"Ah..."
Blood streamed from Du Xiang's eyes as he opened his bloody maw and howled. Even tearing into Mu Bai's flesh and drinking his blood would not have eased the towering hatred in his heart.
"How cruel!"
"He killed them all? Devil!"
Even the people of the Star Great Tribe felt their hair stand on end. A murderous fiend had actually lain unconscious on their island for over a year.
"Ha ha, ha ha..."
Mu Bai threw back his head and laughed. The great boulder that had weighed on his heart for nearly twenty years lifted, bringing unfettered relief.
"Clan Patriarch, Uncle Ang, my clansmen, did you see? Mu Bai has avenged you! I've avenged you..." Mu Bai cried to the heavens, tears gushing like a spring as he dropped heavily to his knees. "Mu Bai has avenged you..."
So this man forged of iron, this bloodthirsty devil, had a sorrowful side as well. People could not help shaking their heads and sighing.
Crying one moment and laughing the next, Mu Bai knelt and murmured, not rising for a long time.
"Child, you still have a long road ahead. Revenge is not all there is to your life..."
Mu Bai slowly raised his head and looked at Xing Mu through tear-filled eyes. The old man's hair had turned completely white, and wrinkles covered his face, reminding Mu Bai of the Clan Patriarch, and of Xing Yuan, who had died far from home in the Beast Territory.
"Sometimes, people live for a single obsession in their hearts. I met Senior Xing Yuan in the Beast Territory..."
Mu Bai took out the Jade Slip Xing Yuan had entrusted to him, along with the Jade Box containing Xing Yuan's ashes, and handed them to Xing Mu.
"What did you say? Xing Yuan... Father!"