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After entering the house, Dugu Bo was very excited to hear that Shi Quan was going to cook today.

In a cheerful atmosphere, after dinner was over and school hadn't started yet, the three of them stayed in the courtyard to rest. The courtyard was very large and there were many vacant rooms. Dugu Yan quickly arranged rooms for Shi Quan and Ye Lingling.

"Xiao Quan." After Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling returned to their rooms, Dugu Bo called out to Shi Quan.

"What's wrong, Grandpa Dugu?"

"Have you learned anything about the situation at Ye Lingling's family?"

Shi Quan was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, Grandpa Dugu, what do you mean by this?"

Dugu Bo reminded: "Although Ye Lingling is the successor of this generation of Jiuxin Haitang, he seems not to be popular among the Jiuxin Haitang family. I don't know the specific reason, but you'd better pay attention."

Shi Quan said doubtfully: "There are only two Jiuxin Haitang martial soul owners in the Jiu Xin Hai Tang clan. As the inheritor of the martial soul, Ling Ling should be the next patriarch of the Jiu Xin Hai Tang clan. How can he not be welcomed? "

Dugu Bo rolled his eyes at Shi Quan, "If you want to know the specific reason, there are two very simple methods. One is to ask Ye Lingling, and the other is to call people to investigate. You can know her just because Ye Lingling did not go home during the holiday. The situation at home is not harmonious, otherwise why would I follow your kid back?"

"I will pay attention." Shi Quan nodded.

"But you don't have to worry too much. As long as I'm here, the Jiuxin Haitang family won't dare to do anything to you." Dugu Bo said proudly.

"Thank you, Grandpa Dugu."

"Okay, it's okay, you can go practice yours."

Dugu Bo waved his hand towards Shi Quan, and Shi Quan immediately returned to his room.

"So is Lingling's current personality and inner loneliness due to her family?" Shi Quan thought to himself.

The next morning.

After breakfast, Shi Quan asked Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to return to the academy first.

Shi Quan came to the Prince's Mansion.

"Stop, this is an important area of ​​the Prince's Mansion. No one is allowed to enter." As soon as he arrived at the gate of the Prince's Mansion, Shi Quan was blocked by two armed guards.

Shi Quan took out the token given to him by Xue Qinghe, "I am Shi Quan, a student of Tiandou Royal Academy, and I am here to see His Highness the Crown Prince."

"Prince's order?" Seeing the order in Shi Quan's hand, the expressions of the two guards changed, and their attitudes immediately changed from the previous stern look to a groveling look, "Master Shi Quan, please come inside, and there will be a meeting inside." A maid will guide you."

Shi Quan nodded and walked into the Prince's Mansion.

This was the second time Shi Quan came to the Prince's Mansion, but it still had that low-key luxurious atmosphere. After walking for ten minutes under the guidance of the maid, Shi Quan, under the hospitality of the maid, walked in a room of nearly a hundred people. Sit down in the square meter living room.

Drinking the fragrant tea prepared by the maid, Shi Quan waited quietly. After about half an hour, Xue Qinghe's slightly magnetic male voice sounded from outside the house.

"Brother Shi, I've kept you waiting for a long time."

"Brother Xue, you're welcome. I'm here unexpectedly. I hope I didn't disturb you." Shi Quan said politely to Xue Qinghe who walked in.

Xue Qinghe quickly waved his hand and said with a smile: "How come, Brother Shi can come, I am too late to be happy, so why bother?"

"Brother Xue, actually I came today because I wanted Brother Xue to help me check something." Shi Quan said directly.

"Oh?" Xue Qinghe's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "Brother Shi, just say it's okay, as long as I can help, I will definitely help you."

"Brother Xue should know Ye Lingling, right?"

"Ye Lingling? The one with the Nine Hearts and Haitang martial spirit?"

"Yes."

"Brother Shi, what do you want me to check?"

Shi Quan said directly: "Brother Xue, can you help me find out what happened between Ye Lingling and the Jiuxin Haitang family."

Xue Qinghe said with a smile, "Brother Shi seems to know something? That's why you asked me to help you check?"

"Well, I just learned about it not long ago. I heard that there seems to be some disagreement between the Lingling and Jiuxin Haitang families, so I'm just curious."

"Curious?" Xue Qinghe looked at Shi Quan meaningfully, without saying anything, and nodded in agreement, "I have also heard about Ye Lingling, and I will help you investigate. This is not a secret, at most two or three In the next few days, I will have someone send you the information I have collected."

"Then I'll trouble Brother Xue."

"It's okay, it's not a big deal."

"Brother Xue, I will go back to practice first and won't disturb you anymore."

Shi Quan didn't stay too long in Xue Qinghe and turned around to leave.

Xue Qinghe looked at Shi Quan's leaving figure with a faint smile on her lips. She did not expect that the first thing Shi Quan asked him to do was to investigate the news about Ye Lingling.

"It seems that he is interested in Ye Lingling." Xue Qinghe smiled softly, and then arranged for people to start investigating the matter.

After all, this was the first time Shi Quan asked him for help, so Xue Qinghe was still very concerned about this matter.

When Shi Quan returned to the college's dormitory, he found that everyone except him had returned to the dormitory early, including Ning Rongrong.

