From a down-and-out scion of a minor family to the Nascent Soul True Person he was today—the bitterness along the way was something only Wang Ruyan could understand.
Back in the Qi Refining Stage, Wang Changsheng's days had been painfully tight. He rarely had Medicinal Pills to take. To reach Core Formation, he had ended up owing a mountain of debt; Wang Ruyan had gone back to her maiden family to borrow Spirit Stones, while Wang Changxue had borrowed from every Foundation Establishment Cultivator in Hundred Spirits Sect she could. The entire clan had tightened their belts, and only after several years had they slowly paid the debt off.
Wang Changsheng's cultivation journey was the Wang Family's own path of development. Thinking back to those years, when the family could not afford Foundation Establishment Pills, they had bought Qi of Earth Sha to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm. Wang Changhuan had been tormented by the Qi of Earth Sha for the rest of his life until he was barely human, and finally died miserably under its torture.
Wang Mingjiang's greed had planted disaster, forcing Wang Changsheng to take the risk of charging into the Core Formation Stage. Otherwise, his fate might not have been much better than Wang Changhuan's.
In Wang Changsheng's era, few clansmen could buy large quantities of Medicinal Pills to consume. Now, first- and second-rank Medicinal Pills were supplied in abundance. Back then, for the sake of Foundation Establishment Pills, the Clan Elders had risked their lives hunting Demon Beasts, dying in their bellies. Now, the Wang Family could refine Foundation Establishment Pills on their own.
They had taken Ye Lin in and, with the aid of his exceptionally high array formation skills, the Wang Family's Core Formation Cultivators had steadily increased. Opportunity and challenge