Chapter 886 Change in trajectories

Chapter 886 Change in trajectories

Wu Mingli sighed as clarity resumed in his eyes. Back then he didn't understand what his father meant or why he seemed sorrowful, frustrated, and relieved at the same time as he said those words.

His father's words were incomprehensible to him back then, but after experiencing the harshness of the world only then did those words reveal the wisdom that lay within.

Even though he long discarded any desire to be a hero, those words still served and guided him to who he is today, especially when it came to tempering the heart and the will. Those words were what helped him reach heights he never thought possible, and now he was just a stone's throw away from the palace realm because of it.

"Don't worry father, I will make sure to wield my sword for you, just like you did for me.." Wu Mingli thought with staunch conviction.

With an austere and somber look to him, Wu Mingli continued.

"All this while as my father was running away from the riverstone serpent, all he could imagine was how it would tear through the entire village.

No matter how much he screamed at his legs to stop, they would not listen to him. With every ground he gained, the more fearful he became of what fate awaited him.

Whichever way it went, he knew his end would not be a good one.

Because of its highly weakened state, my father was able to cover half the distance it took to get back to the village from the creek in the mountains.

If it wasn't for its apparent weakness, even without doing anything, its aura alone would have been capable of suppressing and incapacitating my qi refinement stage father. With the enormous disparity in their strength, he would not have been able to move let alone make enough ground from it as he did. Fịndd new updates at novelhall.com

Shaped by that experience, specifically the wandering cultivator who intervened and saved his life in more ways than one, my father had in him to do something close to it. This path led him to become a garrison guard of the Red Maple Empire.

A post where he could protect others just like he was protected.."

Wu Mingli paused as he smiled sorrowfully.

"Because of how impassioned he was at his duty, eventually he rose through the ranks and was promoted from a garrison guard watching over one of the frontier towns, to a city guard protecting one of the cities that fell under the jurisdiction of the royal family.

I wasn't born then, but I can imagine how proud he must have been to be given the post, even as just a footman..." Wu Mingli said with a smile that was mirrored by his mother, who softly muttered,

"He bragged for a whole year.."

"Throughout his life, he never rose past being a footman. Even though he was assiduous in his duties and well-liked by his superiors and the citizens of the city he watched over, he could never make it past becoming a footman because of his strength.

Because of how lacking his village had been in matters related to cultivation, even if they had qi refinement cultivators and some low-grade cultivation arts to help one reach a breakthrough to the qi refinement realm, their means, and methods were not the best, they could not be considered average, and it left all of them with glaring flaws in their foundations notwithstanding my father.

Those flaws severely hindered my father's cultivation path, so no matter how much effort he put in, he could never touch the core formation realm.

He reached the seventh stage of the foundation establishment realm at his peak. With such strength, he could only ever be a footman, but even then, he was still one of the best city guards in Spring Plum City.."