Considering that two of today's chapters were explanatory chapters and did little to advance the plot, I'm adding an extra update to thank everyone for their support.
Ning Xiu Cong spent all his days cultivating in seclusion, never setting foot outside, which made it difficult for the Yang Family to kill him.
Ning Xiufu was different. He was certain to succeed Ning Xiangyi as Household Head.
Of the Ning Family's four Xiu sons, he alone was patient enough, ruthless enough, yet also compassionate enough. Moreover, his talent for cultivation was unremarkable. A man like him could not be killed.
What the Yang Family wanted was not to sever the Ning Family's lineage, but to force them to bow their heads and serve them. Since they intended to use them, they did not want whoever ultimately took over the Ning Family to turn it into a heap of loose sand.
As for Ning Xiu Rang, killing him would not be difficult, but he was simply too ordinary. His mother's family was weak and declining, unable to get so much as half a word heard within the Ning Family. He was like duckweed in a pond, without roots or ties.
Ning Xiu Rang's death would, at most, make that old thing Ning Xiangyi wail a few times. It would not damage the Ning Family's sinews and bones, much less intimidate them. The Yang Family's purpose would thus come to nothing.
Only Ning Xiuqing would do.
The boy was exceptionally gifted. Though still young, he had already displayed a temperament and intellect far beyond those of his peers, and had even been personally summoned by Ning Xinping.
His mother's family, the Zhu Family, was also a prominent household under the Ning Family's rule, with an ancestor at the great completion of aperture