Interrogation

The Guanjiang Zhu Clan's current generation was dominated by the Yuan generation, whose talent stood head and shoulders above the rest and whose success rate was remarkably high. At their peak thirty years ago, they were known as the "Seven Yuan Rainbow." Named Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Violet, this generation had produced two Golden Core cultivators and five Foundation Establishment cultivators.

For a time, everyone believed that the Guanjiang Zhu Clan was about to rise and become another great clan in northern Lingnan. The Zhu Clan themselves believed so as well, and thus carried themselves within the Cangwu Sect with no small amount of swagger and arrogance.

Who could have imagined that what they thought was merely the beginning had in fact already been their summit? Over the following thirty years, their family fortunes went from bad to worse.

First, tragedy struck Zhu Yuanlu's household. His wife, married to him for less than three years, had taken up with another man. He discovered them on a rainy night and chased them as far as Gouwei Gorge, where a battle broke out. In the end, he and his wife perished together, while the adulterer vanished without a trace. The Zhu Clan was still searching for that man to this day.

Zhu Yuanlu was not a Golden Core cultivator, but he had been a Zhu Clan genius with the greatest chance of becoming their third Core Formation cultivator. Known for his schemes and wisdom, his death dealt the Zhu Clan a crushing blow.

Seven years later, Zhu Yuanchi, the eldest brother and one of their two Golden Cores, happened to encounter an Earth Dragon eruption while in secluded cultivation. During that Earth Dragon, the waters of the entire Guanjiang River turned black. Zhu Yuanchi's cultivation site had been in