Chapter 67

Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/PazjBDkTmW

Ye Wentian’s physical body ceased to exist, vanishing completely. Before his disappearance, he had sealed his soul within the statue of himself in the Ye clan’s ancestral hall, awaiting the moment when his spirit, with the aid of the Ninefold Divine Tower, would break free from its confinement, be reborn, and seek out this ninth fragment of his soul.

Ye He, whose cultivation and memories had been sealed, remained in the Ye clan’s ancestral hall, day after day, year after year.

However, with Ye Wentian’s disappearance, the prestige of the Ye clan was no longer sufficient to command the respect and fear of the other families within the Qingyun Empire. Consequently, many families began to scheme against and target the Ye clan.

Through Ye He’s memories, Ye Wushuang witnessed one familiar figure after another—peaks of power from the various great families of the Qingyun Empire. These individuals, who had not dared to make a move against the Ye clan while he was alive, could no longer restrain themselves and began to undermine and persecute the Ye clan, leading to its decline.

The Ye clan’s assets in the capital were gradually swallowed up, and hundreds, if not thousands, of clan members were persecuted to death. Eventually, the Ye clan was forced to leave the capital of the Qingyun Empire and relocate to the remote city of Liuyue, where they barely clung to survival.

Yet, even in this remote location, those family forces still had no intention of letting the Ye clan go.

Suddenly, within Ye He’s memories, Ye Wushuang saw the deaths of his grandfather and father in this life, and he uncovered a shocking secret!

The core reason for the Ye clan’s decline was not only the pressure from the other great families but also a mysterious phenomenon within the clan itself: every descendant of the Ye clan would inexplicably die at the age of forty, regardless of gender.

Ye Wushuang had already suspected the reason when he saw his uncle, but it was only now, through He Bo’s memories, that he was truly certain.

After his ninth soul fragment was reincarnated as Ye Wentian and became the strongest in the Qingyun Empire, he had also condensed his bloodline power.

Bloodline Devouring.

This ability allowed him to consume the life force and energy of spiritual beasts and martial cultivators, using it to enhance his own cultivation.

However, when those great families united against the Ye clan, someone secretly stripped away the bloodline spirit from every member of the Ye clan!

What is the bloodline spirit?

While others might not know, Ye Wushuang was well aware.

For every descendant of an absolute strong cultivator who had condensed their bloodline power, the possibility of awakening the ancestor’s bloodline lay in the bloodline spirit.

Some descendants, with exceptional talent, could trigger the bloodline spirit and awaken the bloodline power under special circumstances.

Every descendant of a strong cultivator had the bloodline spirit within their blood. If it was stripped away, it would be impossible to awaken the bloodline power.

Moreover, without the bloodline spirit, a cultivator’s life force would be like a person losing their soul, gradually losing vitality and leading to an early death, even in the prime of life.

The Ye clan, over the past five hundred years, had not only been oppressed by the combined forces of several great families within the Qingyun Empire, leading to their decline and the tragic deaths of many clan members, but also had their bloodline spirits stripped away by a group of mysterious cultivators, losing the possibility of awakening their bloodline power.

This also led to the curse that no Ye clan member could live past forty, accelerating the clan’s decline and decay.

Now, through He Bo’s memories, Ye Wushuang saw the various great families that had persecuted the Ye clan in the past and committed them to memory.

However, he could not identify the group of mysterious people who had stripped away the bloodline spirits.

The rage in his heart was unimaginable.

“These debts will be repaid!”

Ye Wushuang took a deep breath and withdrew from He Bo’s memories.

At this moment, Ye Wushuang suddenly realized a monumental problem.

The mysterious group that had stripped away the bloodline spirits of the Ye clan members had always acted stealthily when each clan member turned ten.

Even as the Ye clan declined, they had never ceased their actions.

This year, his sister Ye Feifei was exactly ten years old.

This meant that those mysterious people might appear at any time to strip away his sister’s bloodline spirit!

And this was something Ye Wushuang absolutely could not tolerate!