However, that feeling of chagrin did not last long. In but an instant, Ying Lingzhu's mind suddenly cleared.
That wasn't right. Even if the Divine Martial Wang Clan was a collateral branch of the Ying Clan with a different surname, that had been who knew how many years ago.
And judging by the circumstances, it was most likely a bloodline produced when one of their ancestors married into the bloodline of some woman from the Ying Clan.
Human bloodlines had continuously intermarried since ancient times. It was perfectly normal for different families to carry traces of one another's bloodlines. The reason for differences in bloodline concentration was merely that the higher one's Bloodline Awakening, the greater one's resonance with the bloodline of some formidable ancestor of the family.
Such situations were not uncommon in the Sacred Domain. So long as one counted back several generations and they were not direct blood relatives, marriage was neither prohibited nor taboo.
Ying Lingzhu immediately felt much more at ease.
Yet the moment she relaxed, she sensed something was off again.
Ying Lingzhu, Ying Lingzhu, what nonsense are you thinking about? Could it be that you really had fallen for worthy junior brother Baosheng?
For a moment, Ying Lingzhu's heart was a tangled mess.
"Young Mistress, are you all right?" The Artifact Spirit of the Taiyi Primordial Seal called out softly, inexplicably feeling rather uneasy.
The young mistress looked somewhat dazed. Could she have chosen the wrong person?
"I'm fine." Ying Lingzhu hurriedly cast aside her stray thoughts and asked about another matter of great importance. "Primordial Seal, do you know where the Taiyuan Dao Scripture is?"
Though a Primordial Spirit Treasure was incomparably precious, the Taiyuan Dao Scripture was naturally even more important. The latter concerned whether a family could possess a Dao