Chapter 252: Coincidence? (1)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
This was the reason why Meng Ruyan did not appear for a long time after she parted ways with Lu Yuan.
Because not long after she entered the Full Moon Mountain Range, she had already left the Lower Realm.
As for the matter of entering the Upper Realm, it was not too complicated.
She had followed the path her mother had taken in the past and accidentally came into contact with the Qingqiu Clan.
After seeing Meng Ruyan’s astonishing talent, the Qingqiu Clan no longer cared about the purity of Meng Ruyan’s bloodline.
Even within the Qingqiu Clan, they had considered whether they should continue to pursue the purity of their bloodline.
After all, maintaining the bloodline would help the Qingqiu Clan maintain a certain level of combat strength.
In the short term, it could also guarantee that they would have an absolute ruling position in the Fox clan.
However, the higher-ups of the Qingqiu Clan also noticed some bad signs.
This was referring to the other members of the fox clan.
The Qingqiu bloodline does not marry people of the outside world. But the private lives of the ordinary fox clan were extremely chaotic.
In addition, the fox clan itself was a representative of good looks, resulting in many fox clan descendants having one strong parent.
In this way, even if the fox clan’s bloodline was not good enough, the overall talent of the offspring was quite good.
The most terrifying thing was the huge number of offspring.
Compared to the Qingqiu Clan, which could only produce one offspring in a hundred years, the other fox clans who breed everywhere can birth enough offspring in a year to form a football team.
The talents of the mixed blood were pretty good and on top of their large numbers, the number of talented individuals was not much less than the Qingqiu Clan.
Most importantly, the gap between them would only get bigger.
Indeed, a large clan needed one or two top experts to support it.
But at the same time, they also needed other experts to help strengthen their forces.
Even for experts at the Tribulation Crossing Stage, their cultivation resources would need to be obtained by experts in the Nascent Fusion Stage and the Apotheosis Stage.
We can have a master in the Tribulation Crossing Stage to find their own cultivation resources, right?
In the so-called power, individual strength was important, but the number and quality of subordinates were equally important.
The problem that the Qingqiu Clan was facing now was the problem of their control over the Fox Clan.
Currently, they were still able to control the situation because the strongest mixed-blood expert had only reached the Ethereal Stage.
This level was only one level higher than the Apotheosis Stage.
However, if a cultivator of the mixed blood reaches the Nascent Fusion Stage or even the Tribulation Crossing Stage (Mahayana Stage), it would be undoubtedly more difficult for the Qingqiu Clan to control the entire Fox Clan like now.
And as time passed, more and more powerful mixed-blood contenders.
One day, when the mixed-blood Fox Clan occupied 50 – 60% of the entire power, it was hard to say if the Stellar Moon Cave of the Fox Clan would still be in the hands of the Qingqiu clan.
After all, the Qingqiu lineage only had a thousand people.
Among them, there were more than 300 Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, more than 20 Apotheosis Stage cultivators, 8 Ethereal Stage cultivators, 5 Nascent Fusion Stage cultivators, and one Mahayana Stage nine-tailed patriarch.
However, for the Stellar Moon Cave, which controlled one-third of the Demon Realm, this number of experts was actually a little inadequate.
Using Spirit Sword Sect as a comparison, there were more than a dozen Apotheosis Stage experts, several Ethereal Stage experts, 2 Nascent Fusion Stage and one Mahayana Stage expert.
In terms of the number of experts, Spirit Sword Sects was only slightly weaker than the Qingqiu Clan.
But in terms of the number of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, the Spirit Sword Sect was much stronger than the Qingqiu Clan.
In the entire Spirit Sword Sect, the number of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators was at least three thousand!
This number was too shocking.
If it wasn’t for the fact that there were many mixed-bloods and other experts who had been lured into the Stellar Moon Cave by fox demons, the Spirit Sword Sect alone could resist the Stellar Moon Cave.
Faced with such an obvious lack of successors, the Qingqiu Clan was divided into two factions.
One faction was the conservative faction that was determined to have pure blood, and the other was the reformist faction that decided to let some of their people marry the outside world.
The one who met Meng Ruyan was the reformist fraction of the Qingqiu Clan.
Hence, what happened later was as it is.
In order to investigate her mother’s past, Meng Ruyan successfully joined the Qingqiu Clan.
During this process, she realized that the encounter between her mother and father back then was not as simple as she had imagined.
There seemed to be some secrets that she did not know about.
It was no exaggeration to say that the people who pursued Meng Ruyan’s mother back then could line from the Stellar Moon Cave to the Spirit Sword Sect.
But in the end, her mother chose an ordinary cultivator from Spirit Sword Sect.
No matter how one looked at it, it was ridiculous.
However, although Meng Ruyan’s father’s cultivation talent was poor, his appearance was indeed outstanding in the Spirit Sword Sect.
Therefore, many of Meng Ruyan’s mother’s suitors said that she chose Meng Ruyan’s father because of his looks.
However, although this reason was reasonable, there were still many suspicious points, including how Meng Ruyan’s mother met her father and why it ended up in a killing chase within the sect.
Meng Ruyan felt that even if they didn’t want the bloodline of the Qingqiu Clan to spread outside, they could have imprisoned her mother in the clan instead of crippling her cultivation and banishing her to the Lower Realm..