Inside the Fate Instance, Wang Lin watched his own life unfold.
He saw himself leave the mountain village. When he first set out for the Heng Yue Sect, his parents had watched him go with eyes full of loving concern and eager hopes. Wang Lin fell silent.
He had not noticed those looks back then. Even if he had, he had been too young to understand what lay behind them.
He had failed the spiritual root test and returned home unwilling to accept it. Then a tiger had attacked him, sending him tumbling off a cliff.
In the end, Wang Lin had obtained something that changed his fate.
The Heaven-Defying Bead.
From then on, Wang Lin had walked an entirely different road.
To submit was to remain mortal; to defy was to become immortal.
From that moment, he had truly set foot on the Immortal Path.
Because everyone had mistakenly thought Wang Lin had jumped off the cliff in despair over failing the test, he had been given a chance to join the Heng Yue Sect.
But it was easy to imagine how Wang Lin had been treated after entering the Immortal Gate that way.
He had endured discrimination at every turn.
Later, the secret of the Heaven-Defying Bead had been exposed, and another sect had come to swallow up the Heng Yue Sect. As Han Li's cultivation rose, he had simply left the Heng Yue Sect.
He had killed Teng Li, established his Dao foundation, and entered the Corpse Yin Sect.
Then Teng Huayuan had tracked down the Wang Family over his grandson's death and all but slaughtered the entire clan.
He had even torn out the souls of everyone in the Wang Family who had died by his hand, refining them into a soul banner to suffer torment