Chapter 529

Chapter 529: Ugh, my jinxed mouth!
Senior Qun Fang curled her lip and said, “Look at you, so useless.”

Ancestor Sui Bian was grinning so hard that the corners of his mouth were almost reaching the back of his head, and he did not even hear clearly what Senior Qun Fang was saying.

Holding the bracelet, he muttered to himself, “Yu Zhao’s luck is really too good. It is like Heaven Above keeps chasing after her to give her money. No wonder that divine maiden last time said Yu Zhao was Heaven’s Chosen Daughter. This time, your ancestor truly believes it.”

Senior Qun Fang’s curiosity was hooked, and she asked, “What exactly is inside?”

Ancestor Sui Bian asked, “You did not look?”

Senior Qun Fang answered, “This is Yu Zhao’s bracelet. How could I casually look through it?”

Ancestor Sui Bian laughed awkwardly.

He and Yu Zhao had the relationship of ancestor and junior. If you rounded it up, that basically made them family, so there was no need to fuss about such details.

After comforting himself, he took out from the storage bracelet a black bronze array disk and placed it on his palm as he said, “Look at this first.”

Senior Qun Fang asked in surprise, “An array disk?”

Ancestor Sui Bian shook his head and said, “This is no ordinary array disk. This is called the Heaven-Deriving Array Disk. If you pour your divine sense into it, it can automatically perform divinatory calculations for formation array arts.”

Senior Qun Fang was already skilled in formation arts. After hearing Ancestor Sui Bian’s explanation, she immediately understood that, for a formation cultivator, this array disk was practically a supreme treasure for cultivation. With it around, one could greatly improve their divinatory calculation ability and shorten the time needed to comprehend the Dao.

Senior Qun Fang asked, “What else?”

Ancestor Sui Bian put the Heaven-Deriving Array Disk back, then took out several gray-white stone pillars and said, “These are the Tu Clan’s famous formation magical artifacts, the Heaven Pillars. With them, you can lay down a Heavenly Pillar Array.”

He added, “There are also the Tu Clan’s treasured formation manuals inside. If you can comprehend even half of them, you can at least become a formation array master.”

Ancestor Sui Bian dug around some more and said, “Huh, there is a broken-down starship here too. Forget it, that one does not matter.”

Ancestor Sui Bian displayed the items inside one by one like he was showing off treasures to Senior Qun Fang. Senior Qun Fang finally understood why he was so excited.

She did not know what the Tu Clan patriarch had been thinking, actually daring to let Tu Xiao carry so many important treasures on him. Now they had been given to them for nothing.

Senior Qun Fang said, “Enough, stop showing off and put everything away.”

“Alright.” Ancestor Sui Bian replied happily. He was just about to pull his divine sense out when he suddenly noticed a strange box in a corner.

The box looked completely ordinary, with not a single fluctuation of spirit power on it. If one was not careful, it would be very easy to overlook.

Ancestor Sui Bian immediately became interested. He took the box out and said with certainty, “There is not a single cheap item in this Tu Clan young master’s storage bracelet, so there must be another treasure inside this too.”

As he spoke, he opened the box.

Unexpectedly, there was only a single jade slip inside.

The jade slip was slightly yellowed in color, but its surface was very smooth. It was clear that it had some age and had often been held and played with in someone’s hand.

Senior Qun Fang softly reminded him, “Be careful.”

Ancestor Sui Bian nodded. In the next instant, surprise, confusion, anger, and other emotions flashed one after another across his face.

After quite a while, he finally let out a cold snort and slammed the box shut.

Senior Qun Fang asked in surprise, “What did you see?”

Ancestor Sui Bian cursed, “That Tu Clan brat really is scum.” He then quickly added, “No, it is not just him. That old thing from the Tu Clan and those few family clans of theirs, not a single one of them is decent.”

Senior Qun Fang snapped, “Stop with the nonsense and talk about the important part.”

Ancestor Sui Bian sighed, then finally told Senior Qun Fang what was recorded in the jade slip.

It turned out the jade slip contained a letter. It was a farewell letter left for her son by Tu Xiao’s mother, a female cultivator named Su Yi.

