Father, you can’t do this.

“Forgive me?” Qin Ming sneered, his oppressive aura, mixed with the power of heaven and earth, continued to bear down on the Shen family. “You have a lot of guts to steal my demonic beasts.”

His voice, like a clap of thunder, echoed in the ears of the Shen family members, making them tremble and their legs turn to jelly, shaking uncontrollably.

“Steal… steal the lord’s demonic beasts?” The Shen family patriarch’s face was pale, his eyes filled with confusion, as he looked at the demonic beasts behind Qin Ming, at a loss.

Shen Ba, among the Shen family crowd, heard Qin Ming’s words and slowly looked up at the ten demonic beasts. His pupils rapidly dilated, his face was bloodless, and his body twitched. He saw the Cloud Chasing Dragon from the Qin family and immediately realized that this mysterious Martial Emperor had come to collect a debt.

The Shen family patriarch, a Martial King, sensed Shen Ba’s violent trembling. He immediately knew that all of this was his son’s doing.

He was aware of the plan to seize the Qin family’s King-level demonic beast and had strongly approved of it.

The Qin family was a clan without even a King-level martial artist and was not worthy of possessing a King-level demonic beast. He never imagined that a Martial Emperor stood behind this King-level demonic beast.

If he had known that the King-level demonic beast belonged to a Martial Emperor, even with ten times his courage, he wouldn’t have dared to harbor any ill intentions.

“Shen Ba, is this your doing?” The Shen family patriarch roared, a claw striking through the air. Shen Ba was grabbed by an invisible spiritual energy, pulled out of the crowd, and thrown to the ground.

The faces of the Shen family members showed indignation. They all knew that the Martial Emperor’s questioning was all due to Shen Ba’s actions.

Shen Ba was truly audacious, daring to steal even a Martial Emperor’s demonic beast. He must be tired of living.

If he was tired of living, he should just die quickly. Now he was even implicating them. The Shen family members wished they could devour him alive.

“My lord, it is all my fault for not disciplining my son properly, causing you trouble. Now I hand him over to you, to be dealt with as you see fit, as an apology.” The Shen family patriarch bowed humbly, displaying a servile demeanor.

When the Shen family members heard their patriarch’s voice, their hearts were filled with sorrow and desolation, but even more so with shock and fear.

He was the overlord of Stone City, usually decisive and never contradicted by anyone. When had he ever adopted such a posture, becoming the most humble servant?

Even his own son was abandoned without a second thought, just to appease the lord in front of him.

“Father, Father! You can’t do this, he’ll kill me! I don’t want to die, Father, save me!” Shen Ba, having been grabbed by his father, was momentarily stunned and didn’t understand what was happening.

Suddenly hearing his father’s words of apology, he was greatly alarmed and cried out for help.

He couldn’t understand why his father, who had always been high and mighty and never bowed down to anyone, would be so obsequious.

Even more puzzling was why he would hand himself over to the enemy to be dealt with as they pleased. Didn’t he know that the other party would kill him?

“Shut up.” The Shen family patriarch slapped Shen Ba, who was crawling towards him, sending him to the ground. He quickly lowered his head, a sinister look on his face.

It was just one son; if he died, he could have another. As long as he appeased the Martial Emperor’s wrath and preserved himself, he wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice ten sons.

Shen Ba’s head buzzed from the slap, and his cheek stung. But no matter how much his face hurt, it couldn’t compare to the pain in his heart. He suddenly understood that his father was planning to abandon him for his own life.

“Father, you can’t do this. You knew about the plan to seize the Qin family’s King-level demonic beast, and you approved of it. You can’t hand me over; I don’t want to die.”