Dragon's Origin

Chapter 740: The Difficulties of Each Family (Part 2)

The Thousand Layered Ground still held the twenty-four strongest experts from each major family, sealed in ice five hundred years ago. Was this secret important? Of course, it was!

However, as Wang Sheng had said, whether or not to release these ancestors was a matter that required careful consideration.

The heads and elders of each family had grown accustomed to the feeling of commanding authority and wielding power in family affairs. Suddenly, an ancestor from five hundred years ago appeared. How should they handle this?

Let the ancestor preside over family matters? They wouldn't dare say anything else, but the family heads were unwilling. On what basis?

The problem was, the ancestor was, by definition, a senior of extremely high standing, and back then, they were an expert whose cultivation was so strong that they could fight evenly with the top experts of the Lin family. If such a senior suddenly appeared in the family, could the family head still make decisions about family affairs?

With just a word from the ancestor, the family head might have to grit their teeth and carry it out, unwillingly. To not comply would be unfilial and disrespectful to the ancestors, a crime no one could bear. But what if the ancestor really spoke up and issued untimely instructions?

This was highly likely! After all, it was five hundred years later, not the five hundred years ago when the ancestors were in their prime. Some things had really changed. The sea could turn into mulberry fields; much more so the five hundred years of human development.

Having another ancestor in the house, every time they thought about it, using Song Yan's empathy, they could understand that the family heads and elders were absolutely unwilling to have an ancestor in the house who they couldn't hit, scold, contradict, or offend, and whom they had to carefully serve. Even if they weren't family heads or elders, other family members probably wouldn't be willing either.

So, before, everyone had a choice. Although they knew the secret, knew that twenty-four ancestors from five hundred years ago were sealed here, they could discuss not unsealing them together. As long as the ancestors didn't appear, they wouldn't have so much trouble.

But what was Wang Sheng's last sentence? The things their ancestors guarded were the real secret of the Thousand Layered Ground. Now, when the news reached the ears of the family heads, even if they didn't want to unseal the ancestors, they probably couldn't avoid it.

What else could it be other than the method or technique that could cultivate peerless experts of the Lin family that the ancestors were willing to seal themselves to protect?

It was laughable that the Shi family had painstakingly paid a great price to obtain the Phoenix Flight Heart Technique from the Peerless Treasure Trove. Perhaps, in the face of these guarded secrets, it was just a beginner's version of the technique. Didn't that peerless expert reveal the secret of the Phoenix Origin Soul without hesitation?

If it was a secret that was important to the extreme, would that peerless expert have been so casual?

Thinking of this, Song Yan's gaze swept over the person in charge of the Shi family. At this time, it seemed that the person in charge of the Shi family also realized this problem. His face was ashen, and he had a lost expression, making people feel sorry for him.

If the secret guarded by the twenty-four strongest ancestors was discovered, how would the strength of each family improve? They didn't need everyone to become a peerless expert of the Lin family; if they had half of her ability, as long as each family had three or five experts with combat instincts in each generation, wouldn't the world be ruled by the eight major families forever?

Of course, Song Yan could choose to suppress all the news, but the problem was, there weren't only Song family members here. None of the eight major families were missing. Just now, Wang Sheng's words weren't quiet. Even the most distant experts heard them. Even if Song Yan had great abilities, she couldn't possibly turn against everyone at this moment and kill all the insiders, right?

Since she couldn't, perhaps after going out, the family heads and great elders would really have to rush here as quickly as possible, and then wait for their ancestors to be unsealed and kowtow to them.

However, as unpleasant as it was, Song Yan understood Wang Sheng very well. After Wang Sheng left this entrance, he could be said to be a true public enemy.

The last time Wang Sheng left the capital, he had already experienced the hostility of each family, but at that time, the secret of the Thousand Layered Ground had not been truly revealed, so everyone finally chose to tolerate and compromise. But now, the secret of the Thousand Layered Ground had been personally revealed by Wang Sheng, and Wang Sheng had also taken away the peerless expert from five hundred years ago. If nothing else, even for fear of that woman's revenge, each major family would try every means to put Wang Sheng and that woman to death.

This time, it was a truly irreconcilable situation. No wonder Wang Sheng would leave such a dilemma for each family at the final moment of leaving. Bringing some trouble to each family was buying a glimmer of hope for Wang Sheng and that woman.

A smart person! Song Yan had never doubted that Wang Sheng wasn't smart enough. If Wang Sheng wasn't smart enough, he wouldn't have created such a situation. What a pity! Fate played tricks on people. If it wasn't for Song Hongde's decision back then, how happy would it have been if she and Wang Sheng had flown together?

Now Song Yan had to worry about another problem, which was how to distinguish which ancestor belonged to which family? This was probably another troublesome matter. Perhaps they would have to invite the eight major families to participate every time they unsealed them, otherwise, if their own ancestor was unsealed by another family and then murdered, they wouldn't know where to cry.

In addition, the more troublesome problem was that the twenty-four ancestors were probably not all from the eight major families. Five hundred years ago, there were more than eight families that participated in the siege of the Lin family. Adding up the large and small ones, there could be over a hundred. There might be ancestors from other families inside, or even some ancestors from families and sects that had disappeared. How should they be dealt with when they were unsealed?

In these five hundred years, the eight major families had eliminated quite a few of their former comrades. Just a few years ago, a small sect was wiped out because it had a pill recipe for Creation Pills and revealed a slight flaw. What if there were a few ancestors inside who were experts from those sects? What should they do?

The key was that no one knew whether the other party was their own ancestor. Who knew what their own ancestor looked like five hundred years ago? They could only wait until they were unsealed and recuperated to know their identity. If there were one or two inside who had a blood feud with the eight major families, the eight major families would be waiting to cry! Those were powerful experts who could fight to the end with the peerless experts of the Lin family. How could they break through at that time?

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Song Yan's mind, none of which made her happy. Perhaps being able to obtain the true secret of the Thousand Layered Ground was the only gain that could make Song Yan a little happy! Other than this, nothing in the core of the Thousand Layered Ground was to Song Yan's liking.

While she was pondering, from inside the cave where Wang Sheng had disappeared, suddenly came a violent explosion.

Boom! The huge explosion was accompanied by a slight shaking of the entire space. Then huge echoes of the explosion began to reverberate throughout the entire space, lingering for a long time.