ch 514 - Remembrance of the Past; Startling Truth 4 (1/2)

Having heard that, Cheng Biyuan said solemnly, “Which means to say that the First Elder wasn’t my great granduncle. He wasn’t even a Cheng’s, but just someone that my great grandfather had brought home.”

“Exactly. But not very many knew about that by now.”

Elder nodded and carried on, “I recalled that both your grandfather and First Elder were top choices for the next Housemaster back then. Most of the members in the families supported your grandfather, but there were also a few of the elders, who had issues with your grandfather in the past, supported to have First Elder as the next Housemaster. To everyone’s surprise, your great grandfather named your grandfather as the successor.

“Nonetheless, First Elder became an elder of the family when he had broken through to martial king. It didn’t seem like he had any particular issues toward your grandfather at the time, but ten or so years after your grandfather had became the Housemaster and during his breakthrough from apex martial king to martial monarch something went wrong and he died within the next few days.”

“Wait a minute…” Cheng Xiao Xiao interrupted him all of a sudden and said, “Elder, you mentioned that the great grandfather of the Cheng’s was a martial emperor. That means he should still be alive!”

“That would normally be the case. He shouldn’t have but, the truth w”as, he did!”

“Oh!”

Suddenly, Cheng Biyuan lost control of himself and shouted out, his eyes widened, “I remember it now. I have heard of this before. Great Grandfather was breaking through to martial emperor and tried to breakthrough to martial monarch but died in an accident. We didn’t know how he did so we assumed that he had run into trouble during the breakthrough and that had killed him.”

“Similar. That’s so similar. Your great grandfather and your father. Both of them died while trying to breakthrough. How would both of them run into troubles at the exact same time? Perhaps…”

The Elder mumbled to himself after he had paused for a bit from being stunned.

Having heard that, all the others also changed colors. Did that mean the Capital City Cheng’s had brought home a white-eyed wolf?

Mo Yuze chimed in again, “There was someone else in my scapulimancy[p1] . A woman.”