Yuan Lai preferred reading and studying, and he didn't really enjoy practicing martial arts. It wasn't that he couldn't endure pain and face hardships, but rather, he simply wasn't as interested in martial arts as his older sister.0

They accompanied their master, Lu Baixiang, to Downtrodden Mountain again, but both he and his sister were still unable to record their names in the genealogical records of the ancestral hall. This was because the young mountain master was once again not present. Yuan Lai didn't think much about this, but his older sister, Yuan Bao, felt very angry, convinced that their master was being slighted. 1

Apart from practicing fist techniques, walking meditation, and sparring with his sister every day, Yuan Lai would spend most of his free time reading. Yuan Bao wasn't interested in reading, and she had privately spoken to Yuan Lai one time, explaining the grand principle of how they needed to cherish their fortune now that they had such a good master. Yuan Lai had accepted her viewpoint, but he had still wanted to speak some of his own principles and thoughts. However, he hadn't dared to say anything upon seeing his sister's cold expression and the tightly gripped wooden staff in her hand.0

The wooden staff was the only item left behind by their deceased father, who had worked as an armed escort. Yuan Bao viewed the wooden staff as the Yuan Family's family heirloom, and it was something that should have been passed on to Yuan Lai. However, she felt like Yuan Lai was too soft and mild, lacking spirit and bravery ever since he was young. He didn't deserve to own the wooden staff.0

Yuan Bao naturally preferred the immortal force led by their master, where things were lively but the rules were strict. The immortal force was based at the old home of a demonic force in the martial world of the Luminous Vermilion Empire, and their master had first gathered together a group...0