The matter of Fu Qianxue having her spiritual root stolen sounded utterly inconceivable, but ducks are the first to know when the spring river warms. Everyone present was from the Fu Family Lineage, and more or less, they had caught wind of it.
The clearest and most direct example was Fu Zhenchuan's great-granddaughter, Fu Xinyue. She had originally possessed nothing more than a low-grade spiritual root, yet over the past half year, her cultivation realm had advanced by leaps and bounds.
And Fu Xinyue's father had once been publicly acknowledged by the Lineage as a worthless good-for-nothing who could not be propped up. Then, one day, it was as though he had suddenly awakened; his cultivation began advancing a thousand miles in a single day.
These were merely two cases within the Lineage. Beyond them, similar incidents were far from isolated.
And every time someone in the Lineage suddenly saw their cultivation realm soar at lightning speed, that person always had extremely powerful connections behind them.
Accompanying this was the fact that among the Lineage's lower ranks and collateral branches, many disciples with exceptional spiritual root aptitudes would always meet with accidents for one reason or another.
One or two such incidents might be coincidence, but once similar things happened too often, it became difficult to explain them away as coincidence.
It was simply that most Fu Family disciples were lowly folk without any backing.
Outside, relying on the Fu Family's reputation, they might still swagger about and throw their weight around.
But within the Fu Family... they could only keep their tails tucked between their legs. Even if they had suspicions in ordinary times, they dared not say much.
Some were naturally quick-witted, while others had been repeatedly warned by their elders.
"Higher than the Spirit Severing stage? How