Published: March 8, 2025
Why did Huang Shang want Huang Xialiu to attend the Heavenly Cauldron Grand Assembly?
Isn't that akin to sending him to his death?
It wasn't until they had traveled several hundred miles from Huang Family Fortress that Wanrenjie and the others had already bid farewell to Chu Yang, each parting ways, agreeing to meet again next spring during the Myriad Medicine Convention hosted by the Zhuge family.
Chu Yang walked in silence for a long time before finally asking this question.
This question truly perplexed Chu Yang.
"Old Wei, what do you think Huang Shang is really trying to achieve?" Chu Yang frowned and said, "Why would he want Huang Xialiu to attend the Heavenly Cauldron Grand Assembly?"
Wei Wuyan pondered for a long while before finally letting out a sigh, "I can't make sense of it."
"Indeed, I can't make sense of it either," Chu Yang replied. "This matter is truly baffling."
Wei Wuyan said lightly, "If he genuinely cared for his son, he wouldn't send him to his death; but with Huang Xialiu's cultivation level, attending the Heavenly Cauldron Grand Assembly is nothing but a path to death."
Chu Yang said, "That's right. If he cared for his son, he wouldn't allow him to go to the Heavenly Cauldron Grand Assembly; but if he didn't care, he wouldn't have spent over a million Amethyst in the past few years on him!"
The two of them thought for a long time, but still couldn't fathom it.
They couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, "After all, we are not heroic overlords! The mindset of a heroic overlord of a generation is something we simply do not understand."
At this point, Chu Le'er finally couldn't help but laugh coldly.
The two looked at each other in astonishment.
"Big brother, you're mistaken," Chu Le'er giggled.
Chu Yang humbly asked, "Where did I go wrong?"
Wei Wuyan also frowned, "Could it be that a little girl like you can think of something that neither of us can?"
Chu Le'er laughed for a while, then suddenly fell into a daze, seeming to want to cry. After a long time, she sighed and said, "Big brother, although you are one of us from the Chu family, you didn't grow up in the Chu family. So, you might understand politics, or fighting, or intrigues, but you will never truly understand what a family means!"
"Brother Wei is the same! So both of you are merely martial artists, not members of the family within the martial arts world."
Chu Le'er smiled sadly. There was a hint of mockery in her smile.
"I would like to hear more about that," Wei Wuyan said humbly.
Chu Le'er chuckled, "Big brother, I’m young, and during these years, aside from reading, I’ve been within the family. Whenever I had nothing to do, I began to analyze the thoughts of everyone in the family, from our great-grandfather down to the servants. Then I discovered that, regardless of their rank, everyone has their own thoughts; no one can claim to be above anyone else."
"Now that the second uncle has passed away, it may sound disrespectful, but at that time, why did he act so recklessly? Because the eldest son's child was lost, and anything he did was deemed correct. Because he had a son, a direct bloodline heir; my father and fourth uncle couldn't compare with the second uncle in status, so the second uncle continued down that path."
"What he did, the eldest definitely knew, the eldest lady certainly suspected; grandfather must have had some understanding, and even my father and fourth uncle probably heard some rumors. Yet, including the eldest, no one said anything. Why?"
"Because the family is always paramount, and familial ties come second!" Chu Le'er smiled sadly.
"Perhaps within the family, our mothers place their children first; however, mothers are ultimately in a vulnerable position. Their words do not carry weight. In the family, the most valued is inheritance; bloodline. The second priority is the future, the family’s future! It is not about any individual's future."
Chu Le'er's youthful face held a gravity that was suffocating.
Wei Wuyan looked at her in amazement.