Chapter 429

Chapter 429: My Dependents

Chu Jiang looked at Kujo Aino and asked, "What do you think?"

Love felt a bit confused and she shook her head, "It’s all up to Mr. Chu to decide."

"I’m asking what you think about the Bai family, even if you say it doesn’t matter."

Kujo Aino thought for a moment, "I don’t know much about this family, and actually, I still can’t believe that the man across from me is my father."

Bai Jingde paused, not knowing what to say or how to say it.

"A paternity test can be done for this." Bai Congwu was confident, "And it was indeed my father’s mistake back then. If you’re willing, you can come back to our family anytime."

"I promise I won’t just use you as a decoration. If you can prove yourself capable, I can even let you have some real power within the Bai family."

This was also a compromise, relying on the relationship between Kujo Aino and Chu Jiang, even though outsiders wouldn’t know their connection, they could only guess.

Kujo Aino shook her head, "I don’t feel any attachment to a strange family, even if the paternity test shows that I am really your sister, I wouldn’t go back to the Bai family unless…"

She turned her head to look at Chu Jiang.

Chu Jiang replied, "Don’t look at me, you can do whatever you want."

So Kujo Aino thought for a moment and said, "Let’s do the paternity test first and then we can talk about the other things once we have the results."

"No problem," Bai Congwu immediately agreed. If this could resolve the gap between the White family and Chu Jiang, it was worth it.

"Okay, now that your issue is resolved, it’s my turn," Chu Jiang looked at Bai Congwu. "I’ll be straightforward, I’ve come to find the White Tiger."

When these words were spoken, not only did Bai Congwu’s face freeze, but the elders of the White family behind him also had a drastic change in their expressions.

"Can you explain a bit more clearly?" Although Bai Congwu felt uneasy, he asked seriously.

"It’s simple, due to an accident, I have been cursed by the S-class ghost, the White Tiger, that your family sealed."

"Now, because of the curse, I have an impulse to set it free, and this inner urge will only grow stronger over time."

Upon hearing this, Bai Congwu said immediately, "There is a solution, our White family can help you lift this curse."

After saying that, he briefly explained to Chu Jiang about the sources of power in the White Tiger clan.

"Different from Chu’s Jiang, our ancestors didn’t possess the ability to infuse S-class ghosts into our bloodline and pass it down to future generations."

"Therefore, after paying a bloody price and finally sealing that terrifying ghost, we chose a compromise solution."

"Firstly, this ghost has the ability to curse others. In theory, anyone cursed by it will obey its commands unconditionally and be willing to do anything."

"However, at the same time, the cursed individual gains certain supernatural powers derived from the White Tiger’s essence, known as the Power of the ‘Vengeful Ghost.’"

"The solution our White family ancestors came up with was to imprison the White Tiger, rather than fully sealing it away."

"The difference here is quite simple: when imprisoned, the White Tiger is in a half-asleep, half-awake state, still possessing some resistance."

"Since it has the strength to resist, it will undoubtedly break free from its confines; thus, we placed a jade figurine outside the enclosure."

"This figurine is a unique grade-zero sealing object, containing the blood of our White family ancestors."

"Therefore, the White Tiger will mistake this figurine for our ancestors and continuously use its cursed power to influence it, attempting to free itself."

"But the stone statue is not alive, it cannot release the white tiger, it just silently endures this curse."

"And there is more, even though the stone statue possesses a powerful ability to confuse evil spirits, its side effect is equally bizarre: it will transfer any abnormal spiritual harm it suffers to the bloodline it carries."

"This transfer is terrifying, not only affecting our ancestor from the Bai family, but also all of their descendants, who will suffer the same curse."

"In this way, the stone statue takes on a role similar to a signal amplifier. The white tiger placed the curse of ‘White Tiger Fury’ on it, and it applies the same curse to the entire Bai family bloodline."

Then comes an interesting aspect of this curse: The ‘cursed ones’ will unconditionally obey the commands of the ‘cursing one’.

"The command given by the white tiger to the stone statue was to release the white tiger, but the stone statue remains motionless, showing no response."

"It’s worth emphasizing that the white tiger cannot give orders to all of us in the Bai family because it is not our ‘cursing one’, the stone statue is our ‘cursing one’."

"Finally, because the stone statue is just a seal, it will not give us any commands."

When Chu Jiang heard this, he was amazed. He remembered a sentence his history teacher said during a lesson on the Western feudal system, "My vassal’s vassal is not my vassal."

The way this ancestor from the Bai family did things, you could say they made the most of the characteristics of the white tiger and the jade stone man, successfully canceling out any side effects and benefiting their own descendants.

Bai Congwu continued his description, saying, "Actually, this curse does have some impact on living people, but compared to the abilities it brings, everything is worth it."

"Over the years of passing down this power, we’ve come up with various variations and tricks; like when I hypnotized Duan Mingen to get close to you, I used a technique called ‘soul thread’, which is generally hard to be noticed by others."

Saying this, he revealed a somewhat helpless smile.

"At the same time, to prevent too many people from sharing the power of the white tiger and weakening our individual strength, the Bai family didn’t reproduce without restraint. Each generation carefully planned their reproduction and controlled the number."

"That’s why my father, as the head of the family, had to keep his mistress a secret, and even if someone went missing, he didn’t dare to openly search. If this matter had been exposed back then, he might have been impeached by several elders and removed from his position."

Chu Jiang nodded, realizing that the Bai family had indeed inherited something valuable over all these years.

Now, Bai Congwu was being very open and honest, even revealing the core secrets of his own family to an outsider like Chu Jiang, in order to proactively reconcile with him.

"So, how will the Bai family solve the curse on me? It should be the white tiger who placed the curse on me, right?"