"Tian'er, this is the best tea leaves sent by the Emperor. Have a taste."

"Tian'er, Duke Ding wants to send his little granddaughter to the Heaven Sword Sect to serve you..."

"Tian'er..."

Xiao Yi raised his head and looked at Xiao Zhengde, who sat on the main seat with an ingratiating and even servile expression. There was a hint of bitterness and helplessness in his calm eyes. As he turned his gaze, his gaze landed on the handsome young man sitting in front of Xiao Zhengde.

He was Xiao Yi's brother, Xiao Tianjiao!

A peerless genius who was destined to be extraordinary since he was born.

When Xiao Tianjiao was born, a fire dragon descended from the sky and recognized him as its master.

He awakened the Saintly Being of the Overlord when he was less than three years old. He had the power to lift the giant cauldron with one arm.

He broke through to the tenth stage of his physical body when he was five, entered the tenth stage of Qi Gathering when he was seven, successfully broke through to the Divine Sense Realm when he was eight, and became the youngest Divine Sense Realm expert in the history of the Great Gan Empire. He entered the tenth stage when he was ten, and thus entered the Heaven Sword Sect, which was ranked first in the ten great sects of the Great Qin Empire, and became the personal disciple of the Sword Sect.

At the age of twenty, Xiao Tianjiao had successfully stepped into the Dao Tribulation Realm and was known as the hope of the Great Gan Empire's rise.

Everyone in the country was looking forward to him stepping into the secret realm of longevity and becoming the first ancient heavyweight since the founding of the Great Gan Empire.

It was precisely because of the existence of Xiao Tianjiao that the Xiao family, which was originally just a small family, had become the most popular wealthy family in the Great Gan Empire in one fell swoop. On the holidays of the new year, even the current emperor had to take the initiative to come and offer his gifts.

It could be said that everyone in the whole Qing Heaven Realm knew the name Xiao Tianjiao.

As for Xiao Yi...

Under the dazzling light of his brother Xiao Tianjiao, there was no sense of existence at all. When everyone saw him, they would only say that he was so lucky to have such an excellent brother.

In the eyes of the world, Xiao Yi was truly very lucky. His brother was the number one heaven's pride in the world, and he was also the Holy Son of the number one sect in the Great Gan Empire. Any small amount of resources he was given could make him a top level expert.

The reality was that when Xiao Yi was ten years old, Xiao Tianjiao had strictly prohibited him from continuing his cultivation.

Even the most common body tempering was not allowed.

In Xiao Tianjiao's words, it was enough for the Xiao family to have a dragon like him.

He didn't want anyone to mention him. He would think of a brother who had the same blood as him. He was just an ordinary mortal.

This would affect his perfect image.

If it wasn't for Xiao Yi's mother protecting him with her life, with Xiao Tianjiao's methods, he would've long since disappeared from this world without a sound. He would've been rid of future troubles.

And because of this...

In the past eight years, he had been imprisoned in the deepest and most secluded courtyard of the Xiao family. Even so, Xiao Tianjiao was still worried. In order to prevent Xiao Yi from escaping, he even arranged for two Divine Arts Realm experts to keep an eye on Xiao Yi, who was only in the physical realm.

If it weren't for the fact that his mother often secretly sent him some books and messages, he wouldn't even know who the current emperor was.

It was just.

The only mother who doted on him had also died three years ago. Since then, Xiao Yi hadn't stepped out of the small courtyard for three full years, as if the entire Xiao family had forgotten about him.

But today...

Xiao Zhengde suddenly ordered someone to summon him.

Four hours had passed since he arrived at the hall, but Xiao Zhengde and Xiao Tianjiao acted as if they had not seen him.

Xiao Yi's heart was as cold as ice as he looked at the two of them chatting happily.

It had been eighteen years.

Having lived like air for eighteen years, he was used to being ignored.

It was a great pity that one's heart would die.

Standing in the spacious hall, facing the two family members who were supposed to be the closest in the world, only loneliness and peace remained for Xiao Yi.

