As a family grew and expanded, the enemies and potential enemies it offended were surely countless. Otherwise, it could never have grown and expanded—living space had to be squeezed out.
But when those countless enemies were spread across the long river of history, they did not seem like that many.
In plain terms—among the people the Xue Family had provoked in recent years, there were only so many. After checking them one by one, it was easy to narrow down the suspects.
Ji Ping'an's group was the most suspicious bunch. Only Zhan Xiu could employ such vicious and violent methods.
For example, Gu Cultivators were also quite skilled at exterminating entire families. But after doing so, they would take at least some useful things from the scene. Not to mention anything else—even just the Azureback Oxen, Gu Cultivators would definitely scoop up their corpses while they were at it.
Even if Storage Pouches had limited capacity, who would lack such a tiny bit of space?
To put it bluntly, leaving the Azureback Ox corpses there was no different from openly declaring: We came for revenge!
Only a few kinds of people could declare vengeance so nakedly, and Zhan Xiu were among them.
Thus, the suspects had basically been identified. As for why they had targeted the family of the killer's cousin—did that even need explaining? No.
The killer and his entire family were well protected, so they could only kill his relatives.
Killing was merely a means, not the goal. First, it intimidated the enemy and showed that this would not end until one side died. Second, it forced them to give up protecting the killer—if you dared keep protecting him, we dared keep killing other people.
They would kill from close relatives to distant ones, from three degrees of