"Hey, the Lone Ranger is back?" Ning Rongrong looked at Shi Quan and said calmly.

Shi Quan was not polite and said directly: "Why are you here again? Didn't you only study with me for one year?"

"I can come here whenever I want and leave whenever I want. I just want to come to the academy to study. What's wrong? A little bit..." Ning Rongrong made a face at Shi Quan.

Shi Quan couldn't help but roll his eyes at Ning Rongrong. His current relationship with Ning Rongrong was like that of enemies who bickered every day. If they didn't quarrel one day, they would look weird.

The opening of the Tiandou Royal Academy does not include any complicated ceremonies such as the opening ceremony. On the opening day, each class in the academy will hold a class meeting to ensure that the students are in place.

The second day of school.

The people from Xue Qinghe sent over the information obtained from the investigation.

Looking at the contents of the information, Shi Quan couldn't help but frown.

The Jiuxin Haitang family is a family that attaches great importance to bloodline inheritance. Because of the special nature of its martial arts, in order to ensure the continuation of the family, the Jiuxin Haitang family is very strict about bloodline management.

The partners of family members must find powerful soul masters as partners, so that even if they do not inherit the Jiuxin Haitang martial soul, they can inherit the martial soul of another person and become a powerful soul master, thus contributing to the protection of the family. .

As for Ye Lingling's lineage, when it came to his father's time, he did not have soul power when he awakened. In a situation like his father's, the family would directly kill him. The euphemistically called it, the Jiuxin Haitang family does not raise idlers.

But Ye Lingling's grandpa and grandma were unwilling to let their son be killed. They used a civet cat to replace the prince, and actually found a person who was 89% similar to his father to replace Ye Lingling's father.

Ye Lingling's father was able to save his life and get married and have children as an ordinary person. However, no one expected that Ye Lingling's parents, both of whom were ordinary people, would actually give birth to a new generation of Jiu Xin Begonia. The successor of Wuhun.

Ye Lingling's awakening of Jiuxin Haitang's martial spirit was soon discovered by the Jiuxin Haitang family.

It was soon discovered that Ye Lingling's grandparents had exchanged civet cats for the crown prince. In order to prevent similar things from happening again, the Jiuxin Haitang family not only killed her grandparents and parents with thunderous means, but also severely punished her grandparents. The branches of the branch have given a deterrent to all the branches.

Of course, externally, Ye Lingling's parents were accidentally killed by spirit beasts.

After Ye Lingling's parents were killed, people from the Jiuxin Haitang family took him back to the family and started to train him. At the beginning, he was fine. Logically speaking, Ye Lingling's parents and grandparents were killed by members of the family themselves. Ye Lingling will never know about this kind of thing.

However, there was no harmony within the Jiuxin Haitang family. Unexpectedly, Ye Lingling still knew everything.

At that time, Ye Lingling had just turned twelve years old.

In the first six years, she grew up happily with her parents. Later, her parents died together in an accident, which was a big blow to Ye Lingling. The emergence of the Jiuxin Haitang family gave Ye Lingling warmth, and in the family She received the best resources and the most attention, and six more years passed like this.

In the end, Ye Lingling discovered that all of this was false, and the people he loved most and dearest died at the hands of his own tribe. Such a blow was undoubtedly huge for a twelve-year-old child.

At that time, as long as Ye Lingling had the slightest idea of ​​defecting, the Jiuxin Haitang family would immediately kill him and then train a new generation of successors to Jiu Xin Haitang's martial spirit.

She was very smart, and she chose to stay. From then on, Ye Lingling became a different person, becoming taciturn, and her eyes lost their former sparkle and became increasingly hollow.

The family members naturally discovered her abnormality. Fortunately, the family had no evidence to directly prove that she knew the whole story, and their branch forcefully protected her. Only then was Ye Lingling able to survive in the family. Otherwise, Ye Lingling would have already reunited with his parents in another world.

The elders of their branch have been encouraging her to work hard. If one day she can become the leader of the clan, the injustices she suffered in the past can be redressed.

Ye Lingling knew that even if she became the head of the clan in the future, she would only be a puppet, because she was an auxiliary soul master, and the real power in the family would still be those soul masters with useful combat capabilities.

It is said that the Jiuxin Haitang family is dominated by Jiu Xin Haitang. In fact, the two owners of the Jiu Xin Haitang martial spirit are just tools to support the family.

Among the Jiuxin Haitang family, which branch inherits the Jiu Xin Haitang martial spirit, the right to speak of this branch will also increase linearly. This is also the reason why their branch elders have always supported her, just for more rights. .

As for Ye Lingling, the auxiliary soul master, they never worried that she would escape from the family's control.

This is a drawback of the auxiliary soul master family. If there were more owners of the Jiuxin Haitang martial soul, the Jiu Xin Haitang family would not have developed to such a morbid level.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the special nature of Jiuxin Haitang's martial spirit that a special family like the Jiu Xin Haitang family was born. After all, Douluo Continent is a world where strength is respected.

A sect like the Qibao Glazed Sect, which is known as the Three Sects for its auxiliary martial soul achievements, is unique and cannot be replicated.