At this point, Hun Ji looked at Lu Yin again. "When it comes to the Wang family, no one can give you any answers, can they?"
Lu Yin nodded. He had learned far too much about the era of the Nine Bastions, including all kinds of strange anecdotes, but no one could tell him anything about the Wang family or Wang Wen.
What was going on between Wang Wen and Hong Shuang?
What was Wang Wen's connection to the Nine Bastions?
What was the Wang family's relationship with the Main Dao?
And what was the Wang family's relationship with the Nine Bastions?
No one could answer any of those questions.
The Nine Bastions had the same questions.
Even though the Nine Bastions had reached a point where they could contend with the Main Dao, they still regarded the Wang family as a mystery.
Chi Yu did not answer right away.
Lu Yin and Hun Ji were in no hurry. They waited quietly.
After a while, Chi Yu finally spoke. "Our guess is that the Wang family are descendants of a ruler."
"There was once a ruler among them, but we don't know why that ruler disappeared. That's why they hold a special status, equal to the Master Clan."
Lu Yin did not disagree. It was a plausible guess.
"Another possibility is that they have a way to reach the rulers. But the Main Dao has restricted them, so they can't leave. They haven't told the Main Dao about this way, either. The Main Dao needs them to reveal the secret, so they've kept the peace."
"That's what we suspect. We don't know which, if either, is true."
"As for Wang Wen, he's always been like that, as though shrouded in a mystery even deeper than the entire Wang family. We've