Tu Yuqing nodded and sighed. "You guessed right!"
Tu Yuya said, "After Third Great-Grandmother died, Old Madam flew into a rage and raised an army, leading the warriors of the Snow Forest branch into a great battle against the Central Plains. It could be said that she added another shovelful of earth to that dynasty's grave."
Lu Zheng said blankly, "The Great Yong Dynasty?"
Tu Yuqing nodded. "Exactly."
Good heavens. Lu Zheng could not help clicking his tongue. The Great Yong Dynasty had been destroyed six or seven hundred years ago. It seemed that Old Madam of the Tushan fox clan had been quite a formidable figure.
Just then, Old Man Liu, who no longer had patients to attend to, and Du YueYao, whose gossiping flames still burned fiercely, also came to the back hall. Seeing that everyone already knew their identities, Tu Yuya and Tu Yuqing, bewildered though they were, explained the whole sequence of events.
More than eight hundred years ago, Old Madam had already been the Tushan clan leader's wife. Her cultivation exceeded even that of the clan leader and pressed close to several fox clan ancestors. Yet the one she cherished most was her third daughter, who had not even been born for twenty years.
By a twist of fate, this Third Miss met the crown prince of the Great Yong Dynasty, who had come to the borderlands for a hunt. It was love at first sight.
The Northern Region and the Central Plains had been enemies for thousands of years. In a world that possessed immortals, there was no such thing as marriage alliances. Naturally, Old Madam refused to let her daughter marry into the Central Plains. Later, unable to withstand her daughter's tears, she laid down her terms: if the crown prince of