After waiting for another hour, Xiao Zhengde seemed to have recalled Xiao Yi's existence. The fawning and fawning smile on his face vanished the moment he turned around, replaced by indifference, disdain, and disgust. He seemed to be too lazy to say another word to Xiao Yi and said faintly, "Go back and prepare. You will head to the Southern Wilderness City of the Tianqing Kingdom in three days..." "Tianqing Kingdom?"

Xiao Yi was taken aback. The Tianqing Kingdom was a small vassal state of the Great Gan Empire. It was a barren land that stretched across the boundless wilderness. It was a place where birds would not shit. He frowned and asked, "What are we going there for?"

Xiao Zhengde said impatiently, "Your brother..."

"Humph!"

Xiao Tianjiao snorted coldly. His expression was one of displeasure and disgust.

In his eyes, as Xiao Yi's older brother, this was a great humiliation.

"Ouch, it's my tongue..."

Xiao Zhengde hurriedly flattered him. Seeing that Xiao Tianjiao's expression had softened a little, he continued, "Tian'er's Fire Dragon took a fancy to the Silver-winged Sword Dragon, the guardian demonic beast of the Fang family in the Southern Wilderness. However, the Fang family wants to build a relationship with our Xiao family and insist on refusing to hand over the Silver-winged Sword Dragon. After a discussion, we have agreed to let you marry into the Fang family and become the son-in-law of the Fang family in exchange for the Silver-winged Sword Dragon!"

Plop!

Plop!

Plop!

Xiao Yi felt that there was no sound between heaven and earth. There was only the sound of his own heartbeat, as well as the indifferent expressions of Xiao Zhengde and Xiao Tianjiao. His heart, which had been as still as an ancient well, was in a state of turmoil at this moment.

Just because Xiao Tianjiao's mount Fire Dragon had taken a fancy to the Silverwing Sword Dragon and sold him off as if he was selling goods? To gift him to the Fang family as a son-in-law?

Xiao Yi felt the world spin.

It was unbelievable.

Even though Xiao Zhengde had turned a blind eye to him over the past decade or so, Xiao Tianjiao had treated him as a stain and humiliation. He had imprisoned him for eight years and had not allowed him to cultivate any cultivation methods or martial arts techniques. He had endured it.

But now...

Xiao Yi's face was filled with bitterness. His eyes were filled with hope as he looked at his older brother, whom he had once viewed as his idol. He asked in a deep voice, "Is this your intention?"

Xiao Tianjiao glanced at him with an indifferent expression.

It seemed like talking to Xiao Yi was a disgrace to him.

"This is the meaning of our entire clan. Although you are a good-for-nothing who entered the physical body realm at the age of eight for ten years, and you are still in the physical body realm, we have never treated you shabbily during these years. We have never lost out on what we should eat and wear. Now it's time for you to repay our kindness..."

Xiao Zhengde thought for a moment and continued, "I called you here today to inform you. I'm not asking for your opinion. You just need to do as we have ordered!"

"Just tell me?"

Sure enough!

Just like cultivation, I don't even have the right to make a choice!

Xiao Yi raised his head and stared at the two of them with burning eyes. He really wanted to loudly tell them that they were not good-for-nothings. They had been stuck in the physical body realm for the past ten years!

Ten years was not because of his lack of talent, but because the seal on something like that in his body had not yet been unlocked.

But now...

It didn't matter anymore.

There was no need!

Hu!

Xiao Yi let out a long breath of murky air. He was completely desperate for this family. His tensed body gradually relaxed, and his tightly clenched fists also quietly loosened. This family no longer had a trace of nostalgia for him. He clenched his teeth and said word by word, "The son-in-law of the Fang family, right? I will go. But before I leave, I want to pay my respects to my mother!"

Three years ago, her mother suddenly died.

Xiao Yi was imprisoned in the small courtyard. Not to mention worshipping his mother, even the news of his mother's death was only found out from his servants two months ago. Until now, he didn't even know where his mother's grave was.

This was his only obsession with this family!

However...

However, Xiao Tianjiao looked at him with a look of disgust. He sneered and said, "I will go to worship my mother. You don't have to go."

