Yu Ci fell into thought as well.
He had not known that Miaoxiang and Su Shuanghe—or rather, the Lineage behind Su Shuanghe—had such a connection.
Given Su Qizhe's condition, it had been difficult for him to travel far in recent years. This perhaps proved that Miaoxiang had already reached the Three Northern Lakes. With her special status and Mahakala's regard for her, there was a very good chance that the next move would fall upon Flying Soul City, upon Su Shuanghe's side.
How had that fellow suddenly become such a hot cake?
Yu Ci thought again: the Witch Sect had always placed great importance on bloodlines. Many divine abilities and magical powers were inherited through blood. Blood relations were surely among the most important and crucial ties within the sect.
Now that the Witch Sect had declined, the bloodlines of many great witches once famed throughout their age had vanished into the river of time. Even including the Thousand Peaks Sect, only the You, Su, Xia, and Tang families still possessed truly top-tier great witch bloodlines.
For that very reason, intermarriage among the families had long become commonplace, and their relationships were an utter tangled mess.
The precise rise and fall of the powers within were like the filthy affairs of great families. Unless one was involved, no one could make heads or tails of them.
Yet Madam Huanyong's reminder gave Yu Ci an inspiration:
Since he needed to act within the Witch Sect, would the most effective method not be to make an issue of bloodlines?
This was a highly valuable line of thought. Still, the specifics would require You Rui to conduct some investigation and assessment.
Full of questions, Yu Ci arrived above the lake outside Xue Pingzhi's residence.
There were now a thousand tangled threads to attend