Chapter 660: Brother Qin was the first to say this!
"They are going too far!" Qin Ziling said.
"Listening to your conversation just now, Lei Qian should be a direct descendant of the Lei family like you, and you are the elder brother. How dare she be so disrespectful to you?" Xiao Qing is a woman after all, so it is inevitable that she is a little gossipy. At the same time, because of this incident, it also brought back her memories of the oppression and bullying she suffered in the Xiao family back then, and she couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Haha, she definitely wouldn't dare to do that in the past." Lei Keyu laughed at himself and then roughly explained the situation.
After Lei Keyu said this, Qin Ziling and Xiao Qing finally understood the whole story.
It turns out that Lei Keyu had a bad fate and his parents died early. However, although his parents died early, Lei Keyu was born into a "wealthy family of immortal cultivators" after all, and he himself was a person of talent and perseverance. In addition, his grandfather, Lei Yanlong, the head of the Lei family, took pity on him for losing his parents at an early age and took good care of him.
Lei Keyu also worked hard and broke through to become a true immortal at a young age. He became the best among the three generations of children in the Lei family. Naturally, Lei Yanlong loved him even more and took better care of him.
It’s a pity that the good times didn’t last long.
Lei Yanlong’s sixth wind and fire catastrophe only lasts for a hundred years.
After overcoming the sixth catastrophe of wind and fire, one will become a seventh-grade True Immortal, which is the late stage of True Immortal. This threshold is extremely difficult and dangerous. Most of the powerful people who have extraordinary talent and perseverance and a solid foundation and step by step reach the sixth-grade True Immortal have fallen before this threshold.
Lei Yanlong didn't have a big sect or a big force to back him up, but he was able to cultivate all the way to the sixth-grade true immortal realm. He must have extraordinary talent and perseverance, and his foundation was solid. If he had the help of the sixth-grade "Du'e Xiandan", he would have some hope of successfully overcoming the tribulation.
But these days, even a big force like the Jiuxuan Sect is in dire need of sixth-grade "Du'e Immortal Pill". With the strength of the Lei family, getting a sixth-grade "Du'e Immortal Pill" is simply harder than ascending to heaven.
Therefore, Lei Yanlong can only rely entirely on his own strength and luck to survive the wind and fire disaster, so his hope is very slim.
The inheritance method of immortal cultivation families and immortal cultivation sects is different.
Immortal cultivation sects do not value blood ties, or even race. They only value talent and loyalty to the sect. Therefore, as long as the immortal cultivation sect can find people with extraordinary talent and cultivate them to grow, it will be able to prosper and pass on its legacy.
But it is different for the immortal cultivation families. The cohesion of their fighting power, the prosperity and inheritance of their power are firmly tied to their own children.
If there is no capable person among the descendants of the family, and power falls into the hands of outsiders, it is actually no different from a change of dynasty.
The aristocratic family is no longer the same aristocratic family.
Unlike a sect of immortal cultivators, no matter who takes the position of the headmaster, as long as the inheritance is not broken, it will still be the same sect.
The reason why the Lei family has come all the way to where they are today and become one of the top forces in Juxianhai is mainly because of Lei Yanlong.
Apart from Lei Yanlong, the Lei family has not yet produced any outstanding son who can truly carry the banner of the Lei family.
Lei Yanlong had many children, but only four of them were truly outstanding. Three were fourth-grade True Immortals, and one was a fifth-grade True Immortal.
Other branches of the Lei family also produced some True Immortals, three of whom were fourth-grade True Immortals, but there were no fifth-grade True Immortals.
Such a lineup is considered very powerful in Juxianhai. The Lei family has also attracted many powerful people to join them, thus forming a larger force lineup.
But once Lei Yanlong fails to pass the tribulation, the Lei family, with only one fifth-grade true immortal in charge, will seem not strong enough, at least it is inconsistent with the Lei family's identity as the top force in Juxianhai.
There is even a high possibility that the Lei family will be kicked out of the decision-making level of Juxian Pavilion.
Because the minimum is a fifth-grade True Immortal.
In the Juxian Sea, there are very few sixth-grade true immortals, only six, and all of them are ranked as elders of the Juxian Pavilion. But the number of fifth-grade true immortals is still acceptable, with at least twelve fifth-grade true immortals who are not ranked as elders of the Juxian Pavilion.
It is conceivable that once Lei Yanlong fails to survive the tribulation, it will be hard to say whether anyone from the Lei family can continue to sit on the position of elder of the Juxian Pavilion.
Because there are still many fifth-grade true immortals competing for this position.
Once the Lei family loses the position of elder of Juxian Pavilion, it means that the Lei family will lose the qualifications to participate in major decisions such as the distribution of interests in Juxianhai.
If this goes on for a long time, the Lei family will most likely slowly decline.
Therefore, in addition to practicing in seclusion frequently and working hard to overcome the tribulation in recent years, Lei Yanlong also has to plan ahead and prepare for the possibility of failure in overcoming the tribulation.
The Juxian Sea is different from other places. The ratio of independent cultivators to immortal cultivator families is relatively high here.
Lei Yanlong wanted the Lei family to continue to firmly control the Xianluo Islands and have their children continue to occupy a seat at the decision-making level of the Juxian Pavilion after he failed in his tribulation. So he came up with a solution, which was to marry the children of other independent cultivators or immortal cultivation families where the elders of the Juxian Pavilion were.
