Thirteen gave Su Jiu a surprised look. "Yes, your guess was entirely correct."
"Unfortunately, I hadn't met the Hall Master when this happened, so I don't know what he did back then to make the Xia Household so terrified of him afterward."
Su Jiu sighed. "Senior Brother must have been only around twenty when he reached Foundation Establishment." Had he already been so capable back then? No wonder the Sect Master had handed him the position of Enforcement Hall Leader while he was still at Golden Core.
"But in that case, Xia Yun and Senior Brother shouldn't have had anything to do with each other. Where did his resentment come from?"
Thirteen said coolly, "Human jealousy is the most unreasonable thing in the world. With the Hall Master as a pearl and jade shining before them, the Xia Household thought they could raise another child like him, so Xia Yun, who was much like Xia Jue, became their hope.
"Who knows what those shameless bastards in the Xia Household drilled into Xia Yun's head to make him hate the Hall Master so much, and drive him to such extremes that he would turn demonic just to surpass him."
Although Su Jiu hadn't learned exactly what Xia Yun had experienced, she could more or less guess. The Xia Household simply wanted to cultivate a powerful backer who could replace Senior Brother completely.
They didn't dare resist him themselves, so they wanted to raise someone capable of resisting him.
Unfortunately, the person they had chosen could neither fulfill their hopes nor realize their ambitions.
To put it plainly, this tragedy had arisen because their strength failed to match their ambition.
Xia Jue was the one they had originally wanted to abandon, but had Xia Yun truly been the cherished one?
Su Jiu