Deep in the night, the Ji Mansion was dim and shadowed. Gu An strolled along the corridor, childhood memories surfacing one after another.
As the starting point of Gu An's life, the Ji Mansion still held real feeling for him. From childhood to adulthood, he had lived rather well here. Aside from that time he had smashed the flower bed and nearly had his hand chopped off, the rest of his days had been decent. He had not been bullied by the Ji Family's children, and though there were occasional conflicts among the servants, they never reached the point of either-you-die-or-I-die.
After a hundred years away, looking at the Ji Mansion again, he felt both familiarity and strangeness.
What was familiar was the furnishings; the surroundings had not changed much. What was strange was the people.
The Ji Family had countless branches. The Ji Mansion he had belonged to was only one among thousands upon thousands of branches, and the Three Dynasties all had Ji Family offshoots.
Before the Calamity of Demons and Monsters, the Ji Family had hidden inside the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, but those who went had only been the main family, the upper levels of each branch, and talented disciples. After the Calamity of Demons and Monsters ended, those Ji Family members who had hidden in the Seven Stars Spirit Realm returned one after another to their respective hometowns and continued developing their clans.
Gu An had even seen branches of the Ji Family out on the ocean, though they were very close to the continent and did not dare advance rashly, because the yao creatures on the ocean had very high cultivation, and high-realm yao creatures could always be encountered.
The person with the highest cultivation in this Ji Mansion was at the Body Integration