Li Zhen, the former head of the Li family, was the son of the Li family patriarch's first wife. However, his mother fell ill and passed away shortly after giving birth to Li Zhen.
Consequently, the Li family patriarch remarried Song Meiyan, who bore him two sons, Li Zhi and Li Bing.
When Li Zhen was young, although he was the legitimate eldest son of the Li family, due to Song Meiyan's constant whispering in the patriarch's ear, much of the family's power fell into the hands of her two biological sons.
Although Li Zhen eventually succeeded in inheriting the position of Li family patriarch, he held little power. Therefore, Song Meiyan colluded with her two sons and orchestrated an assassination, killing Li Zhen and then having Li Zhi become the Li family patriarch.
The Li family patriarch was aware of all of this, but since Li Zhi's ascension benefited the Li family, he tacitly accepted the outcome.
Song Meiyan was from the Heavenly Army, the military faction of the Li family. As such, her younger son, Li Bing, became the King of the Heavenly Army, possessing War God-level combat power.
Currently, Li Zhi, the Li family patriarch, controls the Li family's overt resources. He and his biological brother, Li Bing, work together to develop the Li family.
It could be said that this outcome was the best for the Li family, which is why the Li family patriarch acquiesced to his sons' fratricide. After all, his eldest son, who died, held little sway within the family's power structure.
If Li Zhen had remained patriarch, his two younger brothers would have been dissatisfied, and the Li family would have been fragmented. It was better for him to die so that the brothers Li Zhi and Li Bing could control the Li family.
Boom! Terrifying ferocity erupted from Li Xiaotian, filling the room with a dense killing intent that caused the temperature to plummet.
His eyes were fierce, his teeth clenched tightly, and the rage in his heart was like a bomb ready to explode at any moment.
"The Li family! Heh heh!" Li Xiaotian sneered through gritted teeth. Now, it seemed, everyone in the Li family deserved to die, including that old man!
His father, Li Zhen, had been alone and unsupported in the Li family. The Li family could have easily denied him the patriarch position, but they eventually allowed him to take it.
The dark truth behind this was that the Li family patriarch intended to use his eldest son as a pawn to unite his other two sons.
What a sacrifice of a piece to save the king. Li Xiaotian's eyes turned bloodshot. Simply for the sake of greater unity within the Li family, that old man had sacrificed his own flesh and blood.
Rather than attributing his father's death to the machinations of Song Meiyan and her two sons, it was more accurate to say that the Li family patriarch had meticulously orchestrated this entire situation.
"You all deserve to die!!" Li Xiaotian roared, trembling, his heart filled with boundless killing intent.
His parents were dead, and even after death, they didn't have a memorial tablet in the Li family.
"Heh heh." Li Xiaotian chuckled coldly, tears welling up in his eyes without him realizing it. His mother, a daughter from an ordinary family, had fallen in love with his father in college. After graduation, they married and had him.
His mother, a very ordinary and simple woman, was also dead.
"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!!" Li Xiaotian screamed. He was determined to make the Li family pay the price they deserved and regret the decisions they had made!
Li Xiaotian took a deep breath, then took out his phone and dialed Long Yi.
"From now on, all members of the Dragon King Hall will begin hunting down the Heavenly Army forces in the war zone. Do not wipe them out all at once; torment them slowly."
"Also, our forces in Great Qin will start launching various attacks on the Li family's industries. We will push the Li family to a corner where they have no way out!"
"Yes, Big Brother!" Long Yi's heart trembled. His Big Brother was truly enraged. When they destroyed the Wang and Yang families back then, they hadn't used such methods against them.
The most terrifying thing for an enemy wasn't to destroy them immediately, but to drive them insane step by step, to make them resist, until their final despair. This kind of revenge was the most brutal.
"Big Brother, the Li family." Long Yi spoke, wanting to ask something, but not knowing how to begin.
"You've probably already guessed, haven't you?" Li Xiaotian's voice was low as he continued.
"I am the child from back then, Li Zhen's son, Li Tian. Except I didn't die; someone died in my place."
Boom! Long Yi felt his mind go blank. He had had such a thought before, but he had forcibly suppressed it as soon as it arose. He dared not speculate on the King's background.
But now that Li Xiaotian had confirmed it himself, he still found it difficult to calm down.
"Big Brother!!" Long Yi shouted, his heart instantly filled with fury and killing intent. If that were the case, the Li family had wiped out Li Xiaotian's entire family of three back then, and Li Xiaotian had endured this hatred for ten years!
"Go carry it out! I don't want the Li family to die easily," Li Xiaotian instructed and hung up the phone.
Long Yi held his phone, falling into silence. The killing intent in his heart grew stronger. His Big Brother's parents had been murdered by the Li family. As Li Xiaotian's subordinate, if he did nothing in the face of such deep hatred, he would be letting Li Xiaotian down.
The King's hatred is the Dragon King Hall's hatred!
Back then, when the Wang family attempted to dig out the heart of the Dragon King Hall's little princess, the Wang family was annihilated! The Wang father and son had their limbs broken and were reduced to beggars, begging on the streets.
Later, when the Yang family of Jiangnan harmed Ye Qingmei, all their schemes were still unsuccessful, and the Yang family was annihilated!
But now, facing the King of the Dragon King Hall, his own blood feud, the Dragon King Hall's blood feud, if this hatred were not avenged, what face would the Dragon King Hall have to exist?
Long Yi gritted his teeth, took out his phone, and shouted into the public channel where the twenty-seven commanders of the Dragon King Hall were located.
"Dragon King Order! From this moment on, all forces of the Dragon King Hall will hunt down the Heavenly Army personnel in the war zone. Note, this is not an open war, but a massacre!!"
"If any of you have connections with the Heavenly Army, sever them immediately. I don't want to kill my own brothers with my own hands!"
"The Heavenly Army and the King have a deep blood feud, so do not let the Heavenly Army perish easily. Make them feel despair and panic!"
The other commanders of the Dragon King Hall were shocked by this, their hearts filled with astonishment. But then, one by one, they responded, because Long Yi had said one thing: the Heavenly Army and the King had a deep blood feud.
To have a feud with the King meant to have a feud with their Dragon King Hall!
"Long Er acknowledged. Starting today, ten Heavenly Army generals will be hunted daily!"
"Long San acknowledged. Starting today, one core figure of the Heavenly Army will be assassinated daily, and one hundred Heavenly Army personnel will be hunted!"
"Long Twenty-six acknowledged. I will destroy one of the Heavenly Army's strongholds every day!"
"Long Twenty-seven acknowledged. If the Heavenly Army headquarters can remain peaceful for one day starting today, I, Long Twenty-seven, will commit suicide as an apology!"