"Even if the backers behind your family refused to act, your family could still have hired high-level cultivators for protection."
"Money can make even ghosts turn the millstone. With your family's wealth, what sort of cultivator couldn't you hire?"
"But strangely, despite knowing someone would come knocking, your family neither mounted a tight defense nor sought protection."
"The only explanation is that your family did something earth-shattering."
"You didn't seek protection from the powerful figures in Bright Capital City because you knew that once those figures at the top learned of this matter..."
"They might turn around and kill you instead. Seeking their protection would only hasten your deaths."
Faced with Ma Yuxuan's analysis, Xue Huan stood expressionless.
Seeing this, Ma Yuxuan continued, "Those guesses just now weren't particularly difficult."
"But the one thing I couldn't quite understand was why your family didn't prepare in advance."
"There are two explanations for that. The first is that everything happened so suddenly that your family had no time to prepare."
"But you suddenly returned home three months ago. Clearly, your father summoned you."
"Three months was enough time to do plenty of things, yet your family did nothing."
"That makes the first explanation rather unlikely."
"So this situation leads to a second explanation, one both bold and absurd."
"Your family must have learned about, or come into possession of, something extraordinary."
"This thing had such far-reaching implications that your family didn't dare make a single move, for fear of letting even the slightest scrap of information leak."
After speaking, Ma Yuxuan stared into Xue Huan's eyes for a while.
Although Xue Huan's face remained expressionless, Ma Yuxuan still nodded and said,
"Looks like I guessed right. Your family really did get hold of something extraordinary."
"You didn't prepare in advance partly because