Chapter 242: Time Showed No Mercy, Foundation Establishment Perfection "Monthly Votes, Please"
The Zhou Household, Moon Lake Commandery.
The Zhou Clan cemetery.
A spirited young man stood before a gravestone.
Yet the name engraved on it belonged not to a Zhou Clan descendant, but to someone surnamed Ye.
"Mother, your son has come to see you again."
"It has been over three months since I left the Cao Clan."
Standing before Ye Xuehua's grave, Cao Zhenyi bowed three times. "Grandmaster has told me everything about what happened back then. The Cao Clan forced the Zhou Household to marry you into their clan solely to use your foundation to produce a child with a heaven spiritual root.
"If I ever have the chance, I will make the Cao Clan pay for this hatred and this grievance.
"Oh, and I have changed my name.
"From now on, I will take your surname, with Fan as my given name.
"The Cao Clan wanted me to become their clan's heaven-favored prodigy, so I refuse to let them have their way!
"If I had been ordinary and unremarkable, would you still be alive?
"Mother, I... I want so badly to hug you.
"I wonder if you ever held me when I was born.
"I imagine you never did. After all, what the Cao Clan did to you outraged both heaven and humanity."
Ye Fan's voice grew choked.
A short while later.
He continued, "Mother, Grandmaster has taken good care of me. Lately, he has been using Bone-Nourishing Pills, Body-Strengthening Pills, Marrow-Cleansing Pills, Meridian-Expanding Pills, and other pills to cleanse my marrow and open my meridians.
"I have obtained his permission to study at the Moonlit Academy.
"He has also been trying to find a way to deal with the withered wood seed.
"It seems that