#3 - Raging Fire

Leaving the Eternal Life Temple, Jun Wuxie looked at the dilapidated courtyard where he had lived for half a year, and couldn't help but sigh.

Back then, when he hadn't lost his Chaos Divine Meridian, everyone in the Xiao family, from the elders to the ordinary clansmen, treated him with utmost respect.

After his accident, they all ganged up on him, targeting and making things difficult for him in every possible way.

"Reality is cruel. Without value, life is like grass, discarded like worn-out shoes!"

Jun Wuxie was somewhat emotional. He shook his head and stopped thinking about those things. Improving his strength was the most important thing. He had to get the Initial Spirit Pill as soon as possible.

Breaking through to the Initial Stage of Xiantian realm sooner would allow his physical body to reach the level of a one-star spiritual weapon, and reaching the Xiantian realm would allow him to cultivate martial skills, greatly increasing his strength.

Leaving the dilapidated courtyard, Jun Wuxie headed to the family resource room, where Initial Spirit Pills for clansmen to break through to the Xiantian realm were regularly stocked.

The grade of pills is divided into nine stars, and each star is further divided into low, medium, high, and supreme quality.

The Initial Spirit Pill is a quasi-spiritual medicine below the one-star low grade. Even so, it is expensive, with a market price of one hundred gold coins, enough for an ordinary five-person family in Qingyang City to live for three years.

Ordinary martial artists need to prepare ten Initial Spirit Pills to break through to the Xiantian realm, but he needs at least a hundred, or even hundreds!

"The resource room definitely doesn't have enough stock. I have to think of other ways..."

As he walked and pondered, a cold rebuke interrupted his thoughts.

"Little bitch, how dare you come to the kitchen to steal things!"

"I didn't. I'm so hungry. I just picked up what you threw away..."

Jun Wuxie's heart tightened, and he turned and rushed towards the direction of the sound—the family kitchen garden.

As soon as he arrived at the kitchen garden, he saw Xiao Yueyao lying on the ground with a small medicine basket on her back. A middle-aged man with a face full of橫肉 was glaring at her fiercely.

Xiao Yueyao had tears in her eyes, clutching half a bun tightly in her hand. Her dirty little face was red and swollen, with five clear finger marks, and there was blood on the corner of her mouth.

"Xiao Sanxiong! You dare to hit her?"

Jun Wuxie's anger instantly rushed to the top of his head. The family's direct descendants had been bullying her for half a year, but he didn't expect these servants to bully her too!

"It's you? You can actually get out of bed?" Xiao Sanxiong's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost. Then he came back to his senses, crossed his arms, and sneered, "So you're the young master of our Xiao family. You can't help but show off as soon as you can get out of bed and walk around? That's right, what if I hit her?"

With a bang!

Jun Wuxie, like a furious lion, kicked the kitchen garden manager Xiao Sanxiong away, smashing a wooden cart for carrying vegetables into pieces.

"Jun Wuxie!" Xiao Sanxiong curled up on the ground, clutching his abdomen, feeling as if his internal organs had shifted. The pain was excruciating, and his eyes were venomous: "You dare to hit me? Do you know who's behind me?"

In the entire kitchen garden, a group of servants were silent, not daring to speak.

That paralyzed young master not only stood up, but his strength seemed to have recovered!

Thinking that they had also bullied Xiao Yueyao in the past six months, they all lowered their heads, feeling uneasy.

"Yueyao, does it hurt?" Jun Wuxie helped Xiao Yueyao up, brushed the dust off her body, wiped the dirt and blood from her face, and saw the half a bun she was holding in her hand, and his nose tingled.

This bun was covered in dirt, and it was obvious that it had been picked up from the swill bucket.

But even so, these beasts still wanted to bully her!

"Wuxie Gege, wuwu, you're finally better!" The grievances in Xiao Yueyao's eyes suddenly turned into joy. She cried with joy, wiping her tears and saying, "Yueyao will collect a lot of medicine for Gege, so that Gege's body can recover as strong as before!"

"Yueyao..."

"Wuxie Gege, why are you crying?" She wiped the tears from the corners of Jun Wuxie's eyes with her small hands, and sobbed, "Wuxie Gege don't cry, Yueyao won't cry either..."

"Okay, don't cry." Jun Wuxie pulled her to a corner and said, "Yueyao, watch how Gege deals with those who bully you!"

He turned around, his eyes instantly as cold as a bloodthirsty wolf, stepped forward and lifted Xiao Sanxiong up: "Say! Which hand did you use to hit her just now!"

"You..." Xiao Sanxiong was so frightened that his body went weak, but he shouted, "Jun Wuxie, do you think you're still the young master of the Xiao family? Release this manager immediately, otherwise..."

