Chapter 490 - Blood Blessed By The Gods (1/2)

[A/N: A small change was made to the last chapter. Lady Ren's daughter has married 5000* years ago.]

Lady Ren sighed as she remembered the incident with the Central Continent.

”Stuff happened there, making it start gathering Qi from all over the realm, and destroyed everything there as before,” Lady Ren said.

”It used to be a continent with barely any Qi in it, so the only ones that lived there were common beasts and mortals. Due to that, no one wanted anything to do with the continent, and most of it was barren.”

”Later on, everyone got tired of using way too many resources to teleport between continents, and so the four rulers of the other 4 continents got together to establish teleportation formations on the Central Continent itself. They used resources from the continents to make it a transition point during teleportations,” Lady Ren said.

”But one day, it suddenly started showing unusual behavior. When people couldn't access the teleportation formation, all 4 of the rulers went to check, but… sigh, forget about it. It's not a memory I would like to remember,” she said.

”Oh, the other continents have rulers too?” Alex asked with surprise. He didn't remember anything about them in the myriad of information that was floating on the internet.

”Of course they do,” Lady Ren said. ”Only the Central Continent didn't have one, and that was for obvious reasons.”

”Oh, is any one of the humans?” Alex asked.

”No, little human. The rulers are chosen from the 4 Great Families. No human would ever have a chance of obtaining that honor,” Lady Ren said.

”The 4 great families? I don't think I have ever heard of something like that,” Alex said.

”I would be rather surprised if you knew who they were,” Lady Ren said. ”Can I ask my questions now?”

Alex nodded. '4 Great Family huh? I will have to ask my sister and see if she knows something about it tomorrow morning. If not, I hope the internet has some answers,' he thought.

”Can you tell me truthfully how you came to acquire the bloodline of one of the 4 Great Families?” Lady Ren asked.

”Huh? I have something like that?” Alex asked with surprise. But then when he thought about it, the ruler of this continent was from the 4 great families, and Lady Ren did say that he had the blood of the ruler.

”You very clearly do. In fact… you have just as much as this child does from what I am sensing,” Lady Ren said.

”Uhh… I think I know the reason for that,” Alex said. ”Wait a second. Pearl, can you go back inside?”

”Meow!” he said and agreed. He would rather go back to his beast space than stay out here amongst these unfamiliar faces, flying so fast in the sky.

”Why'd you send him inside?” Lady Ren asked.

”It has to do with his mother's death, so I would rather not talk about it in front of him,” Alex said.

”Go on then,” Lady Ren asked.

Alex nodded and explained it all as much as he could and told them how he acquired a blood essence from her. He didn't go into detail about how the blood essence came to be and just said that she handed it to him.

”And then?” she asked.

”Then one day when I was just messing around, I brought out the bead that was the blood essence. It was so strong that I was nearly choked to death, but Pearl ate it up like it was nothing,” Alex said.