Then Su Jiu changed tack. "But now, when I investigate leads nearby, these people actually mislead me on purpose, trying to get me to approach things from another direction."
Her eyes cooled as she finished. "They really do take me for a fool."
At this point, Su Jiu noticed a hint of discomfort on Yu Jin's face and couldn't help asking, "Were you misled too?"
Yu Jin nodded, his expression hard to describe. He had been here longer, so he had been misled more than once.
Those people deliberately fed them false leads merely to buy more time to take their captives away.
As though something had finally clicked, Yu Jin let out a long sigh, then shook his head with a smile and returned to Su Jiu's earlier question.
On the Spiritflight Continent, aside from the first-rate sects, few sects or aristocratic clans could challenge the Yu Household. The Zheng Household, however, was an exception.
When he mentioned the Zheng Household, Su Jiu could clearly see a trace of disdain in Yu Jin's eyes.
The head of the Zheng Household was a Nascent Soul Cultivator. Already over nine hundred and seventy years old, he remained at the Nascent Soul late stage, unable even to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul realm. With only thirty years of life remaining, he clearly had no hope of reaching Out-of-Body. Thus, his sons and grandsons had all begun coveting the position of household head.
The laughable part was that none of these sons and grandsons descended from his principal wife, who had died long ago.
All of this stemmed from some outrageous things the head of the Zheng Household had done in his younger years. Young and womanizing, he had not been satisfied after marrying a wife and had taken numerous concubines.