RBCT Chapter 56 Noble Families
Chapter 56 Noble Families
"Alright, if you have any other questions, feel free to ask. Don't be shy with your uncle."
Shen Zhi Qiu had completely lost all doubt at this point, and cherished Xia Xue, his niece who seemed to be his lucky star, as if she were his own child.
Only then did Xia Xue finally let go of her last worry.
Finally, she tactfully asked the question that was truly on her mind.
"Uncle, something happened when I was playing with Lu Yuan at Gu Garden today..."
Xia Xue recounted the events at Gu Garden, saying, "This mystical technique is far more powerful than the one my uncle used last night. I wonder what kind of technique it is? What are its effects?"
Shen Zhi Qiu was not surprised by this, but he was somewhat moved.
[The Pisces Yu clan is also using mystical arts at this critical juncture. Could the rumor be true?]
Which rumor? What rumor?
Xia Xue blinked, wanting to ask the question.
Unfortunately, this was what Shen Zhi Qiu was thinking, and Xia Xue could only sit aside and worry anxiously.
Shen Zhi Qiu explained to Xia Xue, "This is the Pisces Secret Technique of the Pisces Yu Clan. Its effect is to make the recipient a 'transmigrator'."
Realizing that Xia Xue lacked basic knowledge of the Xuanmen (Taoist sect), Shen Zhi Qiu took it upon himself to become her mentor in this area without Xia Xue needing to remind him.
"In our Jiangcheng area, there are four major Xuanxiu forces."
"Lu Yun Gu Clan, Shuang Yu Yu Clan, Nan Ke Nan Clan, return Huang Liang Shen Clan to us."
"Although our four families all passed down their lineage through clans, since the separation of heaven and earth, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has become increasingly scarce, and the bloodlines of each family have become increasingly diluted. As a result, we have no choice but to stop passing down our lineage through bloodlines and instead adopt a method of inheritance that is similar to a sect but also primarily based on the family."
"Those in the Xuanmen (mystical sect) refer to our clans and forces as Xuanxiu Shijia (mystical cultivation families)."
A family of cultivators?
That's quite fitting.
"I met a fellow Daoist named Nanli at a gathering before. Her?"
Shen Zhi Qiu smiled and nodded, saying, "Just as you guessed, she is indeed the current successor of the Nan Ke lineage, and she should be down the mountain for training right now."
Xia Xue blinked, puzzled, and asked, "Go down the mountain? Is there really a sacred mountain?"
Shen Zhi Qiu laughed heartily and said, "Of course there are immortal mountains, but they are different from what you think. Never mind, it's too troublesome to explain. I'll take you to see them when I have the chance, and then you'll know what an immortal mountain is all about, haha."
It seems that this sacred mountain is quite different from the traditional concept of a sacred mountain.
Shen Zhi Qiu patiently asked, "Do you have any other questions? It's okay if you can't think of any right now. You can come to the villa to find me anytime you have questions. I will be staying here for the next period of time."
Xia Xue breathed a sigh of relief. Originally, she had many questions, but when it came to actually asking them, she couldn't think of anything to ask for the time being.
After thanking her, Xia Xue was about to end the questioning when she suddenly remembered something and asked, "Uncle, do you know about the dark world, do you know about Netherfire?"
Shen Zhi Qiu looked at Xia Xue with surprise and asked in confusion, "Why are you asking about the Dark World? Given your lack of common sense, how do you know about the Dark World and the Netherfire?"
Shen Zhi Qiu indeed knew about the dark world and about the Netherfire.
However, Shen Zhi Qiu was quite surprised that she didn't know that the Netherfire was chasing her.
Given Shen Zhi Qiu's status, he should have been able to obtain this intelligence easily.
Xia Xue didn't hide anything and recounted the whole story about the Netherfire.
As Shen Zhi Qiu listened, he felt secretly annoyed.
I shouldn't have been lazy and directly checked the data stored in the villa without asking anyone to bring the latest information. I've missed such crucial information.
