Shen Fu left.
His seat had barely warmed before he rushed off to deal with the Su Family's affairs!
Xu Yuan finished the flatbread in his hand, took another drink, then started on his fried rice.
"Will there be trouble with the Su Family?"
Xu Yuan asked.
"These Aristocratic Clans on the surface have shallow roots," Bai Yuanze said, his face flushed from drinking and his voice animated. "They don't have enough power at their core to hold their fortunes steady. Sooner or later, trouble will come—and we'll be the ones to end them."
"Hold their fortunes steady? That sounds pretty mystical." Xu Yuan laughed and kept eating.
The fried rice had been cooked in lard, with fresh mushrooms, shrimp, corn, peas, and the little round cabbages used especially for fried rice.
It was delicious.
"Take Xu Chengan. He came from the Zhurong Xu Household. His ancestors took part in the Dark Crown and obtained an Attendant God of Zhurong. That's the kind of power that can suppress every upheaval and shift of the times."
"With power like that, a Lineage's fortunes won't change. It can stand for tens of millions of years without falling," Bai Yuanze said.
Xu Yuan's interest was piqued. "What's an Attendant God?"
"I'm not sure either. Ancient texts say it should be a 'third type of species'—the Universe's attempt to transform itself into something else, an unknown being of a higher order," Bai Yuanze said.
"If you take part in the Dark Crown, you get an Attendant God?" Xu Yuan asked.
"What kind of dream are you having?" Bai Yuanze laughed. "The first Blood Saint to enter the ritual is guaranteed an Attendant God. The others don't get that privilege. Only those who achieve something great and make major contributions during the ritual have a