In the letter, with strokes full of despair, she wrote word by word how Auspicious Palace had controlled her life, how it had turned her from a disciple valued by her sect into a puppet without freedom, a private plaything of a Grand Adept.

The only thing she did not regret was giving birth to Tu Xiao, having a family member who shared blood with her.

After she gave birth to Tu Xiao, all her value was squeezed dry. Knowing she did not have long to live, she wrote this letter, hoping Tu Xiao could help her get revenge after he grew up.

She was even considerate enough to think that, since Tu Xiao had grown up in the Tu Clan, he might not be able to bring himself to act against its people. So she only wrote down her wish for Auspicious Palace to be destroyed.

Besides that, it was filled with the earnest instructions of a mother on her deathbed to her son. Even an outsider like Ancestor Sui Bian could feel the deep affection flowing between the lines.

Senior Qun Fang had long known why Yu Zhao had formed a grudge with the people of the Tu Clan. She curled her lips in a mocking smile.

She said, “She was a pitiful person. It is just a shame that her son did not inherit her character and only kept all the dirty and rotten parts.”

Ancestor Sui Bian added, “That Young Heir grew up in the Tu Clan since childhood. With all that influence day and night, his bones had already grown crooked. How could he still remember his mother’s last wish?”

He gritted his teeth and said, “That Tu Zhen Yue is worse than a beast. He not only used female cultivators as furnaces, he even…”

Halfway through, Ancestor Sui Bian could not continue. Just thinking of what was recorded in the jade slip made his whole body break out in a cold sweat.

The reason Auspicious Palace could make so many cultivators flock to it was because it had pushed the use of furnaces to the extreme. A furnace that came out of Auspicious Palace could be used as a tool for cultivation, and its flesh and blood could even be refined into a greatly nourishing pill.

Su Yi had likely died because Tu Zhen Yue had thrown her into a pill furnace and refined her into a pill. In the end, she might have even been swallowed into Tu Zhen Yue’s stomach, merging with the spirit power in his meridians.

Ancestor Sui Bian fumed with anger and said, “A hundred pieces of spirit jade is still too cheap for him. If I had known, I would have asked for more.”

He growled, “The Tu Clan is hateful, and even more hateful is that Auspicious Palace.”

A cold light flashed in Senior Qun Fang’s eyes.

The Bi Fang Realm where she came from was very far from the Earth Domain. Before this, she had never heard that this middle world even had an organization called Auspicious Palace.

Seeing that she was getting angry, Ancestor Sui Bian instead softened his voice to persuade her as he said, “Auspicious Palace and those few small worlds are closely linked. If we want to deal with it, we need to plan carefully. We cannot rush.”

After all these years together, Ancestor Sui Bian could guess what she wanted to do from just one look in Senior Qun Fang’s eyes.

Senior Qun Fang slowly nodded, mentally noting this matter for later, then changed the topic as she asked, “Has Yu Zhao still not come out of seclusion?”

Ancestor Sui Bian shook his head and said, “The first time I switched bodies, it took me a full seven or eight years. Even if Yu Zhao is gifted, it will still take her at least three or four years. But there is no hurry now. The Daqian Alliance has not sent any notice yet, so we still have time…”

Before he could finish, he heard Old Black Daoist’s anxious shout from outside: “Sui Bian, something big has happened, something big has happened.”

Ancestor Sui Bian was startled and quickly answered, “What happened?”

Hearing his voice, Old Black Daoist flashed into the room. He looked like the sky was falling, which made Ancestor Sui Bian so anxious that he wanted to kick him.

Ancestor Sui Bian urged him, “What is it exactly? Hurry and say it.”

After catching his breath, Old Black Daoist said anxiously, “The Daqian Alliance just issued the official notice. The selection will officially begin three months from now. All cultivators taking part in the selection must arrive at the Daqian Alliance within three months.”

Ancestor Sui Bian and Senior Qun Fang looked at each other.

Then he raised his hand and smacked his own mouth as he cried, “Ugh, my jinxed mouth.”