Xiao Yi's eyes were bloodshot and his body trembled as he growled through gritted teeth, "Xiao Tianjiao, that's also my mother!"

"No, I won't do it from now on!"

Xiao Tianjiao said lightly, "Your name has been removed from the family history. In the future, you will only be a live-in son-in-law of the Fang family in the Southern Wilderness. You have nothing to do with our Xiao family."

"D- d- d- d- d- d- d- d- d- d- d- d

A bolt from the blue!

Hearing this, Xiao Yi took three steps back and his face instantly turned pale. He roared hysterically, "Xiao Tianjiao, are you still speaking human language? Huh? You think I've embarrassed you and deprived me of my right to cultivate. You've been keeping me under house arrest for eight years like you were raising animals! Now, are you going to strip me of my right to worship my mother?"

"Shut up!"

Xiao Tianjiao leaned forward slightly and looked down at Xiao Yi with an arrogant expression. "I'm a true dragon in the sky, but you're just a loach struggling in a mire. What right do you have to worship my mother? After all, we're from two different worlds. You can't reach my world..."

"You can't afford it? Hahaha, you really can't afford it..."

Xiao Yi took a deep breath. His blood-red eyes were like two bloody moons as he stared fixedly at Xiao Tianjiao and Su Lianyue. "Xiao Tianjiao, Xiao Zhengde, you've gone too far... I swear that you'll regret everything you've done today one day."

"An oath? An ant is just an ant, an ant. An oath is only a struggle for the weak..."

Xiao Tianjiao did not take Xiao Yi's words to heart at all. He glanced at Xiao Zhengde and said faintly, "Father, it will take at least five days for us to travel to the Southern Wilderness even if we use the Dragonblood Divine Horse day and night. It'll be a long dream if we don't sleep. Let him go now!"

"Now? That's fine!" Xiao Zhengde agreed without hesitation.

Xiao Tianjiao's voice rang out again, "Don't you want him to run away along the way? You'd better knock him out and send him to the Fang family!"

Xiao Yi's face was filled with grief and indignation. His blood-red eyes were filled with rage as he glared at Xiao Tianjiao. "Xiao Tianjiao, you've gone too far..."

Peng!

Before Xiao Yi could finish his words, he was already sent flying by Xiao Tianjiao's slap. A wild and violent wind swept into his mouth, causing him to smash into a pillar with a 'bang' before he could even finish his sentence.

Everything went dark in front of him, and he passed out.

However...

No one noticed that a bright light had appeared in his pitch-black sight the moment before Xiao Yi fainted.

It was like a pair of invisible big hands tearing apart the darkness in front of him and completely engulfing his consciousness.

In an instant.

The darkness in front of Xiao Yi dissipated, but as far as the eye could see, it was a boundless starry sky. Stars scattered all over the sky in front of him. The incomparably large stars whistled past, bringing about spatial ripples that extended for hundreds of millions of kilometers.

It was vast, majestic, endless, and endless.

In the starry sky not far in front of him, there was a black cemetery floating there. The ancient and huge cemetery was suspended there. There were four incomparably dark black black black dragons that seemed to be made of black iron. They were connected with each other and surrounded the cemetery.

In the cemetery, nine towering pillars were standing between heaven and earth, as if they had penetrated the whole starry sky. There were 81 huge black iron chains hanging on the top of the pillars, and the other one was in the infinite void, firmly locked on the eighty-one blazing suns.

The blazing flames that emanated from each of the eighty one blazing suns could burn an entire realm. However, under the binding of the black iron chains, they firmly supported that mysterious pitch-black forest.

It was hard for Xiao Yi to suppress the shock in his heart. He looked at the entrance of the cemetery. There were green stone pillars on both sides of the entrance, and two lines of blood-red words were written on them. They looked like a pair.

To the left: A Thousand-fold Calamity, a Hundred-fold Calamity, in a hurry!

On the right: Undying Body, Undying Soul, shocking both past and present, who could match it?

Between the two pillars, there was a black horizontal board with four shocking characters on it...

Ten thousand! Ancient! Heaven! Tomb!