Chapter 387
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Chapter 387 The Curse of the Ye Family
“Who told you that you are the guardians of the divine dragon?” Fang Yu took another sip of tea and asked.
“This is the family precept left by our Ye family ancestors. Besides, we have evidence.” Ye Shengxue’s delicate face was full of seriousness as she lowered her voice and said, “Our ancestor saw the divine dragon with his own eyes!”
Saw the divine dragon with his own eyes?
This news was quite explosive.
But according to legend, the divine dragon’s body was at least hundreds of meters long and nearly a hundred meters wide.
If it really appeared, wouldn’t it cause a sensation?
But Fang Yu reconsidered.
After he absorbed the divine dragon’s essence, a small golden dragon had been circling in his dantian.
Thinking about it this way… if the divine dragon appeared in a similar form, it could indeed avoid public attention.
Fang Yu raised an eyebrow and said, “What else?”
“Many of our family’s mental cultivation techniques were bestowed by the divine dragon,” Ye Shengxue said.
“Then where did the divine dragon go afterward?” Fang Yu asked.
“That… is unclear. The family precepts left by our ancestors mentioned that the divine dragon would leave its bloodline behind, but the time and place are uncertain, and it could appear in any person in the world.”
“The mission of our Ye family is to find the person with the divine dragon’s bloodline and protect them during their growth… until they completely become the true divine dragon,” Ye Shengxue said.
Fang Yu listened, his brow furrowing deeper.
At first, he thought Ye Shengxue was making things up, but after hearing so much, he suddenly felt that Ye Shengxue might not be completely talking nonsense.
The divine dragon left its bloodline…
Was it left in the deep sea beneath Jiufeng Island?
At this moment, Fang Yu again thought of the small golden dragon circling around his dantian.
Could this be the bloodline left by the divine dragon that Ye Shengxue mentioned?
It seemed right, this small golden dragon did indeed look like a young dragon!
Fang Yu raised his eyes to look at Ye Shengxue and asked, “I remember you said last night that you needed my help? Why do you need help? Isn’t it just about finding the person with the divine dragon’s bloodline and protecting them?”
Hearing this question, Ye Shengxue’s face suddenly turned ugly, and she said in a low voice, “I told you earlier that the divine dragon chose our Ye family as guardians… and bestowed many treasures and techniques upon us…”
“But when dealing with the divine dragon, there is always a price to pay.”
“When the divine dragon bestowed these things upon us, it also placed a curse on our Ye family’s bloodline.”
At this point, Ye Shengxue’s face was extremely pale, her lips trembling slightly.
“What curse?” Fang Yu asked.
“If we don’t find the person with the divine dragon’s bloodline, every thirty years, half of our family members will die,” Ye Shengxue said with a trembling voice.
Fang Yu frowned.
Half of the family dying every thirty years was a perfectly timed cycle.
The surviving half of the members would have to continue raising the next generation within these twenty years, continuing to protect the unknown possessor of the divine dragon’s bloodline.
With such a curse, even if the Ye family possessed the techniques and treasures left by the divine dragon, they could hardly become truly powerful, and could only wholeheartedly continue to search for the possessor of the divine dragon’s bloodline.
“This kind of curse… is truly vicious,” Fang Yu thought.
Mentioning the curse, Ye Shengxue seemed to recall something painful, her eyes reddening, with crystalline tears in her beautiful eyes.
“We have no other choice, the curse left by the divine dragon is irreversible. We can only search generation after generation, looking for the person with the divine dragon’s bloodline, just hoping to escape this hell as soon as possible,” Ye Shengxue said tearfully.
Fang Yu quietly looked at Ye Shengxue without speaking.
Ye Shengxue quickly stopped, wiped her tears, raised her head to look at Fang Yu, and said, “It’s been nineteen years since the last time the curse took effect. We only have one year left. If we don’t find the possessor of the divine dragon’s bloodline within this year, half of our family will die again.”
“And I will be one of them.”
Fang Yu raised an eyebrow and said, “How do you know you’ll be one of them? Isn’t it random?”
