Seeing that Dongfang Mian was staring at him without saying a word, the Great Protector sighed and said, "Miss Dongfang, rest assured, I am on the young master's side, but please forgive my bluntness, you cannot save the young master by yourself."
"What do you mean by that? What happened to the baby? Isn't he the young master of your Shi family?" Dongfang Mian asked.
The Great Protector glanced around before quickly whispering, "Miss Dongfang, you may not know this, but the Shi family is currently facing a major internal conflict. If it cannot be resolved, the entire Shi family may fall apart as a result."
"What's so serious?"
"It's the ancestral worship ceremony that's coming up soon. Miss Dongfang should know that the Shi family and the Mu family are the two major families in the Medicine Domain. However, the Shi family started with poison and is a family of poison experts, while the Mu family started with medicine and is a family of medicine experts."
From the very beginning, the two companies have been irreconcilable enemies, but fortunately, their nature has meant they've had almost no interaction, and things have remained relatively peaceful over the years.
The problem arose during this Shi family ancestral worship ceremony. This ceremony is held once every hundred years, and all the procedures and rituals remain unchanged. However, this year, the young master became an unexpected factor.
Miss Dongfang also knows that the young master possesses an innate poison physique. You may not know what this means, but an innate poison physique signifies a chosen poison master. As long as they don't perish prematurely, they have the potential to become a legendary poison master. Do you know what a legendary poison master represents? This is someone comparable to the ruler of the Three Realms.
It's normal that you don't know. Many people are unaware of the potential future achievements of those with innate poisonous bodies. They only know that the essence and blood of such individuals are priceless. Therefore, over the years, whenever an innate poisonous body is born in the human realm and is discovered, it is always kept by powerful families as a cash cow until its essence and blood are drained and it dies.
But the Shi family is different. The Shi family is very clear about the significance of the innate poison body. Once the Shi family has a mastered innate poison body, the Mu family will be no match for them and can be easily destroyed. So when the young master returned, the entire Shi family was overjoyed. Even the long-dormant ancestor came out to personally bestow blessings upon the young master. The Great Protector said a lot and then stopped to catch his breath.
"Since the baby is so important to you, why are you auctioning off his essence?" Dongfang Mian asked, puzzled.
"Because of the factions within the Shi family, the Shi family is simply too large. Even the patriarch's words don't carry entirely weight. Every decision must go through the elders' meeting before a final decision can be made. Regarding the young master, there are three attitudes within the Shi family."
The first option is to dedicate the entire clan's resources to nurturing the young master. Once he becomes a legendary poison master, the entire Shi family will enjoy endless prosperity for generations to come.
The second reason is that the young master is too young, and if he were to die unexpectedly, it would be a huge loss to the Shi family. Therefore, they do not support using all the resources on the young master. Instead, they want to hide his innate poisonous body and let him develop on his own. If nothing unexpected happens, the family will support him later.
The third type is the most despicable. They claim that the ability of someone with an innate poison body to become a legendary poison master is merely a record in ancient texts and is nonsense. They advocate directly exchanging the young master's essence blood for resources, and then using his heart's blood to sacrifice to the ancestors. Ancient texts also record this, stating that if all the heart's blood of someone with an innate poison body is used to sacrifice to the ancestors, it can summon back the ancestors who have already died in the ancestral graves to guard the Shi family for another thousand years.
"Now, most members of the Shi family, led by the patriarch, support exchanging the young master for an ancestor, which is why they are auctioning off the young master's essence blood," the Great Protector said.
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