"Still not awake?"
Looking at A Li and the white-haired little girl Ziyue, who were sealed deep within the barrier, Chen Qing frowned.
He wasn't sure if the two guys were pretending to be asleep, which made him hesitant to leave, and he didn't even dare to let Murong Yunji was guarding outside, get too close.
"If I'm not mistaken, those two have gone into hibernation."
"Hibernation?" Chen Qing glanced at the sky silently. Even with animalistic attributes, this weather wasn't suitable for hibernation.
"It should be a deep hibernation," Murong Yunji explained. "When I was very young, before I mastered my power, I often fell into a deep sleep like this. That white-haired girl's current mental state is just like mine was back then—a child controlling a power that shouldn't belong to her."
"That shouldn't be the case," Chen Qing asked curiously. " Wang Ye said that Ziyue is a well-known figure, isn't she?"
"I also think it shouldn't have happened." Murong Yunji stroked her chin. "I've heard of Ziyue's reputation; even the Shen Family patriarch would be wary of her. It's unlikely that she would be in this state just because of one of your underhanded tricks."
"Is that so?" Chen Qing hesitated for a moment.
"And that baby, don't you think it's growing a little too fast?" Murong Yunji looked at the little girl crawling around on the ground not far away.
In just one day, the little girl had grown to the size of a normal one-year-old child, and she was crawling around with great enthusiasm.
Faced with this strange little child, Chen Qing frowned. The Mirror Demon could only see that the child had extraordinary luck and possessed the bloodlines of the Golden Crow Bloodline and the Thousand-Faced Fox, but it was still uncertain which bloodline the child would inherit or whether the child would inherit both.
As for whether it will be the same as the King of Qin.
Chen Qing also tried, reciting the last hundred digits of 3.14 to her, but the girl seemed clueless and didn't seem to understand.
"I can't stay here forever, I have to go out." Chen Qing looked at the other person. "I'm sorry to trouble you with this."
"You seem to trust me quite a bit," Murong Yunji said with a half-smile. "Don't forget, my two sons are still in jail because of you."
"You care about those two a lot?" Chen Qing asked curiously.
"What are you saying?" Murong Yunji sat down lazily. "She's still my mother, no matter what."
Chen Qing scoffed, "You've already paid the ransom, and you're not even going to pick them up. What does that have to do with me?"
"It's so chaotic outside, let them stay in jail," Murong Yunji smiled. "To avoid them ruining my good time."
Chen Qing rolled his eyes at the sky. Did the good news mean finding that grown-up Ghost Child everywhere? Or was it seducing Xu Hu? Xu Hu's wife had been complaining to him quite a bit lately.
I trust you because I know what you want.
"Oh?" Murong Yunji asked with amusement, "What does my lord think I want?"
"You want to leave the Shen Family!"
Murong Yunji: "."
How did you come to this conclusion, sir?
"You should have sensed it the first day you stormed into Liuzhou. What I possess is definitely not a magic technique!" Chen Qing looked at Murong Yunji and smiled, "You, a sorcerer with demonic blood, should be the easiest to see through this, so why didn't you tell Second Master Shen? Why did you let Second Master Shen always think that what I possessed was a magic technique?"
"You've long since distanced yourself from the Shen Family, haven't you?" Chen Qing laughed. "I guessed right, the Laoda of the Shen Family died under suspicious circumstances!"
Murong Yunji suddenly stood up and stared intently at Chen Qing, Chen Qing responded with a smile, showing no sign of backing down.
"You seem to know quite a lot. What else do you know?" Murong Yunji sneered.
"I also know," Chen Qing said in a low voice, "That so-called patriarch of the Shen Family is actually one of the twelve branches of the Shen Family —no, he is one of the twelve branches of the Shen Family!"
Murong Yunji: "."
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" The Art of Dragon Transformation?"
Meanwhile, Wang Ye's ship arrived in Nanyang City the next day!
At this moment, Wang Ye, who was on the ship, kept thinking about the information that Chen Qing had given him.
To be honest, he was shocked when he first heard about the so-called Art of Dragon Transformation. At the Yin-Yang Academy, he had seen many strange cases of sorcerers pursuing immortality, but the one Chen Qing described was the first he had ever heard of. Not long ago, he received confirmation from Shen Yinian!
The so-called Dragon Transformation Art is actually a method of rebirth using the bloodline of a family member, transforming them into a dragon!
The dragon has nine sons, each different, but all have the chance to transform into a dragon!
Jackie Chan will Fusion with the ancestor of the Shen Family and live for three hundred years!
What does this mean?
In other words, in every generation of the Shen Family, one son will become a dragon, thus extending the lifespan of the Shen Family patriarch by three hundred years!
Yes, the Shen Family. Actually, it's not just this generation.
This might seem strange to many: the Shen Family patriarch is said to have been famous for a thousand years, a rare ancient monster in the world, so why is the oldest of his children only three hundred years old?
In ancient times, people would get married around the age of twenty. It's impossible to say that the ancestor of the Shen Family suddenly thought of having children three hundred years ago, right?
The Shen Family has been established for a thousand years by the Shen Family ancestor, but what about its earlier descendants? Why are they all unknown and obscure?
A warlock's limit is three hundred, a universally acknowledged number in the warlock world that few can defy. But how could the Shen Family patriarch break this rule?
Why is that?
Even the Yin-Yang Academy's intelligence didn't record this in detail, because no one knew how the Shen Family patriarch had done it. If they did, every family would have rushed to imitate it long ago, since it was a method that could prolong life. What powerful or wealthy person in this world wouldn't want to possess that?
