A Complicated Relationship (II)

Ma Xiaotao was quite surprised to learn that her family had actually joined a newly established power.

After all, although their Speed Clan has declined somewhat, their overall strength is not something that just any Tom, Dick, or Harry can bully.

Perhaps Ma Xiaotao harbors a lot of resentment towards her family, but no matter what, it was once her home. How could they have fallen to such a state?

So, in order to find out the truth Ma Xiaotao returned to her family after a long absence and questioned her younger brother about why he had done such a thing.

His younger brother replied that those who fail to keep up with the times will eventually be abandoned, while only those who seize opportunities can carve out their own niche in the new era.

Simply put, if they don't join the Spirit Contract Pagoda while it's still rising, they might not even be considered a threat once the other side has fully matured.

The Spirit Contract Pagoda may be a newly established faction, but given its powerful backing and the Soul Spirit technology it possesses, any faction would do everything in its power to curry favor with it and befriend it.

Only those stubborn, overconfident individuals from Shrek who can't see the bigger picture and overestimate their strength would dare to provoke the Spirit Contract Pagoda.

This answer was actually within Ma Xiaotao's expectations, but what she couldn't understand was why her family would submit to Spirit Contract Pagoda in such a vassal form.

Ma Zhengtian remained silent, which exacerbated the conflict between Ma Xiaotao and Ma Zhengtian. In the end, the two simply stopped talking to each other to avoid getting angry at each other.

In fact, Xu Xingyu knew the answer to this question, and the reason he knew it was because Ma Zhengtian, as his subordinate in the Star Luo Empire branch, often chatted with him about it.

So during a casual conversation, Ma Zhengtian told Xu Xingyu about it, perhaps simply wanting someone to listen.

The reason why the Speed Clan would submit to the Spirit Contract Pagoda is simple: their clan has once again shown signs of decline in recent years.

The Speed Clan, who experienced a period of decline ten thousand years ago, absolutely cannot tolerate returning to the state they were in ten thousand years ago after being abandoned by the Clear Sky Sect.

Therefore, the elders of the clan wanted to curry favor with someone powerful, which is why Ma Xiaotao was used as a bargaining chip in a marriage alliance.

However, due to Ma Xiaotao's fiery temper and her running away from home, the so-called marriage has been delayed.

At this very moment, the Spirit Contract Pagoda rose to prominence, and with their newly created cultivation method— the Soul Spirit Method— they became the most welcomed force by many other factions.

Not long after that, Ma Zhengtian learned of a shocking and moving piece of news through his own unique channels.

That is, the Clear Sky Sect, which the Speed Clan once hated to the bone, was actually forced to submit to this emerging power!

Considering that the Spirit Contract Pagoda issued by the Beast God Di Tian was protected by him and the entire Soul Beast Clan, it's only a matter of time before this force becomes the number one force in the Douluo Continent!

At this moment, Ma Zhengtian had a new idea: to persuade the elders to make the family an appendage of the Spirit Contract Pagoda!

After all, the Spirit Contract Pagoda is different from other sects; it needs to establish different branches throughout the continent. Only in this way can they give people from every country an equal opportunity to obtain a Soul Spirit.

This resulted in the Spirit Contract Pagoda needing a lot of manpower, which is why the Spirit Contract Pagoda began to subjugate multiple families and sects in order to more easily promote the Soul Spirit technology.

Therefore, if one joins the other party while the Spirit Contract Pagoda is still expanding, one's own family can quickly establish its position in the Spirit Contract Pagoda and gradually rise to become an inseparable part of the other party's family.

Of course, another reason was that Ma Zhengtian was also dissatisfied with the fact that the old folks in the clan arbitrarily arranged his sister's marriage.

However, Ma Zhengtian was powerless to express his dissatisfaction, because Ma Xiaotao and Ma Zhengti came from relatively humble backgrounds within their families.

The reason why the two of them are valued by the family is purely because their Martial Soul Awakening the Phoenix Bloodline passed down from Ma Hongjun ten thousand years ago, which is why the family values them.

As mentioned before, Ma Hongjun comes from the Nine Heavens Heavenly Phoenix Sect, one of the Earthly Three Sects in the Earthly Three Sects is that only two people can possess the same Martial Soul in the same era.

Therefore, apart from the current patriarch, only Ma Zhengtian in the entire family possesses the Nine Heavens Heavenly Phoenix Martial Soul.

The rest of the clan members either possessed the original Sharp-Tailed Swift Martial Soul or the Flamingo Martial Soul, which contained the Phoenix Bloodline.

This explains why Ma Xiaotao, who possesses the Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, is so highly valued by her family.

This means that their family has three individuals who possess the pure-blooded Phoenix Martial Soul!

Therefore, if Ma Zhengtian wants to prevent his sister from suffering such injustice again, the only thing he can do is to successfully revive the family without marrying her off.

Only then will those old guys temporarily shut up and stop mentioning the marriage alliance!

This is why Ma Zhengtian wanted his family to become an appendage of the Spirit Contract Pagoda, because only in this way could those old guys see hope for revival.

As for persuading them, it wasn't that difficult. Ma Zhengtian only briefly explained the pros and cons, and the old guys agreed.

It can only be said that they've become accustomed to living under someone else's roof.

As for why Ma Zhengtian didn't explain these things to Ma Xiaotao, the main reason was that he believed it would be best for Ma Xiaotao to avoid getting involved with the family again if possible.

Because if the family runs into trouble again, Ma Xiaotao will once again become a tool of the family and be forced into marriage.

So they decided to use the conflict between the two to make Ma Xiaotao leave the Speed Clan without any worries, since the Speed Clan still had Ma Zhengtian, the Phoenix.

Xu Xingyu could only say that the sibling relationship was truly complicated.

If Ma Zhengtian truly wants to stop using Ma Xiaotao as a tool for political marriage, then the first thing he should do is to quickly and completely take control of the family and become its sole controller.

In this way, if any elders dare to propose marriage again Ma Zhengtian can use this opportunity to quickly eliminate those elders who are not of one mind with him.

By doing this, they wouldn't have to become a vassal of another power, and the issue of Ma Xiaotao's marriage would be resolved smoothly.

However, this was ultimately someone else's family matter and had nothing to do with Xu Xingyu. Moreover, he had no right to tell Ma Xiaotao about it.

After all, this is a job that Ma Zhengtian should do, not something that Xu Xingyu, an outsider, should do.

So, faced with Ma Xiaotao's "I want to know" expression, Xu Xingyu could only reply, "You should talk to your brother again when you have time. After all, everything he did was for you."

After speaking, Xu Xingyu closed her mouth and eyes and began to feel the wind blowing in her face.

After listening, Ma Xiaotao knew that Xu Xingyu wouldn't say anything more, so she began to think about her brother's past actions in an attempt to find the answer.