Demon Extermination

"Your A-Yu wasn't dead. You must have been very happy, weren't you?"

"Unfortunately, she hated you deeply. She even pretended

to have lost her memory

rather than acknowledge you!"

"Do you know what dreadful consequences that Shadow Recording Stone of yours caused for the Zhou Household? She slandered you for stealing the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's supreme treasure, and even claimed that I had instructed you to do it. That woman is going to ruin both father and son!"

Zhou Ji seemed not to have heard him, but a closer look revealed that his pupils had contracted slightly. Clearly, he did not believe A-Yu would become such a person.

"And that Zhao Ruowu is a treacherous ingrate too! I truly regret giving birth to such a useless thing as you!"

Zhou Zhongling blamed Heaven, blamed Earth, blamed everyone but himself. He never blamed himself. He believed he had exhausted every ounce of his heart and strength for the Lineage, even sacrificing his own interests to support it. In his youth, he had once admired a female cultivator from the Blissful Union Sect, but the Lineage could never have accepted him marrying one. So he married a mortal woman and took many concubines, all to carry on the family line and produce talented descendants.

Zhou Zhongling did not believe he had done anything wrong. He had not failed the Lineage, nor had he failed the grandfather who had entrusted it to him.

"Father, A-Yu... you were the one who sent people to kill her, weren't you?"

Zhou Ji had always harbored suspicions. How could an accident have come so suddenly? A-Yu had clearly carried the protective talisman he had given her. Even if she had fallen into the jaws of a demonic beast, it should have been impossible... for there to be