"This is the first time I've seen someone from the fifth family come to such an occasion."
"That one isn't..." The man argued in a voice he thought he couldn't hear, and his eyes fell on the monk who was the leader of the fifth family.
"Yes, it should be him. Both age and cultivation level match..."
"I heard that this guy won another round. There must be no suspense this time."
"There's no suspense about it. I said the same thing last time. Let's see what the outcome is..."
Ning Xia noticed that everyone seemed to be more interested in the leader of the fifth family, overshadowing the other families. It seemed like it was such a surprise for someone from their family to appear here.
Therefore, many monks from outside southern Xinjiang are particularly concerned about the fifth family. They want to see what is so special about this family. They are so special that everyone expresses doubts about their appearance. How could you not be curious?
For this reason, Ningxia couldn't help but be curious, and carefully observed the leading monk of the fifth family.
He is quite handsome and looks quite young. He must have been young when he was promoted to Jindan.
"I didn't expect this person to be here too." Zhenjun Tiancong next door also said this, which completely aroused the interest of Zhenjun Yuanheng and the other two.
What kind of special person could attract such attention from a Nascent Soul Lord? Even Tiancong Zhenjun said the same thing, he must not be an ordinary character.
"I don't know what fellow Taoist Tiancong said..." Zhenjun Yuanheng said in confusion.
"The leading monk of the fifth family, whose Taoist name is Chongzi, is one of the outstanding alchemists of the younger generation in southern Xinjiang. He has been very popular in recent years." Zhenjun Tiancong and Zhenjun Yuanheng learned about this real person 's life.
He is indeed an outstanding monk, especially at alchemy. Even some Nascent Soul-level alchemists cannot compare with him, which shows his level of alchemy.
However, Ningxia felt that this was so powerful that it was not enough to attract so many people's attention. She just listened, and there must be something else behind what those people said.
"This... almost became the patriarch of the fifth family back then." When talking about this True Monarch Tiancong, an expression similar to gossip inevitably appeared on his face, which seemed to be curious and yet he seemed to be keeping secrets.
Ning Xia noticed that the other party's voice was very soft and his expression was a little strange, but he quickly hid it deep down so that no one would notice.
Ningxia's group was far away from the seats of the fifth family, and the two elders were highly cultivated, so there was no need to avoid the juniors. When Zhenjun Tiancong saw Zhenjun Yuanheng's interest, he actually told him this almost semi-public secret on the spot.
The fifth family is the Tu Emperor of Yun Island. It is said that they have been entrenched on this affiliated island as early as when the Shenluo Sect was still there. It just changed from the garrison family back then to the family that rules the entire Cloud Island today.
During the melee in southern Xinjiang, they survived the disaster with the help of their excellent geographical location and foundation. However, it suffered an unprecedented blow. In order to stabilize the situation, this loose and scattered family could only be twisted into a rope, and the common area came from pressure from all aspects.
Over the years, this not prosperous family has become the well-deserved ruler of Cloud Island today, and has experienced many unimaginable hardships. It even left a lot of hidden dangers for the blood of future generations.
As I said before, the fifth family is a family with a stagnant population, so it is impossible to rely on the children of the family to develop its power like those big families with a prosperous population.
The ancestors of their generation were not willing to become a stepping stone for others, so they ruthlessly absorbed a large number of people with other surnames into the family, gave them surnames, and entered them into the family tree. Then rely on these people with other surnames to develop the power of the fifth family.
The results were fruitful. The fifth family grew rapidly, gradually wiping out the surrounding forces and becoming the leading force on Cloud Island. After several years of evolution of the situation, the fifth family has now firmly established itself as the leading force in southern Xinjiang.
But the decisions made for development at that time still left a lot of hidden dangers for the fifth company.
Even though the tribe has sacrificed several generations of women to contact these people with foreign surnames, there are still only a few monks in the tribe who actually have the blood of the fifth family, and most of them are foreign monks who have changed their names. A few generations later, these foreign monks who had completely given the fifth surname had no reason to marry within the clan. Their descendants were still essentially from outside the clan.
Over several generations, it is inevitable that the members of the fifth family will be cannibalized by large forces other than their own. How can those who truly have the blood of the fifth family be willing to accept this?
If the inheritance that their ancestors had worked so hard for was just like this to be advantageous to outsiders, they would not have the dignity to meet their ancestors.
In order to ensure that their power does not fall apart, they strictly distinguish the branches of the main line, formulate extremely strict rules, and gradually "domesticate" the thoughts of side branches and even the main line. Over time, some effects were achieved, and the true bloodline of the fifth family actually survived in such a dangerous way.
To this day, they are still a magical family with a sparse main line but huge branch forces. However, although their clan is weak in numbers, their bloodline talents are very good.
And the people who sit in the position of patriarch are getting younger and younger. The patriarch of this generation became the decision-maker of this huge machine when his father was promoted to Nascent Soul.
It is said that this generation of patriarchs has been promoted to Nascent Soul for many years, but has yet to give way to the next generation. According to this development, everyone will easily feel that the next generation is not living up to expectations, so the patriarchs of this generation can only support themselves hard to prevent the family from falling under the hands of unworthy descendants.
The heir of this generation is Zhenzi Zhenren who came to represent the fifth family this time. And this person is not an unfilial descendant at all.
So the question is, why has this person not taken over the authority of the fifth family from his father as usual? Is it really because the patriarch of the fifth family of this generation is greedy for power, as the world has rumored?
Tiancong Zhenjun revealed to them a piece of gossip that many people didn't know.
According to him, in fact, the Chongzi Master should have taken over the authority of the family many years ago, but it was only delayed until now because of an incident many years ago.
This year is the last year to settle that past incident. After this time, maybe the fifth family will usher in a new family, the long-awaited one...
Zhenjun Tiancong seemed to just treat these things as gossip and chatted with Zhenjun Yuanheng, as if he didn't care about his position at all, nor did he feel that he had revealed some unspeakable news.
It's just that the listener can't really be unintentional.
After listening to the words of Zhenjun Tiancong, Ning Xia unconsciously looked at the opposite seat, and inadvertently met the eyes of the person involved in the gossip. Before she could look away, she was stunned when she met those clear eyes that had a vague sense of familiarity.
