Yangshen Hall.
"The Li Family has begun a new round of trials."
Atop the high seat, the person with closed eyes nurturing their spirit suddenly spoke softly.
Li Baizhen, who was bowing his head below, imdiately stiffened in expression, his face gradually darkening.
Li Baizhen always believed.
The Li Family was the most unique among the Five Great Families, the cruelest internally.
Every so often, they would initiate a trial.
The subjects of the trials were mostly those of the Li Family’s direct lineage.
Like the nine dragons vying for the pearl.
The trialists would compete fiercely for the position of candidate for Li Family Patriarch, using all ans, regardless of life or death, until the Family Head called a halt.
In Li Baizhen’s mory, the direct lineage of the Li Family initially had 30 people.
After one trial, determining the ranking, only 10 remained.
However, by the ti of the second trial, the number had recovered to 20, and a new battle for ranking began.
Why did the number increase?
The reason was simple.
Because the Li Family was perverted.
It classified all mbers of the Li Family into three levels:
Livestock, Humans, Dragons.
All won of the Li Family were seen as [Livestock], a kind of resource.
A resource for producing offspring.
Every Li Family woman was strictly controlled within the Li Family, to fulfill the role of bearing children, ensuring a continuous ’prosperous population’ every year.
Even little girls were not spared, raised until they ca of age to continue the role of the previous generation of won.
One would think that such close kin breeding would inevitably lead to problems.
But the Li Family seed to have its own ans, never producing any disabled descendants; in fact, they grew stronger with each generation.
Despite the critical role played by Li Family won,
Livestock was just livestock; in that family, it represented a futureless existence.
Much like... the sister Li Baizhen had never seen.
From birth, she was taken away, confined, watched over, cultivated into a new breeding vessel.
When the sister grew up and lost her usefulness, her fate would probably be similar to that of the mother whom he had only t once.
That one encounter was at a funeral, his mother’s funeral.
It was also the first ti Li Baizhen, with consciousness, saw what his so-called mother looked like.
The body looked very old, though carefully grood, it still appeared aged.
For a mother he t only once, Li Baizhen felt no attachnt.
Only after his mother was cremated, silently buried in the Li Family’s cetery with just a line of na left to prove existence,
Did Li Baizhen suddenly feel sadness, pain, yet powerless to change anything.
Because he was also a part of the Li Family, a gear within its chanism.
The status of [Livestock] within the Li Family was always very low, yet highly valued.
Valued enough to be protected in all aspects, provided with nutrition to ensure the birth of the best infants.
Too low to even decide what to eat, let alone leave the Li Mansion.
Among the won of the Li Family, only those with strong enough talents and display of strength and aptitude could break out from [Livestock] to [Human].
[Human] ant having the basic family resources and the ability to et others outside.
However, as far as Li Baizhen was concerned, during his many years in the Li Family, the number of female [Humans] he had t could be counted on one hand.
And to make further progress,
To break through from [Human] to [Dragon], those eligible to participate in trials, was an even longer journey.
Yes.
Even if not of the direct lineage, there was still eligibility to participate in the trials.
Those of collateral bloodlines, despite their humble beginnings, could demonstrate their strength through their own efforts and seize the qualifications of [Dragon].
Li Baizhen’s father had strived with all his might to transform from [Human] to [Dragon].
Li Baizhen used to have many siblings of the sa age, but they died one after another.
Because of the father’s research, that damned search for breaking through limits!
One spiritual entity was not enough for the father!
To catch up with those direct lineage monsters and seize the [Dragon] qualifications... The father, went mad.
Killing the mother, killing Li Baizhen’s siblings, becoming sothing neither human nor ghost.
If not for the fact that in the following years, new brothers and sisters were born or grew up, Li Baizhen would not have survived to this day.
The Li Family was pathological.
It was detestable.
That’s why Li Baizhen fled.
He couldn’t change it; the most he could do was to escape.
Generally, the Li Family did not allow its mbers to flee.
But the Foolish Underworld was an exception.
After Li Baizhen actively severed all ties with the Li Family, the Foolish Underworld preserved him.
After leaving the Li Family, Li Baizhen felt as if he had discovered a whole new world.
Humans could live freely in this world.
For these five years, Li Baizhen had a peaceful life.
With a virtuous wife, brothers-in-arms who would live and die together, he even had dreams.
Only, he did not expect that today, five years later, he would hear news about the Li Family’s trials again.
A new round of trials...
Li Baizhen clenched his fists and looked up to ask,
"How many participants are there this ti?"
The person in the high seat remained with eyes closed, nurturing their spirit.
"Roughly around 50."
More than fifty people?
The last trial was five years ago.
With five years of cultivation and nurturing, they really had bred another batch of monsters.
[Dragon] required real strength.
Without the age, without the power, even if of the direct lineage, there was no qualification to be a [Dragon].
Li Baizhen didn’t need to think to know that the Li Family was about to stir up a storm of blood and violence in Tianyuan Town.
In these troubled tis with frequent demon disturbances, the initiation of the Li Family’s trials might be a good or bad thing.
The only certain prediction was that the Li Family was about to produce a new monster, one that might rival the Li Family Patriarch in power.
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