Inspecting the World (Part 8)

As it turned out, while Phoenix Ancestor and Huang Zu were fighting, Yuan Tian had been lurking nearby, stealing a lesson without paying any tuition.

That "lesson" was not only successfully stolen by Yuan Tian, but he had also learned some unknown secrets, reaping a bountiful harvest indeed.

It turned out that Phoenix Ancestor and Huang Zu were actually not biological brother and sister. If one were to say that Phoenix Ancestor and Huang Zu were not husband and wife, quite a few people in the Primordial Wilderness still knew about it—at the very least, Yuan Tian knew.

However, when it came to saying they were not siblings at all, probably very few people in the Primordial Wilderness knew of this, not even the people of the Phoenix Clan, because they always addressed each other as brother and sister. Who would go around suspecting whether they were siblings for no reason?

It could not quite be said that Phoenix Ancestor and Huang Zu were not brother and sister; rather, they should be said to be heterotypic siblings without blood relations. To be more precise, it should be said that they had an alternative version of a senior-and-junior-fellow-apprentice relationship.

In fact, in the Primordial Wilderness, the number of sworn brothers and sisters without blood ties whose relationships were good—and even surpassed those of biological siblings—was still very large. They would not be listed one by one here, but we will slowly chat about it later if there is an opportunity.

From the dialogue between Huang Zu and Phoenix Ancestor, Yuan Tian also learned that this Huang Zu strictly could not be called the ancestor of the Phoenix Clan, because not a single member of this Phoenix Clan was her bloodline descendant. In other words, the Phoenix Clan had not a half-cent's