Xuan Domain, Liangzhou City, Royal Manor.

Hundreds of guards were in the manor, dozens among them were strong fighters, gathered in the courtyard. In front of them stood a young man and a woman, whose body was covered in blood.

Lin Fan squatted on the ground, sobbing indiscreetly in front of everyone.

"The Lin family was suddenly attacked by mountain bandits. By the time we arrived, the entire family of a hundred had been wiped out. Lin Hao disappeared, and Lady Lin is gravely injured and on the brink of death. Given her injuries, I'm afraid her days are numbered!"

The words of the Head Guard painfully strung Lin Fan's heart.

Days are numbered?

He knew that his mother could still be saved, as long as the royal family could produce a third-class pill!

But, with his current status, what right did he have to ask the royal family for it?

He was born in Lin's village outside the city, a small clan under the jurisdiction of the royal family.

Five years ago, suddenly he received an order from the royal family. Threatened with the lives of his entire family, he was forced to marry into the royal family. Thus he became the son-in-law of the royal family.

The husband of the most beautiful woman in the Liangzhou royal family!

What an esteemed title!

However, he knew that his position as the son-in-law was only meant to absorb the calamities on the royal family's behalf.

Five years back, the Xuan Domain trial of Liangzhou city required every major clan to send forth a direct descendant for participation.

The trial was perilously dangerous, it would be a miracle if even one survived amongst a thousand. Lin Fan was merely cannon fodder brought in by the Wang Family.

During the trial, he struggled as death loomed, and managed to pass a year ago, only to come back alive. However, in the last trial level, his Xuan veins were utterly destroyed, rendering him completely disabled.

Returning to the Wang Family, he was treated like a beast of burden, facing constant undue biases. If not for his parents or the annual subsidies of half a million gold coins that the Wang Family gave to the Lin Family, he would have long escaped.

However, now everything was in vain.

The Lin Family had been exterminated.

“All it takes is a Third-Class Resurrection Elixir, just one Third-Class Resurrection Elixir...”

Thinking of this elixir, Lin Fan looked expectantly at these powerful figures of the Wang Family.

However, they completely ignored him.

"Disperse."

With a direct order from one of the elders, people coldly went their separate ways.

Lin Fan fell deep into despair, he was still abandoned by the Wang Family.

Held tighter the body of his mother, he couldn't just watch his mother die like that.

“I must get a Resurrection Elixir!”

Lin Fan wiped his tears, gritted his teeth and got up. Looking at the dispersing crowd, he followed them step by step.

He resolved to risk his life, forsake his dignity, all to procure a Resurrection Pill for his ailing mother.

He knocked on the door of the first chamber.

Elder Wang, the third eldest of the Wang Family, and also known as Lin Fan's nominal uncle.

As soon as the door opened, Lin Fan immediately pleaded, "Uncle, there might be a chance to save my mother if we have just one pill..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Wang Haiyang pushed him away violently.

"Get away!"

"Do you think Spirit Healing Pills grow on cabbage fields? Do you really think you are the son-in-law of the Wang family?"

"We have already extended kindness and justice by rescuing her. What else do you want!?"

"Do you still expect our Wang family to pay for her treatment? You imbecile, idiot! Get lost!"

With these harsh words, he called over the house servant to drive Lin Fan out.

Next in line was Lin Fan's mother. She was carried out and directly thrown at the doorway of the Wang Family house. Already severely injured, she coughed up large mouthfuls of blood.

"Aaaaagh!" Lin Fan roared in frenzy.

The Wang Family, you've overstepped the boundaries!

I fought battles and trials on your name and even obtained a prestigious slot at the Wansheng Academy. And this is how you repay me!

He understood that in this world, the strong dominate and might makes right. But what he didn't expect was the cold-blooded nature of people. For the Wang family, a third-grade Soul Revival Pill was nothing significant—yet they would gladly watch their own mother die.

Lin Fan was furious, but helpless. Holding his mother in his arms, he walked towards a loft in Liangzhou City.

