[In Xiao Yan’s future words, I’m still not a scumbag with enough conviction.] The women: ?
“A-choo~” Just arriving at the Xiao family marketplace to buy medicinal herbs, Xiao Yan sneezed.
“It must be Nalan Yanran cursing me.” Yao Chen: “…” “A-choo!” Inside a secret room in the Yan Realm, Yan Xiao, who was working hard at his cultivation and preparing to surpass his elder sister Huo Zhi, also sneezed.
“It must be Huo Zhi cursing me again.
You just wait; once I’m stronger than you, I’ll marry you off.” “I won’t let you become a thousand-year-old bachelor like Aunt Huo Ling.” Huo Ling and Huo Zhi, who had come to deliver late-night snacks: “…” Chu Xiao was unaware of all this and continued his passionate “creation.” [After testing Xiao Yan, I went to test Xun’er.] [She didn’t hide anything and told me her surname is Gu, not Xiao.] “Xiao?” Inside the Sect Leader’s bedchamber on the floating mountain of the Yun Lan Sect, Yun Yun, who was sitting on a stone bench in the backyard admiring the starlit sky, narrowed her eyes.
She was not at all unfamiliar with this surname.
Ten years ago, they were one of the four major Dou Wang clans of the Jia Ma Empire, and the patriarch’s son, Xiao Yan, had a marriage contract with her disciple, Nalan Yanran.
But now Nalan Yanran had joined the Yun Lan Sect and would likely become the Young Sect Leader.
If she passed the trial of the Life and Death Door, she would succeed her as the Sect Leader.
She definitely could not marry anymore, let alone marry a piece of trash; she could only accept a matrilocal husband.
Could this Xiao be that Xiao?
“That’s right!” Yun Yun suddenly reacted.
About five years ago, the sect had sent a Dou Ling Elder to the Xiao family to recruit a disciple.
The candidate was a genius who broke through to Dou Zhe at thirteen, and his name was Chu Xiao, but he was unwilling to leave the family and rejected the Yun Lan Sect.
Two years later, news spread that the third son of the Xiao patriarch, Xiao Yan, had broken through to Dou Zhe at eleven.
The Yun Lan Sect prepared to send someone to recruit him again, but before they could act, the Chu Yun Empire launched a war.
That war lasted for two years.
By the time she arranged for someone to go recruit him, she learned that the boy had become a piece of trash.
“Xiao, cousin, Xiao Yan…
could it really be Xiao Yan?” “Could it be such a coincidence?” An ill omen rose in Yun Yun’s heart.
If the information in the journal was not false, Chu Xiao would be a Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign in the future, while a Dou Di—who had vanished from the Dou Qi Continent—was only comparable to a Sovereign.
At that time, the Xiao family would surely rise with him.
Even if Xiao Yan wasn’t particularly powerful, becoming a Sovereign shouldn’t be a problem, right?
For the Yun Lan Sect, even a common Dou Zong expert would require consuming the sect’s foundation to defend against…
If Nalan Yanran went to annul the marriage, wouldn’t that be a disaster!?
Thinking of this, Yun Yun read the journal even more intently.
[Ordinary people won’t feel any ripples in their hearts upon hearing ‘Gu.’] [Xun’er doesn’t know that I have already seen through her background.] [This Gu is the Gu of the Gu Clan!] “Brother Chu Xiao, Xun’er knows~” Xun’er lay in her blankets with a sweet smile.
Sure enough, Brother Chu Xiao asking for her surname was to verify the matter of rebirth.
He didn’t know that she had likewise confirmed the journal was written by him.
[The Gu Clan is an Imperial Clan, a family that has produced a Dou Di.] “What!?” “Descendants of a Dou Di family!” At this moment, except for Xun’er, all the women holding the journal copies lost their composure.
The things Chu Xiao mentioned—the “Great Thousand World,” “Sovereign to Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign,” “Peerless Divine Abilities,” and the “Heavenly Evil God”—were too far away for them.
Of course, a Dou Di was also very far away from them; they hadn’t even thought about it before.
But now, Gu Xun’er, this descendant of an Imperial Clan, had appeared openly and was known to them.
If they came into contact with this girl, wouldn’t it be equivalent to contacting an Imperial Clan?
