"I don't know. I saw Great-Grandpa on my way back. He was covered in wounds, covered in blood."

  Li Tianyi k before the grave, the Pig Demon King's blood still staining his clothes. But his earlier hysteria had vanished, repced by a numbhat followed the extreme grief. Carrying the Pig Demon King's body back had exhausted all his spiritual energy. Now, his face ale, his body weak, yet he seemed unaware of his own dition.

  Staring bnkly ahead, he meically answered his Sed Uncle's questions. "When I found Great-Grandpa, he was in the forest outside Tailin Town. He had lost his powers and was crashing through the trees. So many people were shouting to sy the demon, and many cultivators had surrounded him. He killed so many... but he was still trying to get home."

  "I carried Great-Grandpa back. He said..."

  "'Take me home.'"

  "'I just want to see the childre time. That would make my life worthwhile.'"

  "But..."

  As he spoke, Li Tianyi's expression was a mixture of tears and ughter, but above all, it was filled with boundless guilt. "It wasn't worth it! I don't want any spirit springs, I want Great-Grandpa back! We already have so many resources, mood things than we could ever use. He didn't o go get more for us."

  "It's all my fault. If... if I could have flown faster, Great-Grandpa could have been saved, right?"

  "..."

  Li Yunbing's brow furrowed deeply, and he simply shook his head. He didn't want to tell Li Tianyi that when Grandpa Pig returned, his soul was already exhausted, likely on the verge of passing when he entered Li Tianyi.

  Afterwards, he left Li Tianyi and the younger geion to grieve. His responsibilities as the head of the family told him that he had to remain rational and deal with this situation.

  Sensing something amiss, he walked towards his father and grandparents, who were still maintaining their posure.

  Li Yaozu's eyes were fixed on the core fire withiomb. This was a way folden Core cultivators to have a proper burial; otherwise, their bodies might be stolen. He had already suppressed his anger, but his expression remained icy. Sensing Li Yunbing's approach, he uttered just three words.

  "Who did this?"

  A few years ago, the Pig Demon King had already begun pnning the stru of this "Heavenly h Spirit Pond." The Li family knew about it and even provided a lot of assistance.

  Li Yaozu had even apahe Pig Demon King on two of its journeys.

  But this time...

  Li Yunbi out a long sigh. "All of our Li family's intelligence sources have returned. Based on the information we've gathered so far, we only know that Grandpa Pig went to the Goldleaf Forest outside the Azure Clion. There were no signs of battle where he traveled, and none of the forces hostile to our Li family have dispatched any experts."

  "I have already invited Mr. Huang Xiujin a messages to Fourth Aunt and Sed Aunt."

  Li Dalong, standing nearby, watched the children overwhelmed with grief and anger before the tomb.

  He slowly closed his eyes. He had never imagihis day would e. The Pig Demon King's suddeh was uable. He couldn't bear to think about the pain his children would endure.

  "Find the culprit, no matter who it is."

  "Yes, Grandpa."

  Li Yunbing nodded slightly and turo leave, attending to his duties, but he still gnced back at the Pig Demon King's tomb.

  At that moment, He suddenly recalled the Primordial Blood Tree's words: The earth year should be as red as the snow today.

  He couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

  Li Yunbing khat the Primordial Blood Tree's predi was likely accurate.

  Ohey discovered who was responsible, the perpetrator would face the Li family's unbridled fury. Every member of the Li family, from the third geion onwards, had grown up riding on the Pig Demon King's back. The boween the Pig Demon King and the Li children was closer than that with any of their elders.

  No matter the cost, no matter who the enemy was, no matter how long it took, the desdants of the Li family would avehis death.

  In that instant, Li Yunbing's hair seemed to gray a little more.

  The red snow tio fall over the Li family residence.

  On this blood-tinged winter day, the fmes ing the Pig Demon King's body grew fiercer, mirr the burning rage of the Li family.

  Li Wei watched silently all along.

  The Pig Demon King's greatest wish was to see the valley filled with Li family children, to have tless desdants to care for.

  That wish would never be fulfilled.

  But the Li family would forever remember that in the depths of the Silver Iron Forest, there lived a Demon King, their kin by marriage, who apahem through a long period of their lives.

  The children of the Li family would also remember that they had a grandfather, a great-grandfather, and even a great-great-grandfather who once carried them on his back. Even future geions would remember that the Li family had an aor who ig Demon, one of their most cherished retives.

  "Hu."

  Li Wei exhaled deeply. After the funeral, he bowed towards the Pig Demon King's tomb. As his fradually faded, his voice rang out with vi, "You will always be a member of our family. The children will carry the memories of your existend grow into the s eagles and fierce tigers you admired, being proud desdants of the Li family."

  With that, Li Wei's figure returo reality.

  In the depths of the night, the fmes within the Pig Demon King's tomb surged upwards.