"As expected of the man who could sughter his way through the Wild Boar Forest."

  Li Wei gave Li Dalong a thumbs up.

  Immediately after, Li Dalong was seen knog on Xu Cuihua's cave dwelling and shouting, "Wife, I'm out of seclusion. You've been ing your duties as a great-grandmother by going into seclusion for so many years without taking care of the children."

  Not long after he knocked, Xu Cuihua's dissatisfied pints could be heard from her cave dwelling.

  "What do you mean by ing my duties? Those little rascals breed faster than pigs. I 't evehem apart anymore. Sigh, dear, you should uand. We're getting old, it's impossible to be close to every child."

  The cave dwelling opened.

  Xu Cuihua appeared. Nowadays, she seems to be growing younger instead of older. The white hair she had gotten from raising children in previous years had turned bck again.

  What articurly striking was that outside her cave-dwelling, there were numerous fox dens built all over. Those foxes, upon seeing Xu Cuihua, acted as if they had entered a deity, bowing down to her in worship.

  Li Dalong uood what Xu Cuihua meant. Not only did she feel it, but as he grew older, he alshe growing distance. Although he occasionally came out of seclusion to see the childrehe years, he gradually felt a sense of separation from the newer geions, a gap widened by three geions.

  He didn't delve further into the closeness of their retionship with their great-grandchildren. He simply poi the thousands of foxes outside Xu Cuihua's cave dwelling and blinked. "Wife, these foxes outside your cave..."

  "My dear husband, let's see whie of us break through to the Golden Core stage first." Xu Cuihua's eyes curved downwards as she smiled.

  "e on, besides that fox inside you, your own cultivation hasn't even reached the peak of Qi Refi yet." Li Dalong rolled his eyes.

  But Li Wei, the couple's versation, didn't think so.

  He clicked on Xu Cuihua's profile.

  [Year 61st, a fox sehe aura of the Fox Tamer and came to pay homage.]

  [100 foxes came to pay homage...]

  [Xu Cuihua gradually fulfilled the ditions of the Fox Tamer.]

  [Ten Thousand Foxes Worship Progress - 13%]

  Xu Cuihua had found a way to break through her aptitude with the Fox Tamer. As long as more and more foxes came to worship her, and she fulfilled the dition of possessing a Demon King Blood Pill, her natal spirit beast could transform into a Demon King!

  Now, all she cked was the Demon King Blood Pill.

  However, she didn't say much to Li Dalong, intending to surprise him.

  Soon after, the couple went further into the distance.

  They saen spaear the Silver Iron Forest. The ground was covered with sword marks, and numerous iron swords formed a circle around the clearing. When the wind blew past, the sound of sword ts echoed throughout the area.

  Even from outside the sword formation, the couple could feel the sharp sword energy emanating from within.

  "Yaozu's sword i..."

  A smile appeared on Li Dalong's face. "Good, good, good. This child had a strong killing i. Now, after nearly ten years of secluded sword cultivation, there's no longer such a violent killing i in his sword i. This is a good thing."

  Over the years, Li Dalong leased with Li Yaozu's growth and filial piety. He still remembered how this child had single-handedly stormed the Hu family to avenge him. However, he also grew increasingly worried about Li Yaozu. As the Li family's enemies increased, so did Li Yaozu's killing i.

  Now, it seemed that the weight had been lifted from his heart.

  "Father, Mother!"

  With a gust of fresh wind, Li Yaozu appeared before the couple. Although nearly sixty years old, he still had the appearance of a young man with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes. Now, his eyes held more peace. However, after bowing respectfully, when his eyes occasionally gnced elsewhere, it was like a sword's edge passing by, causing a leaf to break off and drift with the wind.

  [After years of secluded cultivation, practig over a dozen sword teiques simultaneously, Li Yaozu began to abandon his previous sword teiques and focus solely on basianship.]

  [He began to uand that the sword was not just about killing moves, nor was it just about dazzling sword beams that blinded people's eyes. Swordsmanship should be simplified.]

  [After hundreds of swords for nearly ten years, Li Yaozu uood that a long sword should possess the spirit to be wielded as aension of one's own body.]

  [His profession underwent a transformation. Swordsman transformed into—]

  [Sword Master!]

  [When wielding a sword, spiritual power and bat power increase by 100%!]

  In Li Xiang's view, it was only natural for Li Yaozu to bee a sword master.

  Oh, there are also equivalents to sword masters, each with their own unique uanding of swordsmanship. The hallmark of these masters is that they've all created their own distinct sword teiques.

  As the three of them emerged from their seclusion, Li Yaotie's wife, Bai Rourou, also emerged from her closed-door cultivation.

  In the dista Green Valley Vilge, Li Yaotie arrived with eight members of the Li family's "Yun" geion. His silver prosthetic arm articurly eye-catg. After crafting his spiritual puppet, he no longer showed the same frenzy he once had when f wildly in the bcksmith hall. He had returo his former carefree self.

  Look at him—the Seven Ironcd clearly is his easygoing attitude.

  "Dad, Mom, Big Brother, Wife, hahaha, e and look at my arm! There are bes to losing an arm after all!"

  "From now on, no one in our family will ever o worry about missing an arm or a leg again!"

  "..."

  Everyone subsciously ignored Li Yaotie's nonsense.

  The current head of the family, Li Yunbing, walked to the front of the crowd and bowed to the elders. Havihe head of the family for several years, he now felt pletely relieved to see the family elders e out again to take charge of the situation.

  "Yunbing, you've done a good job as the head of the family these past few years, but remember, you must not your cultivation." Li Dalong patted his sed grandson's arm.

  The others also smiled at Li Yunbing.

  All these years, while they were in seclusion cultivating, Li Yunbing always mao obtain the ies they needed, either through the family's influence or by plundering outside.

  "This child will keep it in mind," Li Yunbing said, noddiedly.

  This time, even Li Yaozu looked at his sed son with newfound respect. He patted Li Yunbing's head. "My boy, you've grown up. You're just like me."

  These simple words brought tears to Li Yunbing's eyes.

  Growing up, he had spent more time with anyone else than with his father. Back then, he had thought his father disliked him because of what happened with his mother.

  But when he grew older, his Fourth Aunt told him that his father was ed by guilt.

  As he matured further, Li Yunbing uood.

  Perhaps, after his mother was driven out of the family that day, the one who suffered the most was his father. And from that day on, his father never sought another woman. Every time his father looked at his sons, it was like seeing their mother, which would awaken past memories. He could only keep cultivating and practig his swordsmanship.

  "Father, this child is already thirty-four years old," Li Yunbing said, revealing a hint of childishness rarely seen since he became the head of the family.

  "Hahaha!"

  Li Yaozu suddenly burst into ughter. "Even if you were three hundred and four, you would still be my good son!"

  Li Yunbing grinned foolishly, looking at his father, who stood as straight as a sword.

  Past grievances dissipated like the wind amid the father and son's ughter.

  The Li family members, witnessing this se, all wore warm smiles.