Ji Shenshuo was dead.
He died in the sect he had spent his whole life protecting, at the hands of the people closest to him.
After his master passed away, the vast Lieyang Peak was left without a leader. His master's wife, Bai Xue, was a woman with decent cultivation, but she was no good at managing sect affairs and knew little of the schemes of the heart. At the time, Ji Shenshuo, the eldest disciple who had just established his foundation, took it upon himself to shoulder every responsibility.
He kept his master's final instructions close to heart, guarded Lieyang Peak's legacy, devoted himself to serving his master's wife, and carefully taught and protected his several young junior sisters. Sect duties, the allocation of cultivation resources on the peak, maintaining formations, missions outside the sect: he took on every dirty, exhausting, and dangerous task himself.
He kept at it for decades.
Ji Shenshuo believed he had done right by his master's tutelage, his master's wife's care, and the junior sisters he had protected since they were children.
But everything was destroyed by one man.
Xiao Jianren.
He was the junior disciple Bai Xue, his master's wife, had exceptionally admitted to the sect decades earlier.