Shen Zhi Qiu said in a deep voice, "The dark world is complicated. I'll take you to see it sometime. You can think of it as a pan-alliance made up of a group of unorthodox sects. Recently, it has absorbed some independent cultivators, and its influence is growing stronger. Hmph."
His tone was full of disdain for the dark world.
Clearly, as a long-established and orthodox Xuanmen family, Shen Zhi Qiu completely looked down on these unorthodox sects and rogue cultivators.
Shen Zhi Qiu confidently declared, "Don't worry, I will inform the underworld that you are a member of the Huangliang Shen family, and they will never publish any more lists related to you again."
Xia Xue blinked.
The Shen family of Huangliang, is that prestigious?
The entire dark world doesn't dare to publish any lists about her. Tsk tsk, she's really powerful.
After Xia Xue thanked him, Shen Zhi Qiu jokingly asked, "How did you manage to provoke those hyenas from the Netherfire gang?"
Lu Yuan, an outsider, calls Minghuo a hyena, and Shen Zhi Qiu, a member of the Xuanmen, also calls Minghuo a hyena. It seems that the name Minghuo as a hyena has spread widely and has become a consensus.
Xia Xue naturally didn't want to take the blame, so she answered the question truthfully.
"What?" Shen Zhi Qiu was astonished upon hearing this. "You're saying that you were being chased by the Netherfire not because you provoked it, but simply because of your identity as the true daughter of the Xia family?"
Xia Xue thought of something and told Shen Zhi Qiu about her guess.
"How dare they set their sights on the Shen family?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Zhi Qiu immediately confirmed Xia Xue's guess.
"If nothing unexpected happens, this method should be the work of the Qingfu lineage."
The well-informed Shen Zhiqi only listened to the story once before immediately identifying the suspect.
"The Qingfu lineage?"
Qingfu was an elegant name for coins in ancient times.
Could this lineage be related to money?
Shen Zhi Qiu explained the methods of the Qing Fu lineage without Xia Xue needing to ask.
"Their lineage has emerged in the last thirty years. Originally, it was just a small school of thought. However, the country's economic situation has been excellent in the last thirty years, and there are too many rich people. This has given them the opportunity to use business means to defeat the rich and reap their good fortune."
At this point, Shen Zhi Qiu chuckled.
"With their business methods, they are naturally no match for those businessmen who have fought their way up in the market with real swords and spears. So, they use mystical methods to set up a scheme several years or even more than ten years in advance to destroy the opponent's luck, and then take advantage of the general trend to defeat the opponent and reap the luck."
At this point, a hint of guilt flashed in Shen Zhi Qiu's eyes as he looked at Xia Xue.
"Eighteen years ago, it must have been a cultivator from the Qingfu lineage who used you as a setup to disrupt your father's thirty-year period of great fortune and complete this harvest."
Xia Xue possessed a max-level Qi Observation Technique, so she naturally knew what a thirty-year period of great fortune meant. However, what she didn't expect was that the original Xia Xue was actually the vessel for the last ten years of great fortune.
"Isn't the Xia family the maternal family of the Shen family? The Qingfu lineage doesn't even respect the Shen family?"
This is what Xia Xue can't understand the most.
At this point, Shen Zhi Qiu looked embarrassed.
"Well, back then, Wei Yi had some conflicts with her family for certain reasons and lost contact with them. In addition, she wasn't a member of the Xuanmen sect, and she basically didn't have any contact with this circle before. So, not many people probably knew that she was a female Xuan cultivator from the Shen family."
[It's even quite possible that there isn't one at all.]
"Wei Lan only contacted Wei Yi later, and that's how Wei Yi got back in touch with her family. However, Wei Yi is very averse to the Xuanxiu circle, and even now, not many people know that she is a female Xuanxiu practitioner from the Shen family."
The number is unlikely to exceed two digits.
Xia Xue then realized and said, "So, the Qingfu lineage didn't find out that the Xia family was the maternal family of the Shen family. That's why they planned that child-swapping operation eighteen years ago and launched it this year as planned. As a result, they discovered that I was an accident, so they relentlessly pursued me and were determined to get rid of me."