Today's second update: Chapter 2362! 2/4!
Yun Hongyi's mockery did not win everyone's approval.
When it came solely to the struggle for the heir apparent, everyone present dismissed it with scorn. But when it came to the struggle for the legitimate Qingluan lineage...
Even the Phoenix Lord and Mu Qingxuan found it difficult to choose.
This was especially true for Mu Qingxuan.
To that second-generation Qingluan, she had been both mother and teacher. It could be said that Mu Qingxuan had taught him everything he knew.
Like Xu Kun, he too called Mu Qingxuan Mother.
And he had followed Mu Qingxuan far, far, far longer than Xu Kun, who had only lived beneath her wings for eighteen years...
That span had to be measured in tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years—or perhaps an entire great era.
If one claimed Mu Qingxuan had no feelings for him, that would be no different from claiming the Phoenix Lord had no feelings for her other four phoenix daughters besides Mu Qingxuan.
That was impossible.
Yet there was an essential difference between him and Xu Kun.
Whether it was the Phoenix Lord, Mu Qingxuan, or Xu Kun as he was now—
their bloodlines were powerful. Under normal circumstances, it was extremely difficult for two people with different surnames to conceive a descendant through the union of yin and yang.
If ordinary people conceiving children was like two magnets, one positive and one negative, drawing together and naturally generating a magnetic field upon collision,
then for beings like them, born with extraordinary bloodlines, conceiving a child with someone was no easier than fitting together two jagged building blocks with absolute precision.
That was far more difficult than the mate-selection standards of the girls around those Jiangxi lads.
Thus, throughout the Phoenix