Ah!

Before Xiao Sanxiong could finish his harsh words, his right arm was twisted off by Jun Wuxie, and blood splattered, immediately scaring the servants here into screams.

"Looks like it was both hands?"

Jun Wuxie tore off his left arm as well, and Xiao Sanxiong screamed miserably, echoing throughout the kitchen garden.

"What happened?" The screams alarmed the Third Elder, who rushed in with a group of guards. When he saw the scene here, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he exclaimed, "How could it be you?"

"That's right, are you surprised?"

Jun Wuxie carried the severed-armed manager Xiao Sanxiong and looked coldly at the Third Elder, Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen's face was uncertain. He was indeed surprised, but as for joy, what joy!

In the past six months, they had completely abandoned Jun Wuxie, and the entire family's focus was on Xiao Xu.

Not only did they not take care of Jun Wuxie, but they had been constantly targeting him, cutting off his allowance and almost cutting off his food supply.

Who would have thought that the person who should have been lying in bed until he died actually stood up, and his strength seemed to have recovered a lot!

The Xiao family has a rule.

A clan meeting is held at the end of each year, and the young master must accept the challenge of the family's contemporary disciples. If he loses, he will be replaced.

It wasn't the end of the year yet, so even if the entire Xiao family regarded Xiao Xu as the future young master, Jun Wuxie was still the young master in name.

He knew Jun Wuxie's abilities well, and after thinking for a while, he decided that before Xiao Xu showed the talent to steadily suppress Jun Wuxie, it was appropriate to stabilize him temporarily.

"Wuxie, you've been wronged in the past six months. The family also has its own difficulties..." Xiao Chen showed an apologetic expression and said earnestly, "In the past six months, the family has actually been secretly seeking spiritual medicine that can treat you, but unfortunately..."

Speaking of this, Xiao Chen's face was full of relief: "Fortunately, you have finally recovered. The old man is sincerely happy for you, and I believe everyone in the Xiao family will be happy for you when they know."

"The Third Elder is really an understanding person."

Jun Wuxie smiled and immediately said, "Since that's the case, the kitchen garden manager Xiao Sanxiong is ignorant of etiquette and disobeys his superiors. He should be executed on the spot. Please, Third Elder, carry it out."

"This..."

The muscles on the Third Elder's face twitched fiercely. Xiao Sanxiong was a person who showed loyalty to Xiao Xu. If Xiao Sanxiong was executed, he might offend Xiao Xu.

Jun Wuxie was putting him in a difficult position.

But if he didn't carry it out, Jun Wuxie would never give up with his character.

He was caught in a dilemma for a while, weighing the pros and cons.

Just then, the clear sky suddenly darkened, and gradually the sun disappeared, and the entire Qingyang City entered the night.

The stars in the sky were shining brightly.

Strangely, all the stars were gathered above a courtyard in the Xiao family's mansion.

"Could it be... is Xiao Xu breaking through to the Xiantian realm? Did he communicate with his natal star and trigger the star phenomenon?"

Knowing one's fate at the Xiantian realm refers to knowing one's own natal star and being able to communicate with it.

When everyone breaks through to the Xiantian realm, the corresponding natal star in the sky will be brighter than other stars, but Xiao Xu's is too bright, and there is also a phenomenon of stars gathering all over the sky!

The Third Elder, Xiao Chen, was extremely excited and murmured: "Xiao Xu has fused with the Heavenly Mandate Spiritual Meridian and has become a high and mighty Envoy of Heavenly Mandate!"

Jun Wuxie narrowed his eyes and looked at the shining stars, one of which was particularly bright. Was that Xiao Xu's natal star?

He didn't expect that the Heavenly Mandate Spiritual Meridian bestowed on Xiao Xu by Xiao Tianming was so strong, and the formation when he awakened his Destiny Star was so great!

"Jun Wuxie!" The Third Elder suddenly shouted, his attitude changed 180 degrees: "You openly harmed the manager in the family. According to the family rules, you should be beaten eighty times!"

"Xiao Chen, your old face is changing faster than a book." As Jun Wuxie spoke, he smashed Xiao Sanxiong's head with a palm, and walked towards Xiao Chen, saying, "Do you really think I'm easy to bully?"

"Evil creature!" Xiao Chen's eyes revealed murderous intent, and he ordered the guards behind him: "Jun Wuxie openly killed the manager, take him and that little bitch down and execute them on the spot!"

"It seems you want to die!"

Jun Wuxie instantly became furious. This old thing not only wanted to kill him, but he didn't even spare the five- or six-year-old Xiao Yueyao!

His killing intent rose sharply, and he rushed towards Xiao Chen like a tiger out of its cage.