As for what destiny actually is.
Li Wei, observing the other children of the Li family, seemed to understand.
....
[Your descendant Li Tianyi, after ten years excavating ancient Wu Clan tombs, obtained three Nascent Soul Wu bones and a large number of Wu Clan techniques, sending them back to the family.]
[Your descendants, the Seven Ironclad, have all fused with Nascent Soul Wu Bones, becoming tri-cultivators of human, Wu, and demon in one body. Their cultivation bases have uniformly broken through to peak Golden Core. The Seven Ironclad have begun cultivating Wu Clan techniques under the guidance of the Mad Blood Demon Lord, who is extremely attuned to Wu Clan techniques. Their physical strength has increased. Acquired trait: Demon-Wu]
[Wu Clan techniques casting speed increased by 20%]
[While adventuring outside, your descendant Li Tianqi found a location still containing a Rank 7 spirit vein. Your family gathered the corpses of one million Wu Clan members. The Mad Blood Demon Lord and the Seven Ironclad acted as the Wu Clan High Priest and Priests, and established the Heaven-Defying Grand Array upon the spirit vein.]
[Your descendant Li Yaoqing, sheltered by a small amount of the family's Heaven and Earth destiny, paid the price of serious injury but broke through the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, obtaining a Wood Single Spirit Root and the Heavenly Wood Body!]
This seems to be destiny, Li Wei thought. After Li Yaowen "borrowed" destiny, the Li family's difficulties gradually dissipated, and it seemed their fortune had improved starting from that time. He even suspected that the arrival of the two Divinity Transformation experts to help, as well as the Azure Cloud region's smooth progress over these years, was also related to the destiny Li Yaowen had brought back.
At this moment, Li Yaoqing, having broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, was secretly healing Fang Linglong in Merit City.
And then there was Li Yaotie.
Currently, the Li family's Forging Pavilion was bustling with people coming and going; artifact refiners were all forging iron there. Li Yaotie, like a madman, was forging in a place resembling a volcanic crater where fierce flames surged, attempting to craft Rank 6 artifacts.
[Your descendant Li Yaotie, after receiving guidance from Wang Jinhu and ten years of forging, is already able to infuse Rank 7 puppets with spiritual power. After observing the technique of the Raging Sky Flood Dragon and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Spirit bombs of the Azure Green Flood Dragon, he understood the profound meaning of explosion. He has crafted puppets capable of using spiritual power, as well as puppets capable of self-destructing!]
The Li family's puppets were now extremely terrifying... Just imagine a hundred Golden Core stage [units] self-destructing...
The other children weren't bad either.
[Your descendant Li Yunlin is approaching the breakthrough for the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation. He is currently searching for spiritual items from mountains, rivers, and vegetation to make the Skyveil Hall become a small world to resist the heavenly tribulation. Acquired trait: Spiritual Item Collector]
[For each spiritual item obtained, strength increased by 20%]
....
[Your descendant Li Yunbing, through the Ancestor's bestowed gift "Key Points for Cultivator Militia Examination", was inspired on how to train the army. Army training speed increased by 20%. Currently possesses .. cultivator army personnel.]
Li Wei roughly checked; during battles, this army beat the Wu Clan until they fled in terror and achieved strict discipline where orders were executed without fail. Many of its tactics and formation techniques even surprised General Wang Jinhu.
[Your descendant Li Changsheng, after ten years of struggle, and after Hall of Heavenly Principle Shadow Division's personnel was reduced by 10%, is finally somewhat able to make the Heavenly Principle's Shadow Division stop killing each other...]
[Acquired trait: Master of Conflict Resolution]
Indeed, how difficult is it to be the master of a dark faction?
Anyway, Li Wei saw that Li Changsheng, this lazy fellow, was tossing and turning restlessly.
As for Li Changsheng's old dad, Li Kuangren... this guy didn't have it easy either.
[Your descendant Li Kuangren, as the Region Prince of Azure Cloud region, with more and more 'fugitives' arriving in Azure Cloud region from all directions, needs to meet every 'fugitive' each day, arrange lodging for every person, and engage in intrigue with every desperado.]
Li Wei felt that both this father and son were destined for hardship. Look, right now Li Kuangren was sitting on the throne, and approaching from below was a refined and gentle scholar.
This scholar was currently recounting his past experiences—something every fugitive needed to relate to him. The scholar said he had offended powerful nobles and only then fled to the Azure Cloud region.
Li Kuangren's face darkened, and he slammed the table. "This Lord has seen fugitives for ten years! What kind of person haven't I met? Your aura flickered slightly; I know you're lying! Hurry up and confess the truth!"
This caused the scholar's expression to change drastically, and he hastily confessed, "My Lord, I... I was previously a retainer in the Imperial City. My... my master of the household had over ten concubines. I... I had an affair with one of them"
"I see. Not a heinous crime. You can enter the Azure Cloud Region Army's vanguard..."
Before Li Kuangren could finish speaking, Li Tianniu happened to be passing by the door outside. This fellow was still as handsome as back then; now he had forty-three wives. He happened to overhear the scholar's words, and suddenly ran in as if seeing a mortal enemy, "Kuangren, listen to your uncle! This kind of person cannot be kept! He dares to have an affair with one of them when there are only a dozen wives; wouldn't someone with more than a dozen be unable to eat or sleep in peace? You can't empathize! This kind of person should be subjected to death by a thousand cuts..."
Li Kuangren's face darkened further. He had people drag both his uncle and the scholar away.
[Your descendant Tianniu has again produced 22 children for the family.]
[Your Kuang-generation members have given birth to 42 Chang-generation children for your family.]
[Your family has proliferated to seventh-generation members. Please bestow names.]
"Hmm?"
These seventh-generation children... Li Wei was just clicking [on the notification], still thinking they would appear in Merit City, but unexpectedly, they appeared in a small fishing village...
Before his eyes.
[North Sea City · Fishermen's Village]
Inside a small tavern, a handsome young man sat by the couch, holding an ordinary-looking young woman. In the woman's arms lay a baby boy who couldn't even open his eyes yet. An extremely beautiful woman, yet wearing a common apron, gazed tenderly at this family of three.
"Kuangtu, did you see? We have a grandson now."
Outside the tavern.
A filthy old beggar pitifully shook the few miserable coins in his broken bowl, shouting towards the passersby reeking of fish.
"Take pity, take pity on this old thing, oh! years after years, and I've gotten nothing! There are so many liars in this world, oh!"
"..."
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