Chapter 1139: Hit Them! Smash the Lu Family Until Not a Single One of Them Can Stand Again!

A furious roar erupted, a thunderous shout that struck like a sudden blow, carrying an effect remarkably similar to the Buddhist Lion's Roar.

The sound waves cascaded downward, forming rings upon rings, rippling through space, warping and twisting, dragging glowing particles in rolling torrents—like an overturned furnace pouring molten gold and iron down upon the Lu Family's Fourth Ancestor's palm imprint, dissolving it as the torrent crashed directly down from above.

The Lu Family's Sixth Ancestor formed a Buddhist mudra with his hands.

The swastika symbol and the center of his palm blazed with light.

Vast Buddhist radiance illuminated heaven and earth, a golden bell rose spinning, ten thousand Buddhas chanted scriptures, the sutras vast as an ocean, resisting the might of the Great-Grandmaster's words that carried heavenly authority.

WOOOOM!!!!!

A dull, thundering impact rang out.

The golden bell erupted with a deafening boom, cracks spreading across its surface.

The Great-Grandmaster had merely unleashed a single strike, yet it took two Lu Family ancestors joining forces to barely withstand it.

Then the Lu Family's Fifth Ancestor pointed a finger at the sky, tearing it open: "ENOUGH!!!!!"

Beneath the long sky, the black clouds were ripped apart, revealing a deity's vertical pupil gazing down upon heaven and earth. Thunderbolts struck down, tilting the scales—helping the Lu Family's Fourth and Sixth Ancestors block the Great-Grandmaster's assault!!!!

Only then did things settle.

Lu Ding stood beside the Great-Grandmaster: "What's the meaning of this? Trying to bully us with numbers?"

The Fourth Ancestor, whose temper was already explosive—and who had just been struck at first by this junior Lu Ding, and nearly hit by the Great-Grandmaster's attack—said with irritation: "So what if we use numbers against you? You're an unruly child who refuses to listen, bringing outsiders to intimidate the Lu Family!!"

"Do you really think the Lu Family is something you can just push around!?"

Hearing this, Lu Ding smiled and looked at the Great-Grandmaster.

The Great-Grandmaster nodded.

Lu Ding raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

CRACK!!

"Want to compare numbers with me?"

In an instant—

Figures flew out one after another from the Lü Mountain Flying Vessel behind them, auras surging mightily. One after another, Lü Mountain's God Ascension cultivators took their places beside Lu Ding and the Great-Grandmaster, lining up in formation.

A hundred figures stood tall against the long sky, all facing the Lu Family together.

Each one bore extraordinary aura, like gods or demons, manifesting catastrophic extraordinary phenomena. Their individual might could shrink stars and seize the moon.

An ordinary Deification Ninth Level cultivator wasn't even worthy of polishing their shoes.

Sharp, piercing gazes scattered down like a sweeping net. Within the black clouds behind them, pairs of evil eyes flickered open, radiating icy, cold light—these were the myriad demons of the Lu Mountain army that pulled the flying vessel.

Lu Ding spoke again: "Still want to compare?"

The Lu Family's Fourth Ancestor's rage surged, and he stepped forward: "You......"

The Lu Family's Second Ancestor reached out and stopped him: "Enough. Say no more."

He then looked at Lu Ding: "I know you're called Lu Ding. We're family. Whatever needs to be said, we can lay it all out on the table. I know you didn't come to the Lu Family today without reason. The first thing you mentioned was looking for Lu Xiu—I imagine there must be some misunderstanding between you brothers."

"Now that you have the strength to speak with the Lu Family as an equal, you can tell us. Shall we discuss it together?"

Lu Ding crossed his arms: "Fine."

He couldn't be bothered to drag things out with them. Some matters could be settled in a few sentences; there was no need to stretch things out for several chapters.

State it plainly, then gauge their attitude. If their attitude was no good, then fighting was the answer.

So he spoke: "It's a simple problem. Lu Xiu wanted to kill me, and he sent people to do it, but they failed. Now I'm back to settle the score. That's all there is to it."

"I don't want to waste words with you. Either hand him over, and I'll kill him on the spot."

Lu Ding glanced at the Lü Mountain cultivators standing alongside him: "Or, I'll tear the Lu Family down, and whatever you have to say, you can say it to my Junior Uncles, Senior Uncles, and Great-Grandmaster."

Explosive.

Every single piece of news these Lu Family members received today was absolutely explosive!!!

First the Lü Mountain sect arrived, then they learned Lu Teng had a child out there all along, and then Lu Teng's youngest son had tried to kill his own elder brother from the same mother.

Everything had to happen all on the same day.

Everyone's gaze turned to Lu Xiu, who was hiding behind the Lu Family's Sixth Ancestor.

Lu Teng was the first to lose control of his temper. He charged over, yanked Lu Xiu out, and grabbed his shoulders with both hands: "Xiu'er, tell your father this isn't true."

Lu Xiu lowered his head, fists clenched, saying nothing. He knew something would go wrong, but he never imagined it would go this wrong.

Looking at the silent Lu Xiu, a nameless fury ignited in Lu Ding's chest instantly.

