A Chance Encounter!

He was the Lin Family Remnant the Li Family spoke of.

Lin Fan actually felt little attachment to the Lin Family.

He was merely an illegitimate son of low birth.

And he had no remarkable talent for cultivation.

Even his father regarded him as a disgrace.

In the Lin Family, he was practically invisible.

But his maternal uncle's family was different.

When his uncle learned of his situation in the Lin Family, he had risked angering them to take Lin Fan in, treating him like his own son.

His uncle taught him how to hunt, while his aunt taught him to identify medicinal herbs.

His five younger siblings would crowd around him, affectionately calling him big brother.

Those had been the happiest days of Lin Fan's life.

But it had all been destroyed by the Li Family just over a month ago!

Over a mineral vein, the Lin Family had offended the Li Family. The Li Family had uprooted them and wiped out the entire clan.

And they had not spared him, an illegitimate son whom the Lin Family had never valued.

They had found his uncle's family.

Lin Fan still remembered that day.

He had gone into the mountains to hunt and returned home with a full haul, brimming with excitement—only to see that scene...

To force them to reveal where he was,

the Li Family had actually tortured his uncle's entire family of seven to death.

Then they had set the place ablaze, concealing their crimes.

He had hidden in the distant woods, watching the Li Family members stand before the towering flames, cold, cruel smiles on their lips—as if they had not killed seven people, but merely crushed seven ants beneath their feet.

In that moment,

Lin Fan's heart had died.

He had wanted to charge forward