However, since there were too many tribespeople around, Li Zhirui lied on the surface and merely said it was a decent third-tier Spiritual Medicine, giving him six thousand Contribution Values to avoid attracting trouble to this lucky youngster.
The remaining nine thousand Contribution Values were quietly given to Li Chengyu by Li Zhirui, along with an explanation through a voice transmission, telling him to keep an eye out for himself.
The reason Li Zhirui did this was mainly that the child was unlucky; his birth mother had fallen ill and died, and the following year his father took a female cultivator as a wife. At first, the stepmother treated him fairly well, but everything changed once she had her own child, who was also found to have the same Three Spiritual Roots.
To make her own biological son go further, she began to treat Li Chengyu harshly, even taking away his family's monthly stipend when he was young.
