At the very last moment before the heavenly gate closed, Lin Xiao seemed to see something.
A giant eye.
That eye looked down from the sky.
Most importantly, Lin Xiao noticed that the gaze of that eye was not fixed on the Old Celestial Master, but rather met his own for a brief moment.
This glance sent a chill through Lin Xiao's entire body.
At that exact instant, the heavenly gate slammed shut.
The protective golden light around the Old Celestial Master vanished. He landed beside Lin Xiao, his eyes now carrying a grave expression as he gestured for Lin Xiao to enter the house.
"Lin Xiao, you are the first person I cannot see through in decades."
He pointed to the tea on the table. The blood the Old Celestial Master had just coughed up in the room had inexplicably disappeared.
The sky outside, which had suddenly darkened, brightened again. The mist gradually dissipated, as if everything that had just transpired had never happened.
"This… it shouldn't be my fault?"
Lin Xiao scratched his head. He was just present, and he had no intention of hiding anything. If the Old Celestial Master couldn't see through something, it should have nothing to do with him… right?
He was reminded again of the eye just now.
Could it be that behind the heavenly gate was a person?
A giant person?
Why was it that the person standing before him now was actually a Grandmaster!
"I remember back then, I was at home with my parents, preparing to go to the amusement park." Dong Yu seemed lost in thought. "That day was supposed to be the happiest day of my life, the most wonderful day."
"But that day turned into my most desperate one, a day I will never forget for the rest of my life."
The fish in Dong Yu's hand twitched. He slapped the fish against Zhou Qingfeng's face. "That day, someone broke in, barged into my parents' room, and stole something. It was incidental… I saw my parents die by his hand."
As he slapped, the veins on the hand gripping the fish's tail bulged. His tone, for once, carried a trace of emotion.
"Heavenly King, all resistant personnel of the Zhou family have been eliminated," Bai Ma's voice sounded from behind him.
"You've worked hard."
Heavenly King Dong Yu nodded. The next second, the fish in his hand landed with a heavy "slap" on Zhou Qingfeng's face.
As for the handgun, Heavenly King Dong Yu had never paid it any mind.
Two teeth flew out of Zhou Qingfeng's mouth. He was momentarily blinded by dizziness. Those brief few words made him realize one thing.
His Zhou family was finished.
The Zhou family that he had painstakingly built and managed for so many years had been annihilated in an instant.
The weapons he had spent so much money on, the experts he had hired – in front of Chu Feng's subordinates, they were like paper.
It wasn't that the people he hired were too weak, but rather that these individuals were too powerful…
"I wasn't finished just now."
Heavenly King Dong Yu walked up to Zhou Qingfeng and stepped on his chest. "Later, I saw that item on a person's waist. It was my father's ancestral jade pendant."
With that, Heavenly King Dong Yu used the fish in his hand to adjust Zhou Qingfeng's waist.
This guy also had a jade pendant hanging from his waist.
"Very similar to yours, the same patterns, the same material."
It was him.
Zhou Qingfeng stared at Heavenly King Dong Yu. No wonder he felt this person was familiar; it turned out to be that child from back then!
He had coveted that jade pendant at the time. But that family absolutely refused to sell it. He had offered up to thirty million, but even thirty million couldn't sway that ordinary-looking man.
So, he decided to take a more direct approach. Things he desired, he would obtain.
That day, the child followed him down from upstairs, constantly tugging at the butler's clothes, trying to snatch the jade pendant from his hands, all the while shouting, "Give me back my parents."
Neither Zhou Qingfeng nor the butler had paid any attention to the child. Now, looking back, Zhou Qingfeng regretted it.
"Back then, I should have eliminated him completely!"
Ignoring that child had led to the current disaster for his Zhou family!
"If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back with the spring breeze."
The smile on Heavenly King Dong Yu's face had completely vanished. "I didn't expect that as the head of a family, you wouldn't understand this principle."
Today was likely the most he had spoken in years.
"Answer me, who instructed you to attack the Chu family."
The topic returned to the beginning. The emotional outburst just now was a minor deviation; he had never forgotten the main objective.
"I don't know."
Zhou Qingfeng uttered these three words very directly.
The next second, Zhou Qingfeng heard a scream. The fish in Heavenly King Dong Yu's hand, like a sharp blade, severed his wife's hand next to him.
"Ahhhhhh!!!"
A piercing scream shattered the quiet night sky.
"You know."
Heavenly King Dong Yu was certain that Zhou Qingfeng was not telling the truth.
"What are you doing! If you have something, come at me!"
Zhou Qingfeng's pupils contracted, and he roared.
However, Heavenly King Dong Yu ignored him. After playing with the fish in his hand, his gaze fell upon a child not far away. "He's about the same age as I was back then."
"What do you want to do?!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Qingfeng's heart became even more panicked.
"Answer the question." Kuai Shu Ge
Heavenly King Dong Yu dropped these four words and walked step by step towards the child.
"I really don't know! The Zheng family initiated this entire matter! The Zhou family and the Dongfang family were merely assisting the Zheng family!"
Zhou Qingfeng shouted anxiously, spitting out a lot of blood as he spoke. Dong Yu's previous blow had not been light.
"Record."
Heavenly King Dong Yu instructed the Five Divine Generals behind him.
Bai Ma had already taken out paper and a pen to record.
"What else?"
Heavenly King Dong Yu returned to Zhou Qingfeng. "You know more than just that."
"We never saw the five heads of the Chu family from the very beginning. After we destroyed the Chu family, we never saw those five heads. The Zheng family was also searching everywhere, and even this year the Zheng family is still looking for those five heads! But we truly don't know their whereabouts!"
Zhou Qingfeng spoke at a rapid pace, his eyes unconsciously darting towards the child, as if fearing that Dong Yu would act.
He held four fish scales of varying sizes and began to draw them over Zhou Qingfeng's body before asking, "By the way, do you want to witness the entire process of Lingchi, or do you prefer a quick death?"
"If you're afraid of passing out and want to see the entire process of Lingchi, I can give you anesthesia first," Heavenly King Dong Yu said kindly.
"No, I don't want…"
"Good. No anesthesia. You also understand your mistakes and know that you deserve this pain." With that, the fish scales in Heavenly King Dong Yu's hand transformed into the sharpest blades and began to slide across Zhou Qingfeng's body.