Chapter 333 Zhang Family Changes

In a blink of an eye, Lu Ya stayed in Xiaguang City for more than half a month.

During this half month, Lu Ya not only got a general understanding of the various forces in Xiaguang City, but also focused on collecting and summarizing the information about Zhang.

This action was not in vain. With the intentional exploration of a Jindan Zhenren, at least many secret rumors about Zhang were still heard by him.

For example, the secret jade slip of Zhang in his hand.

Lu Ya did not delay and slowly probed his consciousness into the jade slip. Suddenly, a large amount of text appeared in his mind like a scroll.

A long, long time ago, when the Taoist Jiuduan was still alive, the Zhang family was just a small foundation-building family. It was because of the Taoist Jiuduan, a genius in refining, that the Zhang family gradually reached the peak under the leadership of the Taoist Jiuduan.

After the Nine-forged Taoist successfully broke the pill and formed an infant, the weapon refining technology was further improved. The reputation of the Nine-forged Zhang family spread throughout most of the Chenhua area, and successfully became the fifth largest weapon refining family in the Xiaguang City.

In the next thousand years, the Nine-forged Zhang family did not decline at all. Various weapon refiners emerged one after another, and the family power expanded rapidly, ushering in a golden period of development.

At its peak, the Nine-forged Zhang family was already the top of the five major weapon refining families, and the other four major families were almost unable to breathe.

However, this peak began to change after the Nine-forged Taoist ignored the opposition of his clansmen and went out to seek further progress in the way of weapon refining.

At first, no one cared about the news of the Nine-forged Taoist's departure, and no one thought much about it. After all, as long as a great cultivator at the peak of the Nascent Soul did not actively seek death or step into some dangerous places, there was basically no possibility of death.

However, when no news of the Nine Forge Taoist had been sent back to the Nine Forge Zhang family for decades and hundreds of years, the news of the Nine Forge Taoist's death in a foreign land spread like snowflakes throughout the entire Xiaguang City and even the entire Chenhua Region in a very short time.

Although the Nine Forge Zhang family was not the only one with the Nascent Soul in the family at that time, the reputation of the Nine Forge Taoist was deeply rooted in Xiaguang City. When the news of the Nine Forge Taoist's death spread, the situation of the Nine Forge Zhang family inevitably became problematic.

The most prominent one was the four major weapon refining families that had been suppressed for a long time. When the Nine Forge Taoist was alive, the four major families had to keep a low profile, but after the Nine Forge Taoist disappeared, the four major families became active again.

In the hundreds of years since then, the four major families have joined forces to suppress the Nine Forge Zhang family, and the situation of the Nine Forge Zhang family has become increasingly difficult. At the most serious time, even the replacement of the Nascent Soul cultivators almost had problems, causing it to almost fall out of the top five families.

Under such internal and external troubles, the Zhang clan members turned their spearheads on the Zhang clan's direct lineage, which was the main lineage where the Nine-forged Taoist was located.

They believed that the unfair treatment that the Zhang clan was suffering now was caused by the Nine-forged Taoist who insisted on leaving the family despite dissuasion. If the Nine-forged Taoist had not left the family at the beginning, nothing would have happened now.

It is strange to say that since different voices appeared within the Zhang clan and the news of opposition to the direct lineage spread, the pressure from the outside world has been reduced, but the internal contradictions have become more and more acute.

Soon, on a dark and windy night, the Zhang clan finally had an accident.

The process of change can no longer be traced, but the result is that the main lineage clan members who originally belonged to the orthodox direct lineage of the Nine-forged Taoist were beaten to dust and became a branch of the Zhang clan; on the other hand, the clan members of the branch line ascended the throne of the head of the family in one fell swoop and became the orthodox direct lineage of the Zhang clan.

Since then, the strong branches and weak trunks have eventually led to the reversal of the branches and trunks.

It is hard to say how many dirty deals are hidden in it, and how many wise people are willing to be dragged into it because of various conditions. In short, everything happened naturally.

In the following days, under the leadership of the new direct line, the Jiuduan Zhang family changed its strategy and maintained cooperation with the four major families. Although it still could not resist the result of the slow decline in the ranking, it still maintained the dignity of the five major families.

At the same time, within the Zhang family, targeting the original direct line seems to have become a family tradition and a correct family style.

Originally, some people were afraid of the reputation of the Jiuduan Taoist and did not dare to do too much, but as time went by, the Jiuduan Taoist was gradually forgotten in the long river of time, and the lives of the old direct lineage clansmen became worse and worse.

And Zhang Yuanmu is the descendant of the Jiuduan Taoist lineage. Because of the deliberate suppression of the Zhang family, no one mentions the Jiuduan branch now. They are just the weakest branch of the Zhang family. They don’t even live with the Zhang family members on weekdays, let alone get help from the Zhang family.

The current Zhang family is quite powerful. There are two Yuanying Zhenren in the family. One is Zhang Dequan, the previous patriarch, and the other is Zhang Zhibo, the current patriarch who has just taken over as the patriarch.

If nothing unexpected happens, the status of the Zhang family will be stable for nearly a thousand years.

In the quiet room, Lu Ya slowly put down the jade slip in his hand, and a sigh flashed in his eyes.

"Senior Zhang, if you were still alive, I'm afraid you couldn't imagine that the current situation of the Zhang family is like this."

This is not right. After all, Senior Zhang Jiuduan still has the remaining soul power in the Jiuduan Secret Realm. After he completes the commission of the Jiuduan Taoist, he can return to the Jiuduan Secret Realm through the jade slip.

Lu Ya did not forget that there was a Qiankun Jiuduan furnace in the secret realm, which was still powerful from today's perspective, waiting for him to take it.

However, in order to obtain the Qiankun Jiuduan furnace, the first thing to do was to return the inheritance to the Zhang family.

Lu Ya had already made a rough consideration in his mind.

In the past half month, through his careful observation, he finally confirmed that the current Zhang family was indeed arrogant and domineering. From the clan members to the servants below, all of them had arrogant faces. In the whole Xiaguang City, 60% of the things were caused by the Zhang family.

From Lu Ya's point of view, this was simply too outrageous.

You must know that the patriarch of the Zhang family is a cultivator at the Yuanying level, and the number of golden elixirs in the family is too many to count on one hand. It is really unreal that they would allow the clan members to act like this.

But this kind of thing really happened, and the whole Xiaguang City was accustomed to it, as if if they didn't do this, they would not be Zhang family.

Therefore, Lu Ya did not intend to pass on the Nine Refining Techniques to the Zhang family's direct lineage.

On the contrary, during this period of time, Lu Ya also observed Zhang Yuanmu for a long time. Perhaps because this person was not favored by the Zhang family since childhood and was used to a hard life, his behavior was quite mature and sophisticated, and even his weapon refining skills had reached the level of a second-level weapon refiner.

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