"Training …"
Li Jialing was at a loss for a moment. His eyebrows and lips shivered slightly, playing the role of both confusion and hesitation perfectly.
"That's right. 'Only through suffering can one rise above others'. I'm afraid I don't need to explain such a simple principle to you, right?"
Li Lingfeng sighed and said solemnly, "Both as a member of the Li family and as an Immortal Cultivator, polishing ourselves in the cruelest and craziest ways so that we can surpass and make breakthroughs on the path of evolution until we reach the strongest level that nobody has ever reached before. This is our fate!
"That's what every member of the Li family has been through. Everybody tortures and polishes themselves in the cruel environment where only the fittest survive. They tear their flesh into shreds, grind their bones into powder, and burn their guts into ashes before they are condensed and built into a brand-new self!
"You are like that. Aren't the other members of the Li family the same? Even me. Do you think that the pain I suffered during my training is any lighter than yours?
"It's true that most of the members of the Li family did not bear the extreme pain that you did, but that was because they were not qualified. Those people could never become a perfect warrior like you. The fates that awaited them were either to die an unknown death as cannon fodder in an insignificant war or to be sent to a remote mining planet under the family's control, where they would live an impoverished and tasteless life.
"Look at the alley behind you that is full of guts and broken limbs, and look at your hands that are stained with blood. You should've realized that you are different from those worthless guys. This is definitely not your fate. You were born to be the greatest hero of the Li family!"
Li Jialing stared at the bloody pathway behind him again.
This time, he was no longer trembling. Instead, hunger beamed out of his eyes, and he extended his long, narrow tongue and licked the corner of his mouth that was stained with blood.
Seeing that the young man was like a ferocious beast that had just been released, Li Lingfeng smiled in relief.
"I don't understand."
Taking a deep breath, Li Jialing regained his calmness and stared at Li Lingfeng. "Why me? You have so many sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. Why did you choose me to receive such refinements? My parents are just the unknown, low-level warriors of the family. Or — "
The young man's eyes rolled quickly as he observed Li Lingfeng's face carefully.
Li Lingfeng smiled gently. "It's not what you think. I don't particularly value bloodlines. Or rather, as long as the blood of the Li family flows in their veins, they are qualified to be my heir. It doesn't matter if they are my own offspring or not.
"I need true experts, and I have a large number of useless people among my sons, but I still don't care about those people.
"Come on. Show me the 'masterpiece' that you just created.. and I will tell you all the truth."
"Truth …"
With flames bursting out of his eyes, Li Jialing stood up without a word and walked into the depths of the bloody pathway.
When he accidentally crushed a few bones on the ground, he didn't even bat an eyelid.
"I know that you have always been curious as to why I chose you, who seems plain and unremarkable, among so many descendants of the Li family. More importantly, what is the seal that has been haunting your brain and preventing you from killing?"
Walking among the broken limbs casually, Li Lingfeng said casually, "As smart as you are, you must've realized that the so-called 'seal' is very similar to the 'Three Fundamental Laws'."
Li Jialing's pupils constricted violently. He scratched his head subconsciously. "Three Fundamental Laws? From the Holy League?"
"Yes. It's very complicated. It can be traced back to the Origin Plan, a project to raise the new forces of the family that I personally planned and implemented decades ago."
Li Lingfeng took out a translucent green ball from his pocket and tossed it to Li Jialing. "This is all the information and data of the 'Origin Plan'. I've been prepared to give it to you as a gift on the day you are completely awakened."
Blinking his eyes, Li Jialing held the green ball in his palm and inputted a stream of spiritual energy into it.
The round ball flew up from his palm to the height of his eyes, triggering a 360-degree arc of light beam. Countless information flowed down like a waterfall.
"The Origin Plan is a plan to build a new generation of super warriors of the family that I personally planned and implemented. It is somewhat advanced and experimental."
Li Lingfeng said, "You know that, as one of the four Kurfürst families, the Li family has always attached great importance to the education of the next generation. Only the elites of the elites can be a real member of the Li family. As for the garbage who carries the blood of the Li family but is not ambitious enough, they should be eliminated mercilessly no matter who their parents are.
"Therefore, almost from the moment they are born, every member of the Li family has to receive the nurture of the best resources and the harshest optimization training.
"However, different people have different talents after all. In many cases, it will already be too late when the baby is delivered after ten months of pregnancy. From the perspective of eugenics, the real training should not only begin from the mother's womb but also from the fertilized egg — no, before the two life seeds are combined!
