``` [Over the years, your family had sent you a letter every few months, letting you know they were safe and sharing other news.]
[You occasionally wrote back.]
[Most of the letter you received now was also idle family chatter. Only at the end did it mention that Zhou Wen's grandson, Zhou Hai, had been tested and found to possess a middle-grade spiritual root.]
[Zhou Wen was your eldest brother, while your second brother was Zhou Wu.]
[Before leaving back then, you had left the Zhou Family a set of cultivation methods, along with a means of testing spiritual roots.]
["A middle-grade spiritual root!"]
[You sank into thought. A talent for spiritual roots ran in the Zhou Family's bloodline; your own existence proved that.]
["Zhou Hai..."]
[You had some recollection of that name. He was your eldest brother Zhou Wen's favorite young grandson, frequently mentioned in the letters sent over the past few years.]
[You folded the letter, knowing your family was asking for your opinion.]
[You were the Zhou Family's first cultivator, and certainly had more experience than its other members.]
[Even now, the Zhou Family knew nothing of your true circumstances, much less that you were already a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, a Pill Hall Guest Elder, and the president of the Azure Origin Trade Association...]
[In your previous letters to the Zhou Family, you had only mentioned things such as the brutal competition in the cultivation world.]
[You had done this to protect the Zhou Family.]
[After all, within the simulation, you would certainly put yourself first. You would not shelter the Zhou Family too much, nor leave them much of an inheritance.]
[In your twilight years, you would certainly sell all your treasures and resources in exchange for rare items that could help you break through.