The Yao family Pill Loft.

At the testing grounds, only three had survived: Lin Fan, the Yao family's Yao Shen, and Ye Yu of the Ye family.

Lin Fan had exhausted his cultivation powers to save Yao Shen, and in the process, was badly injured by a Terrestrial Fierce Beast.

Of course, Yao Shen had sworn on that day that he would lay down his life if Lin Fan needed it.

However, after the trial ended, Yao Shen never visited him again. He was still the young master of the Yao family and was exceptionally admitted to the Wan Ling Academy, becoming a direct disciple of the Pill Hall Elder.

The two of them, from that point on, lived in two starkly different worlds. Compared to Yao Shen, Lin Fan was nothing but a joke!

Each individual who survived the trial was either a dominant figure, but Lin Fan had unfortunately become a cripple.

A blunt and cruel joke!

Lin Fan didn't want to come here either. He was afraid of being rejected–rejected by a person he considered a life-and-death friend. That would hurt even more than being rejected by the Wang family.

Entering the Pill Loft, the employees inside all looked at him.

Yao Shen!

He was there.

Lin Fan’s heart leaped at first, but then swiftly sank. He saw the hidden disgust in Yao Shen's eyes.

"What are you, a good-for-nothing, doing here!"

A servant, apparently familiar with Lin Fan, hastily came forward to block Lin Fan, who was holding his mother, his eyes filled with repulsion.

"I came..."

"We don't welcome useless people here!"

One of the servants even made a mockery of him.

A surge of rage welled up in Lin Fan's heart, but he forcibly suppressed it.

"I am here to see Yao Shen."

"Sorry, my master is of high status, not for a worthless person like you to see!"

The servant glanced at Lin Fan's mother, then sneered, "Are you here to beg for a Tier 3 pill?"

"Hehe, what do you suppose my Master Yao is? Can the likes of you be worthy of a Tier 3 pill?"

Lin Fan: "......"

His face turned red, and he was immensely humiliated. He didn’t spend time talking to the servant anymore and directly looked at Yao Shen.

Gritting his teeth, he let go of the last shred of his dignity.

"Yao Shen, I only need a Resurrection Pill. I promise I will return you twice in the future."

Yao Shen gazed over, a censer in his hand, rising slowly, walking over unhurriedly, neither refusing nor accepting, his eyes were filled with absolute indifference.

The servant retreated, but a thick jest could be seen on the corners of his mouth.

At this moment, Lady Lin's body shuddered slightly, and she spat out another mouthful of blood, spraying it onto the floor.

"Just a single Revival Pill, I'll willingly work like an ox or a horse to repay you in the future!"

Lin Fan was anxious, his mother was on her last legs.

Gazing at the bloodstain on the floor, Yao Shen's eyebrows furrowed significantly, a surge of anger rising in his heart.

"You're a waste! My name, Yao Shen, isn't something a worthless person like you deserves to call!"

"You want to borrow a Revival Pill? What could a waste like you possibly use to pay it back?! On what grounds are you asking to borrow it!"

"I...I..." Looking at the unfamiliar face before him, feeling his mother's increasingly cold body, he became panicked, thoroughly panicked.

"I beg you, for the sake of saving your life once before, lend me just one, just one!"

He hoped, Yao Shen would remember the favor of saving his life, and help him.

However,

Yao Shen was instantly enraged.

"You saving my life? What qualifications do you, a worthless person, have to save my life! Get lost, and stop bothering me with your nonsense!"

After saying these words, in front of Yao Shen, a spiritual energy hand appeared, clutching towards Lin Fan, and threw him out ruthlessly.

Pssh!

A mouthful of blood is fiercely spat out.

Mother Lin also falls to one side, now silent.

"Anu, throw these two out of the city for me!"

"Yes, Young Master!"

With an evil smirk, Anu beckons two men who lift the heavily wounded Lin Fan and his mother out the city gates.

Yet no one notices, at the location of Yun Shen's chest, a golden light flashes past, gone in the blink of an eye.