Chapter 592 — The Ultimate Scum

"Ma Yukun, you despicable beast! I trusted you so much, and you—you—you did this to me!!!"

The Li Family head could hardly believe his own eyes. He refused to believe that his own brother had truly betrayed him, yet with everything unfolding before him, he had no choice but to accept the truth.

Right now, he was furious and seething, but more than anything, he was consumed by soul-deep anguish—the agony of being betrayed by the one person he had considered his closest brother.

However, the Ma Family head paid no heed whatsoever to the Li Family head's reaction. He merely let out a cold laugh, then drew his peculiar weapon and drove it into the Li Family head's chest once more. The force behind the strike was immense, slamming the Li Family head flat onto the ground.

Once the Li Family head had fallen, the Ma Family head snatched the ice crystal egg into his hand. He glanced at it and smiled with satisfaction, then looked down at the Li Family head and sneered, "Old brother, don't blame me for being ruthless and forgetting the bonds of brotherhood. If you're going to blame anyone, blame yourself for being too stupid."

Having said those bitterly ironic words, the Ma Family head turned his gaze toward the Ma Family members gathered at the hall entrance, swept his sleeve outward, and bellowed, "Kill them!!!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"Ughhhh~~~"

"Ahhh~~~"

The instant the Ma Family head gave the order, the Ma Family's forces erupted with murderous intent. Without a word, they fell upon the Li Family's people. Setting aside the fact that the Li Family had been caught completely off guard, even in a head-on confrontation, their strength was far inferior to the Ma Family's. As a result, the clash ended in a devastating defeat for the Li Family.

What shocked the Li Family members most was that two of their own elders—Sha Bi and his wife—did not lift a finger against the Ma Family. Instead, they turned on the Li Family themselves. Their strikes were vicious and lethal, each blow aimed to kill. In the blink of an eye, several Li Family members lay dead at the couple's hands, their status as traitors laid bare for all to see.

As for the Li Family head's daughter, Li Chan, she was not in immediate mortal danger, but she had been completely subdued by the Ma Family. A Spirit World Master had bound her with barrier ropes, leaving her utterly powerless. She could do nothing but watch as her people fell one after another before her very eyes.

"Ma Yukun, you beast! You beast! Have you forgotten the ancestral precepts? Has your conscience been devoured by dogs?!"

Watching his own subordinates die one by one because of his stupidity, the Li Family head was driven into a towering rage. Disregarding his own injuries, he forced himself through the searing pain in his chest and lunged at the Ma Family head.

But how could a man already grievously wounded possibly be a match for the Ma Family head? With a single kick, the Ma Family head sent the Li Family head crashing to the ground again, then planted his foot squarely on his chest, grinding down until the breastbone shattered with a sickening crack.

"Oh, old brother, old brother, what am I going to do with you? What use are ancestral precepts? What use is brotherhood? Can they make my Ma Family more prosperous? Can they let my Ma Family dominate the entire Langya Mountain Range? I'll tell you—no!!!"

"Nothing in this world matters. Everything is garbage. Nothing can change the truth that the victor is king and the vanquished is a bandit. I don't care about earning a terrible reputation. I don't care about being spat upon. Because once I've succeeded, no one will dare point a finger at me."

"They will only submit to me, only fear me. And as for future generations—they won't remember what methods I used. All they'll remember is my success, the great legacy I, Ma Yukun, left behind." Ma Yukun laughed maniacally, his expression grotesquely twisted, feeling not the slightest shame for what he had done. On the contrary, he wore it as a badge of honor.

"Beast! Beast! I was truly blind. I was blind to call you my brother. I was blind to trust you so completely. You beast! You're worse than pigs and dogs!!!" The Li Family head's teeth were clenched so hard they might shatter, his face flushed crimson with fury as he struggled and screamed curses.

"A beast? You call me a beast? Fine—let me tell you, I am a beast." Rather than growing angry at the Li Family head's tirade, Ma Yukun simply let out a cold laugh. Then he turned his gaze toward Li Chan and ordered, "Bring her to me!!!"

"Let me go! Let me go!"

The Ma Family members didn't hesitate. They hurriedly dragged Li Chan before the Ma Family head.

"Ma Yukun, what are you doing? If you want something, come at me! Don't you dare touch my Chan'er!" At this, the Li Family head's face went deathly pale with terror, dreading that Ma Yukun would lay hands on his daughter.

"Oh, old brother, what are you worried about? Would I ever hurt Chan'er?"

"Chan'er—my beautiful little niece—how could I ever bear to hurt her? Don't worry. I won't lay a finger on her in that way. I'll take good care of her... serve her well."

The Ma Family head wore a sinister smile as he lifted Li Chan's chin with his fingers and narrowed his eyes. "My dear niece, you're far cleverer than your father, and I've always had a thing for cleverness. Tell me—you've kept yourself pure all these years. Were you waiting for your uncle?"

"I spit on you! You filth!" Li Chan's mouth opened and a wad of saliva struck the Ma Family head square in the face.

"Filth? Yes, I am filth. Today I'll show you just how filthy I can be." Spat upon by Li Chan, the Ma Family head seemed to be incited into a frenzy. With a violent "riiiiip," he tore open Li Chan's skirt, exposing a vast expanse of snow-white skin. Even as he spoke, he forced Li Chan beneath him.

"Ma Yukun, what are you doing?! She's your niece—she's your niece!!!"

"You beast! Stop this immediately, you bastard—stop it RIGHT NOW!!!" Seeing that Ma Yukun intended to do such a thing to his own daughter, the Li Family head was so enraged he thought his lungs would explode. He scrambled to his feet on unsteady legs, ready to throw himself at Ma Yukun in a desperate last stand.

"Stay down." Ma Yukun merely flicked his hand dismissively, and the Li Family head was sent slamming back to the ground once more, blood gushing from his mouth. Every bone in his body was broken—he could no longer stand.

"There we go, that's a good boy. Just lie there nicely and watch me play with your precious daughter. Haha! Come to think of it, old brother—our Chan'er is still a virgin, isn't she? What a pity to let good blood go to outsiders! Hahaha..." The Ma Family head laughed obscenely as he reached out his wicked hand to caress Li Chan's snow-white skin.

But the Li Family head was utterly helpless against this scene. All he could do was watch as his own daughter was defiled by the man he had once considered his closest brother.

In this moment, his regret was absolute—crushing, soul-destroying regret. He loathed his own stupidity, stupidity so profound that he had placed his trust in someone who never deserved it.

If only he had trusted his daughter. If only he had trusted Wuqing. Then none of this would have happened.

But there was no shortage of anything in the world except regret, and now he could only pay the price for his own actions—his daughter's humiliation and the annihilation of the Li Family. That was the price he had to bear.

As for Li Chan, she had already given up resisting, for she had no power to resist. Only tears of unendurable agony streamed from the corners of her eyes. But who could she blame? If anything, she could only blame herself for being saddled with such a foolish father.

"Well, well—I've seen plenty of beasts in my time, but I've never seen one quite this despicable."

Just as the Li Family's members were all but annihilated and Li Chan's virtue was on the verge of being lost forever, a voice that everyone recognized suddenly rang through the hall.