Gu Feng found so ti to check on the residence where he once lived.
Jiang Ruolin ntioned that Murong Jue, the Civilization Guardian Envoy, wasn’t at the mansion, but Gu Feng could sense the man’s aura.
Gu Feng rely looked to see if any descendants of the Gu Family were still living nearby.
Regrettably, he couldn’t detect the aura of the Gu family bloodline.
It was possible that after several generations, the familiar bloodline aura had faded.
That evening, Chen Ke left.
Jiang Ruolin brought ho a bunch of dicinal materials, sorting them in the living room while eyeing the tightly closed door.
She then glanced at the retro old-fashioned clock on the corner wall.
It was already past midnight.
Although cultivators had long lost the concept of ti, she murmured without reason, "He wouldn’t have really left, would he?"
"But he didn’t take the money I gave him, he just left like that?"
"Not even teaching a bit of alchemy techniques?"
"Just because I refused once, he gave up and left?"
"That’s too lackluster, isn’t it? My refusal wasn’t that absolute."
"Back in school, didn’t those guys hang around annoyingly, unable to be sent away after trying many tis? How co he backed off after just one eting?"
Jiang Ruolin mused to herself, and casually glanced at her reflection in the windowpane: "I don’t look weird, my looks are always on point."
At that mont, her phone rang with a "video call" request.
Seeing it was her mom, Jiang Ruolin put aside what she was doing and accepted the video call.
Liu i first asked if she had found a place to live.
Jiang Ruolin showed Liu i around her worn but fully equipped apartnt.
After looking around, Liu i curiously asked, "Where’s Gu Feng?"
"He went out, hasn’t co back yet," Jiang Ruolin said, a bit guiltily.
"Going out so late?" Liu i was suspicious.
Just as Jiang Ruolin was about to explain, the door opened.
Gu Feng ca back with a bunch of fruit.
Jiang Ruolin’s face inexplicably lit up: "Look, he’s back, just went to buy so food."
Liu i finally set aside her suspicions.
Jiang Ruolin asked, "Mom, have you spoken to the Bai family yet?"
Liu i then turned the cara to her husband and said, "See, I wasn’t lying to you, our daughter has a boyfriend. We can refuse the Bai family now."
In the cara, Jiang Dad, who probably had been stealthily watching the video, noticed the presence of a man in his daughter’s apartnt and seed unwilling to speak, clearly unable to accept it at the mont.
"That’s it, I won’t talk about this now. I’ll appease your dad later, and take him to see you both," Liu i said with a ’I’ll handle it at ho’ attitude, then hung up the video call.
After Jiang Ruolin hung up the phone, she curiously asked Gu Feng, "Where have you been for so long?"
Gu Feng replied, "I went to check on my relatives and see if they were around."
"Relatives?" Jiang Ruolin was curious, "I don’t know much about you; where are you from?"
Gu Feng said, "I’m originally from the Beijing area."
"Are your relatives in Shencheng? Did you find them?" asked Jiang Ruolin.
Gu Feng shook his head, "Sothing must have happened, so I don’t know where they went."
Jiang Ruolin nodded understandingly, "Indeed, in this world where power is respected, things are unpredictable. I see news every year about the ancestors of those big families on Earth dying off-world, which affects their descendants on Earth too."
At this point, Jiang Ruolin grew curious, "Are your relatives part of a big family?"
Gu Feng nodded, "They used to be, but I don’t know how well they’re doing now."
"Which big family?" asked Jiang Ruolin.
Gu Feng responded, "Have you heard of the Gu Family? They are descendants of a Taoist Ancestor. Where are their mortal lineage now? Do they still exist?"
"What did you say?" Jiang Ruolin looked at Gu Feng in disbelief, barely holding back a laugh, "Your relatives are descendants of a Taoist Ancestor? Does that make you one, too?"
"I’m not," Gu Feng shook his head.
I am the Taoist Ancestor, the progenitor of their line!
"Whatever," Jiang Ruolin rolled her eyes, "Even if the Taoist Ancestor’s family has fallen on hard tis, how could they have a descendant without a Spirit Root like you?"
"Back then, the Taoist Ancestor’s daughter, Empress Qingxue, was a peerlessly stunning figure. She was a milestone for us female cultivators, becoming the first to reach the Nineteen Layered Heaven with her exceptional talents! Clad in white, she cleaved the extraterritorial starry sky with her sword, disgracing many male cultivators!"
Gu Feng hadn’t anticipated that his daughter, Little Xue, once had such a glorious history.
But he wanted to tell Jiang Ruolin: That’s your daughter too!
After pausing for a mont, Jiang Ruolin said wistfully, "Unfortunately, Empress Qingxue’s cultivation journey halted at the Nineteen Layered Heaven. She didn’t further carve out the Fourth Plate of the Original World. Otherwise, as the undisputed number one at that ti, if she could have entered the Fourth Plate and gained many opportunities for the Gu Family, their foundation would have been significantly robust, possibly preserving their legacy for thousands more years!"
Gu Feng asked, "What happened afterward? How did the descendants of the Gu Family fare?"
Jiang Ruolin shook her head, "I don’t know that much. I only learned about Empress Qingxue through the history of cultivation civilization. The Gu Family was once a top-tier clan, and even if they fell from grace, they aren’t the ones we lowly people can judge easily."
Gu Feng asked, "Did the descendants of the Gu Family continue to this day?"
"Their ancestor lineage, I only know, was in the tenth level of Cultivation Country. As for the mortal lineage, it’s unknown. They supposedly changed their surna to avoid drawing attention."
"Changed their surna?" Gu Feng fell into contemplation; no wonder he had scanned the whole world looking for people with the surna Gu and hadn’t detected their bloodline presence.
"That’s quite normal," said Jiang Ruolin. "You only see the harmony of major families on Earth. The hatred they hold in the star systems and the outer battlefields is very deep. Once a family’s ancestral power collapses, their mortal descendants often have to hide and lay low."
"Whether entering the Original World to fight over secret techniques and top-tier magical treasures and artifacts or struggling for the Superior Spirit Stones’ mines in the outer realms, conflicts are bound to arise."
"Occurrences like ambushing, looting, and wiping out soone’s belongings are common in the Original World, spilling over into clan battles in reality."
"If it wasn’t for the ’Civilization Contract’ left by the Taoist Ancestor, their mortal enemies would have already rooted them out and initiated slaughter reaching Earth."
"But that Civilization Guardian Envoy, Lord Murong Jue, might not always intervene. Sotis, after receiving benefits from those big outer families, he turns a blind eye, letting them purge the Earth descendants."
"I heard Lord Murong Jue has many concubines who have extended his lineage through ascendants who have moved to the star systems or the outer realms. Then these major families pull strings for his descendants, enabling Lord Murong Jue to turn a blind eye here on Earth."
"Rumor has it that his descendants have now risen in power to the thirteenth level of Cultivation Country!"
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