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The icy air in the room surged towards Lin Qi, instantly freezing her in place.

Lin Qi casually raised her hand to break the ice, charging straight through it and plunging into Gong Shaojun's arms.

She cried out in confusion and fear, "Mother! Mother! You can't leave! You can't abandon me!"

Gong Shaojun frowned slightly, but did not answer the question.

She reached out and pulled Lin Qi from her arms.

Stand at attention!

A majestic and indifferent voice carried a chill, yet his gentle movements unintentionally revealed a touch of tenderness.

Lin Qi subconsciously stood straight, her nose twitching involuntarily.

Gong Shaojun took a handkerchief and wiped the dirt and tears from her face. His movements faltered when they touched the two lumps on her forehead.

This is not the first time.

Lin Qi was born missing a soul and a spirit, specifically the earth soul and the spirit intelligence. He displayed symptoms akin to that of an imbecile.

When playing outside, I always get bullied. Every time I come back, I'm covered in injuries.

When asked who had hurt her, she didn't even know she was hurt.

She can protect her for a while, but she cannot protect her for a lifetime.

"Gong Shaojun sighed, 'You're just in time, let's take a look together!'"

She waved her hand, and everything that happened in the ancestral hall was projected before her.

Lin Qi saw his father being pressed onto a long bench and beaten. The iron board landed on his father's body, every blow causing him to scream in pain.

Grandaunt and "mother" sat in the front seats, their faces calm and cold.

Great-grandmother asked, "Mother, 'This idiot has wronged you and disgraced our family by doing such a terrible thing. He deserves to die! But he is after all the head of the Lin family... As long as you spare his life, you can do whatever you want with him!' "

‘Mother calmly sipped two cups of tea, nonchalantly revealing a major piece of news.

Last night, I was lucky enough to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Lin Qi saw her great-grandmother stand up in shock.

Then, filled with rage, he commanded the servants, "Beat him! Beat him severely! If you kill him, throw his body out!"

The servant, frightened, increased his strength.

The father's cries grew louder and more desperate, each one punctuated by a mouthful of blood.

"Mother saw the opportunity and spoke softly: 'Grandaunt, there's no need to be angry. Lin Jie is weak-willed and not suited to be head of the family. Why not use this incident as an excuse for him to step down, and have someone else take his place... how about that?'"

Lin Qi watched as her great-grandmother's face turned purple.

She loathed her father's lack of backbone and seethed at her mother's constant pressure.

In this remote, desolate town, a Yuan Ying cultivator could ensure the Lin family's peace for a thousand years.

If Gong Shaojun were to divorce and remarry in a fit of anger, even Granny Grandmother would be helpless.

The Lin family cannot provoke this Nascent Soul cultivator.

"Auntie, her voice weak, tentatively probed, 'If Lin Jue doesn't become the head of the family, who do you think would be suitable?'"

“My dear,” said Mother softly, “Little Seven is old enough now to take her father’s place.”

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Auntie was both surprised and relieved.

As long as the head of the Lin family still bears the surname Lin, she will not have failed to live up to her ancestors.

She immediately agreed and said, "Okay, I'll have someone start arranging it right away!"

Lying on the ground half-dead, Lin Jue suddenly raised his head, his eyes bloodshot as he pointed at ‘Mother’: “Young Master, you schemed against me!”

As soon as the words left his mouth, two figures rushed towards Shen Ju with sobs.

One little girl glared angrily at her great-grandmother seated on the throne and Gong Shaojun, a hint of hatred brewing in her eyes.

Lin Qi stared with wide eyes at her unfamiliar yet familiar face.

The girl's face was still young, but it resembled the countenance of the celestial maiden named Lin Yun from her dream.

Strange memories flooded in, crashing over Lin Qi's brain like a tidal wave.

She couldn't bear it for a moment, spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and fainted.

"Xiao Qi!"

Gong Shaojun's usually calm and composed voice had taken on a hint of worry.

Lin Qi's experience was like having a dream, yet also being forcefully crammed with numerous unfamiliar memories.

She realized that the dream she had before was actually her past life.

She actually lives in a cultivation novel.

This storybook tells the tale of her half-sister Lin Yun's struggles.

When Lin Yun was just three years old, her father was incompetent and her mother was murdered. She could only survive by relying on the Lin family.

As the illegitimate daughter of the Lin family, she was looked down upon by everyone in the desolate city.

The elder sister was foolish and domineering, often bringing people to bully her. Even the servants of the Lin family could arbitrarily oppress and abuse her.

Lin Yun's life before the age of five was simply too miserable to describe.

Until the Tianyi Sect held a grand disciple recruitment event, Lin Yun was tested to have a fire and wood spiritual root and became a disciple of Danfeng Peak. From then on, he began to change his destiny against all odds.

She battled her way up, ascending to the late stage of Great Ascension and becoming the first cultivator in the Cangwu Realm to shatter the void.

As a vicious supporting character in a storybook, Lin Qi's fate naturally wouldn't be good.

As the only direct descendant of the Lin family, a renowned cultivation family in the desolate city, she became the head of the family at the age of four. With her grandmother as a protector and her Nascent Soul mother as a pillar of support, even if she were an imbecile, there was no way anything could truly threaten her life in this desolate city.

Yet, her younger sister, Lin Yun, was the biggest surprise in her life.

She was instigated and guided by the servants, bullying her half-sister and offending the most promising cultivator in the Lin family.

As Lin Yun's fame grew within Tianyi Sect, the tales of her mistreatment at the hands of her own family deepened and spread far and wide. The worse these stories became, the more dire Lin Family's situation fell.

Because he was missing a soul and a spirit, he couldn't cultivate and was ridiculed and bullied by many.

When he was young, he didn't know how to rebel. When he grew up, he learned to use the Lin family's power to suppress others, resulting in offending a large number of cultivators and being given the nicknames "the first wastrel" and "the first fool" of the desolate city.

Yuan Ying's mother, heartbroken because her father had taken in a concubine, chose to shut herself away from the world.

After entering the secluded cave, he didn't appear until the day when the Lin family was destroyed by cultivators provoked by Lin Yun. However, he disappeared from the Cangwu realm ever since.

From then on, the esteemed young master of the Lin family embarked on a path of struggle and survival.

The absence of a soul and spirit left her worse off than even a beggar.

One day, Jin Wu Daochang met her and learned that she was the only surviving blood relative of the Lin family in the deserted city and the elder sister of Lin Yun. Without a word, he kidnapped her and imprisoned her in a dark, subterranean cave where she was tortured.

Every time Lin Yun broke through a level, the Golden Crow Taoist would bring people to torment Lin Qi in the cave for a while.

During this period, he accidentally discovered that Lin Qi was actually born with the bloodline of the ancient Bing Huang Phoenix. He then developed the idea of refining her into a medicinal pill.

As news spread that Lin Yun was about to become a celestial being, shattering the void, the Golden Crow Daoist, unable to bear it any longer, decided to rip out Lin Qi's golden core and finally vent his anger.

Lin Yun shattered the void, Lin Qi offered blood to the sea of fire, this was the final destination for the two of them.

"Home?" Gong Shaojun smirked coldly. "Bulls**t!"

"Heaven wants to use my daughter as a stepping stone for its chosen one, but I won't allow it!"

Gong Shaojun's usually cold tone was now laced with anger.