When Hao Wenjie entered the great hall, he found a handsome youth in a blue cultivator robe sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion at its center. A fox with green fur and two tails lay reclining in front of the youth.
At the sight, Hao Wenjie hurried forward and bowed. "Greetings, Senior!"
He knew all too well how terrifying the youth before him was and dared not show the slightest disrespect.
In truth, Liu Changxu was the main reason he wanted to join the Liu Household's Warrior Corps. Otherwise, with Hao Wenjie's qualifications, joining a lineage stronger than the Liu Household would not have been difficult.
Hao Wenjie had three-element roots, which were excellent qualifications among rogue cultivators. He came from a declining Qi Refinement cultivation lineage in Jinshan County, neighboring Yunping County. Though called a lineage, it had only five Qi Refinement cultivators, making it little different from ordinary rogue cultivators.
Fortunately, his father was an upper-grade first-tier talisman master. The lineage relied on his father's talisman-making skills to trade talismans for the various resources needed for cultivation. With his father's wholehearted support, Hao Wenjie had reached the seventh layer of Qi Refinement at just thirty, becoming the entire lineage's greatest hope. Under his father's guidance, he had also become a middle-grade first-tier talisman maker.
But during the recent small beast tide, his little lineage had suffered another devastating blow. His father and two other Qi Refinement clansmen had died in the jaws of demon beasts, leaving only him and his fifteen-year-old sister.
The fate of Hao Wenjie's lineage was a true reflection of what most cultivation lineages faced in the cultivation world. If a lineage lacked fortune and strength, its gradual decline was only a matter of time.
After burying the remains of his father and clansmen with