"Is the Household Head truly willing to return my mother's relics to me?"
Shi Muye smiled and nodded. "That's right. In truth, although your mother perished outside, she already knew before she left that the odds were stacked against her. She originally did not want you to know, but... you awakened a Spiritual Root. This is your fate."
You're really taking advantage of the dead being unable to come back to life to keep spinning tales, Shi Yijian thought as he lowered his head and listened.
"You must have noticed it yourself, Yijian. There is a problem with your Spiritual Root."
When Shi Muye said this, his voice could not help sinking, as though something had come to mind, making him unconsciously tighten his tone. "It may appear to let you cultivate normally, but every time you break through a realm, it is fraught with a thousand hardships and ten thousand difficulties. The fact that you managed to form a Golden Core truly surprised me." That was not false. Precisely because the Shi Household knew this, they had generously allowed Shi Yijian to seek a master and study elsewhere. After all, once his cultivation stopped making any progress at all, even a great sect might no longer have room for him.
Shi Yijian had not expected the Household Head to make an issue of his Spiritual Root. But this damage was indeed common knowledge, which was why, even though he possessed a heaven-blessed Single Spiritual Root, those people in the clan who had once trampled him beneath their feet remained as arrogant as ever.
It seemed everyone was certain he could never advance to the Nascent Soul stage.
Including the Household Head before him.
So why was that?
"There is no need to be so guarded against me. Everything I