dark expression and sighed helplessly. "Old Zhu, if you could not let go of your son's death, why didn't you say so? Before I entered seclusion, I even asked you about it. If you had spoken up, everyone in Black Fox would certainly have..."
Azure Wood Staff said bitterly, "This was my personal vendetta. Chief, you have shown me kindness, and I watched