Chapter 2810
"Tut-tut, the Shendu Su Family—what a full-blown aristocratic family feud."
Having satisfactorily finished looking through the Human Ranking with Meng Qi, Xu Yue began appraising him after Meng Qi introduced his background.
"It's quite a headache. Family members suddenly popped up, but they don't seem to welcome me either. They actually took hair left behind in the ancestral hall to use as material for an official seal."
Meng Qi was somewhat at a loss when it came to the Su Family. Like the Buddhist prayer beads in Xu Yue's hand that proved he was a lay disciple of Shaolin, the material for that official seal required the person himself to activate it.
"I think someone is protecting you. Otherwise, an illegitimate son like you would probably have been secretly killed long ago. Why would they send you to Shaolin, and keep watching you all this time?"
Xu Yue put it another way.
"You may be right... but for now, I still don't plan on going back."
Meng Qi nodded thoughtfully.
"Oh, right. To stop me from entering the capital, they assigned me a mission. It has something to do with Heroine Ke."
In the original story, Meng Qi had holed up in Ye City for over half a year before beginning his meteoric rise.
He had even joined Six Doors only after completing the Death Mission.
With things having been brought forward by so much this time, they naturally could not have arranged the same mission.
Essentially, this mission was something the Su Family in the capital had casually picked to find an excuse to send Meng Qi away and keep him from entering the capital.
"Oh? What mission?"
Xu Yue asked. Behind them, Liu Luo and the other two of the Trinity all rolled their eyes. What