Ye Shengxue shook her head slightly and said, “Ten years after the curse takes effect, a mark appears on the family members’ bodies… and this mark predicts who will be sacrificed when the curse takes effect next time. Moreover, the closer to the time when the curse takes effect, the weaker the marked person’s body becomes.”
As she said this, Ye Shengxue’s face showed no expression, appearing very calm.
She suddenly pulled back her sleeve, exposing the skin of her entire arm.
At this moment, Fang Yu saw that there were many gray marks on the skin of Ye Shengxue’s arm. They were lines, intersecting with each other, extremely complex and numerous.
“In the final year, the marks will climb up my neck, then to my face, covering my entire body. After that, by that time, my life force will be exhausted,” Ye Shengxue said.
At this moment, the waiter was about to serve the food.
Ye Shengxue pulled her sleeve back and took a deep breath.
Fang Yu frowned slightly, thinking.
Ye Shengxue’s words should all be sincere, without lies.
A girl of her age couldn’t possibly escape Fang Yu’s eyes if she were lying or acting.
But Fang Yu still had many doubts.
The divine dragon appeared more than a thousand years ago, why hadn’t he heard even a whisper of it at that time?
Why would the divine dragon leave its bloodline in any random corner of the world? And entrust an ordinary family as guardians? And leave such a vicious curse to force a family to work for it?
And the most crucial point, if the divine dragon entrusted the Ye family as guardians 1,200 years ago before completely disappearing, then where had it been hiding throughout the long history of ten thousand years? Why had all information about it stopped at more than ten thousand years ago?
No matter how he thought about it, it didn’t make sense.
Moreover, the whole thing was permeated with a strange and cultish atmosphere.
The divine dragon is a divine beast, wielding sacred power, symbolizing light.
Would it really leave such a vicious curse on an ordinary family?
And does the divine dragon’s bloodline really need a human family to protect it?
“If you find the possessor of the divine dragon’s bloodline, what must you do to remove the curse from yourselves?” Fang Yu asked.
“As long as we bring the person to our family’s ancestral shrine, the curse on us will automatically be lifted,” Ye Shengxue stared steadily at Fang Yu.
In this curse, besides her, those with marks included her mother, cousin brother, cousin sister, and others.
These people were her closest relatives, and she didn’t want to see them die!
Fang Yu was her last lifeline!
If Fang Yu was willing to go to the Ye family once, her family could be saved!
But Fang Yu didn’t express his position, instead lowering his head and starting to eat the food.
Ye Shengxue’s heart was full of expectation, but she knew that such things couldn’t be forced, and she couldn’t be too anxious.
She had known Fang Yu for less than two days and had said a lot of things that would seem absurd to others. It was already good that Fang Yu didn’t treat her as a lunatic.
She still had about a year, enough time to make Fang Yu believe this matter.
At least for now, she could see hope, and the Ye family would no longer be as dark as it had been for the past 1,200 years!
Thinking this way, Ye Shengxue felt much more at ease.
“Mr. Fang, take your time eating. Although this restaurant is a three-Michelin-star, the dishes are unlimited,” Ye Shengxue said with a smile.
Fang Yu ate one bite after another, finishing everything in front of him in no time.
Ye Shengxue immediately called the waiter in to order more dishes.
In the room, Fang Yu ate silently, while Ye Shengxue quietly watched him, not touching the food in front of her.
After a while, the room across suddenly began to make noisy sounds.
It sounded like someone was drunk and shouting at each other.
Ye Shengxue frowned slightly, called the waiter, and asked, “Why is it so noisy across the hall?”
“I’m very sorry that it’s affecting your meal, Miss Ye. I’ll go handle this matter for you immediately.” The waiter bowed deeply and withdrew.
Less than five seconds after the waiter left, an even louder voice erupted from the room across.
“Do you know who the fuck I am? You dare say I’m noisy? Even your boss wouldn’t dare say such things to my face!”
“Bang!”
Following that was a cry of pain and the dull sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Ye Shengxue’s face changed, and she immediately stood up and walked toward the door of the room.
