[gratutions! Your family has pleted the special event—Eliminate Elder Qiuye's Minions]

  [Received 10,000 inse value!]

  [You dispyed divine might in this battle, instantly killing Golden Core experts. Your mysterious form wielding the Yin-Yang Diagram to sy enemies has left a god-like impression on your desdants, and they sing your praises!]

  [Received 5,000 inse value!]

  "Fifteen thousand inse value from a sitle."

  Li Wei watched the sudden increase in inse value, a joyful expression spreading across his face.

  However, to his dismay, another message appeared.

  [Your two Star Seeker Puppets have beeroyed.]

  [Star Seeker Puppets: Possess the physical strength of a Golden Core cultivator, fearless of pain and impervious to soul attacks. Upon activation, if they detect the target's st and aura or make visual tact with the enemy, they will relentlessly pursue that target until either the target or the puppet is eliminated. Ohe mission is plete, the Star Seeker Puppet will bee useless.]

  This thing was the puppet he had previously sent to the Li family.

  It was also something Boss Qi had brought back from aremist anization. This thing had been ied long ago, and tless important figures had been assassinated by Star Seeker Puppets, leading to them being cssified as forbidden items.

  But it was no problem. Boss Qi was incredibly resourceful and should be able to procure more, though they would be quite expensive.

  However, the gains from this operation far outweighed the costs!

  [Your family has obtained a seventh-grade formation blueprint—Hundred Spirits Azure Bird Totem Formation, and em spirit tools, Azure Bird Totem Pilrs!]

  [Your family has obtaiop-grade spirit tools: Windfire Halberd, Sky Sand Gourd, Prisoner's Red Cloud Silk, Great River Dragon General Diagram, Formation Rune Inscription Pen!]

  [Obtaih-grade herbs...]

  War is always the best way to accumute wealth!

  After this battle, Li Wei could sehat the Li family was about to undergo a tremendous transformation!

  A seventh-grade formation possessed the power to resist Golden Core experts.

  As for top-grade spirit tools, those were items that only Golden Core experts were qualified to possess. A siop-grade spirit tool could allow a mid-stage Foundatioablishment cultivator to fight against a False Core cultivator. Only those at the Golden Core stage could truly unleash their power.

  Back then, the Wang family had kept a top-grade spirit tool hidden away as their most treasured possession.

  Obtaining five top-grade spirit tools at once was equivalent to gaining five additional False Core experts for the Li family!

  There were also various elixirs, spirit herbs, and spiritual objects, all enrig the Li family's foundation. And then there were the spirit stones discovered uhe peach tree, filling aire ste ring, along with various ores...

  "Instant riches!"

  As time sped up, the Li family returo their estate. Everything was well. The group crowded into the aral hall.

  Li Yunlin, who hadn't returned home for many years, looked around the family estate, his eyes taking in the unfamiliar surroundings. Having always kept his emotions bottled up while at the Skyveil Sect, he finally teared up.

  Kneeling before the spirit tablets, feeling the familiar sense of ritual within the aral hall, memories of his past in the family flooded back. He couldn't help but weep, just like the child who had once cried in this very hall.

  "Aor, your child..."

  "Has returned!"

  ...

  As always, after this great battle, Li Dalong was like an elderly guardian of a vilge temple, reg praises aolling virtues, further deepening the family's reverend admiration.

  When things settled down, Li Yaozu looked at Li Yunlin, his grown-up soook a deep breath, hesitated for a moment, wanting to pat Li Yunlin's shoulder, but then withdrew his hand. With an impassive expression, he simply said,

  "Since you've returned, don't go back to the Skyveil Sect."

  Seeing this, Li Yunbing also chimed in to persuade his brother, "That's right, Elder Brother. This time, yht out a dozen disciples from the Skyveil Sect, along with Elder Qiuli. Now they are all dead, and the Su family has beeroyed. If you go back, they will definitely bee suspicious. Stay here at home. What the Skyveil Sect do even if they find out? We now have the support of Cloudsea Pavilion, and Tailin Town is also uhe jurisdi of the Bck Tortoise Sect!"

  "Well said."

  Li Dalong looked at Li Yunlin with satisfa. "Grandson, although the Skyveil Sect is powerful, our Li family's heritage is not to be uimated. With our aor's prote, there will e a day when the Skyveil Sect will bow down to our Li family."

  Despite everyone's attempts to persuade him, Li Yunlin stubbornly shook his head. "I must return to the Skyveil Sect."

  "What nonsense are you spouting?!"

  Li Yaozu flew inte. He raised his hand to strike, but seeing Li Yunlin's resolute gaze and recalling the years of estra from his soimately couldn't bring himself to deliver the blow.

  Gritting his teeth, he couldn't ceal the hint of heartache in his eyes. "In your eyes, is our Li family truly inferior to the Skyveil Sect? Is the status of a direct disciple so important to you?"

  Li Yunli and bowed to his elders.

  His voice rang out with determination.

  "I must return to the Skyveil Sect. I will always remember that this is where Li Yunlin's roots lie, the safest home."

  "But I, Yunlin, have already caused enough trouble for the family. Even if I die, I won't bring the Skyveil Sect's troubles bae and endahe family!"

  "I am a man. I still remember that day when all the adults of our Li family went to fight in Tailin Town. None of us knew if we would win that battle. Yunbing and I waited at home. I kept thinking about what Fourth Aunt and Father had told me: If everyone doesn't e back, what should Yunbing and I do?"

  "Sihat day, I don't want to wait anymore. I don't want the burden of what Mother did to weigh on my heart any longer."

  Listening to Li Yunlin's words, the Li family members who had experiehose events years ago all sighed deeply.

  They uood that both Li Yunlin and Li Yunbing carried deep emotional scars from that i.

  Li Yunlin ched his fists, his expression resolute.

  "As long as I, Li Yunlin, am a son of the Li family, I will not hide like a coward."

  "I want to be like Grandfather and Grandmother, like Father, like Sed Aunt and Fourth Aunt, fag all challenges head-on!"

  "I also have a goal. I told our aor that I want to bee a leader in the Skyveil Sect. I want to return to the family with honor and achievements. I want to aplish great things, to make my family proud of me. I want to show the people of Green Valley Vilge that I, Li Yunlin, am worthy of being a son of the Li family!"

  Everyoopped trying to dissuade him. Their eyes held only admiration and pride for this young man.

  This was their Li family child!

  Only Li Yaotie scratched his head, w if the boy had fotten to praise him.

  "I heard that Third Uncle has been practig f for over a decade and hasn't given up. I also dedicate decades, eveuries!"

  "Elders, please allow me to go."

  Li Yaotie immediately puffed up his chest, lifting his high.

  "Hmph! If you want to go, then go!"

  Li Yaozu snorted coldly and turo leave.

  Li Dalong shook his head with a smile and helped Li Yunlin up, but his eyes still held some worry. "Yunlin, when you return to the Skyveil Sect, do you have a way to expihing?"

  "Yes."

  Li Yunlin nodded, but he pursed his lips as he looked in the dire his father had departed.

  Li Dalong uood Li Yunlin's thoughts. "That's just how your father, that brat, talks. Don't take it to heart."

  "I uand."

  A moment ter, with everyone's gazes following him, Li Yunlin once agai off toward the Skyveil Sect.

  Li Yaozu abruptly reappeared among the crowd, watg his son's determined figure. His eyes suddenly reddened, but he couldn't suppress the smile tugging at the ers of his lips. He felt even prouder and more eted than when he had mastered his swordsmanship.

  "Yunlin has grown up. He's just like me."