Disciple, please come down the mountain soon. Your senior sister can’t wait any longer.

According to common sense, if a martial arts family suddenly has a great talent for martial arts, no matter what his background is, even if he is the most humble illegitimate child, all past grudges will be put aside, and he will be given a new family status, granted authority he has never had before, and truly given the warmth of the family, completely expelling the haze and darkness that the family once brought to him.

This is what a normal martial arts family should do, and it is also the only way for a martial arts family to cultivate fresh blood and slowly grow stronger and rise.

But such an approach is only aimed at ordinary martial arts families.

For a giant family like the Pei family that dominates a city, there is a completely different way than ordinary martial arts families to deal with an illegitimate child who suddenly appears with great talent.

That was what Pei Xingchen had experienced personally. The excellent martial arts talent he displayed should have been the cornerstone for his resurgence, but in the end it became the culprit that pushed him into the abyss again.

It is incomprehensible that such a thing happened in an ordinary martial arts family, because the power of an ordinary martial arts family is limited. If you want to expand the family power, you must seize every bit of power that can strengthen the family.

A genius with a strong talent for martial arts suddenly emerges from the bloodline of the family. No matter what his background is, he will eventually be included in the core of the family for the sake of the family's growth, and all the family's resources will be used to train him. It is hoped that one day the genius in the family will exchange all his talents, become a truly powerful warrior, and then give back to the family, so that the family can break through the original ceiling and truly grow and develop.

But for a giant family like the Pei family, this is not the case.

The small family has limited power and a weak bloodline, so when a martial arts genius finally appears, they are naturally treated like a treasure and carefully cared for, fearing that he will die young.

And does a giant martial arts family like the Pei family lack geniuses?

There are tens of thousands of clan members, martial arts training camps everywhere, and countless people are flocking to them to curry favor with them and to be their dogs. They have no shortage of fresh blood to enrich the family's strength.

In addition, they have been rooted in a city for hundreds of years, their power is intertwined, and they have countless resources to mobilize. Even if they don't have geniuses, they can just spend money to build a powerful force that will make countless people tremble in fear. So naturally, they don't value the so-called geniuses so much.

Unless they are truly gifted and powerful enough to change the landscape of martial arts single-handedly, such as Chu Longtu, they do not take other so-called geniuses that seriously.

Because with the capabilities of the Pei family, they are fully capable of mass-producing these so-called geniuses.

It was based on this idea that when Pei Xingchen was suppressed so miserably by his brothers and sisters, Pei Runnian did not become furious as Pei Xingchen had imagined, and punished his brothers and sisters, but instead helped him restore his reputation and status and invested heavily in his training.

That was just Pei Xingchen's most beautiful fantasy in the darkness, but Pei Runnian completely shattered the last bit of light in Pei Xingchen's heart with his actual actions.

He did nothing and asked nothing, as if a son like Pei Xingchen, who had excellent martial arts talent, had never appeared.

He just acquiesced!

When Pei Xingchen desperately asked someone to ask Pei Runnian for help but was ultimately rejected, he was completely desperate and completely recognized Pei Runnian's true face.

When he showed excellent talent in martial arts, Pei Runnian acted like a truly loving father. He cared for him, arranged a better place to live for him, provided him with more sophisticated elixirs, and even taught him martial arts personally, as if he wanted to make up for the fatherly love that he had been missing for many years. Pei Xingchen, who was originally full of resentment, suppressed his negative emotions for a while and had unrealistic beautiful fantasies about Pei Runnian.

However, when Pei Runnian refused to help, the once shining bubble of dreams was finally completely punctured.

The last straw that broke the camel's back for Pei Xingchen was the reason why Pei Runnian refused to help him.

“Although the Pei family is large and has countless resources, they never keep useless people.”

"If I have to take action to resolve even these small twists and turns, how can I achieve great things in the future?"

When the Pei family member who came to deliver the message said this in front of Pei Xingchen, Pei Xingchen was completely stunned.

Pei Xingchen was framed by his brothers and sisters and had a hard time surviving just because he was too outstanding, but in Pei Runnian's eyes, it became a test for him?

What kind of heartless and cold-blooded person must be to say such words.

Pei Xingchen was completely desperate and had completely lost confidence in Pei Runnian. Under the instigation of negative emotions in his heart, all his previous hopes, admiration, longings and respect for Pei Runnian were completely transformed into hatred and resentment that was so strong that it was almost impossible to resolve.

Forever and forever, this hatred is endless.

This poem is a true portrayal of Pei Xingchen, whose all hopes were extinguished in one day.

From then on, Pei Xingchen disappeared from the Pei family.

He never appeared in front of his brothers and sisters again, nor did he speak a word to them again.

He still lived in the Pei family's mansion, but like a ghost, he never met anyone from the Pei family.

After a long time, even Pei Runnian almost forgot that he had such a son.

Time flies, and more than ten years have passed in a flash.

The little kids who used to play and fight together have all grown up into adults with ulterior motives.

The intimacy of childhood is completely torn apart by the struggle for family power and interests after adulthood, and is crushed into mud and disappears.

Pei Runnian still sits firmly in the position of head of the family, while his children have begun to fight fiercely for the position of heir.

During this process, everyone forgot about Pei Xingchen's existence.

Not only Pei Runnian, but even the two brothers who had brought Pei Xingchen down in the past had forgotten this genius brother who they had once envied, jealous and hated, and completely ignored his existence.

However, they forgot one thing: time will pass, trees will decay, but the hatred rooted in the soul will never disappear with the passage of time. Instead, it will become more intense like old wine.

A year ago, it was the eighteenth year since Pei Xingchen was exiled.

This year, Pei Xingchen was twenty-four years old.