Secret Treasury Domain, within the manor.
"I, Fang Qing of the Fang Family of Three-Water Hollow, have today attained the vacant position of [Winnowing Basket Water], and shall be known as the 'Profound Abyss Moistening Salvation True Lord'... [Winnowing Basket Water] originally faced Lunar Yin. From this day forth, I shall turn toward Solar Yang and shine brightly, attaining Profound Subtlety. I will soon depart beyond the heavens, and from this day on, we shall never meet again..."
Dao resonance rang beside Hu Yunshu's ears, while misty waterlight emerged all around her.
She froze at once. "Three-Water Hollow, the Fang Family? Isn't that where my family's ancestral lands lie? Fang Qing? Who is that? He isn't part of any generation name. Could he be from the two branches assigned to Ancient Shu back then? Or perhaps even earlier? My Fang Family... has produced a dragon!?"
As the wife bound by marriage to the Fang Family's ruler, she naturally knew much about the Fang Family. She knew how miserable they had been in those years, raised and drained of fate and blood vitality by a Dao Foundation Aristocratic Clan.
Later, that Dao Foundation Aristocratic Clan had perished. Three ancestors escaped, one branch becoming the ancestors of today's Azure Departure Fang Family. The other two branches had scattered amid the chaos of that era, and later had even changed their surnames...
"Daoling, you hid this from me far too well!"
Hu Yunshu could not help growing furious.
When she had first married into the family, the Fang Family had only been a Dao Foundation Aristocratic Clan. Later, when they supported their own Dao Foundation, they had even needed to touch her dowry, struggling to survive beneath the rule of the White Bone Way...
Yet afterward, Medicine King Qing Dumu had emerged, and