"He doesn't need you interfering." For some grudges, blood for blood was the only thing that brought relief.
But Wei Mian would not listen. He charged in headfirst, only to be thrown back out before a breath had passed by the ancestor, whose eyes had gone red with killing. "You're in the way!"
Wei Mian: ...
"Why is this happening? What happened? Why would the ancestor..."
Wen Xu looked at the guileless Wei Mian and could not help wondering. "As one of Baigu City's rulers, did you really never notice the other six aristocratic clans subtly targeting you?"
"I did. But the other six households all pass down their bloodlines, while our Wei Household..." Wei Mian wiped the blood from his clothes. "Our numbers are few. There hasn't been a true Wei Family Bloodline since our founder's generation. The other six households know that perfectly well, so they discuss many things without us."
Well, that explained it. Without the Wei Family Bloodline, they had escaped the six households' schemes. Wen Xu thought about it and realized that if Wei Mian truly carried that bloodline, the six households would never have been desperate enough to set their sights on his eyes. Their cultivation must have reached a critical point. Wen Xu had suspected someone more capable was directing them from behind the scenes, but now... they had simply been so desperate for a cure that they would try anything.
He even suspected that the Spirit Transformation cultivator who had come to investigate years ago had missed what was wrong with Baigu City because he had not looked closely. Or perhaps the six Great Aristocratic Clans' rulers back then had not been quite so foolish and had at least kept up appearances.
Come to think of it, Baigu City had stood for