After driving Lin Dan to the brink of collapse, Lin Bei turned back and said, "My grandson Xiuzhu is still preparing for the Minor Realm King Rankings, isn't he? Have him come back for a few days to help the Lineage. We'll need him for the succession challenge. After all, he's the only genius in our entire second branch in a thousand years to possess dual sixes! Someone like him deserves the title of 'heir to the branch'!"
"In the future, the revival of the second branch will begin with me, and my children and grandchildren will carry it forward. We'll turn over a new leaf and never rank last again!"
Whoosh!
His fervent declaration set the whole family's blood boiling.
"Feels good."
After reaching the Minor Astral Stage, Li Tianming felt refreshed from head to toe.
He spent around ten days consolidating his cultivation.
Those ten days passed in the blink of an eye, leaving him with the sense that time was moving faster and faster.
"Ling'er, let's go home and surprise Grandpa and Grandma," Li Tianming said.
"Mm!"
The two of them left the Ancestral Soul Realm, then picked up Lin Xiaoxiao from its fifth realm.
"Xiaoxiao, how many levels have you eaten your way through? Holy shit!"
Li Tianming had asked casually, but when he saw Lin Xiaoxiao's pink disciple badge, her cultivation had already shot up to the fifth level of the Minor Astral Stage.
"Once Grandma found out eating heavenly souls worked for me, she kept stuffing me with them. I couldn't do anything about it."
Lin Xiaoxiao pulled a miserable face.
"I'm jealous."
Li Tianming might have advanced quickly, but he felt he'd worked hard for it. Only with the opportunities brought by his lifebound beasts had he come this far.
"Don't be.