For as long as Qin Yumo could remember, Qin Family Members had lived in this Castle. According to her grandfather and the others, it was several hundred years old, an inheritance left by their ancestors and passed down through the generations.
The Qin Family also had an ancestral rule: "Unless the family faces annihilation, no member of the Qin Family may move out of this Castle."
Qin Yumo had not really understood this rule as a child, but as she grew older, she learned something of its origins and purpose from her elders.
There was a secret known only to the head of the Qin Family: beneath the Castle stood a basement left behind by their ancestors.
The basement held not only treasures passed down through the generations, but also a Magic Array capable of protecting the Qin Family.
Apart from the family head, no one knew exactly where this basement was, what the Magic Array did, or how it protected the Qin Family.
Qin Yumo had only learned a little about it from Qin Xiao after detecting something unusual with her distinctive Qi-Viewing Art.
Even then, she had learned no more than the bare essentials. The Qin Family's ancestral rules did not permit Qin Xiao to reveal much.
It had taken Qin Yumo several years of using her Qi-Viewing Art to discover even a trace of that anomaly, and that alone had deeply shocked Qin Xiao.
Yet now, an outsider had seen straight through the Qin Family's centuries-old secret less than half an hour after entering their home. How could Qin Xiao not be astonished?
"If Elder Qin leaves the protection of the Magic Array in your basement, he will die." Those were the words Chen Hao had spoken to Qin Xiao earlier.
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