Once

The remains of Shen Chong's mother and brother had been found not long ago.

Perhaps Zhou Tianhai's threat to dig up his mother's and brother's corpses had merely been a cruel remark,

but someone had taken it seriously,

and carried it out in earnest.

That person

was First Madam Zhou Yi!

Consumed by towering hatred for Shen Chong, Zhou Yi had truly led people to dig up the remains of Shen Chong's two closest relatives.

And even that had not quenched her hatred.

She had thrown them into a public latrine in the mortal gathering district.

Although, after killing Zhou Tianhai and wiping out the Zhou Family, Shen Chong had retaliated with unprecedented ruthlessness,

clearly,

what had happened could no longer be changed.

All he could do

was gather the remains of his two loved ones piece by piece and wash them clean again.

"My brother was always good to me when I was young."

Shen Chong suddenly spoke,

as though talking to himself.

"When I was very young, my health was poor. To curry favor with First Madam, the servants in the Lineage deliberately withheld our living supplies. Of the medicinal ingredients I needed to nourish my body, I received less than one or two parts out of ten. Mother went to protest, but First Madam lightly accused her of not knowing her place and punished her by making her kneel for three days."

"Back then, Brother would run beyond the city and into the mountains to search for medicinal herbs for me. He set traps and hunted wild beasts to strengthen my body."

"Later, Brother successfully gathered qi and became an immortal cultivator. He received some cultivation resources from the Lineage and found some spirit herbs in the mountains, but all of them were used on me."

"If