While Lily Foster was deep in thought, he suddenly sensed several powerful auras rushing rapidly in this direction. Lily Foster thought to himself that this was bad, and hurriedly cast a spell to wake up the people who had fainted on the ground. He said urgently, “It’s good that you’re alright. As for my name, I’ll tell you next time if we meet again. The patrol team is almost here, so I’ll leave first. Hey, those of you lying on the ground, if you’re fine, get up and run quickly. If you get caught, just keep your mouths shut. If you dare to give up Daniel and me, I absolutely won’t let you off easily!” After saying these last words with a stern tone, Lily Foster grabbed his cousin Daniel Thompson, who was standing to the side, and quickly ran out of the alley. He really didn’t want to end up sitting in the punishment hall of Tianque Sect. If the neighbors found out, not only would he lose face, but his parents would also be shamed.

Chapter 8: Motivation

Lily Foster ran five streets in one breath, and only after confirming that the patrol team wasn’t chasing after them did he stop. He turned to the already panting Daniel Thompson beside him and asked sharply, “Aren’t you supposed to be keeping vigil for your father today? How do you still have time to come here and bully people?”

Daniel Thompson didn’t answer. He just quietly walked to a corner, squatted down, and buried his face in his hands in silence.

Seeing this, Lily Foster let out a cold laugh and continued to scold, “You bastard, does that Chad Sullivan have a grudge against you? Was it necessary to go so hard, aiming for vital spots? Someone could have died, you know? Now your dad is dead, and if you get caught by the punishment hall and locked up for a few years, what’s your mom supposed to do?”

Seeing that Daniel Thompson still didn’t speak, Lily Foster was both angry and amused. In his previous life, he lost his parents at a young age, so after growing up, he longed for and valued family affection the most, and couldn’t stand unfilial people. At that, he grabbed Daniel Thompson by the hair, forced him to look up, and was about to punch him. But when his fist reached Daniel Thompson’s face, Lily Foster involuntarily stopped, because he suddenly saw that his always stubborn cousin’s face was actually covered in tear stains.

Lily Foster was stunned for a moment, then let go of his hand in frustration and asked coldly, “Tell me, what’s really going on?”

“Dad is dead, I want to avenge him!” Daniel Thompson suddenly stood up, turned around, and punched the wall hard, shouting, “The reason so many people died in our town this time is all because of that guy!”

Lily Foster was stunned again and asked in confusion, “Because of that guy? But he had nothing to do with what happened yesterday, right?”

“Nothing to do with it?” Daniel Thompson snorted coldly. “Haven’t you heard about what happened fifteen years ago?”

“Fifteen years ago?” Lily Foster was puzzled. He had spent all his time after the age of four in endless cultivation, so he really didn’t know much about the past.

“You really don’t know?” Daniel Thompson looked at Lily Foster in surprise and said, “Fifteen years ago, after the shaman god Chiyou was resurrected at Zhulu Plain, he headed south. The tenth generation sect leader, in order to stop him from entering the Great Chu, led a hundred Jindan experts from the sect and, at the cost of their lives, sealed Chiyou inside the body of a newborn child. Yvonne, you really haven’t heard about this?”

Lily Foster shook his head and said, “Never heard of it. That Chad Sullivan is the child you’re talking about, right? But what does he have to do with what happened yesterday?”

Daniel Thompson said angrily, “You know that the demon seal can be passed down through the bloodline, right? I heard that Chad Sullivan is the son of the tenth generation sect leader. The reason the tenth generation sealed Chiyou in his own son was actually for the sake of his own descendants—he was being selfish. If so many of our experts hadn’t died sealing Chiyou, with the power of our Tianque Sect, who would have dared to attack us? So it’s all his fault! Besides, who knows if he really is the vessel for Chiyou’s seal? When the ninth generation sect leader rushed over with people, everyone was dead except for him. Maybe he himself is Chiyou!”

So it was just venting anger—Lily Foster saw a flash of understanding and disdain in his cousin’s eyes. No wonder he had felt a sense of familiarity at that time; it turned out that the look in that strange young man’s eyes was very similar to what he himself had experienced in a certain period of his previous life.

In his previous life, Lily Foster’s parents were killed for offending a drug lord, and after that, his relatives all fell on hard times. So they all believed that it was Lily Foster’s parents who had brought disaster, and that Lily Foster himself was a jinx who had caused his parents’ deaths. They thought their poverty was all because they were implicated by Lily Foster and his parents, and this view gradually influenced their children and the neighbors. From then on, Lily Foster was often beaten. At that time, just like that strange young man, he would smile on the surface as if he didn’t care, but inside he was full of anger and sadness. Later, his personality became cynical, and he swore to take revenge on everything, which led him to do things he regretted deeply even to this day.