The Pei Family Makes a Move

No wall is airtight. Although the Xiao Family had done everything they could from the very beginning to keep news of Xiao Jing and Jiang Feng under wraps, they knew the Pei Family would learn of it sooner or later.

As the foremost of the hundred clans, the Pei Family was bound to have informants planted within the other families.

At first, when they learned that the Xiao Family intended to replace the woman in the marriage alliance, they showed no reaction.

After all, a Xiao Jing at the Profound Origin Realm held no allure for them whatsoever.

But when they learned that Xiao Jing had actually stepped into the Void Refinement Realm, they sensed that something was amiss.

At eighteen, she had attained the Void Refinement Realm. Even within the Pei Family, such a proud achievement had never been seen.

What shocked them even more was that Xiao Jing had gone from the seventh level of the Meridian Opening Realm to the Void Refinement Realm in merely half a year!

To make such an enormous leap in cultivation in so short a time—how could they not be interested?

After a thorough investigation, they naturally learned that all of this was connected to an ascender's pet.

And this pet had been personally given to Xiao Jing by Pei Yuansu after he captured it.

Naturally, they could recognize the value of this ascender's pet.

Thus, they would never allow someone like him to take root in the Xiao Family.

They knew perfectly well that if Jiang Feng remained in the Xiao Family, the family would likely rise rapidly before long.

When that happened, the Pei Family's immense influence would naturally suffer an unprecedented blow.

Of course, if this ascender's pet could serve the Pei Family, then the Pei Family would surely