"The hell are you playing silent and brooding for, too scared to speak?"

"Nothing to say now?"

"Scared now?"

"Back when you threatened and bribed Senior Gongyang into assassinating me, you had plenty to say—appealing to emotion, laying out logic. Now what, you've gone mute!!!?"

As Lu Ding's voice rang out, Gongyang Qingrou flew over from the flying vessel, her expression resolute.

Lu Teng looked at the newcomer: "Qingrou, you......"

Gongyang Qingrou, who had already steeled herself mentally, now faced Lu Teng directly—and she had vastly overestimated herself. The moment she opened her mouth: "I'm sorry........."

Lu Ding felt somewhat helpless. So everything he'd said to bolster her before, she'd just forgotten it all? Now she'd turned into a coward again.

"What's there to be sorry about? He wanted you to kill me, but you couldn't kill me, and you'd have ended up losing your own life over it. Why the hell are you apologizing to him now? He's the one who failed to raise his son right!!!"

"You did nothing wrong!!!!"

Lu Teng's gaze toward Gongyang Qingrou was extremely complicated, the emotions within it raw and direct.

There was confusion, suspicion, even resentment.

"Qingrou, why didn't you tell me first? Why did you have to tell Ding'er? Do you realize you're setting brothers against each other!!!!!"

"If you'd told me, I could have prevented all of this. I could have talked Xiu'er out of it. I could have stopped things from getting worse, prevented this tragedy. Why didn't you tell me!!!!"

If Gongyang Qingrou had chosen to tell him about this, today's problems wouldn't have arisen, and today's situation wouldn't have come to pass.

Gongyang Qingrou lowered her head in self-reproach.

Lu Ding spoke: "Tell you? Tell you what—that your son wanted to kill me? And after she told you, what would you have done besides scold and beat Lu Xiu? Can you guarantee that Lu Xiu wouldn't come to resent Senior Gongyang for ratting him out?"

"And if she'd told you, wouldn't I have been kept in the dark? Let a bastard who harbors murderous intent toward me lurk beneath the surface, biding his time, waiting for an opportunity to harm me possibly!?"

"Don't you want me to return to the Lu Family? Don't you keep talking about compensation!?"

"Is this your compensation—trying to shield someone who wants to harm me, making me come back and live in danger, at constant risk of being ambushed by him, while you choose to help him hide it, cover it up, and keep it from me?!"

"Disgusting!!!"

"Lu Ding!!! He's your own blood brother! How can you talk about him like that!!!"

A woman's voice rang out. Luo Qingshi, the birth mother of both Lu Ding and Lu Xiu, hurried over while speaking these words.

Lu Ding swept his hand violently, whipping up a gale: "Blood brother? Bullshit brother, crap brother, nothing brother! I don't have a brother like that! I never acknowledged having any brothers or sisters, or a father or mother!!!"

"I am who I am!!!!"

"And stop wasting my time with your nonsense. Either hand over Lu Xiu voluntarily and we'll have something to discuss—I still have other matters regarding Senior Gongyang to announce, and I'd rather not make things ugly. Or stay silent and I'll take it as refusal, and you can deal with the consequences!!!!"

Luo Qingshi knelt directly before Lu Ding: "Lu Ding!!! Your mother begs you, don't be so relentless. He's my child too!!!!"

Lu Teng also looked at Lu Ding: "Lu Ding, I know you resent me. I know you resent the decisions your mother and I made back then. We also know you suffered a great deal, but I beg you—please—spare your younger brother."

Lu Ding's face went completely cold.

He immediately mirrored Luo Qingshi's action and knelt down facing her: "I return this to you. I don't accept this kind of moral hostage-taking."

"My problems aren't about this."

"Now you're deflecting, dodging the real question, giving me no real answers. I see you people just don't understand plain human speech."

Though he would never acknowledge them as his parents, he still felt bitter and wronged over those dozen-plus years of hardship and suffering!

He was the one abandoned; Lu Xiu was the one raised in pampered love. He'd never once thought of seeking out his parents—it was the Lu Family that came to provoke him first, babbling about compensation, about making amends. And now, with Lu Xiu's problem right in front of them, though they hadn't said it outright, wasn't their entire attitude just forcing Lu Ding to keep swallowing more grievances!?

It was Lu Xiu who wanted him dead, yet they demanded he be magnanimous and let it go. If Gongyang Qingrou hadn't weighed the pros and cons, if Lu Ding hadn't been strong enough—would he have died and still been expected to forgive his so-called brother's youthful indiscretion!?

Did the one who suffered wrongs have to keep suffering forever!?

Today he would settle all of this completely—even if it meant shaving his bones to return to his father, carving his flesh to return to his mother, and ripping out the Lu Family bloodline from his veins, he didn't care.

But before that, he had to vent all the resentment in his heart for the wronged version of himself!!!

Use facts to show them—it wasn't that he, Lu Ding, couldn't control the situation or had no choice, forced into this position. It was that he didn't want it anymore, that he looked down on it!!!

Lu Ding's emotions surged: "Hit them!!!!! Smash the Lu Family until not a single one of them can stand again!!!!"