Chapter 514: The Hidden Family 3
"A family of natural-born alchemists?" Ye Fei became interested in the Duan family.
The dean nodded: "Yes, the Duan family has a very high level of understanding of alchemy. Almost everyone who wins the top prize at the annual alchemy competition is an alchemist from the Duan family, except for that one time..."
Ye Fei blinked: "That time?"
The dean fell into a brief reverie. After a while, he said, "At the alchemy competition more than ten years ago, a female alchemist suddenly appeared and refined an extremely rare ninth-grade pill, completely overshadowing the alchemists from the Duan family who were on the same stage that year. This has become the eternal shadow of the Duan family... cough!"
Ye Fei raised an eyebrow.
She remembered that when she was in the Pill Association, the Grand Pharmacist had also told her about the alchemist who had refined the ninth-grade pill.
Mu Jingshen said meaningfully, "So the floral pattern on the crystal pendant is the clan totem of the Duan family?"
The dean nodded: "Not bad."
"What about the other two reclusive families?" Yu Muhan asked curiously.
The dean then pointed to the flowing water pattern next to the fallen flower pattern: "This is the clan totem of the Jing clan."
“Jing? What a strange surname…” Xie Qingui muttered to himself.
The dean glanced at Xie Qin Gui: "Do you know the name of the former God Lord of the Nine Heavens?"
"I know, the previous God Lord of the Nine Heavens was named Jing Que... Eh?" Xie Qingui suddenly realized, "So the Jing clan are descendants of God Lord Jing Que?"
"That's not the case."
The dean shook his head and said, "The Mirror Palace God never married or had children. He devoted all his energy and effort to the Nine Heavens and fighting against the demons, so he had no descendants."
"The Mirror Clan Ancestor was once the most capable subordinate of the Mirror Palace God Lord. After the Mirror Palace God Lord passed away, since no one else knew the God Lord's true surname except for the God Lord himself, the Mirror Clan Ancestor changed his surname to the first character of the Mirror Palace God Lord's name, namely 'Mirror'."
"The descendants of the Jing clan ancestor followed the clan rules and continued to use the character 'Jing' as their surname, thus the Jing clan came into being."
Huang Rongyu listened silently to what the dean said, and when the words "Mirror Palace" were mentioned, he suddenly felt a little dazed.
Mirror Palace... What a familiar name.
But he knew very well that it wasn't the kind of familiarity that comes from hearing it so often.
Is it because the Fuguang Seven-Stringed Zither was once a divine artifact of the Mirror Palace, but now he has formed a pact with it, that he has this feeling?
"The Duan family is skilled in alchemy, while the Jing family is skilled in music. Both families use musical instruments as weapons, producing beautiful melodies that are also invisible killing weapons."
Upon hearing the dean's words, everyone was filled with awe—it was truly rare to see a cultivator who used music as a means of attack!
"And the last reclusive family is the Xuanming Clan." The dean's expression became somewhat solemn. "This clan is different from the Duan Clan and the Jing Clan. They are all wizards who walk the dark side, and the witchcraft they use is basically harmful to people and has no benefit whatsoever."
"However, the Xuanming clan rarely participates in the various grand events held in the human world. Compared with the previous two reclusive families, the Xuanming clan is more unfathomably mysterious, and they rarely show their faces."
Ye Fei then turned her gaze to the crystal tablet in her hand: "Therefore, the crystal tablet only has the clan totems of the Duan clan and the Jing clan."
The dean nodded: "That's exactly right."
"You might be wondering why a reclusive family that lives in seclusion would suddenly hold a grand gathering in Cangzhou—I will explain it to you next."
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