Fight for Revenge, My Descendants

Early in the morning.

Li Xiang drove straight at 160 kilometers per hour, speeding down the empty streets. Before long, he pulled up in front of a high-rise.

He stayed inside for a full two hours before finally coming back out.

"Ah, looks like I'll still have to sue."

Li Xiang shrugged. He hadn't expected the Li Family in the real world to run into such a huge problem. One generation replaced another, and the newly appointed family head was abusing his power for personal gain, handing Li Xiang's pocket money straight to his own child...

"I'd better go back and talk about it later."

Li Xiang glanced at his phone. He'd spent quite a while, and the Li Family had undergone huge changes.

He frowned and slipped his phone into his pocket.

Suddenly, the sound of something slicing through the air rang out overhead. He looked up.

Above the high-rises, more than thirty lawyers in suits were flying through the air on their swords, each summoning a magical treasure.

Through the clouds, Li Xiang faintly heard their voices.

"Send a message to everyone else at the firm. Boss Han's orders: surround the Li Family!"

"Go find the governor and tell him the head of the Li Family is suspected of murder... No, suspected of colluding with the Alien Zerg."

"Find out whether we have any clients in prison and tell them to get ready. The boss has something to discuss with them. Don't ask why. Just say someone in prison might die in a few days, and we have business to take care of."

"You think we're going to raid their home? Bullshit. Of course we're going to sue them. We're a legitimate law firm!"

Right.

From the looks of it, they were going to help him with the lawsuit.

With these righteous lawyers on his side, getting his pocket money back should be a sure thing.

Li Xiang's worries eased. Relaxed, he headed home.

"I can finally play games in peace!"

"Welcome home, Master."

By the time he returned home, the sun was already high in the sky. Yuexian's smile shone brighter than the sunlight. "You could have just contacted me, Master. You didn't have to go in person. Oh, by the way, Mr. Liu from Cave Abode No. 7, Miss Five from No. 39, and Mr. Wang from No. 92 came by. They said they wanted to see you."

"I had to go. Otherwise, they'd think I was dead."

Li Xiang grinned. "I'm going to my room to play games. Give all the braised pork at lunch to Uncle Chen. I'll make do with egg fried rice. If anyone comes looking for me, tell them I'm not home. I owe too many people favors already—I can't afford to owe any more. Someone like me could never repay them. Once things outside have settled down, they won't come around anymore."

"Understood, Master." Yuexian withdrew.

Li Xiang hurried to his room and sat cross-legged on the sofa.

He'd been out running around for five hours. Back home, as he looked at the computer screen, five years had already passed.

Inside the Cultivation Family Simulator.

The Li Family had changed with each passing day. The little wooden hut they'd started with had become a large compound with six rooms and many other buildings.

The action log was full of updates.

[Xu Cuihua successfully gave birth to a daughter, named 'Li Yaowen'!]

Li Yaowen was now three years old, at the age when she ran all over the courtyard.

As for the other three children, Li Yaozu was already ten. What delighted Li Xiang was that, thanks to the pills that had improved his aptitude, the child's Wood Spirit Root had reached 62, and his cultivation had shot up to the third level of Qi Refining.

[Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual: Progress 12%.]

The other two children weren't bad either. Li Yaoqing, an eight-year-old girl, had slightly poor aptitude. Even after taking the Heavenly Secret Spirit-Replenishing Pill, none of her spirit-root attributes had reached 50. Still, she had reached the first level of Qi Refining and, more importantly, gained a trait.

[Trait: Plant Affinity]

[Born with a keen instinct for plants. The success rate of planting and cultivating them is greatly increased.]

Although it was still a year of severe drought, perhaps because Li Yaoqing was there, the vegetable garden hadn't been affected. The plants were growing vigorously.

The other child was Li Yaotie, who had previously had the best aptitude!

Three of his mixed spirit roots had surpassed 50. Though he was only six, he had already become a first-level Qi Refining cultivator.

Compared to when Li Dalong had been all alone at the beginning, the Li Family was lively indeed.

But perhaps because of her age, Xu Cuihua hadn't become pregnant again.

That wasn't a big deal. She'd already given birth to four children—she was practically a hero. Li Xiang couldn't ask any more of her.

When he moved the cursor over Li Dalong's name in the member list,

the screen shifted.

Li Xiang frowned.

After five years of cultivation, Li Dalong had reached the sixth level of Qi Refining. Now he lay in bed with one leg bound to a splint and secured with white cloth.

[Li Dalong]

[Status: Seriously Injured]

Li Xiang had been busy since early morning, but he'd kept an eye on the game the whole time.

Over the past five years, Li Dalong had been the most dedicated member of the Li Family. He often traveled back and forth to the Silver Iron Forest, bringing home meat while never neglecting his duty to teach the children.

But no one's life went smoothly from beginning to end.

[Year 15: Li Dalong went to Changlin Town to sell demonic-beast materials. On the way, he encountered a rich young wastrel galloping past on horseback and rescued a child who was about to be knocked down. The young master of the Hu Family saw that Li Dalong had extraordinary skills and tried to recruit him.]