“Is this the reason why she is the Empress, while this Queen only has a child and is a responsibility?” A sharp glint appeared in the purple eyes of Medusa.
“Do not panic,” some women cautioned themselves in their hearts.
Man is not good for a thousand days, and flowers are not red for a hundred days.
According to what Chu Xiao said, there used to be many Dou Dis on the Dou Qi Continent.
But now Dou Dis have become legends, and even the deeds of Dou Sheng are rarely heard of.
What can this Imperial Clan background represent?
Perhaps they have already declined?
“The Gu Clan…
he actually has a woman from the Gu Clan by his side!” Feng Qing’er’s expression became solemn.
If that was the case, her plan to send people to investigate Chu Xiao had to slow down; at least her attitude had to change.
As a core disciple of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, she naturally knew of the existence of the seven major Imperial Clans.
Ever since the Xiao Clan was destroyed by the Hun Clan, the Gu Clan was the strongest clan on the surface.
The patriarch, Gu Yuan, was a late-stage Nine-star Dou Sheng expert.
The Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan was nothing in front of the Gu Clan.
“But there’s no need to fear.
A girl who was not kept in the Ancient Realm to cultivate likely has average talent and status.” “She definitely can’t even compare to my status in the clan.
Even if I really offend her, it won’t be enough to make the Gu Clan do anything to my Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.” “Besides, this Dou Qi Continent is not ruled by the Gu Clan alone.” Feng Qing’er comforted herself in her heart.
But in the next moment, her expression instantly froze.
[As everyone knows, a Nine-star Dou Sheng can use their own Dou Qi to trigger tides of worldly energy.
The peak bloodline begins to mutate.
Once a Dou Di possesses the ability to change their own bloodline, they can alter their own and their relatives’ bloodlines, greatly increasing their cultivation and talent.
By the power of one person, they can revitalize an entire family for ten thousand years.
Those with dense bloodlines have no bottlenecks before reaching the Half-Saint level.] Xun’er: Brother Chu Xiao is right.
Feng Qing’er: He really might be a reincarnator.
The other women: ?
Where is this “as everyone knows”?
This is clearly obscure knowledge!
It was the first time they had ever heard of it.
[There used to be many Imperial Clans on the Dou Qi Continent, but that war in the ancient Great Thousand World shattered the plane.
From then on, the Origin Qi was lost, and no Dou Sheng could ever break through to the Dou Di level again.
Without a new Dou Di being born in an Imperial Clan, the bloodline will eventually wither.] “Ancient war, Origin Qi!” Xun’er and Feng Qing’er noted this term in their hearts.
[As time passed and eras changed, until a thousand years ago, only eight Imperial Clans remained on the continent.
The predecessor of the Xiao family, the Xiao Clan, was one of them.
The patriarch at that time, Ancestor Xiao Xuan, was a Half-Di expert who relied on his strength to control three types of Heavenly Flames simultaneously.
The Xiao Clan was the veritably strongest among the Imperial Clans, but because of those events, the main branch today is just the Xiao family gasping for breath in a remote area of the Northwest Continent, without even a Dou Wang.] The women: !!!
The Xiao family was once an Imperial Clan!
“That Xiao Clan destroyed by the Hun Clan!” Feng Qing’er’s eyes widened.
“Brother Chu Xiao really knows.” Xun’er changed her posture as she lay.
[There are seven Imperial Clans currently existing on the continent.
The strongest on the surface is the Gu Clan.
The patriarch, Gu Yuan, has the strength of a late-stage Nine-star Dou Sheng.
Xun’er is his only daughter.] The women: ???
Terrifying as this!
But, they didn’t quite understand.
The patriarch of the Gu Clan, a late-stage Nine-star Dou Sheng old monster, only now has an only daughter.
And then, this daughter is not raised in the Gu Clan but placed in the already declined Imperial Xiao family.
What kind of operation is this?
“The daughter of the Gu Clan patriarch.” Feng Qing’er’s body trembled.
The good news was, knowing that the Jia Ma Empire was in the Northwest Continent, it would be easy to find people.
The bad news was, the other party had the only daughter of a Nine-star Dou Sheng by his side, which was roughly equivalent to having a Nine-star Dou Sheng as a backer.
She couldn’t afford to provoke him.