Demon turmoil

Ba Commandery.

Fang Xianyao was meditating and refining his qi.

Suddenly, within his Dantian Qi Sea, his Dao Foundation became clear and profoundly luminous—a sign that he was breaking through to mid Dao Foundation!

His cultivation speed had even surpassed Fang Daoling's in his youth. Discounting Fang Xianyuan, he was already the foremost genius of the clan. Even among other Purple Mansion immortal sects, he would have been a genuine prospect for the Purple Mansion realm!

A breeze stirred around him, carrying fine shards of ice mingled with frost and snow.

Yet Fang Xianyao felt no joy. He merely sighed in melancholy.

What did even a Purple Mansion prospect amount to before a genuine Purple Mansion True Person?

On his last excursion, he had gained an allotment of destiny, bringing the Purple Mansion realm within reach. But he had never expected that, after his return, Fang Xianyuan—supposedly punished with secluded cultivation in the blessed land—would quietly become a Purple Mansion True Person. It had nearly shattered his Dao heart—

Our clan... must have a great personage supporting it.

By now, that thought had long since taken root in Fang Xianyao's mind.

They said Brother Yuan was confined as punishment, but that was merely a smokescreen... Perhaps he was cultivating in seclusion within a True Lord's Grotto-Heaven!

Only a True Lord could raise someone to the Purple Mansion realm so easily. And the sealed confines of a Grotto-Heaven could completely conceal the phenomena accompanying the breakthrough...

Now that Fang Daoling was cultivating in seclusion, Fang Xianyao was practically the Fang Family's acting patriarch.

He emerged from seclusion at an unhurried pace, ready to handle clan affairs.

*Alas... The Fang Family has lost the whole of Ancient Shu. So many clan members stationed elsewhere have returned, fighting for power and profit until