Lin Qi immediately burst out laughing.
When she herself had been hounded, all she wanted was to escape as quickly as possible. But hearing that Tan Yueqing had been hounded, she felt a little schadenfreude, as though she were watching a good show.
Laughing aside, Lin Qi still explained the situation to several Spirit Transformation Martial Uncles.
By coincidence, one Martial Uncle was taking disciples to Myriad Things Residence to buy supplies, so she agreed to look for Tan Yueqing while she was there.
Back in her room, Lin Qi eagerly grabbed Senior Sister Yuan Xi and asked.
"Senior Sister, could there be some other hidden secret behind the Myriad Things Residence owner's demand?"
Senior Sister Yuan Xi raised a hand and formed a barrier, then nodded slightly. "There are two possibilities."
Lin Qi listened quietly, her eyes wide.
"First, something extremely important to the Zhang Family may be buried within the return of the Zhang Family members. It could be an inheritance, or something else."
"Second, this may also be related to the Zhang Family's history. Back then, the Li imperial dynasty of the Eastern Continent stood alone at the summit. The Zhang Family had produced several generations of loyal ministers and were famed for loyalty to ruler and country. They had repeatedly defended the Eastern Continent against invasions from the Central Continent. Yet when the Li imperial dynasty declined, it willingly submitted to the Central Continent and even joined hands with traitors to harm several Zhang Family cultivators, forcing the Zhang Family to relocate out of the Eastern Continent."
"Perhaps the humiliation and exclusion they suffered back then were carved into the bones of the Zhang Family. That was why generation after generation of Zhang descendants held such an immense obsession with acknowledging their ancestors and returning to