I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

Two days later, the decree from the Imperial Household Department spread throughout the area surrounding the Aoki Su family and the South Street Market.

In an instant, cries of sorrow filled the land.

In front of the courtyard of the steward of the outer spiritual fields, dozens of collateral descendants gathered, their emotions running high.

Su Yu, dressed in a steward's brocade robe, stood on the steps, followed by more than a dozen main branch guards with grim expressions.

"Su Tian! Do you even have a heart?!"

At the very front of the crowd, Su Tie, his eyes bloodshot, pointed at Su Yu's nose and began to curse.

"We hand over 95% of our produce, and it's not even enough to buy spirit seeds! Our monthly salary is only half a spirit stone, and my newborn baby can't even get a sip of rice porridge containing spiritual energy! You're also from a collateral branch; you're trying to force all of us to our deaths!"

"Yes! We've toiled in the spirit fields for twenty years, working like animals for the main lineage, and now they won't even give us a way to survive!"

The other collateral descendants also roared, and some even drew their rusty iron swords from their waists, and the scene almost got out of control.

Facing this group of desperate kinsmen, Su Yu's face remained expressionless, and his eyes showed no emotion whatsoever.

He knew all too well the rules of the cultivation world.

The anger of the weak is nothing more than a gust of wind in the face of absolute power.

"The family business cannot tolerate the slightest compromise."

Su Yu's gaze swept across the entire room, his tone cold and devoid of any warmth.

"Roaring steward, inciting chaos among the people! Guards, drag Su Tie, the ringleader, away and give him thirty strokes of the cane."

"Anyone else who dares to cause trouble will have their entire monthly salary confiscated and be immediately expelled from the family territory!"

The guards behind him pounced like wolves and tigers, instantly pinning Su Tie to the ground.

The heavy staff slammed down, and the blood and screams instantly drowned out everyone's protests.

Under the violent suppression and the threat of expulsion from the family, the last glimmer of light in the eyes of the collateral descendants, who had just been full of enthusiasm, was completely extinguished.

Like walking corpses whose spinal cords had been drained, they silently retreated back to that muddy spiritual field.

"Vicious dog!"

"You'll die a horrible death!"

Su Tie was beaten until his skin was torn and bleeding. As he was dragged away, he stared intently at Su Yu, uttering vicious curses.

Su Yu ignored him, turned around, and returned to his residence in the market by sedan chair.

late at night.

In the underground chamber of the steward's residence, a luminous pearl emitting a faint glow illuminates the surroundings.

Having shed his disguise, Su Yu was sitting at a large desk, taking advantage of his position to organize the general ledger of the Spirit Herb Pavilion's storeroom.

The loyal, vicious dog-like demeanor he displayed during the day, willing to offend everyone for the sake of the main branch, has completely vanished.

"To buy a Foundation Establishment Pill, the entire clan's resources were drained, and even the path for independent cultivators was cut off."

Su Yu flipped through the account book, a mocking sneer curling at the corner of his lips.

"How foolish it is for a child to carry a gold brick in the bustling city."

His past experience as a commander told him that the Qingmu Su family, this dilapidated ship, was about to sink.

Without a Foundation Establishment cultivator in charge, they still had to use tens of thousands of spirit stones in the black market.

This is tantamount to showing off one's most delicious throat to the surrounding major cultivation families and rogue bandits.

Even if Su Hao could actually buy the Foundation Establishment Pill, during the weakened period of his closed-door breakthrough, the Su family would absolutely not be able to withstand the onslaught of the wolves.

Since the ship was going to sink, he naturally wouldn't go down with it.

Su Yu took out several blank jade slips from his bosom, and then took out several extremely old and fragmented scrolls.

These fragments were the family's treasures, which they had ordered him to collect from the depths of the storeroom in order to raise spirit stones for sale.

A tattered second-order spirit gathering array diagram, and two first-order high-grade pill formulas.

He placed the jade slip on his forehead and, relying on his extraordinary comprehension and divine sense, quickly copied the core heritage accumulated by these families over hundreds of years.

After completing the rubbing, he opened a hidden compartment in the corner of the secret room.

Inside the hidden compartment, dozens of storage bags were neatly stacked.

It was filled with low-grade spirit stones that he had embezzled over the past twenty years by falsifying accounts and taking kickbacks.

A rough estimate puts it at over four or five thousand yuan!

This wealth is enough to establish a small business in a remote place.

"We have the spirit stones, and we have the inheritance."

Su Yu carefully hid the several rubbings of the jade slips close to his body.

Everything is ready; all he has to do now is wait patiently.

