Condemning the Heavens

Although there was not as much overpopulation in the world of the living, the cities were still rather crowded, and many of the slums could be rebuilt into such residences, which could house more people while also giving them better living standards .

Xue Wei was not considering it for the sake of being a good samaritan, but because he was considering the option of beginning to dabble in business .

He had many resources right now, but from seeing how Tao Wu could sustain so many pirates at the Sea of the Enchanted with merely half of the profits from his and Lan’s business, Xue Wei was rather tempted to start going into business himself .

While he knew that he could not rival the auction house business that these two experts had started, he could enter real estate and construction .

However, while it was true that Xue Wei was considering this, he was not going to do anything about it now . He was currently stuck in the Ghost Realm, and even when he would return to the world of the living, he was not sure that he would be able to focus on business right away .

Some things were much more important, such as his friends, Wang Xiaoyun, and solving the problems that had been left behind by his parents .

His mother was the Holy Maiden of the Sovereign Beasts, but she was gone . She passed away while giving birth to him, using all her life force to allow him to be born safely, and then losing her last breath as she saw her child greeting the world .

Xue Wei was aware that she had been an Azure Dragon, but had the bloodlines of all the Sovereign Beasts . She was revered and a deity to all the sovereign beasts alike, but she had fled her responsibilities, and had fallen in love with a human .

At that time, the world’s rules had changed . A mixed-blood child would never have been able to live, but even so, his mother never gave up on him . A life had to be sacrificed, and thus she sacrificed her own .

Xue Wei’s father had felt guilt ever since he knew that she was pregnant . He had once promised Xiao Lei that he would never let her suffer any hardships, and that he would pamper and love her for the rest of their lives, but to give birth to his child, she died .

He had failed to do as he had promised . In fact, he had a part in her death as he was the father of the child who had been born .

Xue Wei was thinking about his parents . During the time he had spent with Lan in the carriage, he had gotten a much more detailed understanding of his family .

While there were still things that Lan refused to say, Xue Wei understood the key points .

His father was a human . The Sovereign Beasts would never allow for their Holy Maiden to be married to another race, and thus she ran away with the help of her older brother, Xiao Lei .

Xiao Lei was not a big fan of the human she had taken a fancy to, but he respected her choice, and he had given his blessing to the two of them; however, little did he know that when he went to find them later, they had vanished without a trace .

It took him many years to locate them again, and when he did, his sister was no longer in this world . While she had left behind a nephew for him, it was impossible for Xiao Lei to withstand the grief of losing his sister, whom he had cared for and spoiled since she was born .

His anger was overwhelming, and he felt a need to destroy the world . To unleash the feelings which had appeared within his heart, and he took it out on Xue Wei’s father, killing him in his thirst for revenge .

One has to remember that Xiao Lei was not human . He was a beast, and while he had taken human shape, and had human intelligence, he was much more aggressive than humans were .

Being one of the causes for Xiao Lei to lose his sister, it was only natural that he would die, however when the Azure Dragon noticed the fear in his nephew’s eyes, he felt guilt for the first time .

It was because of this that he erased Xue Wei’s memories . He was not able to handle his sister’s child looking at him with fear .

Even so, he had every plan of explaining the truth to Xue Wei when he grew older, but currently, he was being kept as a prisoner . No one knew when he would be able to get out and solve the disagreement between Xue Wei and him .

When Xue Wei heard this side of the story from Lan, he had been silent for a long time . He was feeling conflicted . He could understand why Xiao Lei had acted the way he had . If someone had been the cause of one of his partners’ death, he would ensure that they too would die, to be buried alongside his dear ones, but this was his father . He was not able to accept the death of his father, just like that .

Sighing, Xue Wei returned his focus to the streets that the caravan was traveling down . Many ghosts were looking at them with curiosity, and Xue Wei suddenly thought, if his mother was dead, was she located within the Ghost Realm as well?