Wang Mengfen nodded and said solemnly, "Absolutely true. We tested him several times, over and over. It is indeed a Wind Spirit Root."
He briefly introduced Wang Xiu's birth parents. Wang Xiu's birth parents were Wang Yingxiong and Tang Keqing. Tang Keqing was a collateral descendant of the Tang Family, a great immortal cultivation clan of Yu Country. Tang Keqing and the Heavenly Spirit Root clansman of the Tang Family who had entered Myriad Flowers Palace shared the same ancestor, though dozens of generations separated them. The Tang Family had more than four thousand cultivators, and Tang Keqing was not conspicuous. By a twist of fate, Wang Yingxiong had saved Tang Keqing, and the two had developed mutual affection.
The Tang Family hoped that clansmen with good aptitude would appear again, so they encouraged childbirth and widely arranged marriages with other Immortal Cultivation Families. Tang Keqing had Triple Spirit Root and was only in the Qi Refining Stage. Wang Yingxiong came to propose marriage.
Wang Mengfen's branch also had quite a few Artifact Refiners and was skilled at refining Puppet Beasts, giving them a small reputation in Yu Country. The Tang Family was happy to see this marriage come to pass. With the two families joined by marriage, the Wang Family sold the Tang Family a certain number of Puppet Beasts every year, and the Tang Family, relying on its own sales channels, transported the Puppet Beasts elsewhere for sale. At the same time, it used this to draw the Wang Family in and consolidate its own rule.
Wang Youshan suddenly understood. No wonder Wang Xiu could possess a Wind Spirit Root—so his mother was a Tang Family descendant.
"So his birth mother is a Tang Family cultivator. The Tang Family doesn't know, right?"
Wang Youshan asked somewhat nervously. The