The burial place of the elders was now piled high with various plastic bottles, along with foul-smelling garbage, and swarms of flies and rats.
No one could tell now that this was once the Lin family's cemetery, and no one knew that buried beneath it lay seventy-two members of the Lin family, from top to bottom.
"Brother Xiao..."
Lin Xiao slowly walked to the front of the garbage heap. The flies and vermin seemed to sense a killing intent and scattered, while the rats that had been foraging in the heap fled in panic.
As Lin Xiao stood before the garbage, a wave of grief arose, and he knelt on the ground.
"It is my unfilialness... Xiao'er is unfilial!"
Lin Xiao, who had not been moved by countless life-and-death encounters over the years, knelt amidst the garbage at this moment, his two hands sifting through it.
Rumble...
All the garbage that had been blocking the way was shaken away, as if it had been deliberately piled. The heap split in half, revealing a path in the middle, lined with countless Lin family tombstones.
Looking at the tombstones, Lin Xiao let out a roar from his throat.
This roar shook the heavens and the earth.
This roar was accompanied by rolling thunder and pouring rain!
Four years ago, the Lin family was a prominent family in Shashi. While not the largest, they were certainly among the top four.
In those days, the Lin family never engaged in wanton or arrogant acts. They befriended people from all walks of life, and their relatives and friends were everywhere. Moreover, they invested countless sums in charity every year.
Yet, one day, the other three major families in Shashi suddenly joined forces and, with overwhelming might, apprehended the members of the Lin family. Not only that, but they also fabricated baseless charges against them. By the time the Lin family realized what was happening, their entire business empire had been infiltrated from within and completely divided.
At that time, the other three families controlled the entirety of Shashi. Even those who knew the Lin family had been wronged could only endure it silently, in order to continue their lives in Shashi peacefully.
Not only were all members of the Lin family buried here, but there was also a deliberate attempt to ensure that the Lin family would never find peace.
Even no one dared to clean up the garbage piled here.
Plop.
Ye Chen and the others who had followed also knelt down in unison.
For years, they had followed Ye Chen through countless battles, conquering all directions. In all that time, they had never seen Lin Xiao display such intense hatred. At this moment, Lin Xiao appeared to them as a man of flesh and blood, deeply loyal and righteous.
"I will take my brothers and flatten those three families!" Ye Chen knelt there, gritting his teeth, his eyes crimson. The killing intent radiating from him at that moment made the torrential rain itself shy away from his vicinity.
"Flatten the three families!"
Behind him, everyone else echoed the cry almost simultaneously.
At this moment, Lin Xiao, with tears of blood in his eyes, closed them. He slowly stood up, tilted his head, and looked at the lightning flickering across the sky. He shook his head.
"If that were the case, it would be too easy for them."
When he reopened his eyes, a cold glint flashed, and his killing intent soared, piercing through the dark clouds in the sky.
"I will make them wish they were dead, make them live in fear for the rest of their lives!"