"Brother Shouzhe, it seems your plan has pushed the Liu and Zhao Clans into a corner," Liua Yuanrui’s face was extremely serious. "With both patriarchs coming together, they probably mean no good. We must prepare early."
"I was careless, never thought the Liu and Zhao Clans would be so reckless. Unable to annex land, they dare to come and cause trouble," Liua Ruolei was equally tense and regretted, saying, "Had I known, I would have sent a letter to invite our family’s patriarch as a guest. If Ancestor Mang were here too, we wouldn’t be afraid of them."
After spending some time together, in her heart, she had truly accepted Wang Shouzhe as her future brother-in-law, considering him one of her own.
Between the Liua and Wang Clans, after this marriage alliance, relations are bound to return to the intimate state they were a hundred years ago.
"No worries, with Ancestor Mang here to oversee, they won’t gain any advantage in this troublemaking," Wang Shouzhe said with a calm smile.
Liua Ruolei only saw the surface of public works substituting for charity, as if it were merely Wang Shouzhe thwarting the opponent’s land annexation plan, a deed that delighted people.
She didn’t know how much resources and hope the Liu and Zhao Clans had invested in this annexation plan. Not to mention, the estates mortgaged for loans alone, their combined value approaching six thousand Qian Gold, couldn’t be recovered lightly.
At that time, after ’Zhong Luoxian’ and ’Tantai Heyu’ entertained the Liu Family, they also ’entertained’ the Zhao Family, applying the same performance to both families and completing two sets of plans.
In Wang Shouzhe’s words, after painstakingly writing a script, how could it be used just once?
"With Ancestor Mang overseeing..." Liua Ruolei’s expression turned somewhat intriguing, "Brother Shouzhe, did you perhaps foresee they would come to cause trouble?"
Liua Yuanrui also had a sudden realization, "No wonder. With Brother Shouzhe’s capability to plan the full public works undertaking, how could he not anticipate the Liu and Zhao Clans causing trouble? Remarkable, remarkable. I wondered why Ancestor Mang quietly came to oversee; we siblings worried for nothing."
"How could that be? Shouzhe still appreciates Brother Yuanrui and Sister Ruolei’s concern," Wang Shouzhe clasped his hands in salute.
The Liua siblings hurriedly returned the salute with respect.
"The Liu and Zhao Clans are still a ways off; they have no right for me to receive them," Wang Shouzhe laughed mockingly, turning his gaze back to Ancestor Mang. "Ancestor Mang, regarding the ancestral bloodline awakening, I’d like to ask further. Earlier, you mentioned middle-grade talent relates to bloodline awakening. But is it that middle-grade talent comes first, or bloodline awakening?"
"Every practitioner whose talent has reached the lower grade level already manifests part of their ancestor’s Black Tortoise Bloodline. The difference from lower grade C to lower grade A is merely the degree of Black Tortoise Bloodline talent," Ancestor Mang patiently explained. "If unique divine techniques appear in the bloodline, then Black Tortoise talent must have reached the middle grade. Even if it wasn’t originally, after awakening such a unique bloodline, Black Tortoise talent will evolve to middle grade."
"Your family’s little girl, named Luqiu, right? She probably awakened some ancestral war body type bloodline. Yet in human history, there are many war body type bloodlines with various mutations. Currently, the girl’s war body bloodline is very thin, making it hard to distinguish what type of war body she has. Once she reaches the Spirit Platform Realm, as her body transforms and her bloodline strengthens further, the type of war body will become clearer."
"I understand, once the bloodline mutates, it will inevitably enhance Black Tortoise Bloodline talent," Wang Shouzhe nodded in realization, feeling both happy for his family and Luqiu, while also regretful about why he himself hadn’t undergone a bloodline mutation or awakened some ancient ancestral gene.
Indeed, what Ancestor Mang referred to as bloodline, in Wang Shouzhe’s understanding, is gene inheritance. Awakening the bloodline, he comprehended as the activation of some latent, dormant, recessive genes in the body.
The sour feeling made Wang Shouzhe feel as if his heart was pierced by a knife.
"Actually, in your family, not only the girl named Luqiu, but also the young Spirit Insect Master girl must have awakened an ancient type of bloodline; otherwise, she couldn’t possibly communicate spiritually with the Insect Race." Ancestor Mang added, "Therefore, that girl’s future potential shouldn’t be underestimated."
Wang Shouzhe felt like his heart was stabbed by a knife once again.
Apart from Wang Luqiu and Wang Luojing, it’s likely even the mischievous girl Wang Lici isn’t anything simple. The patriarch once mentioned she might have awakened some kind of spiritual sense type talent.
Alright, Wang Shouzhe’s heart was stabbed for the third time.
The situation seems somewhat unusual.
Wang Shouzhe’s brow furrowed deeply. Logically speaking, a ninth-grade lower-rank noble family already has relatively diluted bloodlines. It’s very fortunate to occasionally have one with a special bloodline.
Yet now, the young generation of the Wang Family has three in one go!
Could it be that the ancestral genes were so strong, manifesting concentratedly in this generation?
That probably isn’t right either, as Wang Lici, Wang Luqiu, and Wang Luojing, though all sisters or nieces, share only clan blood, with different parents and even different grandfather and great-grandfather.
Moreover, among the young generation in the family, there are many males too. If it were due to the ancestor, why would the blood manifest only in a few girls?