Chapter 100: Zhang Xueqi

Alex had spent time learning their biology and how their cultivation worked.

He theorized that when beasts transformed into spirit beasts, it was when they succeeded in strengthening their brains and raising their intelligence to a new level. However, to determine how it happened, Alex needed real live specimens and Professor Faerith's help.

Alex then started thinking about what to do with the beast's remains. He could use it to craft some armor, but it would only need the skin and bone; there was still its flesh.

After some deliberation, he ended up cooking the snake, making it into a meal for Quartz, Olivia, and Emily.

Alex didn't feel worried about this since cooking spirit beasts were already normal in the Cultivation world; they were called spirit food.

It has many benefits for those who consume it.

After some more talk, Alex agreed to test the cultivation method on Petricia and the other goblin.

When everything proved safe, he would then give it to his sister and main Guild member to practice. As for MingYue, she would train the outer disciples, including her brother and uncle's family, in this new system.

As time passed, it became clear that it wasn't just Alex's actions that triggered a change in his world. MingYue also had a significant impact, though she hadn't realized this yet.

A day after the Xueqi family mansion was blown up to smithereens by MingYue, many cultivators from the surrounding areas came to check the explosion.

The Xueqi family patriarch, Zhang, was staying with the Situ Clan in the central region when it all happened.

One of the descendants of the Situ family owed him a favor, which made him believe he could ask for their support.

However, he had overestimated the importance of this person.

The one he had helped was a young lady named Situ CuiYing, a descendant of the Patriarch but born from a commoner, making her position in the clan precarious.

At first, when the Xueqi family asked for a favor to help fight the Hua family, she considered it.

After all, the strongest among them was probably only at the late Nascent Soul stage.

She just needed permission from the Patriarch, and the personal maid and guard under her command were more than enough to take care of them.

But the Patriarch was busy at that time, so she only got permission one day later.

Knowing this, Zhang couldn't do anything; he was asking for help. It was already good that Situ CuiYing didn't renege on her promise.

The next day, after getting permission, they wanted to return to Dai Ying City, but the portal he used was shut down.

This gave him a bad feeling, but he convinced himself they could hold on since there were three elders guarding the place. He thought maybe they had shut it down from their side.

Since they couldn't use that one, they traveled again using the Situ family portal.

This one didn't warp directly to Dai Ying City, so it took them three more days to finally get back home.

When they returned, Zhang's face turned ashen; their family root, treasury, mansion, even the ancestral spirit, everything was gone. Sёarᴄh the Novelƒire(.)ne*t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

When the Xueqi family survivors saw that even the ancestor's gravestones had been taken away, all of them boiled in rage, while Zhang felt relieved in his mind.

He felt lucky he had run away; otherwise, he would probably have died when they got attacked. 'These stupid people will probably fight to the death with the invader,' he thought.

After some investigation, they found many clues pointing toward the Hua family.

The commoners they interrogated also admitted the same. Since everything pointed toward them, they didn't feel the need to investigate further.

The rest of the survivors, burning with hate, started talking about taking revenge.

Hearing their discussion, Situ CuiYing sneered in disdain. "Are all of you blind? Can't you sense the golden core qi remnants here?

I've already done my part, spending time to back you up, but your favor is not enough for me to risk my life.

If they can even send a golden core cultivator here, what do you think their real strength is?"

"But miss, isn't a golden core cultivator just a normal elder in your clan? I believe the Patriarch should at least reach the Profound Enlightenment stage," one of them argued.

Another Xueqi family member nodded, "This should be a small problem for your family."

"You guys are really naive. Do you think I can order them around as I wish? Even if I owed you my life, do you think my father would send someone to finish this?

The Hua family used to have similar strength to your family, but now, suddenly, they have a golden core cultivator behind them.

It's not that simple! Even investigating this will cost my family resources. But what benefit can these provide for my family to justify the cost?"

Situ CuiYing then turned her gaze toward Zhang, "Uncle Zhang, in the past, I owed you a favor because you gave me the material I needed.

I wanted to repay you for it, but you said to ask for my favor. But this is more than that price."

She then took out a storage ring and threw it toward Zhang Xueqi. "That should be more than enough to repay my debt to you now. Don't say I am someone ungrateful. I've already done my part here."

Cui Ying then excused herself, leaving all of them stupefied.

This made the rest of the Xueqi family feel restless. They had nothing now; how could they continue to survive?

Their enemies were not just the Hua family. Those people were probably already in the city, looking for an opportunity to strike if possible.

"Patriarch, I already told you the Hua family was up to no good. We should have rejected their proposal.

We closed our eyes to get elixirs for Qingying, but now, after her cultivation rose, she left us. Our prodigy died, and we lost everything. What can we do now?"