Cough, cough, cough!
Xiao Ran saw his mother.
He felt that he must have died.
Because he had not seen his mother for many years.
If his mother saw him like this today, she would surely be disappointed.
"Ran'er, Ran'er..."
Amid call after call, Xiao Ran opened his eyes.
"Father... I-I'm still alive?"
Xiao Chengshan looked so haggard that he seemed to have aged seventy or eighty years overnight.
He gripped his child's hand tightly, feeling the warmth in his palm, and nodded heavily.
"It was just an inch away—you would have lost your life!!"
Xiao Ran tugged at the corner of his mouth and said softly,
"Since Heaven let me live, then I'll prove it to everyone!!"
"Good."
Xiao Chengshan swept away his gloom.
"That is my Xiao Chengshan's son."
Xiao Ran needed to lie in bed for a while. That sword had truly come within a hair's breadth of taking his life, but it had also ignited his hope.
Xiao Ran forced himself up and quietly went to his mother's grave.
He sat before the grave and looked toward the distant horizon.
I will carve today's humiliation into my heart, I, Xiao Ran.
I do not want to experience it a second time.
Shu Mountain, Su Wan, the Su Family!!!
They stood before Xiao Ran like three towering mountains.
Xiao Ran took a deep breath.
Right now, his cultivation was not even equal to the Qi Refinement Realm, while Su Wan had already successfully formed her core.
And in the eyes of the Xiao Family, Xiao Ran's words were nothing but a joke.
Even if Xiao Ran really could successfully form his core in the future, could it be that Su Wan's cultivation would remain unchanged, forever at the Golden Core Realm?
What a joke!
Yet since Xiao