The Great Emperor's Parents Keep Suppressing Me, but I Have Heaven-Defying Comprehension

Lu Qing, a king of the Eastern Region, believes he did a terrible job raising his older children. They turned out arrogant or conceited, wholly unsuited to inherit the position of head of the Lu family.

So when Lu Fan was born, he decided to raise the child frugally, hoping to instill good qualities and meet his standards for an heir.

Lu Qing planned every detail of Lu Fan’s upbringing. As soon as the child was born, the entire family moved to a small mountain village they had built with their clansmen, where they took up farming.

When the boy turned eight, Lu Qing spent a fortune to invite the Confucian Sage and Sword Sage of the age to pose as an ordinary scholar and a martial artist, opening a school and a martial arts hall in the town below the mountain to teach him.

Next, he planned to have the boy join a small nearby sect at ten, reach the Golden Core level of an inner disciple there by eighteen, attain the Nascent Soul strength of an elder by thirty, and reach the grandmaster level of the sect leader by fifty...

Throughout this process, he needed everyone involved to cooperate and tell the child that his aptitude was perfectly ordinary, and that only diligent study and hard training could help him barely meet the minimum requirements for each stage.

Surely that would keep Lu Fan from developing any bad habits like pride, arrogance, or excessive conceit.

Then, once the boy reached the level of a Venerable at a hundred, he could bring him back to the Lu family to receive the family inheritance!

Lu Qing thought his plan was flawless, without a single loophole. But everything went badly off course when Lu Fan went to become a disciple of the Confucian Sage for the first time at the age of eight...