"The Origin Plan is exactly such a cutting-edge, experimental plan that begins the modulation and development from the life seed stage. I carefully selected the life seeds of almost ten thousand strong warriors of the family and refined and strengthened them with all kinds of secret techniques. After they were combined into fertilized eggs, I screened and nurtured them further. Eventually, ten of the most excellent embryos were selected.
"Yes. Of the ten thousand carefully selected life seeds, ten of them were selected and nurtured with the most precious Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Many of the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were even excavated from the primeval battlefields. They were one-time consumables that could never be found again after they were used up. It is not hard to imagine how powerful the embryos were!"
Li Jialing's eyelids shivered. "I am one of the embryos?"
"Yes."
Li Lingfeng smiled. "Otherwise, how could you boast such strength at such a young age?"
"I still don't understand," Li Jialing said.
Li Jialing said, "Since it is the plan to raise the new forces of the family, why is it kept a secret instead of announcing it openly? Also, what is the 'Three Fundamental Laws' that have been haunting my head and have just been cracked?"
"Because the Origin Plan completely failed."
Li Lingfeng sighed. "At that time, I placed the ten embryos that I carefully selected near a magnetic neutron star to be strengthened by radiation. However, the starships of the Holy League suddenly jumped out without a sound, trying to steal the results of my careful refinement. In the fierce battle, nine of the embryos were destroyed, and the last embryo was corrupted by the weird forces of the Holy League and implanted with part of their evil seal, the remnants of the Three Fundamental Laws."
"Well —"
Li Jialing was somewhat at a loss. "You couldn't have conducted experiments in the frontline, could you? Why did the people of the Holy League suddenly show up?"
"That's the most critical point," Li Lingfeng said solemnly.
Li Lingfeng said solemnly, "You know that the internal contradictions of the Li family are very sharp, too. Conflicts are everywhere. Perhaps some people, in their power struggle, do not want to see my plan succeed, and they do not want me to have ten or more perfect warriors with extraordinary capabilities under my command. So, they 'accidentally' leaked the information and killed me with the saber of the Covenant Alliance.
"All in all, the 'Origin Plan' that I spent years of effort and resources on was almost destroyed after the unexpected assault of the Holy League. Although the last embryo survived, it was also corrupted by the Holy League's Fundamental Laws. Nobody knew what kind of person would be raised into it. I dared not expose your existence, either!"
Li Jialing blinked. "Why?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
Li Lingfeng said, "Because you were a 'polluter' at that time. How could the Li family allow a monster that had been corrupted by the Holy League to remain in the world? Wouldn't it have been the greatest shame of the Li family? Countless people would've attacked me with you as an excuse, too! "
After a brief silence, Li Jialing asked, "Then, why didn't you … destroy me?"
Li Lingfeng smiled bitterly. With kindness beaming out of his eyes, he said, "What if I told you that I devoted all my attention and hope to the 'Origin Plan', and the ten perfect embryos were even more important than my own flesh and blood in my eyes, and the other nine were destroyed by the Holy League, and you were the only one left? I couldn't bear to abandon my efforts just like that. Would you believe me?"
Biting his lips softly, Li Jialing thought carefully for a moment and said, "So, you concealed my existence and forged a new identity for me so that I could live in the Li family as a regular member?"
"Yes."
Li Lingfeng said, "In the report that I submitted to the family, I lied and claimed that the ten embryos had all been destroyed. You know what happened later.
"Countless pairs of eyes in the family were watching me. So, I couldn't arrange suitable training for you in the family directly. Wuying Lan, the owner of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', was my most trusted old friend. Only in his place could we try our best to crack the seal of the Holy League deep inside your soul and trigger your potential so that the 'Origin Plan' could be pushed forward!
"That's the whole story. The specific details are recorded in this jade chip. You can take your time to study them.
"Jialing, of course you have every reason to hate me. You hate that I strengthened you when you were still a life seed. You hate that I never told you the truth for so many years and subjected you to such cruel training. However, no matter how much you hate me, please understand one thing.
"The most distinguished successors of the Li family in every generation have been through the same thing.
"Pain is the greatest wealth. Whoever can manipulate the wealth is qualified to control the entire world.
"Don't let down your potential, and don't let down your destiny!"
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I'm sorry, everyone. My ears have been inflamed over the past two days. It's called 'otitis externa', and my mouth has been affected. Every part of my body hurts, and I even have a fever. I'm quite drowsy right now.
I haven't been in a good state for the whole day. I woke up and slept, and woke up again. After writing two chapters, my head hurt so badly that I closed my eyes and fell asleep again.
I didn't wake up until half past ten at night. My headache is slightly better now. I might as well finish the third chapter.
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