In this way, as long as he can get those elders to continue to support the Lei family, his third son Lei Changfu, the only fifth-grade true immortal in the Lei family below him, will have a great chance of inheriting his position as the elder of the Juxian Pavilion.
Lei Keyu was extremely talented. He became an immortal at a young age and had never been married. Naturally, he was one of the best candidates for marriage among the Lei family's children.
It just so happened that the head of the Cheng family, a family of immortal cultivators as famous as the Lei family in the Juxian Sea, had a granddaughter who was very much favored by the head of the family and was interested in Lei Keyu. The head of the Cheng family was also a sixth-rank true immortal, and the deadline for his tribulation would be delayed by more than a hundred years compared to Lei Yanlong, but it was only a matter of time, so he was preparing for a rainy day and intended to marry into the Lei family to strengthen the alliance.
This was originally a good thing, and the heads of both families had also communicated with each other privately.
Who could have expected that Lei Keyu insisted on marrying a seductive woman.
Not only that, the demon woman was originally just a demon slave who pulled a cart for a second-rate immortal cultivation family in the Juxian Sea.
Immortal cultivation families place the most importance on bloodline. Lei Keyu, as a direct descendant of the Lei family's patriarch, is considered to be extremely unfilial if he wants to marry a demon girl, not to mention that the girl he wants to marry is a demon slave who pulls carts in a second-rate immortal cultivation family. Let alone marrying her as a wife, even if he becomes a concubine, the Lei family considers it a great disgrace.
Lei Yanlong was naturally furious. Although he did not deprive Lei Keyu of his status as a direct descendant of the Lei family because of his dead son, he felt completely disillusioned with him from then on. He no longer bothered to look at him and never asked about his affairs.
Most of the children of the Lei family thought that Lei Keyu had brought shame to the Lei family, and they all looked down on him. Some children who had been jealous of his talent and cultivation in his early years now found an opportunity and would deliberately bully him from time to time.
"Although there are differences between humans and demons, since demons have already awakened their intelligence, once they can cultivate into human form, what's the difference between them and humans? But you, a direct descendant of the Lei family, insist on marrying a demon slave. There must be other reasons? Of course, this is your privacy. I'm just a little curious. You don't have to tell me." Qin Ziling said after thinking for a while after listening.
"It's not a secret, actually. Bi Rong saved me in my early years, and I was attracted to her then. Then something dangerous happened, and we were forced to separate.
Later, I looked for her in many places but could not find her. It was not until fifty years ago that I learned that after that dangerous encounter, she was captured and restrained. After many twists and turns, she became a demon slave who pulled a cart for the Lin family. "Lei Keyu replied.
Hearing this, Qin Ziling's eyes when he looked at Lei Keyu changed completely.
It's not just because Lei Keyu values friendship and doesn't care about worldly views, but also because his experience reminds him of his experience with Yin Ranyue.
However, Yin Ranyue is obviously much luckier than his wife Bi Rong.
"So that's how it is. I'm really moved by your experience as a couple!" Xiao Qing said, and while speaking she deliberately glanced at Qin Ziling.
“But in the eyes of many people, I am a go against the teachings and an unfilial descendant who has committed treason.” Lei Keyu said with a wry smile.
"Do you think so too? Have you ever regretted it?" Qin Ziling asked.
"No!" Lei Keyu replied without hesitation, "Even if it happens again, I will still do it. And I am always loyal to the Lei family. If the Lei family is in trouble, I, a descendant of the Lei family, will be willing to sacrifice my life. How can I be said to be unfilial?"
"Brother Lei is a real man. I admire him very much!" Qin Ziling said with awe upon hearing this.
"Brother Qin is the first one to say this!" Lei Keyu was shocked when he heard this and said in a deep voice.
"But I won't be the last one. No one else says this now because you are not strong enough. When you are strong enough, they will no longer ridicule you, but will just admire you. Everything you do will be the object of their praise." Qin Ziling said.
Upon hearing this, Lei Keyu looked at Qin Ziling in surprise. It was the first time he heard someone say this.
However, the more he thought about it, the more subtle it seemed to him. Even now when he thought about it, he had been going out alone to hunt monsters for all these years. Ultimately, he just wanted to become stronger.
Why did he want to become stronger? Besides being able to protect Bi Rong, he also wanted to prove to others that everything he did was right.
But today Qin Ziling spoke out this subconscious thought that even he himself did not understand in a very affirmative tone.
"Brother Qin is a wise man. You must have experienced a lot in the past." Lei Keyu said.
Qin Ziling smiled without comment.
Although he is a second-grade true immortal, he is actually only in his forties this year. In terms of experience, he certainly cannot compare with Lei Keyu, but there are many things that he does see more clearly than many people.
Perhaps it was because he had experienced an era of information explosion, or perhaps it was because he had died three times.
When Xiao Qing heard Lei Keyu's comment, she seemed to be touched and looked at Qin Ziling deeply.
Obviously, she was older than Qin Ziling, but sometimes she really felt that Qin Ziling was like a wise man who had experienced many vicissitudes of life and was much older than her.
"However, I always feel that Lei Qian is a first-grade True Immortal, and she is a woman, but she is accompanied by a third-grade True Immortal follower. Her style seems a bit too big, and her attitude towards you is a bit too arrogant. She even directly attacked the Ran Yixue Demon Beast that you took great pains to hunt down. After all, your identity as a direct descendant of the Lei family is still there." Qin Ziling quickly turned the topic to Lei Qian.
