The East Peak mainland.

A strong wind blew past the top of a tall mountain.

Xia Ruoyun stood silently at the peak of the mountain; her black hair tangled with the wind as her cold gaze focused on a group of people. There was a luxuriously dressed middle-aged man within that group.

The indifference and coldness in the man’s eyes wrapped around her heart, chilling her from head to toe.

“Xia Ruoyun, after running for so long, let’s see where you can escape to now!”

The middle-aged man sneered coldly. His gaze was as if he were looking at an irreconcilable enemy, as if the girl in front of him did not carry his blood in her veins!

“The Ancient Divine Pagoda was something that grandfather gave to me while he was alive, I won’t give it to anyone no matter what!”

Xia Ruoyun’s voice held the hatred that she was unable to suppress.

Back then, because of a single sentence from her grandfather: “The one who marries the Yun family’s daughter will become the young master of the Xia family.” It was because of that sentence, that this so-called father of hers abandoned his childhood lover and strove to win the favour of her mother.

And on the very month that her mother was married to him, he brought his lover into the Xia family and made her a concubine.

As the Xia family’s young master, he could have as many concubines as he wanted, and her mother could do nothing but spend her days in tears.

If grandfather had not felt sorry for her, she was afraid that her mother would have had no status at all in the Xia family.

Xia Ming’s expression fell, and he said bitterly: “You vicious woman! The Ancient Divine Pagoda originally belonged to Chuxue! You’re still trying to rationalise your actions after snatching it away from her! Don’t forget, when Chuxue was born, there was a vision from heaven and the diviner told us that she’s the reincarnation of the ancient phoenix Zixie! My father was senile in his old age, otherwise he wouldn’t have given the Ancient Divine Pagoda to you. Now that he has passed away, I will correct this mistake!”

Ha ha ha!

Xia Ruoyun laughed out loud; her laughter continued echoing in the mountain valley for a long time.

“Have you forgotten that the day Xia Chuxue was born... was also the day of my birth! Grandfather must have had a reason for giving me the Ancient Divine Pagoda, but you...”

She laughed mockingly: “In order to take the Ancient Divine Pagoda, you tortured me, and when my mother tried to save me, you tortured her to her death! My maternal grandfather and his family were also destroyed by your own hands! Are you even still human? For the sake of another daughter, you didn’t even hesitate to kill your own wife!”

“Hmph!” Xia Ming snorted coolly, and said with a cold face, “She was not worthy of being my wife! Even if she had not died for your sake, I wouldn’t have let her live anyway! Only with her dead, can my beloved woman take her place!”

Xia Ruoyun shut her eyes in grief, her mother’s bleak look still carved into her heart.

She completely gave up!

She had intended to give up the Ancient Divine Pagoda her grandfather had entrusted to her in exchange for her mother’s life, but her mother had seemed to know what she wanted to do and used her death to protect the Ancient Divine Pagoda...

Even now, thinking about it caused a piercing pain in her heart!

“Xia Ming, you will definitely regret all that you have done! A man as treacherous and ruthless as you, will one day be spurned by everyone, never to make a comeback!”

“Regret?” Xia Ming laughed condescendingly, “Do you know what rumours are spreading outside now? You, Xia Ruoyun, in extreme arrogance, provoked an enemy you shouldn’t have... and that enemy massacred the Yun family after failing to find you! And I, Xia Ming, am currently in deep mourning and pain after your mother’s death... Even Chuxue fainted out of sadness. Only you, this daughter, after bringing them disaster, are in hiding, a coward, but...... ha ha ha! Your mother wasn’t even buried in the Xia family’s ancestral graves! Her corpse has already been thrown into a mass grave for the wolves to feast on! Our Xia family’s ancestral graves are not for just any woman to enter!”

Xia Ruoyun’s body began to tremble. She opened her eyes wide, staring dead-on at the man before her with hatred: “Xia Ming, you’re shameless!”

“Shameless?” Xia Ming laughed loudly, “The winner takes all! You have only yourself to blame for everything that has happened, and it was you who dragged your mother into this! So the one who really killed her, was you!”

The one who really killed her, was you–

“Hahahaha!”

Suddenly, Xia Ruoyun burst into laughter; that wild laughter, full of insanity, echoed around the entire mountain without a break.

“Xia Ming, you shameless bastard! I’ll drag you down to hell to apologise to my mother right now! Just die with me now!”

An imposing aura began rising from her body, causing the whole sky to turn overcast and cold.

“That’s bad!”

Xia Ming’s expression changed, and he said hastily: “She wants to explode herself!”

Xia Ruoyun was the number one talent in the Xia family who had reached the martial senior class at a young age. When he had launched a sneak attack on her, he would not have severely injured her if he had not used the ultimate technique of the Yun family.

Even so, the explosion of a severely injured martial senior would be enough to drag all the people here into hell!

Puchi!

The muffled sound of something piercing a chest rang out in the quiet and secluded valley.

Xia Ruoyun’s body stiffened, lowering her head to look at the sword that had come from behind, then turning her head in disbelief. Her gaze fell on the distinct lines of that handsome face: “Lu Chen, you...”

She had known earlier that Lu Chen had come.

But because it was Lu Chen, she had let down her guard.

Who would have thought, that the man she trusted the most, would want to kill her.

Bang!

