The Li family residence was by no means the largest in all of Qinglan City. Compared to the splendor and magnificence of many great families, the estate of this city lord's family could only be described as understated.
Before long, Li Mu followed Li Yubai into the rear courtyard. A simple garden landscape and an inconspicuous rockery were the only furnishings in the entire courtyard.
"Big Brother, is the Lineage's trump card Father mentioned here?"
Unable to hold back any longer, Li Mu asked Li Yue in front of him. In his memories, this rear courtyard had been where he played and roughhoused as a child. He had stepped on every inch of soil and plucked every flower. There was nothing special about it at all.
"You'll know when we get there. Don't rush."
Li Yue had no intention of explaining immediately. He merely smiled lightly and followed Li Yubai to the rockery.
Li Mu had climbed all over this rockery countless times as a child. Seeing his father and elder brother stop here, could the Li family's secret possibly be this rockery?
"It doesn't look like it. No matter how I look at it, it's just an ordinary rockery—at most, a slightly bigger one."
Under Li Mu's suspicious gaze, Li Yubai stood before the rockery. His hands continuously formed complex seals, while the surrounding Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi gathered within those mysterious hand seals. At last, it turned into a strange symbol in the air. A Nascent Soul Realm cultivator's control over Yuan Qi was indeed terrifyingly formidable.
"Secret realm, open!"
With Li Yubai's thunderous shout, the space before the rockery violently trembled. Cracks appeared out of thin air. As Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi continued to gather and the mysterious hand seals formed faster and faster, the