[Li Dalong politely declined, citing his responsibility to raise his children. Hu Wei held a grudge and sent an eighth-level Qi Refining expert to seriously injure him.]

"Damn it."

Li Xiang gritted his teeth. He'd been watching when the incident happened, and it was only because he'd used Love from the Ancestor that Li Dalong had survived!

"He was this close! My precious baby, whom I've raised for fifteen years, almost died!"

Li Xiang wished he could go straight to Changlin Town and unleash a few blasts of Ancestral Patriarch's Fury.

At that moment, in the game, all the members of the Li Family stood around Li Dalong's sickbed, watching his injuries. Words appeared above their heads as they spoke to one another.

Li Yaozu: "Revenge! Five years ago, a band of thieves came to our home, and we wiped them all out. The Hu Family won't be any different!"

Xu Cuihua: "Calm down, child. I've already looked into it. The Hu Family has a Foundation Establishment Ancestor who's lived for over a hundred years. We're no match for them."

Li Yaoqing: "Mother is right. This isn't the time to act on impulse. Wuwu, Father, please get better soon."

Li Yaozu: "Are we really just going to let this go?"

Li Dalong: "Children, don't worry about your father. The Ancestor has already killed the expert who hurt me, so half my revenge has been avenged. A gentleman can wait ten years to take revenge. As long as our Li Family descendants work hard to grow stronger, one day we'll make the Hu Family pay!"

Watching the members of the Li Family talk, Li Xiang held down his own fury.

Ancestral Patriarch's Fury was certainly a good skill.

But when he'd saved Li Dalong earlier, he'd discovered that it could barely kill an eighth-level Qi Refining cultivator. Whether it could kill a Foundation Establishment expert was anyone's guess.

Acting rashly would only bring a disaster the Li Family couldn't handle.

Keep their strength hidden, develop slowly, then amaze everyone—that was the best choice!

With that in mind,

Li Xiang opened [Ancestral Blessing] and used a new skill on the injured Li Dalong—

Ancestral Embrace!

A phantom appeared above the ancestral tablets in the Li Family's ancestral hall. Under the astonished gazes of the family members, it surged into Li Dalong's body. In an instant, his leg healed at a visible speed. Before long, he was already able to get out of bed and walk.

[Used 'Ancestral Embrace', consuming Incense: 100]

Compared to the mild healing of Love from the Ancestor, this skill was much more powerful. It could even heal internal injuries!

"The Ancestor has manifested! I'm as good as new!"

"Thank you, Ancestor, for saving my life!"

"Rest assured, Ancestor. One day, I, Dalong, will lead everyone in the Li Family to avenge today's humiliation!"

Seeing his descendants brimming with fighting spirit, Li Xiang gave Li Dalong another blast of Love from the Ancestor.

In an instant, everyone was overjoyed.

[Though they encountered a crisis, the Li Family members will work even harder. They felt your encouragement.]

[Incense +30]

Li Xiang felt gratified.

Then he noticed a small red dot beside one of the entries in the member list.

He clicked on it—

[Family Buff: Flames of Revenge]

[Cultivation speed increased by 20%. The effect will last until they have enough strength to take revenge.]

A buff like this seemed to appear only after some kind of special event.

"Cultivate hard and fight for revenge, my descendants!"

Li Xiang cheered on his descendants from in front of the screen.

After that, he clicked through the status of each member of the Li Family to see whether the incident had given them any new traits. Unfortunately, it hadn't.

But when he clicked on Li Yaozu,

Li Xiang paused. The screen shifted, taking him to the Li Family's training ground, where Li Yaozu was practicing with all his might. He was using the Basic Sword Technique from the Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual.

The boy trained with fierce dedication, every sword strike filled with killing intent. He slashed at a stone slab so hard that he even carved the words "Must Kill" into it.

"That's the spirit."

Li Xiang nodded slightly. He could already imagine just how crazed the boy would be when he grew up and stormed into the Hu Family's home.

Meanwhile.

Above a vast, boundless sea, a Spirit Boat flew through the sky. Many cultivators rode their swords around it, dressed in distinctive white robes bearing the Seal of Yanhuang.

They were Huaxia's historical research team from the new era. Their duty was to investigate the cause of the spiritual-energy revival a thousand years ago.

And...

to seek out the history of this planet, buried beneath the sands of time for tens of millions—or even hundreds of millions—of years.

"We found it! I found a stone buried deep in the ocean. It records the history of the ancient era! There may be a vast land down there where cultivators once lived—or perhaps the ruins of a family power so enormous it's beyond imagination!"

An excited researcher held a huge stone as he burst through the surface of the sea and flew up to the Spirit Boat.

In an instant, every researcher aboard the Spirit Boat crowded around the stone, using specialized equipment to clean away the dust covering the ancient inscriptions.

A full day and night passed.

Only then did they see the stone's true appearance. The group exchanged glances.

"What a heavy killing intent."

They could just make out the ancient characters carved into the stone—

Must Kill Hu Wei!