Xu Yuan knew Burial Village like the back of his hand.
He knew it so well that he could still recall the name of every person in the village.
The butcher who liked to sharpen his cleaver in the middle of the night, the beautiful young wife who was always smiling and teasing people, the blind man who wasn't entirely blind, and the village chief, an old man who was always chuckling.
Burial Village was the beginner's village in the Cangyuan story.
It was a village deep in the mountains along Great Yan's border, both peaceful and perilous.
It was peaceful because the various elders there, all uncles and grandfathers, treated the protagonist very well, just like ordinary family elders.
It was perilous because those uncles and grandfathers seemed ordinary on the surface, but were actually all powerful figures who had retired there. Every one of them had once been a notorious bandit or great demon.
A run-down little village where all sorts of powerful figures had gathered.
And then—
Then his Prime Minister father had personally led men to slaughter everyone in the village.
Only one boy, who had accidentally ventured into the mountains to hunt, survived on his own.
That's right. That boy was the story's protagonist.
That was also the fundamental reason Xu Yuan had always wanted to find him.
With a blood feud between them, there was basically no room for reconciliation between the protagonist and the Prime Minister's Estate.
Once the other man had fully grown into his power, no matter what reason his father had for slaughtering the village, the protagonist wouldn't show mercy.
But now, with the clues Su Jinxuan had provided, Xu Yuan had narrowed down the protagonist's possible path to three options. He could also more or less figure out what