Yun Yao nodded, then moved her stool closer. After leaning near me, she said softly:
"There are too many people here. Some people's deeds aren't suitable to talk about in public, so I'll keep my voice down."
I glanced around, nodded to show I understood, then she asked who I wanted to know about.
"Tell me about these family heads. I'm pretty curious," I said. Yun Yao agreed and began to explain in detail.
Yun Yao secretly pointed at the burly man, then said to me:
"That's Jiang Yujie's father, Jiang Hao. He's also the current head of the Jiang Family."
I whispered to Yun Yao, "Jiang Hao spoke to me today.
"Can you tell me about these families' histories, or what methods they openly possess?"
Yun Yao nodded. "Sure. Let's start with the Jiang Family.
"The Jiang Family excels at the Object Manipulation Technique. Every Jiang Family member has their own bonded item, and it has to be cultivated from childhood.
"Like Jiang Yujie's Dragon Bone Thorns. The specific method is to seal a wisp of your life soul into the item you wish to cultivate.
"Then you nourish it with your own Spiritual Energy over the years. Once it reaches a certain level, you can control the item as easily as moving your own arm.
"The Jiang Family is fire-aligned, like our Yun Family, but purely in terms of power, they aren't as strong as us.
"Because the Jiang Family spends most of its time on the Object Manipulation Technique.
"So they don't have much time to study fire-aligned arts.
"The Jiang Family also has a method that allows them to manipulate objects without sealing in a life soul, but it's a secret transmission of the Jiang Family and isn't revealed to outsiders."
"It's not that mystical. There