"First time meeting you. Sorry for the wait."
"I finally found you."
"I forgive you for 'throwing me away.'"
And then...
Someone was going to pay.
The corner of his mouth curled upward.
Unnerving. Sinister.
Killing intent surged.
It was an expression that had never appeared on his face before.
The mist that had already turned black when he channeled his power to divine fate grew even darker.
As though... it had become demonic energy.
Black mist roiled.
At this moment, the moment Xiao Yu found his parents.
He ultimately fell into demonic cultivation.
He couldn't help it.
An orphan, an orphan who had believed his parents had abandoned him.
Suddenly found his parents.
Suddenly learned the truth behind his abandonment.
Suddenly discovered the enemies who had killed his parents.
Suddenly learned the laughable reason they had murdered them for money.
Anyone would have broken.
If only.
The reason had simply been "they couldn't afford to raise him and had no choice but to abandon him," or "he had been abducted by human traffickers," or "he had gotten lost," or even "they had abandoned him because they found him a nuisance and didn't want a burden."
Xiao Yu could have accepted any of those quite easily.
Because he had considered them all.
But of all things...
It had been none of them.
Xiao Yu's pupils grew darker and darker, as though even the whites of his eyes had been stained black.
He looked utterly terrifying and unnerving.
But just then.
The Heavenly Mandate Stone inside the Dragon-Phoenix Ring gave off some sort of warning.
The violent fluctuation of power also interrupted Xiao Yu and jolted him awake.
The black energy wavered, then finally dispersed, seemingly unwilling to give up!
Xiao Yu shuddered.
His eyes became clear again.
Possessing the