Click! Click! Two crisp sounds in succession.

The maid who was cleaning inside looked up and saw that the two life tablets on the second to last step of the nine-layer white dragon relief jade platform were broken.

She screamed in fright, dropped the rag in her hand and ran out to report the matter to the housekeeper.

"What did you say? Two life tablets in Lingde Hall are broken?" The housekeeper Wang Qing's face changed immediately.

The life plate is made by a powerful person in the family using a wisp of soul separated from the cultivators in the family. If the life is there, the plate will be there. If the life is gone, the plate will break!

Now that the fate card has broken into two pieces, doesn't that mean that two cultivators in the clan are... dead? This is terrible! Wang Qing was about to report to the head of the family, when a servant came to report: "Butler, the eighth young master is here."

Wang Yi came to apologize. He never found the murderer who assassinated Wang Shou and the other man, and he also gave away the longevity pill.

After learning his purpose, Wang Qing sighed, "Eighth Young Master, please follow me."

Wang Qing belongs to the third rank in the Wang family, but Wang Yi belongs to the family head after all, so he will still give him a certain amount of respect on the surface. Of course, this is based on the premise that Wang Yi also respects him.

All the way with Wang Qing to the study of the patriarch Wang Zhou, Wang Yi felt uneasy.

Their Wang family has always respected strength and rarely talked about blood ties, so although he is the nephew of the family head, how can he, an ordinary person with no spiritual roots and no ability, compare with the two cultivators Wang Shou and Wang Yin? Not to mention that these two people are not weak.

Even if seven or eight of them were tied together, they probably wouldn't be able to compare with those two.

This time, it’s all over.

"You stay here, I will go and ask the head of the family." Wang Qing said to Wang Yi.

"Well, go ahead."

Before Wang Qing came out, Wang Yi saw his cousin, a gifted genius, coming towards him.

Wang Yun, the legitimate daughter of the patriarch Wang Zhou, is the thirteenth child in the family. Not only is she stunningly beautiful, she is also incredibly talented and has a natural water-type spiritual root. Now, at only eighteen years old, she has already cultivated to perfection in Qi Refining and will be able to build a foundation in the near future.

Maybe he could break through before he was 20. By then, if someone told others that he was a foundation-building cultivator before he was 20, I don’t know how many people would be shocked.

Her status in the clan is completely incomparable to Wang Yi's.

"Yunyun." Wang Yi took a few quick steps to greet her, with a smile on his face.

"Myna, why are you here?"

There was a reason why Wang Yun asked this question. The major cultivation families were divided into inner clans and outer clans. The inner clans were inhabited by people with cultivation and spiritual roots, while the outer clans were inhabited by people without spiritual roots or with low cultivation and no hope of a breakthrough in their entire lives.

The two tribes, the inner and outer tribes, are clearly divided. People from the outer tribe rarely come to the inner tribe unless they are summoned.

Wang Yi's smiling face collapsed. "Alas, I'm in trouble now. I'm here to apologize to my uncle."

Wang Yun blinked and took Wang Yi's arm. "My dear, what did you do wrong? Tell me about it. Maybe I can ask my dad for you."

See, this is why Wang Yi likes this cousin. She is so considerate and kind. She doesn’t look down on ordinary people like him without spiritual roots just because of her high talent.

Before he could finish telling the story, Wang Qing came out and greeted Wang Yun first. His attitude was a hundred times more respectful than that towards Wang Yi.

"Eighth Young Master, please follow me."

"Myna, it's okay. I'll go in with you." Seeing Wang Yi's uneasiness, Wang Yun said.

At this moment, Wang Yi was sincerely grateful to Wang Yun.

As soon as they entered, Wang Yun let go of Wang Yi and rushed towards Wang Zhou who was sitting on the large sofa, "Dad, why didn't you come to see me these few days?"

Wang Zhou loved this extremely talented, beautiful and well-behaved daughter very much. He smiled when he saw her. "Your mother said that you were busy with your breakthrough these days. How could I bother you?"

The two of them were chatting and laughing, and they seemed to be in great love with each other and were in harmony.

Wang Yun took the opportunity to ask, "Dad, didn't I say before that I wanted a 胐朏 as a spirit pet? I recently got news that someone saw a 胐朏 around Zhaoyao Mountain. I want to go and catch it myself. Can you send me a few more people? Is that okay?"

Wang Zhou was so shaken by her that he patted her head gently and said, "I promise you, stop shaking."

"I knew you were the best to me, Dad!" Wang Yun kissed Wang Zhou on the face excitedly and ran out excitedly.

Wang Yi watched her figure disappear behind the door, feeling bitter. Didn't she say she would help me plead for him? Why did she run away? However, my cousin definitely didn't do it on purpose. She must have forgotten because she was so happy...

Wang Zhou withdrew his gaze, picked up the teacup and took a sip. When he put it down again, the expression on his face had completely disappeared, as calm as water. There was no sign of any clue. Wang Yi became more and more uneasy.

None of the three people in the room spoke for a moment, and it was extremely quiet.

Wang Yi waited and waited, gritted his teeth, "Uncle——"

Wang Zhou raised his hand to stop him. "I already know about what happened between Wang Shou and Wang Shou. You don't need to say more. In my opinion, this matter is most likely related to the Gu family."

At this point, Wang Zhou glanced at Wang Yi and asked, "Do you know why?"

Wang Yi was still waiting for him to explain, but when he was asked the same question, he looked confused.

Seeing this, Wang Yi sighed inwardly. It was not that he did not want to support his nephew, but it was simply that he was like a piece of mud that could not be helped.

There is not even a basic sense of the overall situation.

Just continue to be an ordinary person who just eats and waits for death.

Wang Zhou stood up, stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looked at the swans playing on the vast lake outside, and slowly said, "Last time, I sent people to attack the old man of the Wang family. I guess the Gu family found out something, so they pointed the spearhead at my Wang family and wanted to give us a warning. Another one--"

He turned around and said, "It will be a short while before the Jiuhua Secret Realm opens. If my Wang family's strength weakens by one point, won't his Gu family's strength increase by one point?"

Wang Yi suddenly realized, "Oh, so that's why. I said that the Gu family must have done this, but Gu Er refused to admit it."

Wang Zhou waved his hand at him and said, "Okay, go ahead."

Wang Zhou and the housekeeper were the only ones left in the room. Wang Zhou ordered, "Before the Jiuhua Secret Realm is opened, you should control those restless guys and don't let them run away casually. Otherwise, if they get killed, don't blame me for not reminding them."

"Yes, sir, rest assured, I will strictly discipline them." Wang Qing bowed and took his leave.

* Zhuyao Mountain, film set.

In the dense forest, as the dense drum beats, the emperor took the lead in drawing his bow and shooting an arrow. A pair of wild geese flying over his head were hit by the arrow. They let out two mournful cries and fell to the ground. An attendant immediately stepped forward to pick them up and presented them to the emperor.