Investigating Shu Li's background was actually not difficult, but verifying some of the intelligence I had obtained was fraught with difficulty. I also needed to establish the causes before I could fit the consequences into place, so while traveling south, I had gathered no shortage of information about this clan.
Sure enough, with Tianyi Daoist commanding a large force, his net-like investigation would uncover at least some clues about Shu Li's origins and past. For example, from the old women of the brothel where Shu Li had once lived, who later escaped from the Golden Immortal Path, I obtained considerable information about the origins of this clan's flight.
The law of the jungle had brought out the cruelty of human nature, and the Wu Clan was no different. While Shu Tu was still around, the clan members naturally still held hope of rising again. They dreamed that one day they might become the foremost contributors when Shu Tu raised his army. But what if Shu Tu died?
Once the backbone of the entire group collapsed, the remnants of the clan would inevitably fall apart. Shu Li's special identity as a Wu Immortal had also become the beginning of everyone's confusion. Could she become the leader of the Shu Clan? Could she lead these surviving clansmen back to the peak of their clan once more?
As Shu Li grew taller and taller, her humanlike face and tender, humanlike skin soon revealed to them the cruelty of restoring their clan. On top of that, after settling in Tiannan and being exploited and oppressed by forces from all sides, their once sizable clan had scattered into fragments. The rumor that Shu Li could never become the leader of the Shu Clan was bound to spread without end! Even if this child possessed extraordinary