Mindy, let's go back to Sun Sect now, Austin said.
They had just left the Mysterious Ancient Well, and Austin thought that he should begin to make preparations for the Top Ten Outer Disciples Ranking Challenge.
"No, Austin, you go ahead. I have something more important to deal with. I've waited for years for this, and the day has finally come."
Mindy shook her head as she looked to the northeast. Determination was written all over her face. It was obvious that she had made a significant decision.
"Something more important?"
Austin was confused by Mindy's words.
"Austin, you've done me a great favor this time. I'd like to share my past with you."
Mindy found a clean, flat rock not far from the well, and gestured for Austin to sit on it.
"My name is actually Mindy Zhang, not Mindy Wu," she began.
She stared blankly into the distance, her mind swamped with painful memories. Austin listened to her story quietly.
"I came from Valley Town. It is a remote town, no match for Peace Town in scale or prosperity.
There were two well-matched clans in Valley Town, the Zhang Clan and the Li Clan.
On the surface, the two clans were on good terms. But in private, they were business rivals. As they were equally matched in strength and power, neither of them dared to openly start a fight.
But after a while, the peaceful facade was shattered.
As luck would have it, the head of the Zhang Clan found an ancient book called 'Elixir Foundation' in a cave. The book was a down-to-earth and easy to understand introduction to pill refining. Valley Town was backward in everything, including cultivation, so all the natives looked forward to becoming pill refiners.
The head of the Zhang Clan decided to have the youths of the clan study pill refining so that there would be more pill refiners in the clan. After all, pill refining is a respected career. Once the Zhang Clan had more pill refiners, it would become more powerful.
The discovery of the book was supposed to be a secret, but somehow, the head of the Li Clan found out.
He spent a large sum of money on bribing a butler and several guards of the Zhang Clan. One night, with the help of the traitors, the whole Li Clan launched a surprise attack on the Zhang Clan. All the members of the Zhang Clan were killed or caught, and the clan was wiped out.
That night, a couple from the Zhang Clan held off their enemies long enough to secretly send their little daughter away with a servant.
After the girl escaped, she didn't dare to go back to Valley Town again. She changed her family name and wandered from place to place.
She had practiced martial arts with the martial artists in her clan, so she successfully passed the Sun Sect's entrance exam and joined the sect."
She paused and looked at Austin, who realized that she was telling her own story.
"You're the little girl, aren't you?" he asked.
Mindy nodded. Her eyes turned red and watery as she recalled her family.
"Are you going back to avenge your family?" he asked.
"Yes. It has been about seven years since I escaped, but not a day has gone by without thinking about my parents and my other clansmen. I fled the town in a hurry, so I don't know whether they are still alive. The members of the Li Clan weren't that strong back then. Most of them had only reached Energy Gathering Realm. It was said that the head of the Li Clan had reached the preliminary stage of Earth Realm."
Mindy began to look nervous.
"How about this? I'll go to Valley Town with you. If the head of the Li Clan was at the preliminary stage of Earth Realm seven years ago, it's possible that he has made a breakthrough since then. I don't think you can deal with a whole clan on your own," Austin suggested.
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