What the Yin-Yang Academy didn't know, Chen Qing did. Through Chen Qing's information, Wang Ye learned the secret of the Shen Family's so-called Dragon Transformation!
First of all, Chen Qing said that the direct line of the Shen Family did not start from now, but should have existed a thousand years ago. In other words, before Shen Yinian's generation, there should have been three generations of the direct line of the Shen Family!
This was confirmed by Shen Yinian!
According to Shen Yinian, the Shen Family did indeed have the concept of a direct lineage a thousand years ago. According to the recollections of some elders, the Shen Family, just like now, would select outstanding disciples with special skills to form a direct lineage. Each generation had nine branches, and the nine children would each develop their own special skills after growing up. Eventually, one of them would become a dragon and marry the Shen Family ancestor, extending the Shen Family's totem life by three hundred years. After that, the remaining branches would lose their direct lineage title, and the head of the branch would disappear without a trace.
Afterwards, the Shen Family patriarch will remarry into a wealthy family outside the family, resulting in more outstanding descendants of sorcerers. The most capable descendant will then be selected to become the legitimate heir again.
The patriarch of the Shen Family lived for a thousand years using this method!
This method was continued for three generations in the Shen Family.
This claim sounded utterly absurd, and Wang Ye had asked Chen Qing out of curiosity at the time, "Could it be that the so-called ancestor of the Shen Family swallowed the so-called son of Jackie Chan?"
Chen Qing's answer was to change bodies. It was a transition between the old and the new. Whether the new person who transformed into a dragon became the ancestor of the Shen Family, or the original person who was always the ancestor of the Shen Family, was uncertain. But one thing was certain: assimilation was successful, and this method could extend one's lifespan by three hundred years!
As for who the so-called patriarch of the Shen Family was in the end, and whether he was replaced along the way, outsiders have no way of knowing!
Therefore, according to Chen Qing's intelligence, the Shen Family patriarch is just a code name within the Shen Family. He may indeed be a patriarch who has lived for thousands of years, or he may have been replaced several times in the process.
But that doesn't matter. As long as the Shen Family's totem remains, no one will dare to easily provoke the Shen Family!
As for why this matter is related to the murder in Liuzhou?
This also involves the secret of Dragon Transformation.
In this generation, the Shen Family suffered an unexpected setback. Before anyone could rise to prominence, the head of the eldest branch died mysteriously, and the newly added direct descendants of the third branch broke the Shen Family's previous rule of having nine branches!
Chen Qing believed this was very abnormal, indicating that the normal dragon transformation had gone awry.
He guessed that the eldest son's death was very suspicious, and he also suspected that the current patriarch of the Shen Family was hiding among the younger generation!
This conjecture also struck Wang Ye as somewhat unsettling and bizarre. Could it be that the legendary ancestor of the Shen Family was hidden among this generation of the Shen Family descendants?
According to the latest speculation, it is quite possible that the missing Shen Laojiu is indeed a possibility.
If that's the case, then the possibility of someone killing Shen Lao'er becomes clear.
Firstly, Shen Laojiu could lower Shen Lao'er's guard. Secondly, if Shen Laojiu is the patriarch of the Shen Family, then it wouldn't be surprising if he had the ability to instantly kill Shen Lao'er.
However, some doubts remain.
Shen Laojiu's previous behavior was far too unbecoming of a great figure. Moreover, if he were the patriarch, why would he deliberately allow himself to be bitten and ingest that corpse poison?
Rumors have it that the Shen Family patriarch went to the West Sea before. Could the monster in the mist have been lured there by that patriarch?
Is there any connection between these two?
All of this is something Chen Qing can't explain right now, which is why she asked Wang Ye to investigate some things at the Shen Family.
"This is really interesting," Wang Ye thought, holding Shen Yinian's keepsake, finding the trip increasingly intriguing.
Master was right, there are indeed many interesting things in this world.
Chen Qing's intelligence is interesting, and so is the intelligence about Shen Yinian, the Ministry of War and the Laowu of the Shen Family Shen Yinian!
Faced with Chen Qing's guess, Shen Yinian gave a direct negative answer!
He stated that he agreed with the claim that the Shen Family patriarch was hidden among the younger generation, because the death of the eldest brother had made them realize this, so in recent years, the heads of each branch of the Shen Family have actually been harboring their own ulterior motives and secretly plotting against each other.
After all, everyone wants to become one of those who transform into a dragon, and everyone wants to live three hundred more years!
To achieve this, one must not only Dragon Transformation, but also be able to kill the previous ancestor who is always trying to seize their body!
According to Shen Yinian, Shen Laojiu could absolutely not be the ancestor of the Shen Family!
The patriarch of the Shen Family is someone else!
As for who it was, he didn't know. He agreed to let Wang Ye go to the Shen Family to investigate, but his statement was that apart from the clan leader Shen Laoliu, no one else could be trusted!
This made Wang Ye find the matter even more interesting.
Chen Qing was hiding something from him, and Shen Yinian was also hiding something from him.
Whose words can we trust?
Is there any connection between the West Sea mist and the Shen Jialong incident?
If Shen Laojiu wasn't the patriarch of the Shen Family, how could he possibly kill Shen Lao'er?
What is the truth behind all of this?
Wang Ye felt that this trip to the Shen Family would be more interesting than the previous investigation into the Thousand-Faced Fox.