Sikong Ju's home was in an ordinary residential district in the southern area of White Steel City. His family had been immigrants during White Steel City's prosperous era.
They were called immigrants, but in truth, they had been forced to flee to White Steel City to escape their enemies and creditors.
The Grand Alliance had been exploring the Outer Realm Battlefield for a long time. Over the years, the Grand Alliance's powerful cultivators had established more than a dozen cities of various sizes during their development efforts. However, for other reasons, only three cities remained in the end.
White Steel City was one of them. It was also the most prosperous and best-defended of the three. As a result, it was able to attract many prospectors entering the Outer Realm Battlefield. As time passed, some prospectors naturally chose to settle down and establish homes and businesses in the Outer Realm Battlefield.
Because the discovery of the Outer Realm Battlefield and the exploration of its endless resources were like a grand feast to humanity, which had created the civilization of cultivators, the Grand Alliance had even experienced a great immigration boom back then.
The Outer Realm Battlefield had practically become a second world.
Sikong Ju's father, who had just died, had originally been named Sikong Zhaiyue. It was said that his ancestors had been descendants of a minor sect possessing ancient tomb-raiding and thieving techniques.
Sikong Zhaiyue had been young and reckless in his youth. Apparently, he had offended someone by stealing something he should not have stolen, forcing him to flee into White Steel City with his elderly mother. Later, he married the daughter of a local immigrant family's descendant in White Steel City and finally settled down.
In Sikong Ju's eyes, his late father had always been an