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She bumped into and plunged into Gong Shaojun's arms.

She whimpered, terrified and confused: "Mother, Mother! You can't leave! You can't abandon me!"

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

She reached out and pulled Lin Qi from her arms.

"Stand at attention!"

A dignified and aloof voice carried a hint of coldness, yet his gentle movements inadvertently revealed a touch of tenderness.

Lin Qi unconsciously stood straight, her nose twitching involuntarily.

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 earth soul and the spiritual wisdom spirit. He displayed symptoms similar to that of an idiot.

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

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

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

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

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

Lin Qi saw his father being pressed onto a long bench and beaten. The iron board landed on his father's body, each strike making him cry out in pain.

Grandaunt and her mother sat in the main seat, their faces calm and indifferent.

Grandaunt asked, "Mother, 'This fool has wronged you and done something disgraceful to our family name. He deserves to be killed! But he's still the head of the Lin family… just spare his life, and do whatever you please with him after that.'"

'Mother calmly drank two cups of tea, casually uttering a major piece of news.'

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

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

He then furiously ordered the servant, "Beat him! Beat him hard! If he's dead, throw him out!"

The servant, terrified, increased his grip.

The father's screams grew louder and louder, and he spat out several mouthfuls of blood.

'Mother saw that the time was ripe, and finally spoke softly: "Grandaunt, please don't get angry. Lin Jie has a weak personality and is not suited to be the head of the family. Why not use this incident as an excuse for him to step down as head of the family and let someone else take over... what do you think?"

Lin Qi watched as Granny's face turned blue and purple.

She both loathed her father's incompetence and resented her mother's relentless pressure.

In this remote corner of the ruined city, a Yuan Ying cultivator could ensure a millennium of peace for the Lin family.

If Prince Gong was to divorce and marry another woman in a fit of anger, even Grand Aunt would be powerless.

The Lin family cannot provoke this Nascent Soul cultivator.

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

"Mother said faintly, 'Xiao Qi is not young anymore. She can take over her father's position.' "

When 4-year-old Lin Qi takes over as the head of the Lin family after her father?!

Auntie was both surprised and relieved.

As long as the head of the Lin family still bears the surname Lin, she will not have disappointed her ancestors.

She immediately agreed, "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': "Young Master, you plotted against me!"

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

One little girl glared angrily at the matriarch seated on the throne 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 to her.

The girl's face was still quite young, but it resembled the appearance of the celestial being named Lin Yun that she had seen in her dream.

Unfamiliar memories flood my mind.

It came crashing down on Lin Qi like a tidal wave.

She couldn't bear it any longer, spitting out a mouthful of blood and fainting.

"Little Qi!"

Gong Shaojun's usually calm and composed voice was laced with a hint of worry.

Lin Qi's was like having a dream, or being forcefully stuffed with many unfamiliar memories.

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

She actually lives in a cultivation novel.

This story is about her half-sister Lin Yun's struggle.

With no father to support them and their mother murdered, three-year-old Lin Yun 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 allowing servants in the Lin family to arbitrarily oppress and abuse her.

Before the age of five, Lin Yun's life was utterly miserable, beyond description.

Until the Tiān Yī Zōng held its grand disciple recruitment event, Lin Yun was tested to have a fire and wood spiritual root and became a disciple of the Dān Fēng sect. From then on, he embarked on a path to defy fate and change his destiny.

She climbed her way up through hardship, reaching the late stage of Mahayana. She became the first cultivator in the 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 sole heir of the Lin family, a renowned cultivation clan in the desolate city, she became the head of the family at the age of four. With her protective great-aunt and powerful Nascent Soul mother as her pillars of support, even if she were a simpleton, she could likely live a carefree life in the desolate city without incident.

Surprisingly, her younger sister, Lin Yun, became the biggest surprise in her life.

She was instigated and led by the servants to bully her younger sister, angering the most promising cultivator in the Lin family.

As Lin Yun's fame grew within Tiyinzong, the story of her mistreatment in the Lin family became increasingly widespread and detailed. The more people knew about the cruelty she had endured, the worse things became for the Lin family.

Because he lacked a soul and spirit, he 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 suppress others using the Lin family's power, resulting in offending a large number of cultivators. He was given the titles of "the first playboy" and "the first fool" of Desolate City.

The spirit mother, disheartened by her father keeping a concubine, chose to enter seclusion in despair.

After entering the seclusion cave, he did not appear until the day when the Lin family was exterminated by the cultivators who had been provoked by Lin Yun. However, he vanished from the Cangwu Realm ever since.

From this point onward, Lin Jia's once esteemed young master embarked on a path of struggle and survival.

The loss of her one soul and one spirit left her living worse than a beggar.

One day, Jinwu Daochang encountered her and learned that she was the only surviving blood relative of the Lin family in the abandoned city, the elder sister of Lin Yun. He abducted her without a word and imprisoned her in a dark, skyless cave to torture her.

Every time Lin Yun broke through a level, Jin Wu Dao Chang would bring people to the cave to torment Lin Qi for a while.

During this time, he accidentally discovered that Lin Qi was actually born with the bloodline of the ancient ice phoenix, and he became interested in refining her into a pill.

As news spread throughout the five continents of Lin Yun's imminent ascension and shattering of the void, Daoist Jinwu, unable to bear it any longer, decided to rip out Lin Qi's golden elixir, finally venting his anger.

Lin Yun shattered the void, Lin Qi blood-sacrificed to the sea of fire. This was the final destination for the two of them.

"Home?" Gong Shaojun smiled coldly. "Nonsense!"

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

There was a hint of anger in Gong Shaojun's usually cold voice.