Since it was still some time before the opening of the North and South Celestial Venerable Halls, the Grand Elder intended to give Lin Qi something to do. This way, he could take advantage of the opportunity to obtain some cultivation resources.

This is also thanks to Lin Qi's interpersonal skills being quite tactful.

Lin Qi thought about the task she still had to do at the Heavenly Crossing Immortal Spring, and politely declined.

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The bone-chilling cold in the room surged towards Lin Qi, freezing her instantly.

Lin Qi casually raised her hand to break through the ice layer and rushed straight into Gong Shaojun's arms.

She cried out in her dazed and frightened way: "Mother, mother! You mustn't go! You can't leave me!"

Gong Shaojun frowned imperceptibly, without answering the question.

She reached out and pulled Lin Qi from her arms.

"Stand at attention!"

A solemn and aloof voice carried a chill, yet the gentle movements of his hands unconsciously revealed a hint of tenderness.

Lin Qi involuntarily stood up straight, her nose twitching unconsciously.

Gong Shaojun took a handkerchief and wiped the dirt and tears from her face. His movements paused when he touched the two bumps on her forehead.

This is not the first time.

Lin Qi was born missing a soul and a spirit, specifically the earthly soul and the spiritual wisdom. He exhibited symptoms similar to that of an idiot.

When playing outside, I always get bullied and come home with injuries every time.

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

She can protect her for a moment, but not for a lifetime.

Palace 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 onto the screen.

Lin Qi saw his father being pinned on a long bench and beaten. The iron board landed on his father's body, each blow causing him to cry out in pain.

Grandaunt and her mother-in-law sat in the front, their faces calm and indifferent.

"Auntie, " Grandma said, "'This fool has wronged you and brought shame to our family. He deserves to be killed! But he is the head of the Lin family... As long as we spare his life, how you deal with him afterwards is up to you!"

Mother sipped her tea calmly, casually dropping a bombshell.

Last night, I luckily broke through to the Nascent Soul stage.

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

Then, full of rage, he ordered the servants, "Beat him! Beat him hard! If you kill him, throw his body out!"

The servant was so scared that he increased his strength.

The cries of his father grew louder and louder, with each cry punctuated by a mouthful of blood.

"Mother saw that the time was ripe and slowly spoke: 'Grandaunt, please don't be angry. Lin Jie is weak-willed and not suited to be the head of the family. Perhaps we could use this incident to have him step down and replace him with someone else... what do you think?'

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

She both loathed her father's incompetence and seethed at her mother's constant pressure.

In this remote border town, a Nascent Soul cultivator could ensure the Lin family's peace for a thousand years.

If Gong Shaojun were to divorce his wife in a fit of anger and marry another, even the grand aunt would be powerless.

The Lin family mustn't anger this Yuan Ying cultivator.

Grandaunt, with a lackluster air, probed: "If Lin Jie doesn't become the head of the family, who do you think is suitable?"

“My dear, your little one is no longer young. She can now take over her father’s position,” said Mother calmly.

Letting four-year-old Lin Qi take over as the head of the Lin family after her father?!

Auntie was surprised but also relieved.

As long as the head of the Lin family still bears the surname Lin, she will not have failed to live up to the expectations of 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 red eyes pointing at 'Mother <p>'

"Young master, you calculated me!"

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

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

Lin Qi opened her big eyes, staring at the face that was both unfamiliar and familiar.

The girl's face was still young, but it matched the appearance of the celestial being named Lin Yun whom she had seen in her dreams.

Strange memories came crashing in, like waves hitting Lin Qi's brain.

She couldn't bear it any longer and fainted after spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

"Xiaqi!"

Gong Shaojun's usually calm and collected voice now held a hint of worry.

Lin Qi's felt like she had both dreamed and been forcibly stuffed with a lot of unfamiliar memories.

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

She actually lives in a Xianxia novel.

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

When Lin Yun was only 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.

Her 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 tragic to describe.

Until the Tiānyī Sect held a grand disciple recruitment ceremony, Lin Yun was tested to have fire and wood spiritual roots and joined the Dānfēng sect. From then on, he began his journey of defying fate and rewriting his destiny.

She stumbled and clawed her way to the late stage of Da Cheng, becoming the first cultivator in Cangwu Realm to break through the void.

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

As the only direct descendant of the renowned Lin family in the desolate city, she became the head of the family at the age of four. With the protection of her formidable aunt and the support of her powerful Nascent Soul mother, even if she were a simpleton, she could live a carefree life in the desolate city without any mishap.

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

She was instigated and led astray by the servants, bullying her younger sister and offending the most promising cultivator in the Lin family.

As Lin Yun rose in fame at Tiyanzong, the story of her abuse within the Lin family became more widespread and deeply rooted. The wider the tale spread, the worse the Lin family's situation became.

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

When he was young, he didn't know how to resist. When he grew up, he learned to use the Lin family's power to suppress others, which resulted in offending a large number of cultivators and earning him the titles of "First Prodigal" and "First Fool" of the Wild City.

The mother of Yuan Ying, heartbroken because her father kept a concubine, chose to shut herself away in seclusion.

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

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

The loss of her soul and spirit made her live worse than a beggar.

One day, the Taoist priest Jīn Wū encountered her and learned that she was the only surviving blood relative of the Lin family in the deserted city, the elder sister of Lín Yún. Without a word, he abducted her and imprisoned her in a dark, cave-like dwelling where she was tormented.

Every time Lin Yun broke through a level, the Grandmaster Jinwu would bring people to torment Lin Qi for a period of time in the cave.

During this period, he accidentally discovered that Lin Qi was actually born with the bloodline of the ancient ice phoenix. He then had the idea of refining her into a elixir.

When news spread that Lin Yun was about to attain enlightenment and shatter the void, Jin Wu Daochang, enraged, decided to cut out Lin Qi's golden core to vent his anger.