If You Refuse to Accept It, You Can Only Endure It; If You Are Unwilling, You Still Have to Swallow It

Law Enforcement Peak, Sin Domain prison.

"Uncle, Grandfather died too unjustly. Even if I die, I refuse to accept this."

Inside the prison, Ye Fan roared hoarsely. Covered in blood, he dropped heavily to his knees before Ye Tianxiong and kept kowtowing. "The supreme Divine Medicine and those sect treasures were clearly stolen by Chu Tian himself. Even if Grandfather Hongwu leaked information behind the scenes, it wasn't entirely his responsibility. Chu Tian was the chief culprit and bore the greatest responsibility. The Chu Family was also responsible for failing to notice."

"Why? Why did Uncle have to commit suicide to atone, while I was thrown into this Sin Domain prison? Yet Chu Tian remains safe and sound, and the Chu Family has not suffered the slightest harm?"

"And Brother Ye Qiang—inside Hengtian Hall, Chu Tian attacked him without cause, severely wounding him. More than half his bones were broken, and he was at death's door, yet Chu Tian does not have to bear any responsibility at all."

"Ye Fan refuses to accept this."

"I beg Uncle, for my father's sake, help your nephew."

Ye Fan's eyes were bloodshot as he frantically kowtowed to Ye Tianxiong. "Please give the order to let me out, Uncle. Your nephew must go out and care for Big Brother, and Liu Yun as well. Because she helped me, the Liu Family is now under immense pressure. Your nephew still has too many things to do. I cannot die in this Sin Domain."

"I beg you, please, save me."

Bang, bang, bang...

Ye Fan kowtowed madly, his forehead smashing against the black stone floor until blood streamed down. The heavy impacts echoed through the empty, gloomy land.

"After all these years, you are finally willing to open your mouth and beg me, your uncle."

With his back to Ye Fan and his hands clasped behind him, Ye Tianxiong spoke in a dignified yet low voice. "I know you feel wronged. You feel unconvinced, unwilling?"

"But even if you refuse to accept it, you can only endure it now. Even if you are unwilling, you must swallow it for me."

"Your life was bought with Uncle's life. Otherwise, no one in the entire Sacred Heaven Sect could have saved you—not even me. And even now, you still do not understand what it means for that little brat Chu Tian to reach first place on the Earth Ranking."

Ye Tianxiong's voice became increasingly low and heavy. "My Sacred Heaven Sect has endured for a million years. Through those endless years, it has risen and fallen, declining countless times, yet it has always been able to rise again. Why?

"Because the Sacred Heaven Sect has always believed that strength and talent reign supreme. So long as someone possesses sufficient strength, even our two Founding Families must make way for him.

"Saint Ancestor Duanmu, Gu Mozu, and Su Shenzu—the Progenitors of the Three Top Families—were once rising talents of the sect. They did not belong to our Founding Families, but as long as they possessed enough strength, our two Founding Families had to let them sit in the position of Sect Master.

"And these three Revival Ancestors of the sect all once ranked first on the Hengtian Earth Ranking.

"Do you understand now?"

Bang!

Ye Fan's face went deathly pale as he collapsed onto the ground. Only at that moment did he understand why, upon learning that Chu Tian had reached first place on the Earth Ranking, his uncle had not even spared a glance for his elder brother Ye Qiang, who had barely squeezed onto the bottom of the Earth Ranking and been severely injured. Instead, he had hurriedly bound Ye Fan and taken him to Chu Tian to offer thorny brambles and plead guilty.

What kind of concept were the Three Revival Ancestors?

Without them, the Sacred Heaven Sect might no longer exist today. They had turned the tide, saved the sect from peril and desperation, and led it to rise once more.

And in their youth, they had also reached first place on the Earth Ranking.

The Three Top Families were now families within the Sacred Heaven Sect second only to the Ye Family and Chu Family. They were qualified to possess mountain peaks belonging exclusively to their own families within the sect.

Yet Chu Tian, at merely eight years old, had already reached first place on the Earth Ranking. He could stand alongside those three Revival Ancestors.

For such a monstrous genius, even without the Chu Family backing him, stealing some supreme Divine Medicine and treasures probably amounted to nothing.

While trash like himself had nearly affected the cultivation of such a monstrous genius—that was the truly heinous, unforgivable crime.

If Chu Tian killed him, no one would speak up.

Ye Hongwu had used his own life to shoulder the greatest blame.

"I killed Uncle. I'm nothing but trash." Ye Fan's eyes were crimson as he wailed aloud.

Ye Tianxiong's voice was heavy as a sledgehammer. Slowly turning around, he stared into Ye Fan's blood-red eyes. "Remember this: this is a world where strength reigns supreme. Strength is the foundation of everything. Was there any use in your constant restraint and low profile?

"I will tell you now, Uncle—there was no use at all.

"Cry? What use is crying?

"You consumed so much Divine Medicine and so many sect treasures. You clearly possessed formidable strength, yet you kept a low profile, endured in silence, hid behind the scenes, neither fought nor competed. You did not even have a name on the Hengtian Ranking.

"If that is not trash and cowardice, what is?

"Looking through the ages, among all those heroic Emperor Venerables, which one did not become famous in youth, command the winds and clouds, and crush all opposition on the way to the summit?"

