The Ji Family's Pride

Chapter 1 The mystery in the womb
In the vast hall, thick candles emitted mottled candlelight.

A young man was lying quietly on a large bed covered with skins of unknown animals. A light gauze curtain on the bed separated the inside and the outside.

The candle had been burning for a long time, and its light shone through a corner of the window and was reflected on the boy's face from afar, making his face flicker.

"Go change all the candles!" A woman's voice suddenly came from the hall. The voice was as elegant as orchid, but very soft, for fear of suddenly waking up the young man who was sleeping with his eyes closed on the bed.

"Yes!" The person waiting outside the hall responded immediately, and then quietly called on a few servants to quickly replace the candles with new ones.

The specially made candles burned wildly, and wisps of green smoke slowly floated upwards and accumulated on the dome of the hall. The faint fragrance filled every place illuminated by the candlelight along with the green smoke. The hall suddenly became much brighter, and the figure sitting in the dimness beside the bed was clearly visible.

I saw a beautiful woman in white sitting quietly beside the bed. Although her pretty face was not made up, it looked even more beautiful under the candlelight. The woman had a simple bun with only a wooden hairpin adorning her hair. It was inserted diagonally into her three thousand black hair, firmly fixing the bun. The tassels on the hairpin hung straight down without shaking. The woman had been sitting beside the bed for a long time.

The watery eyes of the woman in white reflected the long-sleeping boy on the bed. The boy was wearing a black robe, his brows were slightly furrowed on his young face, and his eyes were tightly closed.

The boy looked young, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a delicate face, vaguely resembling the beautiful woman beside the bed, but less gentle and more heroic.

Perhaps it was the noise of changing the candles that woke up the boy who was about to wake up, and his slightly frowned brows slowly relaxed.

Ji Xiaoshan opened his eyes and looked at everything in front of him, stunned for a long time. The spacious hall was illuminated by the candlelight, which made him notice the beautiful woman who had been looking at him beside the bed.

The scattered and messy memories in his mind became clearer and clearer, and he gradually woke up.

"Mom, I made you worry!" Ji Xiaoshan slowly propped himself up. He knew that his mother had always been worried about him and had been staying by his side since she probably knew he was unconscious.

"Xiaoshan, I'm glad you're okay. Cultivation should not be impetuous, and breakthroughs require caution. Don't be so rash. You are still young. Once you have enough foundation, breaking through to become a Purple Mansion cultivator will be a natural thing."

The woman whose eyes were as clear as water before had calmed down when Ji Xiaoshan woke up. She looked at the young man who had already sat up in front of her. Her son had been sensible since he was young, and his talent for cultivation was one of the best in the Ji family. He broke through to the innate life form at the age of sixteen, and his appearance was fixed from then on.

It was just that the young man was full of vigor and vitality, and was a little impatient when breaking the mirror, which led to his failure in the end. But on the long road of cultivation, who can go smoothly and rise straight up?

This setback might not be a bad thing for Xiaoshan, the woman thought about it and comforted him repeatedly.

"Your father said that you have the foundation, and it is only a matter of time before you break through to become a Purple Mansion cultivator. Now that you have woken up, you should rest well for a while, and then you will be able to become a Purple Mansion cultivator in one fell swoop." The woman thought about it. Young people are talented, but they are also relatively easy to go astray and get stuck in a dead end. She suppressed her worries in her heart and said.

"Now, although my Ji clan is one of the six major forces in Yanshan, there are not many Purple Mansion cultivators. I think the clan will strongly support you, a potential Purple Mansion cultivator, so don't worry."

"Yes, the child knows." Ji Xiaoshan nodded softly in response.

"Xiaoshan, the palace is busy with affairs, and your father is the Lord of the North Palace. When he is free, he will come to see you later. Since you have just recovered from your injuries, I will go back first."

Feeling that the young man handled the situation appropriately, his pale face was very noticeable, the woman thought about Ji Xiaoshan's body. He had lost his vitality when he broke through the realm, and he should find some good things in the treasury in the mansion to replenish it. After saying that, she stood up and walked out of the hall until her figure gradually faded out of sight.

Ji Xiaoshan watched his mother go away, and when he saw that he was the only one left in the hall, he lay back on the bed, his mind fluctuating. Although he had just woken up, his mind was still in a mess, and he still needed to sort it out, and he didn't have more energy to take care of other things.

The memories before the coma emerged in his mind, from when he was born in the Ji family of Yanshan, grew up under his parents' lap, and embarked on the path of spiritual practice under the guidance of his parents since he was a child.

He practiced the skills diligently and became an acquired creature. At the age of sixteen, he broke through to become an innate creature. He took one step at a time until he achieved innate perfection.

Along the way, in just twenty years he completed a journey that many people in the Ji family had not completed in their entire lives, but he failed and fell into a coma after his unsuccessful attempt to break through to the Purple Mansion cultivator.

In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person. He lived an ordinary life on Earth for thirty years and died suddenly due to an accident.

The bits and pieces accumulated from the two lives, the fragments of memory from the two lives keep flashing out, interweaving, colliding and merging with each other.

Ji Xiaoshan's expression changed from pain to peace, and from peace to indifference, slowly returning to calm.

"Zhuang Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly, and the butterfly dreamed of Zhuang Zhou. This situation is really mysterious." Ji Xiaoshan thought.

"On the long road of cultivation, there are innate creatures, purple palace cultivators, all-encompassing immortals, Yuanshen Taoists, returning to the void earth immortals and even celestial immortals."

"Endless land, Yanshan, Ji family." Ji Xiaoshan thought about the information retained deep in his memory, and then he thought of a novel called "The Legend of Chusen" in his memory of his previous life. He who died accidentally was reborn in this strange yet familiar world.

After my reincarnation in this life, my memories of my past life were obscured. Although I had cultivated myself from an ordinary mortal to innate perfection at a young age, my aptitude was only limited to my intelligence in Yanshan. I was nothing outside.

Although the Ji clan in this endless land is one of the six major forces in Yanshan, and he is the only son of Ji Liuzhen, the head of the Ji clan's northern mansion, there are countless small tribes like the current Ji clan in this endless land.

What's more, he is just an innate creature and his cultivation is still shallow.

Innate creatures are just ants that have not yet truly embarked on the path of cultivation.

I have lived my life again, and although I know that this is the world of The Great Desolation, the book only records the general outline centered on Ji Ning, and what is revealed is just the tip of the iceberg.

Only those with real strength can turn opportunities into nourishment on the path of cultivation. Currently, he is still in the mortal world and is far from qualified to understand these things.

Ji Xiaoshan gathered his thoughts. The road ahead would be long and difficult, so he had to focus on the present.

"The Ji family is still living in a remote corner of Yanshan. I still have some time. I don't know if Ji Ning was born in Xifu!"

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(End of this chapter)