Chapter 370: The Tushan Clan’s Secrets

Clearly, they had already known about this arrangement. What everyone did not know was that high above the competition venue, Tushan Qing was lazily lying across a cloud while Tushan Shanhe sat cross legged in midair, drinking wine.

Neither of them seemed to be paying any attention to what was happening below. Yet they already knew everything.

Tushan Shanhe elegantly took a small sip of wine and said disdainfully, "Those people down below really love playing these little tricks."

"They’re trying to curry favor with you!" Tushan Qing yawned boredly, his baby faced expression making him look particularly innocent. "When you came forward, didn’t you already know that they would treat my precious little treasure differently just to curry favor with you?"

"After all, human cultivators have fragile physical bodies and cannot withstand the spatial storms within the passage between the Upper and Lower Realms. That’s why when they ascend, they can rarely return. Other than sending a few things down, they almost never descend to the Lower Realm. Only the Dharma Form of our Tushan Clan can withstand the spatial storms and avoid this restriction."

"Hmph! That is only after reaching the Mahayana stage and releasing the Dharma Form. Those with lower cultivation still cannot withstand it." Tushan Shanhe frowned. "Besides, after traveling between the Upper and Lower Realms, you’re still just as annoying as ever. Tell me, why did you come back again? Didn’t you say that after sending Tushan Qiqi back, you would wait for him in the Spirit Realm?"

"Why have I come down again?" Tushan Qing yawned, looking extremely sleepy as he spoke indistinctly. "The Clan Leader said the Ancestral Sacred Pill has lit up!"

"What?" Tushan Shanhe was so shocked that he nearly fell from the cloud. He stared at Tushan Qing in disbelief. "The legendary First Ancestor of our clan, the Ancestral Fox born from the combined origins of the Celestial Fox and Terrestrial Fox. Didn’t his Sacred Pill go dark after his death? How could it light up again? Could the First Ancestor actually be capable of resurrection? Don’t joke around with me."

"Yawn..." Tushan Qing shook his head and continued yawning. He genuinely looked exhausted."I don’t know either. Even the Clan Leader doesn’t understand what happened. However, she said she could vaguely sense a scorching aura coming from the Sacred Pill. She specifically asked the Third Elder to divine the future because of this. The Third Elder paid the price of losing two entire cultivation realms before finally seeing a scene of this realm completely covered in pitch black flames that burned without end."

"This realm? Pitch black flames?" Tushan Shanhe’s expression changed. Could the legendary Terrestrial Fox Black Flame have appeared? And it appeared in this realm? Thinking of this possibility, Tushan Shanhe instinctively thought of the person who would become the central figure of the Terrestrial Fox Clan in this realm. He frowned. "Could it be Xiao Shou?"

"Mm! The Clan Leader thinks so too. She ordered me to come here no matter what. If this is confirmed, I have to bring my precious baby back to the Spirit Realm." Tushan Qing scratched his head, revealing an expression that was both happy and troubled. "Ah, I wonder whether my precious baby will be willing to go. If he doesn’t want to go, I won’t have any motivation. How did my precious baby become so good at causing trouble for me?"

"Hmph! Showing off, are you?" Tushan Shanhe inwardly fumed. Just because you have a grandson, does that mean nobody else does? I’ll go back and get married and have children myself. His thoughts suddenly shifted, and he looked at Tushan Qing with schadenfreude. "By the way, speaking of your precious baby, I almost forgot about his father. That child seems to have gotten himself into some trouble. I was going to check on him after arranging things here, but he disappeared. I heard he vanished after being attacked by a powerful Buddhist cultivator. Do you want to go take a look?"

"You mean that Duke Zhenguo?" Tushan Qing waved his hand dismissively. "Forget about him. His bloodline and soul seem perfectly fine, but I don’t feel any connection to him at all. It isn’t even as strong as the feeling I have toward Tushan Qiqi and his descendants from countless generations later. Besides, he is in the mortal realm, yet he was attacked by a Buddhist cultivator. There must be something wrong. Looks like my intuition is still as accurate as ever. As he spoke, Tushan Qing’s baby like face revealed an extremely smug expression.

"So that’s how it is." Tushan Shanhe understood. Those Buddhist cultivators have always placed great importance on karma and accumulating merit. Unless they have fallen into demonic cultivation, they would never commit such an evil act. Since Tushan Qing sensed that something was wrong, there was probably indeed a problem with that Duke Zhenguo. Thinking of this, Tushan Shanhe frowned. "You’re just lucky. Stop bragging about your intuition. However, even we can’t detect what exactly is wrong with that person. The problem is probably quite serious."

"And after asking around, I learned quite a few things. Your precious grandson went through a lot of suffering before he grew up. When he was young, he was switched with another child and sent to a poor village to be raised. Then, when he was only a few years old, he was attacked by the Order of Holy Judgment of the Holy See of the Fourfold Order. He somehow survived and embarked on the path of cultivation, only to nearly die again after entering a secret realm. His life has been unbelievably miserable. Meanwhile, the person who stole his identity fled after being exposed. It almost feels as though that Duke Zhenguo deliberately let him escape..."

"Oh! So that’s how it was. Deliberately letting him escape? Interesting..." Tushan Qing had not expected there to be so many hidden circumstances beyond the matter of resurrecting through another person’s body.