Power burst out from her body and in an instant, the sword in her chest faded into bits and pieces. She clutched the endlessly bleeding wound, gaze filled with pain, not understanding.

“Why do you want to...”

Kill me?

The last two words were stuck in her throat, unable to come out.

A trace of guilt and sadness passed between Lu Chen’s brows, but it disappeared in the next instant.

“Yun’er, I’m sorry. I’m a man with great ambitions. Although you’re in my heart and my most beloved, Chuxue is the reincarnation of the ancient phoenix Zixie, and the real owner of the Ancient Divine Pagoda! She’s the only one who can become the strongest power on this mainland once she gets the Ancient Divine Pagoda! Only by marrying her, will I be able to have the entire world in my hands, so, I have my own problems...”

Xia Ruoyun’s face was pale to the point of fright, not daring to believe that the person who had sworn his love for her, would draw his sword against her in this instant.

Suddenly, she seemed to have remembered something, and rushed crazily at Lu Chen.

“Where’s Yu’er? I entrusted Yu’er to you, what have you done to him!”

Xia Ruoyun seized Lu Chen’s collar tightly, shouting crazily without caring about the pain in her body.

Her mother was dead, her maternal grandfather’s family had been killed, her little brother was the only kin she had left! Because of her trust in Lu Chen, and not wanting to drag her brother into danger, she had entrusted her brother to Lu Chen to protect.

But now...

Xia Ruoyun’s body trembled, dread showing on that pale face, causing a twinge of pain in Lu Chen’s heart.

However, he quickly hardened his heart and said: “Bring out Xia Linyu!”

After a long while.

A half-dead young boy was brought over in someone’s hands, his frail body looking extremely delicate in the strong winds, as if he would be carried away by the winds at any time...

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Yu’er!”

Her voice held heartbreaking pain as tears slid down from her eyes.

Seeming to have heard the woman’s desperate cry, the teenage boy finally moved. He opened his tired eyes, clear pupils gazing straight at Xia Ruoyun, thin lips trembling lightly, with a weak voice: “Big sister...”

“Cough cough!” Xia Ruoyun coughed out two mouthfuls of fresh blood, her blood-soaked figure dazzling under the sun’s rays, “Let him go!”

“Let him go? Give us the Ancient Divine Pagoda, and I’ll let him off!”

Lu Chen let the emotions on his face fade away and gazed coldly at Xia Ruoyun.

Even if women were important, they could never compare to power. With might at hand, wouldn’t he be able to have any woman he wanted?

Xia Ruoyun’s face turned even more pale. Her eyes turned towards the cold, cruel middle-aged man behind her, and said one word at a time: “Yu’er is your son, the bloodline of your Xia family!”

“Haha!” Xia Ming laughed twice and said callously: “In the bloodline of I, Xia Ming, there is only Chuxue alone! Xia Linyu, this sickly, useless good-for-nothing, isn’t qualified to be my son! However, to obtain the Ancient Divine Pagoda, even if he dies, it would be a worthy death!”

Xia Ruoyun’s body trembled once and she slowly closed her eyes. She only opened them after a long while, a gentle gaze shining on the teenage boy’s wounded and scarred body.

“Yu’er, will you be afraid?”

Xia Linyu stubbornly shook his head: “I’m not afraid! Big sister, don’t give them the Ancient Divine Pagoda, otherwise, mother and grandfather would have died in vain... I believe that, one day, big sister will avenge my death...”

Bang!

Lu Chen stomped on Xia Linyu’s chest, causing him to spit out a mouthful of fresh blood, his face turning ever paler.

“Men!” Lu Chen raised his brows and said without any expression: “Dig out Xia Linyu’s heart, and tear his limbs off while he’s alive!”

The man’s cold voice rang like a hammer, knocking fiercely on Xia Ruoyun’s heart, she roared angrily in heartbreak: “Lu Chen, you bastard, I shouldn’t have entrusted Yu-er to you to protect, I’m the one who killed my own precious little brother!”

Two men pressed Xia Linyu to the floor, and an icy sword slashed towards his limbs; fresh blood splashed out, dying her pupils in red...

“No!!!”

Xia Ruoyun hoarsely shouted, with bloodshot eyes: “Let Yu’er go, if you let him go, I’ll...”

“Big sister.”

The faint voice was feeble, but in this valley, it clearly fell on Xia Ruoyun’s ears.

“Don’t... give them... the Ancient Divine Pagoda, only with the Ancient Divine Pagoda, can you... avenge mother, otherwise... otherwise I would rather die.”

Puchi!

The sword fiercely stabbed through Xia Linyu’s chest, his last words lost within his throat...

Xia Linyu laid in the pool of blood, eyes open as if wanting to say something at the last.

At this moment, he felt his life disappearing, gaze full of attachment and dismay.

He can finally meet mother again, but, what about big sister? He was already the last of her family. If he died, how much pain and loneliness would big sister feel?

“Yu’er!!!”

Xia Ruoyun spit out a mouthful of her heart’s blood, stumbling as she ran towards Xia Linyu.

“Yu-er, it was all my fault, I trusted others, and caused your death!”

“Grandpa is dead, mother is dead, even grandfather has also died, you’re the only one by my side...”

“Yu’er, if there’s an afterlife... I’ll give you a lifetime of peace, and I’ll never let anyone hurt you again!”

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