A remnant soul, visitors from the Ancestral Land

More than ten years ago, answering Green Maple Valley's call, the Xiao Min Mountain Li Clan had moved from Little Min Mountain to Stone County.

With Green Maple Valley's support, it had grown over the past decade into a great family in Stone County, second only to the Qi Family.

The Shi County Li Family now had four Qi and Blood Realm cultivators alone.

So why had Little Stone, the son of the Shi County Li Family's patriarch, been reduced to fending for himself?

Naturally, it was because of his father's principal wife and her suppression.

His mother had originally been a maidservant in the Li Family. After catching the eye of the patriarch, Li Nanfeng, she had become his concubine and given birth to Little Stone.

Although the principal wife disliked this concubine-born son, she had not mistreated him; he had received everything he was entitled to.

But everything had changed once Little Stone revealed his exceptional talent for cultivation.

She feared his talent would threaten her own son's position.

And so the suppression had begun.

First, she had cut off provisions for Little Stone and his mother, then pressured Li Nanfeng into driving them out of the Li Family.

Li Nanfeng had been unwilling, but he could not withstand the pressure from those backing his principal wife. Left with no choice, he had done as she demanded.

Late at night.

The moon shone bright, and the stars were sparse.

After his mother fell asleep, Little Stone slipped outside. He climbed the large tree in the courtyard and tilted his head back to gaze at the stars.

As he stared at the star-filled sky, his eyes suddenly burned.

He hated his own helplessness.

Hated his own weakness.

It was why his mother had suffered such bullying at that woman's