Dragon's Origin

Chapter 713: The Reason Back Then (Part 2)

“What were they after?” Wang Sheng suddenly asked, and as Song Yan looked at him in confusion, Wang Sheng added, “Why would the Lin family do this? What benefit would it bring them?”

Wang Sheng always prioritizes the starting point when analyzing other people's motives. No matter what, as long as someone is normal, there has to be a starting point for doing things, right? Either for profit, or for fame, or for face, there can't be action without any motive, right?

“Maybe they wanted to dominate the world?” Song Yan replied, sounding unsure.

“If they wanted to dominate the world, why didn’t they go after the royal family?” Wang Sheng directly shook his head with a smile. “To be able to suppress all the families and sects in the world to the point where they had to rebel, wouldn’t it be just a few words to abolish the royal family? Wouldn’t that be more straightforward? I don’t believe that the previous dynasty’s emperor had no control over the world.”

“Maybe there was also a bit of a vengeful mindset!” Song Yan sighed and revealed what she knew.

“I see!” Wang Sheng nodded with a smile. “Revenge! It seems that your ancestors didn’t bully people any less before!”

What could Song Yan say? Say that her ancestors were right to bully the Lin family, and then the Lin family couldn’t retaliate? At this time, she could only remain silent.

“What about the previous dynasty’s royal family?” Wang Sheng suddenly asked, “What role did they play in it?”

When the former lackeys and younger brothers suddenly rise up, and a super expert appears in the family, the number one expert in the world, what would the royal family think? Wang Sheng had interacted with the Emperor many times and had a very precise grasp of these emperors' thoughts. This was completely an uncontrollable risk, so they would definitely try to suppress it, right?

“At first, the previous dynasty’s royal family was very happy, and used this to suppress all parties.” As long as it didn’t involve her ancestors, Song Yan immediately became talkative. “But after a while, they also became very wary of the Lin family and took great precautions. However, the two sides were still on the same front after all. Before they fell out, they were still relatively tolerant.”

“The annihilation of the Lin family, the previous dynasty’s royal family had a part in it, right?” Wang Sheng asked with some amusement.

This kind of thing, not to mention in this world, has happened countless times in the history of Earth, destroying their own Great Wall.

“Yes.” Song Yan didn’t hide it. The previous dynasty’s royal family, which had been uprooted five hundred years ago, was there any need to whitewash them at this time? It would be nice if Song Yan didn’t say anything harsh to them: “They were also one of the initiators, and very active.”

“Is this the whole story?” After listening, Wang Sheng felt it was quite boring and a bit uninspired, so he asked Song Yan.

“Not only.” Song Yan shook her head. “There were also some people within the Lin family.”

“Within the Lin family?” Wang Sheng was stunned, then suddenly understood: “Yes, the fortress is most easily breached from within. The Lin family was destroyed so thoroughly, there must have been someone inside colluding with outsiders. Song Yan, you must be careful and never repeat your father’s mistakes.”

The Song family was also a super powerful family back then, but within ten years after Song Hongde led people into the Thousand Absolutes Territory, the Song family was suppressed by various families. A young master of the Dai family in the triple realm dared to take people to snatch Song Yan away. If this wasn’t the result of infighting within the Song family, who would believe it?

“The original direct line of the Lin family was in power, but this illegitimate daughter of the Lin family suddenly rose strongly, allowing several collateral branches to rise to high positions, and the direct line descendants were naturally unconvinced.” Song Yan just nodded at Wang Sheng’s reminder, and then revealed some of the Lin family’s internal struggles back then: “Some of them also colluded with the royal family, wanting to suppress the collateral branches.”

“In other words, many reasons caused the various families to jointly eliminate the Lin family. It wasn’t simply a problem of the Lin family or one family.” Wang Sheng stroked his chin and asked Song Yan, “Right?”

“That’s pretty much it.” Song Yan replied with a smile: “Therefore, Old Lord Temple and Old Ancestor Ling Xu don’t need to worry about the events of five hundred years ago repeating themselves, because Old Lord Temple is different from the Lin family. As long as we don’t provoke them, they will definitely not pay attention to us.”

“These secret original records have been shipped and will be sent to Old Lord Temple one after another within a few days.” Song Yan seemed particularly relaxed because she had solved a big problem: “After Old Lord Temple has read them, combined with their internal secret records of the Taoist sect, they should believe it.”

“If you think it’s okay, then it’s okay.” Wang Sheng didn’t comment on the possible reaction of Old Lord Temple.

“Don’t you believe it?” Song Yan was a little dissatisfied with Wang Sheng’s attitude: “This is the conclusion we came to after collecting the internal secret books of at least dozens of families, and you still don’t believe it?”

“Believe it! Why wouldn’t I believe it?” Wang Sheng knew that Song Yan was very serious, so he just smiled at Song Yan and counted on his fingers: “Look, let me tell you the reasons why you gathered and summarized them, and summarize them.”

Song Yan snorted angrily and stared straight at Wang Sheng, waiting for her to summarize.

“The Lin family has the number one expert in the world, but you don’t, so some people are jealous, which accounts for 10%.” Wang Sheng really started counting on his fingers one by one: “The Lin family is unforgiving when they are in power, and retaliates wildly, causing everyone to be unable to endure it and rise up in resistance, which accounts for 30%. The previous dynasty’s royal family is wary and speculative, and takes action to suppress it, which accounts for 10%. Someone within the Lin family colludes with foreign enemies, which also accounts for 10%.”

“What about the remaining 40%?” Song Yan saw Wang Sheng put down six fingers, but didn’t continue counting, and couldn’t help but blurt out.

“The remaining 40% is the part that you are unwilling to say.” Wang Sheng smiled. There were only himself and Song Yan, as well as Song Yan’s confidants, so Wang Sheng didn’t need to hide these words.

Song Yan’s face turned red, as if she wanted to argue, but she didn’t argue much, and just asked: “What didn’t we say?”

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“Benefits!” Wang Sheng didn’t have anything to hide from Song Yan, and directly pointed to the core: “The benefits of eliminating the Lin family, you didn’t say.”

“What benefits could there be?” Song Yan muttered in dissatisfaction: “It’s nothing more than no longer being bullied and not having to live in fear.”

“Then why are you now willing to pay the price of the lives of thousands of experts to unlock the secrets of the Thousand Absolutes Territory?” Wang Sheng looked at Song Yan and laughed. At this time, she was still stubborn: “Don’t tell me you just want to live a stable life without being bullied.”

If there weren’t benefits far exceeding these costs, were the people of the various families all fools? Would they willingly use human lives to fill a road leading to the core of the Thousand Absolutes Territory?

“Okay!” Song Yan stopped being stubborn: “You’re right. This is precisely the fundamental reason for reassuring the Taoist sect and Old Ancestor Ling Xu. The Taoist sect doesn’t have those great benefits hidden in the Lin family back then.”