Chapter 392
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Chapter 392 The Ye Family Ancestral Hall
Ye Shengxue was stunned, then ecstatic, almost standing up from the car.
“Mr. Fang, you, you’re willing to help us…” Ye Shengxue said excitedly, her beautiful eyes wide open.
“Not necessarily, I’m just going to your home to take a look,” Fang Yu said.
“Great! Great!” Ye Shengxue immediately instructed the driver to return directly to the Ye family home.
Turning around, Ye Shengxue looked at Fang Yu, her eyes full of gratitude.
She had mentally prepared herself that it would take a long time to persuade Fang Yu.
But she didn’t expect that Fang Yu would agree to go back to the Ye family home with her so quickly!
What she had said during the dinner, if told to others, would likely not be believed, and she might even be considered crazy!
Half an hour later, the car drove into Nandu’s top riverside villa district, stopping in front of the largest property located in the center.
“Mr. Fang, this is my home, please come in.” Ye Shengxue got out of the car, stood in front of Fang Yu, and bowed slightly.
Perhaps due to excitement, her cheeks were slightly flushed.
Fang Yu looked up at the mansion, his brows slightly furrowed.
The mansion’s exterior was luxurious and grand, but judging from the dust on the outer walls, it had been there for some years.
The interior of the estate contained multiple villas, suggesting that quite a few people should be living there.
But strangely, the entire mansion was emanating waves of cold, deathly energy.
This was very abnormal.
A house where normal people live, even if only one person resides there, shouldn’t emit such an aura.
The level of death energy emanating from the Ye family mansion wasn’t much different from a chaotic burial ground.
How could this be a place where normal people live?
“Mr. Fang, what’s wrong?” Ye Shengxue noticed Fang Yu’s furrowed brows and his hesitation to enter the mansion, and asked puzzledly.
“Nothing, let’s go.” Fang Yu lifted his foot and walked toward the mansion.
Ye Shengxue led Fang Yu toward the villa at the very center of the estate.
“I’ll take you to the living room to sit first, and I’ll have my father meet with you,” Ye Shengxue said.
Then, Fang Yu entered the villa and sat down on the sofa in the living room.
Besides Fang Yu and Ye Shengxue, there was no one else in the living room, not even servants.
The surroundings were eerily quiet.
An ordinary person coming to this mansion would probably leave within a minute.
The atmosphere was too creepy.
But Fang Yu didn’t feel much, crossing his legs and leaning back on the sofa, waiting for Ye Shengxue to bring her father.
While waiting, Fang Yu’s eyes sharpened as he looked around.
He wanted to know where the source of the death energy was.
Then, he discovered that the source of the death energy was directly in front of where he was sitting.
That is, behind this villa!
“What’s over there?” Fang Yu frowned slightly.
At this moment, Ye Shengxue happened to walk in through the back door of the villa, returning to Fang Yu.
“Mr. Fang, my family members are currently paying respects to our ancestors in the ancestral hall, I need to go there too… Please wait here for a while, we’ll finish soon.” Ye Shengxue poured a glass of water for Fang Yu and said.
Fang Yu stood up and said, “I’ll go with you to take a look.”
“Huh?” Ye Shengxue was stunned.
According to the family rules left by their ancestors, if they found someone with the blood of the divine dragon and brought him to the ancestral hall, the curse on the Ye family bloodline could be lifted.
This was also Ye Shengxue’s purpose in bringing Fang Yu back to the Ye family.
But many things were still unclear, and she needed to at least let the core members of the family meet Fang Yu, and only with their consent could she allow Fang Yu to enter the ancestral hall.
“I won’t go in, I’ll just take a look from outside,” Fang Yu said, knowing what Ye Shengxue was thinking.
“Alright, then follow me,” Ye Shengxue nodded and said.
The two walked out through the back door of the villa, and ahead was a small courtyard.
After passing through the courtyard, they could see an extremely ancient ancestral hall.
At this time, about fifty or sixty people were kneeling on the flat ground in front of the ancestral hall, paying respects to nearly a hundred spirit tablets in the hall.
Fang Yu didn’t enter the ancestral hall but stood at the threshold, looking inside.
From his view, he could see a dragon head stone statue above all the spirit tablets.
Fang Yu was someone who had seen a dragon with his own eyes, and that dragon was currently coiled in his dantian.
