"You want me to talk just because you asked? I refuse..."

The young man was playing word games, thinking he was clever.

I won't talk. There's nothing you can do to me, right?

*Pa—*

The young man was still feeling smug when Chen Xiao glanced at him, and the young man's body turned into a cloud of blood mist.

Like a balloon that had burst, not even a scrap of bone remained.

In an instant, the entire hall was as silent as dust.

If the young man flying towards Chen Xiao had only shocked them,

now, they felt fear.

And everyone felt threatened.

Including the old men behind Chen Xiao.

"Now, are you willing to cooperate?"

Chen Xiao asked with a playful smile.

"Hmph, ask whatever you want!"

Li Tianxiang said the most cowardly thing in the most disdainful tone!

"I only have one question for you. Back then, why did your five great families join forces to deal with our Li family? Why did you have to force my parents to their deaths?"

Li Ziqing tried to control her emotions, keeping her voice from trembling.

Hearing this question, the four elders were silent at first. Then, the other three all turned to look at Wang Xuetao.

"Your father crippled my son. Our five families are united, so naturally, we wouldn't let him get away with it! What's wrong with that?"

Wang Xuetao said righteously.

The feud between the Li family and the five great families was, on the surface, because Wang Xuetao's son, Wang Yanhui, coveted Li Ziqing's mother's beauty and made advances on her. He happened to be caught in the act by Li's father.

Li's father was furious and immediately crippled Wang Yanhui. Subsequently, the five great families, united, jointly dealt with Li Ziqing's family.

They killed Li Ziqing's parents, who had fled to Wei City, thus concluding the feud between Li Ziqing and the five great families.

However, this was only the apparent reason. Chen Xiao and Li Ziqing had already reached a consensus that the truth was definitely not that simple.

"Heh, I want to hear the real reason, not this nonsense. I'll give you one more chance. Tell me, what was the real reason back then?"

Li Ziqing sneered.

"That is the real reason. Believe it or not!"

Wang Xuetao snorted, his mouth firm.

"It seems like you really don't know fear until I give you a little taste of it!"

Chen Xiao sighed and shook his head helplessly.

Then, he reached out, and Wang Xuetao rose from his chair. The next second, he flew across the table straight to Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao slapped him: "Will you talk or not?"

After that, slaps echoed, one after another.

In just a few seconds, Wang Xuetao's old face was beaten into a pig's head.

The other three elders were so angry that their teeth itched.

They sympathized with Lao Wang's experience, but it was useless. They didn't have the courage to stop Chen Xiao.

They could only mutter in their hearts, "Damn brat, just keep being arrogant. The more arrogant you are now, the more miserably you'll die when Ninth Lord arrives later!"

"I'll talk, I'll talk, I'll talk, alright..."

Wang Xuetao finally gave in, speaking weakly.

He was already old. If he continued to be beaten like this, his old life wouldn't be spared.

"It's the Batian Sect, the Batian Sect made me do it."

Wang Xuetao said with a blank look, blood and drool flowing from the corners of his mouth.

He looked like he had been beaten stupid by Chen Xiao.

"Lao Wang, don't..."

Zheng Tianpeng wanted to stop him, but it was too late. Wang Xuetao had already said the words 'Batian Sect'.

Zheng Tianpeng shook his head helplessly. Lao Wang was doomed this time.

Even if Chen Xiao didn't kill him, the Batian Sect wouldn't spare him.

"The Batian Sect said that the Li family had produced someone with great luck. We originally thought that person was Li Tianyou, but now it seems that we were wrong. The person with real great luck is clearly not him!"

Wang Xuetao said with incomparable regret.

And the so-called person with great luck that he mentioned was obviously Li Ziqing.

Hearing this explanation, Chen Xiao believed it somewhat, but his brows also furrowed, "What does it matter to you whether someone has great luck or not? Why did you have to deal with them?"

Wang Xuetao's eyes changed, and finally, he said truthfully: "Originally, the Batian Sect only told this to our family and warned us not to reveal it under any circumstances, but the five great families are united. If someone with great luck appears in the imperial city, it will inevitably affect the luck of our five great families. Therefore, before that Li Tianyou could mature, we plotted to kill him, but we didn't expect..."

Hearing this explanation, Chen Xiao was speechless.

This so-called person with great luck had ultimately affected the five great families of the imperial city, but this was entirely their own doing.

Li Ziqing laughed. As she laughed, her eyes turned red, and tears fell.

"So that's how it is. So you harmed my parents for this ridiculous reason. You... what right did you have?"

This matter had affected half of Li Ziqing's life. For the past twenty years, not a day had gone by when she dared to forget about revenge.

Along the way, she had moved forward burdened with grief, but she never expected that the reason would be so laughable, even somewhat unreasonable.

Just because of someone's words, the five great families joined forces to harm her parents.

What right did they have? What right did they have?

In Li Ziqing's heart, she shouted countless times.

"What do you mean, what right? There's no such thing as what right?"

Wang Xuetao said as a matter of course, "Your Li family was as weak as an ant back then. We could kill you if we wanted to, without needing any reason."

Indeed, when someone wants to crush an ant, they don't need any reason.

They don't even need to think about why they want to crush the ant. They just crush it because they want to. All they need to do is lift their foot.

"Good, 'without needing any reason'..."

Li Ziqing said with a smile, but the brighter her smile, the more fiercely her tears flowed.

"Just as I don't need any reason to kill you now! I'm not only going to kill you all, I'm going to uproot all of your descendants!"

Li Ziqing said through gritted teeth, every word seeming to use all her strength.

These words frightened everyone.

Enemies have their debts and creditors. What does this have to do with us...

The members of the four great families were all panicking, praying together, Ninth Lord, Ninth Lord, please hurry up and come!

Perhaps the prayers had worked. A series of rapid footsteps came from the stairwell.

A group of warriors wearing brocade clothes and swords at their waists filed in, standing in two rows, heads held high and chests out.

In addition, another set of footsteps was coming up, *thump, thump, thump...*