……

Three months passed quietly in suffocating oppression.

During this period, the Qingmu Su family squeezed almost every last drop of blood from the market and the mortal territories.

Finally, in the underground black market of Yue Kingdom, they managed to acquire the Foundation Establishment Pill at an extremely high price.

On the very night he acquired the elixir, the young patriarch Su Hao entered the Xuan Shui Cave, the most spiritually rich spot in the back mountain of the clan, to begin his seclusion and attempt to break through the insurmountable barrier that had trapped countless cultivators.

The entire Aoki Su family was on high alert.

Clan Chief Su Changhe personally led all the elders at the late Qi Refining stage to guard the key points of the formation, keeping the clan's protective formation running day and night, sparing no spirit stones to maintain its strongest state.

However, the truth will eventually come out.

On a dark, cloudy night with continuous autumn rain.

"boom--!"

A deafening roar suddenly exploded in the sky above Aoki Ward.

The blinding light tore through the darkness of the rainy night, and the azure protective light screen that had sheltered the Su family for a hundred years collapsed like shattered glass amidst the violent tremors.

"Enemy attack!"

The piercing warning was immediately drowned out by the overwhelming shouts of battle.

Dozens of figures riding magical artifacts emerged from the shadows.

Judging from the style of the cultivation method and the design of the magical artifacts, it was immediately recognizable as the Zhao and Lin families, who had a long-standing feud with the Su family.

"Old ghost Su! This skinny, dying donkey of your Su family dares to forcefully swallow a Foundation Establishment Pill? He's practically courting death!"

In mid-air, two elderly men, both at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, stood suspended in the air, radiating astonishing spiritual pressure.

Behind them followed dozens of experts in the late stage of Qi Refining.

This lineup is almost entirely comprised of the two major families.

"Kill! Leave no one alive!"

The carnage instantly spread throughout the market and the family's inner courtyard.

Without the protection of the great formation, the Su family cultivators were forced to retreat in defeat under the crushing force of this absolute power.

Severed limbs, accompanied by a strong stench of blood, flowed freely in the rain.

"Stop them! We must not let them get even a step closer to the Xuan Shui Cave!"

With bloodshot eyes, Su Changhe disregarded the deep, bone-revealing wounds on his body and frantically activated his natal magic weapon, blocking the only path leading to the back mountain.

Several elders from the main branch of the Su family were also disheveled, burning their life essence to struggle to hold on.

Despite the crumbling defenses and the heavy casualties among their people, a near-fanatical hope burned in the eyes of these elders.

As long as we hold on!

As long as Hao'er successfully establishes his foundation and breaks through the barrier, he will emerge!

A Foundation Establishment stage cultivator could easily crush all these invading enemies with a flick of his wrist.

The blood the Su family sheds today will be repaid a thousandfold in the future!

"Stubborn to the end!"

The Zhao family patriarch snorted coldly, and a black banner in his hand swelled in the wind, transforming into a sky full of black demons, which slammed into Su Changhe's chest.

"puff!"

Su Changhe coughed up a mouthful of blood and crashed into the mud like a kite with a broken string, his life force instantly weakening to the extreme.

Several elders also collapsed from exhaustion, and a pall of despair enveloped all the remaining members of the Su family.

Is it possible that fate is truly determined to destroy the Aoki Su family?

Just as the Zhao family patriarch was preparing to strike hard and wipe out the back mountain in one fell swoop.

"Buzz—!"

A vast, ocean-like surge of spiritual energy suddenly erupted from the direction of the Xuan Shui Cave in the back mountain.

This fluctuation is completely different from the gaseous spiritual energy of the Qi Refining stage.

It carried a natural aura of superiority, sweeping across the entire market in an instant, even causing the autumn rain in the sky to freeze for a moment.

Foundation Building Stage!

"It's done... Hao'er's done!"

Lying in a pool of blood, Su Changhe felt the overwhelming spiritual pressure that was crushing the entire scene. Tears streamed down his face as he let out a manic yet gratified laugh.

The rest of the Su family members also seemed to have received a shot of adrenaline, their eyes shining with the light of relief after surviving a disaster.

In contrast, the faces of the Zhao and Lin families turned deathly pale.

The two patriarchs, both at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, were on high alert and even considered retreating.

A true Foundation Establishment cultivator cannot be easily overwhelmed by sheer numbers.

boom!

The stone gate of Xuanshui Cave shattered, and a figure in cyan robes soared into the sky on a sword, hovering steadily in mid-air.

Su Hao's robes fluttered, and his true energy flowed around him, as if he were a god looking down at the battlefield below, which resembled a purgatory.