So, seeing this statue, he instinctively compared it with a real dragon head.
After comparison, Fang Yu raised an eyebrow.
Extremely similar!
Without having seen a dragon in person, it would be very difficult to create such a statue!
…Could it be that this family really saw a dragon twelve hundred years ago?
Fang Yu began to doubt his previous reasoning.
However, perhaps due to the passage of time, or maybe it was designed this way, the entire dragon head statue was pitch black, not looking noble or grand.
While Fang Yu was thinking, Ye Shengxue walked to the front of the crowd, knelt down beside a gray-haired man, and devoutly paid respects to the ancestral spirit tablets.
The entire ancestral hall emanated waves of cold energy.
Combined with the black dragon head statue above the spirit tablets and the dozens of people kneeling below.
The whole scene looked more like some ritual of an evil cult.
Fang Yu released his divine consciousness, covering the entire ancestral hall.
Soon, he discovered the source of the death energy.
It was right in front of this ancestral hall, above the dragon head statue and nearly a hundred spirit tablets!
It seemed like something was hidden within.
Fang Yu stared at the spirit tablets in front.
These tablets clearly stated which generation of the Ye family head they represented, their names, and their ages at death.
The entire ancestral hall was extremely quiet.
Only after an incense stick had burned out did these people stand up.
Ye Shengxue immediately approached the gray-haired man’s ear and said a few words.
The man immediately turned around, looked back, and made eye contact with Fang Yu.
The man frowned deeply and walked straight toward Fang Yu.
And Ye Shenglong, whom he had met before, also accompanied Ye Shengxue as they approached.
The other family members, both men and women, looked puzzled and collectively gazed at Fang Yu.
Their Ye family rarely invited outsiders.
Fang Yu, such a young man, suddenly appearing outside the ancestral hall, seemed particularly out of place.
Soon, the gray-haired middle-aged man walked up to Fang Yu.
“You’re Fang Yu?” the man asked with a frown.
“Yes,” Fang Yu answered.
“Mr. Fang, this is my father, Ye Zhennan,” Ye Shengxue, who had followed behind, quickly introduced.
Fang Yu nodded.
“Are you the possessor of the divine dragon bloodline?” Ye Zhennan examined Fang Yu and asked.
Fang Yu shook his head and said calmly, “You should ask your daughter about that.”
Ye Zhennan frowned even deeper and turned to look at Ye Shengxue.
“Dad, let’s go back to the living room to talk,” Ye Shengxue said.
“There’s no need. If he truly possesses the divine dragon bloodline, he just needs to demonstrate the power of the divine dragon,” Ye Zhennan said coldly.
In fact, he didn’t believe at all that Fang Yu possessed the divine dragon bloodline.
Because Fang Yu looked too ordinary, both in temperament and aura.
His cultivation level, status, and young age were all unremarkable.
Such a person on the street would be completely indistinguishable.
How could the true possessor of the divine dragon bloodline be so mediocre?
Ye Zhennan had already made up his mind.
Fang Yu was just a fraud, trying to use the so-called power of the divine dragon to deceive the Ye family for benefits.
Or perhaps Ye Shengxue had made a mistake.
Ye Zhennan wasn’t being arbitrary; he had such suspicions because similar incidents had occurred several times over the past twelve hundred years!
Family members had excitedly brought someone back, claiming they possessed the divine dragon bloodline, and had made many conditions before agreeing to enter the ancestral hall.
But after bringing them into the ancestral hall, the curse on the Ye family bloodline wasn’t removed. Instead, several more family members developed curse marks!
This was the punishment from the divine dragon!
The only people who could enter the ancestral hall, apart from the Ye family members, were those who possessed the divine dragon bloodline!
If any other outsider entered, more Ye family members would develop curse marks!
Therefore, Ye Zhennan would not easily allow Fang Yu to enter unless he could demonstrate the power of the divine dragon!
Seeing Ye Zhennan’s hostile attitude, Ye Shengxue’s heart sank.
“Dad, you…” Ye Shengxue wanted to speak.
But Ye Zhennan raised his hand, stopping Ye Shengxue from continuing.
“Fang Yu, if you can demonstrate the power of the divine dragon, then I will invite you into the ancestral hall and give you an extremely generous reward. If you cannot demonstrate it, then leave the Ye family immediately!” Ye Zhennan said sternly.
