Sensing the aura of these three children, Li Yunbing sighed deeply, then looked up at the sky and said with a smile, "Because of her, this pow—"
"—belongs to the Li family!"
As Li Yunbing finished speaking.
The three children looked up. They had never imagihat the Thunderfire Cave and the Demon Subduing Alliance, which were said to be locked in a deadly struggle in the legends of the martial world, were not at all like the tragic tales they had heard.
And the one who had brought about all this was their Sed Great-grandmother!
At this moment, they seemed to see the clouds in the sky gather together, gradually f a giant character "Li," suppressing the ehunderfire Cave and the Demon Subduing Alliance.
They had even heard the story of how their Sed Great-grandmother came here aloo help the Aor Hall Guardia undergo its transformation.
An image appeared in their minds.
In this nd shrouded in dark clouds, filled with flict, demon cultivators and righteous cultivators were locked in battle.
Until one day, a frail girl carrying a medie basket, her hands tightly gripping the straps, arrived at the Thunderfire Cave. Step by step, she walked to the tral throne and sat down, maintaining a baween the forces of good and evil in this pce!
"Let's go see yreat-grandfather."
Li Yunbing called out to the three children.
...
The three soon arrived at the depths of the Thunderfire Cave, where scorg heat emanated from a cave dwelling.
"g! g! g!"
The sound of metal g against metal came from within the cave, causing their eardrums to vibrate. The ground trembled with each impact, like a small earthquake!
Li Yunbing had already left.
The three children were left standing outside the cave, dumbfounded.
Ihe cave, they saw a rge, bald man with his upper body bare, wearing only tattered pants. His muscles bulged with visible tendons, and he was furiously hammering a pitted piece of iron with a hammer rger than himself!
It was their great-grandfather, Li Yaotie!
"e in!"
Li Yaotie didn't even g his three great-grandnephews. His eyes were bloodshot as he tinued hammering the iron, just like when he was obsessed with f ba Green Valley Vilge.
His roar startled the three children, causing them to tremble as they ehe cave.
Bolts of lightning, seemingly inating from an unknown source, struck the river formed by a casg va waterfall.
Lightning and fmes iwined, and the va erupted with tinuous explosions, spttering molten ro all dires. Some even spshed onto Li Yaotie's back. This was the Thunderfire Cave, aptly named for the thunder and fire that filled it.
"Great... Great-grandfather."
The three children stood respectfully before their great-grandfather.
If this were before they entered Li Yaoqing's cave, Li Yaotie would certainly have shown them great affe. But now, he did not.
Li Yaoqing sealed the cave, but Li Yaotie still se. His Sed Sister was using her life force to extend the lives of those three children and temper their bodies!
Sed Sister couldn't actually trol that strange pool of poison. She had only said those etric things to make him think she had everything under trol.
"Now, all of you, pick up this equipment!"
Li Yaotie tinued hammering away. A phantom image began to appear around him—a hammer, floating above his head!
The three children didn't dare say a word. They looked at the ground in front of their great-grandfather. There were three sets of bck armor, each with nine iron bars across the chest.
"Yes!"
Enduring the intense heat within the cave, they tried to lift the armor, but their expressions immediately ged.
Despite their cultivation at the seventh level of Qi Refining, they had to use all their strength just to lift the armor!
"From now on, you will wear this armor every day," he anded. "No matter what you're doiing, drinking, even relieving yourselves—you will wear it! When you bear the weight of the armor, pull out one of the iron bars from your chest."
"Two years. If those nine bars are still there after two years, I will sider it as if I don't have these three great-grandchildren!"
The three children, now the heavy armor, looked aghast.
They had used all their strength just to put on the armor, and now even walking was extremely difficult. Sweat dreheir bodies.
They didn't uand.
Why was their great-grandfather, whom they were meeting for the first time, being so harsh with them?
"g! g! g!"
Their great-grandfather tio hammer furiously at the iron, and the three children didn't dare ask any more questions.
They could sehat besides his focus on f, their great-grandfather also harbored a wave of unexpined anger and guilt.
"What are you still standing there for?" he roared. "Get out there and run two ps!"
"After today, someone will bring you pills and natural treasures. No matter what they are, you will e them as quickly as possible!"
"Remember, you only have two years. I was!"
Following Li Yaotie's roar, the three children stumbled out of the cave.
It seemed the family rumors were all fabricated. Eldest Great-uncle's ruthlessness was a lie.
If Eldest Great-uncle offered them the gifts of an elder, and Sed Aunt provided gentle nurturing, then with Great-grandfather, they only experiehe striess of an elder.
"Waaah, Elder Brother," Li Kuangtu cried with reddened eyes, "why is Great-grandfather treating us like this?"
Li Kuanghua gritted her teeth. "Stop whining!" she said. "Great-grandfather wants us to grow stronger. He's doing this for our own good."
Hearing this, Li Kuangren's expression was filled with guilt. He didn't say a word and simply ran faster.
He vaguely sehat everything was ected to him. Perhaps if he hadn't made that mistake, his younger siblings wouldn't be suffering because of him.
"Twenty years," he thought with determination. "I must achieve something, I won't let my elders and siblings down!"
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