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Qian Renxue.
"Ren" sounded like both "resilience" and "blade."
Snow of a thousand blades!
What a fine name!
At the mention of the Five Phoenixes' fortune, something suddenly occurred to Chen Xiaojun. "Second Granduncle, there's something I don't understand."
"Mu Juechen, who ranks twelfth on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, has the Azure Luan martial soul. He should be a member of the Mu Family, right?"
"Then why did he go to Spirit Hall Academy? Is there a story behind that?"
"Aren't they afraid Spirit Hall will bring him into its fold and drain away their fortune?!"
As the headmaster of Chang'an Academy, Chen Cong had put considerable effort into studying the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking. Naturally, he knew whom Chen Xiaojun meant; after all, this Advanced Elite Tournament was crucial to him.
Chen Cong began slowly, "That Mu Juechen? He should belong to the branch of the Mu Family that fled to Spirit Hall's autonomous territory after losing the Silas royal family's internal struggle all those years ago."
"Because of that incident, the royal Mu Family, which had always remained neutral between Spirit Hall and the Plant Association within their kingdom, secretly sided with the Plant Association."
The Silas Kingdom was not too far from Spirit Hall's autonomous territory. That was how the prince who lost the internal struggle had managed to flee there.
In a world that placed such importance on bloodline inheritance, the Silas royal family might not necessarily have done anything to that prince, yet he had fled anyway.
Whether Spirit Hall had pulled any strings behind the scenes was unknown.
And Spirit Hall had actually taken them in openly.
Spirit Hall had not earned its reputation as a "shit-stirring stick" for nothing. It was thoroughly detestable.
But to the Silas royal family, Spirit