nucmednet Chapter 1333 - 1313: The Greatest Joke in the World!
Chapter 1333 - 1313: The Greatest Joke in the World!
"Jian Fanghua, ask yourself, have you lived up to the family?!""I’ve cherished you since childhood, holding you like a treasure, fearing to lose you, giving you the best martial arts resources. And how did you repay me?"
"Prodigal! Disobedient! Bringing calamity to the family!"
"Because of you, this reprobate, sneaking into the outside world, mingling with ordinary people, giving birth to illegitimate offspring, polluting the family bloodline, angering the ancestors. That’s why our Jian family hasn’t birthed a ’Dragon Child’ in this generation!"
"With only a month left until the grand clans competition, you tell me, what should the Jian Family do without a ’Dragon Child’?!"
Southwest Huaxia.
It is hard to imagine that atop a mountain towering five thousand meters high sits a majestic palace, as grand as an imperial palace!
On the plaque outside the palace doors are written five large characters: Jian Family Council Hall!
Clouds and mist envelop the palace, giving it an ethereal aura.
Those less informed might mistake it for the Celestial Court!
At this moment, inside the splendid palace, as large as a football field and luxuriously adorned, an elderly man, sitting at the helm, donned in robes with long white whiskers, exudes an immortal-like aura, though his face is darkened with anger, scolding a woman seated below, who appears around forty but is in fact over eighty.
The old man, named Sword of Impermanence, is the leader of the Jian family, ranked seventy-sixth among the hundred clans of the Southwest Deep Mountains!
The scolded woman is his daughter, Jian Fanghua.
As Sword of Impermanence’s harsh words echoed, over a hundred others in the hall cast indignant looks at Jian Fanghua!
Jian Fanghua bit her lip, and with grievance, replied, "Father, I don’t think it’s entirely my fault. I fell in love with someone I shouldn’t outside, married him and had children. But what does that have to do with the Jian family not birthing a ’Dragon Child’?"
"Who else but you, reprobate, dares to argue!"
"You’ve left several seeds with that infernal Ye Yaoguo, disrupting and polluting my Jian family’s pure bloodline!"
Sword of Impermanence slammed his chair, rebuking angrily, "Our Jian family ancestors are surely ashamed and enraged because of this, punishing us by withholding the ’Dragon Child’s’ birth in the Jian family! And the Ling family, haven’t they also failed to birth a Dragon Child this generation? This is the best evidence! Only our family and the Ling family have descendants who ventured out of the deep mountains, leaving relations outside, and neither family birthed a Dragon Child. Is this a coincidence? Can it be such a coincidence!"
"How could the ancestors care about such matters? Besides, the man I found is excellent, a rare gem among men! My union with him is not pollution but continuation of the family bloodline!" Jian Fanghua stood her ground, arguing, "Who knows... perhaps the Jian family’s ’Dragon Child’ is among my descendants!"
"Ha ha, you are a joke even to me!" Sword of Impermanence and the attendees sneered together, "Jian Fanghua, ask yourself if you believe that before speaking!"
At these words, Jian Fanghua flushed with shame, bowing her head in embarrassment.
In the deep mountains of Southwest Huaxia, there are a hundred Ancient Martial Clans!
Every fifty years is a cycle, most clans usually witness an "atavism" phenomenon, birthing a baby with some ancestral bloodline!
Without exception, those with ancestral blood, whether in martial arts talent, comprehension, or future potential, far surpass all others in the clan!
The birth of a "Dragon Child" signifies new hope for the clan!
Once the pure-blooded baby is born, the copper bell in the clan’s Council Hall rings thunderously eight times, indicating the arrival of the foreordained child recognized by ancestors.
This baby becomes the young patriarch of the clan, the future heir to the clan.
Yet it’s been eighty years since the Jian family last had a Dragon Child!
Far exceeding the fifty-year boundary!
Could the Jian family Dragon Child be among the descendants of Ye Yaoguo?
Jian Fanghua knew her previous words were just an outburst, contemplating them closely, she realized it was impossible.
Generally, only those with the purest blood are recognized by their ancestors to exhibit atavism!
Jian Fanghua and Ye Yaoguo have five children, each with only half of the Jian family bloodline.
And these five children’s descendants possess only 25%, or even less of the Jian family bloodline.
The bloodline is extremely impure!
In such circumstances, how could the ancestors choose one of them as the heir?
"Jian Fanghua, your absurdity knows no bounds!"
"Your descendants are so impure, polluted to the extreme, are you expecting Dragon Children? They would be fortunate to inherit some martial talent from the Jian family!"
A middle-aged man, the Intelligence Hall Master of the Jian family, Jian Jiuzhou rebuked in anger, "Years ago, the Patriarch specifically ordered the Intelligence Hall to investigate your descendants. The results revealed: Your five sons are quite impressive among ordinary people, doing well, but their martial talent is extremely low, in plain terms, a bunch of martial arts failures!"
"The only one relatively promising is your grandson, a boy named Ye Huan!"
"That boy seems to have made something of himself with the Jian family bloodline, becoming some God of Slaughter in the Western Dark World, but what use is that? We have plenty of Celestial Gods in the Jian family!"
"Moreover, as your third generation, his bloodline has diluted beyond measure. Though he was lucky to have some Ancient Martial Arts talent, I’m a hundred percent sure he can only reach the Celestial God level in this life! It’s just sad!"
"Such a runt, how could he be the Dragon Child of my Jian family? Don’t be ridiculous!"
Jian Jiuzhou curled his lips, his words filled with disdain for Jian Fanghua’s descendants.
"Ninth Brother, must you speak so harshly?" Jian Fanghua’s face turned purple with anger, unable to bear hearing her children and grandchildren insulted by her brother.
Before Jian Jiuzhou could speak, Jian Bafang from the side criticized, "Fanghua, Ninth Brother’s words were harsh, but your actions are more deplorable, polluting the Jian family bloodline, thrusting the Jian family into a state without a Dragon Child! It’s all because we spoiled you as a treasure in your youth, making your nature so obstinate, how regretful I am!"
"Hmph! What are harsh words? I say we should send people out of the mountains, thoroughly uproot and kill those impure bloodline descendants of yours! That way, perhaps the ancestor will forgive us, and let the Dragon Child be born smoothly!" The Jian family’s logistics officer, Sword of Seven Days, spoke coldly and ruthlessly.
Unable to bear anymore, Jian Fanghua abruptly stood up and stormed out of the Council Hall, the air around her filled with purple rage!
"A sin, such a sin! It’s all due to my lack of strict upbringing, raising such a disobedient reprobate, angering the ancestors, and letting this generation of the Jian family go without a Dragon Child!"
Watching Jian Fanghua’s departing back, Sword of Impermanence, sitting at the head of the table, was filled with grief, slamming his seat handrails fiercely, causing a "clang-clang" sound, nearly bursting into tears, lamenting, "The Jian family has plummeted downward, from sixtieth to seventy-eighth in ranking among the hundred clans over millennia!"
"Now, without a ’Dragon Child’, surely our potential ranking in the grand clans competition will drop to the bottom! Even if the younger generation achieves good results, the final rank will fall drastically, potentially relegating us to the bottom third, or even the worst, last!"
"I feel disgraced before the ancestors!"
As Sword of Impermanence spoke, tears streamed down his aged face.
Then, an elderly man with white hair, leaning on a cane, ascended the steps, entered the Jian Family Council Hall, waved his large hand, his voice boomed, "Sword brother, fear not!"