Dai Hao: The Family Was Gone?

He stood there in silence for a long time.

The White Tiger Duke, who had spent years slaughtering enemies on the battlefield and struck fear into countless opposing soldiers, now cut an incomparably desolate figure beneath the morning light.

He had gone out for a while.

Nearly every member of his household had been killed, and the wife who had accompanied him for years lay amid a heap of corpses.

Only a few clan members who had been away, along with his two sons studying at Shrek Academy, had escaped disaster.

A blow of this magnitude would likely have driven an ordinary person completely insane.

But for the White Tiger Duke's Estate to have reached its current standing, its psychological resilience truly was exceptional.

He took a deep breath. His chest rose and fell before gradually calming.

He turned to Xu Jiawei, no longer caring about the respect he usually showed the emperor.

There was nothing but hatred in his voice:

"Who?"

"Who did this?!"

Dai Hao's voice seemed to burst from between clenched teeth, like a bloodthirsty demon.

Xu Jiawei shook his head slightly.

"We only found this at the scene."

He waved his hand.

An attendant behind him stepped forward, bowed, and held an object high above his head with both hands.

Dai Hao saw what he held.

A golden branch.

Dai Hao was no stranger to something so distinctive.

"The Life Association..."

He ground out those four words viciously through clenched teeth.

How could Dai Hao not recognize the origin of that golden branch?

It was clearly the token the Life Association always left behind after completing a mission!

It was said to symbolize that damned leader of theirs!

It had also been how the Life Association first made its name in the underground world.

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