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

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

She whimpered and cried in fear, "Mother, Mother! You can't go! You can't leave 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 aloof voice carried a chill, yet the gentle movements of his hand inadvertently revealed a touch of tenderness.

Lin Qi involuntarily stood 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 lumps on her forehead.

This is not the first time.

Lin Qi was born missing a soul and spirit, specifically his earth soul and spiritual wisdom. He showed signs of being somewhat mentally deficient.

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.

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 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 blow causing him to cry out in pain.

Grandma and her 'mother' sat in the front row, their faces calm and indifferent.

Grandmother asked, "Dear daughter-in-law, this fool has wronged you and brought shame upon our family. He deserves to be killed. But he is the head of the Lin family after all... as long as you spare his life, you can dispose of the rest however you see fit!"

"Mother calmly sipped two cups of tea, casually letting slip a bombshell."

"Last night, I luckily broke through to the Yuan Ying stage."

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

Then, filled with rage, he ordered the servant, "Beat him! Beat him severely! If he dies, throw his body out!"

The servant, frightened, increased his strength.

The father's screams grew louder and louder, each one punctuated by coughs of blood.

"Aunt, when the time is right, she slowly opened her mouth: "Don't get angry, Aunt. Lin Jie has a weak personality and isn't suitable to be the head of the family. It's better to use this incident as an excuse for him to step down as the head of the family and replace him with someone else... How about it?"

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

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

In this remote corner, on the outskirts of a desolate city, a Yuan Ying cultivator could ensure peace and prosperity for the Lin family for a thousand years.

If Gong Shaojun were to divorce in a fit of anger and remarry, even the great-grandmother would be powerless.

The Lin family cannot anger this Nascent Soul cultivator.

Grandaunt's voice was weak as she tentatively probed, "If Lin Jian doesn't become the head of the family, who do you think would be suitable?"

“Little Seven is not young anymore,” Mother said softly, “She can take over her father's position.”

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

Great-great grandmother 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 her head, her red eyes pointing at 'Mother': "Shaojun, you plotted against me!"

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

One little girl glared angrily at the head of the table, her grandmother and Gong Shaojun, a hint of hatred brewing in her eyes.

Lin Qi opened her eyes wide, staring at the face that was both strange and familiar to her.

The girl's face was still quite youthful, yet it matched the appearance of the celestial being named Lin Yun who she had seen in her dream.

Foreign memories came crashing down upon him, like a tidal wave assaulting Lin Qi's brain.

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

"Xiaoqi!"

Palace Shaojun's usually calm and composed voice now held a hint of worry.

……

Lin Qi's experience felt like a dream, yet also like having a multitude of strange memories forcibly implanted into her.

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

She actually lives in a cultivation novel.

This story recounts the struggles of her half-sister, Lin Yun.

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 despised by everyone in the desolate city.

The eldest sister was foolish and domineering, often leading people to bully her. She even allowed the servants of the Lin family to oppress and abuse her at will.

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

Until the Tianyi Sect held a disciple recruitment event, Lin Yun was assessed to have fire and wood spiritual roots and became a disciple of Danfengmen. From then on, he embarked on a journey to defy fate and change his destiny.

She fought her way up, stumbling and struggling all the way, to the late stage of Great Ascension, becoming the first cultivator in the Cangwu Realm to break through the void.

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

The only direct descendant of the Lin family, a prestigious cultivation family in the desolate city, became the head of the Lin family at the age of four. With the protection of her powerful aunt and her Nascent Soul mother as a pillar of support, even if she were an imbecile, she could have lived a life of ease in the desolate city if nothing unforeseen happened.

Surprisingly, her younger half-sister, Lin Yun, was the biggest surprise in her life.

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

As Lin Yun rose in fame at Tianyi Sect, the deeper and wider the stories of her abuse within the Lin family spread, the worse the Lin family's situation became.

Because it lacked a soul and 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, resulting in offending a large number of cultivators and being labeled as the first wastrel and the first fool of荒城.

Yuan Ying's mother, heartbroken because her husband kept a mistress, chose to shut herself away in seclusion.

After entering seclusion in his cave dwelling, he did not appear until the day when cultivators provoked by Lin Yun destroyed the Lin family in revenge. He then disappeared from the Cangwu Realm.

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

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

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

Every time Lin Yun breaks through a level, Jin Wu Dao Chang will bring people to the cave to torture Lin Qi for a while.

During this period, he coincidentally discovered that Lin Qi was actually carrying the bloodline of the ancient Ice Phoenix, and he began to think about refining her into a medicinal pill.

As soon as the news spread throughout the five continents that Lin Yun was about to attain enlightenment and break through the void, Jin Wu Dao Chang couldn't bear it any longer. He decided to rip out Lin Qi's golden elixir, completely venting his anger.

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

……

"Home?" Gong Shaojun sneered, "Nonsense!"

"Heaven wants to use my daughter as a stepping stone for its chosen one, but they'll have to see if I allow it!"

Gong Shaojun's usually cold tone was laced with a hint of anger.

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