Ye Fan wiped the tears from his face and slammed his head down, producing a thunderous bang. Blood energy soared from his entire body as he no longer concealed his strength. "Uncle, your nephew was wrong. I beg you to help me and point out a clear road for your nephew."

"Once I get out, I will challenge the Hengtian Earth Ranking and the Bone Forging Ranking. I will never hide my strength and play the pig to eat the tiger again."

"Your nephew will challenge Chu Tian and defeat him with my own hands."

"I will avenge Grandfather and Big Brother."

"I will rescue Liu Yun. Chu Tian is so vicious in temperament and methods. If Liu Yun stays with him, she will not meet a good end."

"Blood energy like a dragon—nearly eight hundred thousand jin of strength."

Seeing Ye Fan's blood energy, deep and vast as an abyss, Ye Tianxiong sighed and bent down to help him up. "Uncle chose to end his own life in order to preserve you. But with strength like yours, you have at least done him proud and not wasted his sacrifice.

"You were born with a Primordial Sacred Bone in your brow. In terms of talent, you may not even be inferior to that brat Chu Tian's Chaos Demon God Body. You are a peerless genius my Ye Family produces only once in a million years. Yet while you were still in your mother's womb, villains harmed you with a divine ability. After you were born, you were poisoned again, and all your meridians were ruined. Your parents died while searching for supreme Divine Medicine to save you.

"For more than ten years, I secretly investigated. I covertly searched through the experts within the Ye Family, as well as the great clans, including the Chu Family, but I was never able to find that villain.

"The reason Uncle never took care of you all these years was that I feared you would catch that villain's attention again and be harmed. I could only entrust Uncle Hongwu with secretly looking after you."

"Uncle, you..." Ye Fan's entire body trembled, and his eyes instantly reddened.

"Time is short. Do not speak. Listen to Uncle."

Ye Tianxiong's expression turned cold and stern. Turning away with his hands behind his back, he said, "Everything Uncle has done was for the family's future, to protect the Ye Family's prodigy.

"But this time, although Uncle is the Sect Master, the Law Enforcement Hall is territory controlled by the Chu Family. I cannot directly overstep my authority and release you.

"In this Sin Domain prison, spiritual energy is exhausted. Even a peerless mighty expert would swiftly become useless here.

"But you are different. The power of much Divine Medicine lies hidden in your body. Take this chance to temper your strength properly and absorb the power within your body.

"Outside, Uncle will find an opportunity to release you."

Ye Tianxiong turned and fixed his gaze on Ye Fan's eyes, his voice solemn. "But you must remember: the only thing that can truly save you is your own powerful strength."

Ye Fan fell silent for a moment, then lightly tapped the center of his brow. In an instant, a streak of violet sacred radiance flashed past.

"Uncle, over these past ten years, your nephew actually encountered a fortuitous opportunity and obtained an ancient treasure passed down from the Primordial Era—the Heavenly Profound Divine Ring. With the Heavenly Profound Divine Ring's help, the Primordial Sacred Bone in my brow has already begun to show signs of revival."

"That is why your nephew's strength improved so rapidly."

"But your nephew only just discovered that when Chu Tian crushed my arm beneath his foot, he stole the Heavenly Profound Divine Ring."

Upon hearing this, Ye Tianxiong froze. The scene of Chu Tian suddenly crouching down, tormenting Ye Fan, and crushing his arm beneath his foot rapidly surfaced in his mind.

At the time, he had thought Chu Tian was merely taking revenge and deliberately tormenting Ye Fan, so he had not paid much attention.

Divine Medicine power existed within Ye Fan's body. Even if every bone in his body were shattered, so long as he did not die, he would soon recover completely.

"That little brat Chu Tian's goal was actually the Divine Ring on your finger." Ye Tianxiong's expression darkened incomparably.

"What a treacherous and vicious little brat."

"Uncle, the Heavenly Profound Divine Ring is exceedingly precious. You must help your nephew get it back." Ye Fan's voice was urgent, his heart bleeding.

Ye Tianxiong shook his head. It was already too late. If he had discovered it on the spot, he could have retrieved it casually. But now, this was a dispute between juniors, and he could not interfere. Otherwise, the experts within the Chu Family would interfere as well.

"As for that little girl from the Liu Family, you need not worry too much. She will not die. At most, her family will be implicated and suffer some losses and sacrifices. The Chu Family also needs that little girl to shield their reputation."

Ye Tianxiong began persuading Ye Fan. Since the Primordial Sacred Bone had already begun to revive, he should not be burdened by too many concerns. His current task was to hurry and raise his strength.

He had originally believed Chu Tian to be absolutely invincible in the Bone Forging Realm, and that he could only slowly scheme to suppress him.

But he had never expected Ye Fan's Primordial Sacred Bone to have begun reviving. Perhaps Ye Fan truly had a chance to suppress Chu Tian in the Bone Forging Realm.

"So long as you can prove that you are stronger than Chu Tian, nothing will be a problem." Ye Tianxiong encouraged Ye Fan before finally leaving.

"Only one point five million jin of strength—I can do it too! Uncle, believe in me! I will personally take revenge!" Ye Fan's hysterical roar echoed through Sin Prison.