Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife-Chapter 2047 - 527: Xuan Mo’s Secret (First Update)
The pitch-black entrance resembled a blood-stained mouth, full of unknown terrors and bloodshed. An Yiqing glanced at Long Zixuan and made a gesture to him.
Long Zixuan nodded, watching An Yiqing enter the secret chamber, then he closed the bookshelf and hid himself in the corner of the room.
An Yiqing walked about twenty steps, and the narrow space gradually became much wider. She turned on her phone’s flashlight and looked around in the chamber.
It was a real bedroom, with a large black bed occupying two-thirds of the room. Next to the bed was a long bamboo table and a chair. In the corner of the table were many books, and there were three cabinets beneath the table, each secured with silver locks.
An Yiqing stood in front of the bed, squinting at the somewhat messy bedding. It seemed Xuan Mo should be sleeping here every day; the room outside was merely a decoy.
But why would he do this? What secret was he hiding here?
Her glassy eyes swept inch by inch over the narrow room, and finally, An Yiqing stopped in front of the long table.
She bent down, picked up the silver lock hanging on the drawer, and fiddled with it a bit but couldn’t open it. After pondering for a moment, An Yiqing’s eyes lit up, and she took out a bunch of keys from the Ancient Space.
Having a husband who is a Hongci leader has its perks. One of those perks is that Gu Yelin gave An Yiqing a Master Key. It’s not an exaggeration to say it can open 80% of locks in this world.
But she didn’t know if this key could unlock the Dragon Clan’s locks.
With a try-it-and-see mindset, An Yiqing inserted the slender key into the silver lock and jiggled it a few times. With a "click," the corner of An Yiqing’s mouth lifted — it opened!
The drawer opened, revealing three yellowed old books. They were titled "Records of Tianfa Pavilion’s History," "Xuan’s Chronicles," and... "Dragon Taming Technique"!
An Yiqing took out "Dragon Taming Technique" and quickly flipped through it. To her astonishment, she found that the content of the book was precisely the mind techniques of the first and second stages of the Situ Family’s Dragon-Taming Art!
What was going on? Why would the Situ Family’s Dragon-Taming Art appear in the Pavilion Master of Sky Punishment Pavilion’s secret chamber?
Just as An Yiqing was about to read carefully, suddenly there was a knocking sound from above the secret chamber. This was the code she and Long Zixuan had agreed upon, indicating that Xuan Mo was coming back.
An Yiqing quickly flipped through the three books, rapidly taking photos of each page with her phone. Ensuring everything was captured in her phone, she put the three books back, locked the drawer, and took one last glance at the secret chamber before slipping away.
On the first floor of Tianfa Pavilion, Xuan Mo, wearing a dark robe, returned to the pavilion, bringing with him the weariness of travel. Seeing him, everyone bowed in greeting. However, before they could speak, Xuan Mo swept up the stairs like a gust of wind.
"Pavilion Master, why are you back so early today?" asked the subordinate who had previously accompanied Xuan Mo to deliver gifts to the Clan Leader’s Residence.
Xuan Mo paused in his steps, "Was there any unusual activity in the pavilion today?"
"Reporting to Pavilion Master, everything is normal."
Xuan Mo’s hawk-like eyes narrowed, his expression inscrutable. With a wave of his sleeve, he dismissed his subordinates and strode towards the bedroom.
Creak—
The bedroom door pushed open, and Xuan Mo entered the room with a cold demeanor. Standing inside the door, he squinted his eyes and carefully surveyed the surroundings, finally resting his gaze on the bookshelf.
With a wave of his hand, he firmly closed the door. He walked to the bookshelf, opened the entrance to the secret chamber, entered in a few steps, and used the key in his hand to open the three drawers one by one. Confirming that everything inside was intact, he subtly breathed a sigh of relief.
Narrowing his eyes, Xuan Mo looked at the three yellowed old books in the drawer, his cold and hard lips pressed together, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.
Was he being overly suspicious? Why did it always feel as if someone had been here?
At the same time, An Yiqing and Long Zixuan stood in a dark corner outside Tianfa Pavilion, looking in the direction of Xuan Mo’s bedroom, with inexplicable expressions.
"Sister An, luckily we had you and Old Jin, or else we would have been discovered by Xuan Mo today." Long Zixuan couldn’t help but sigh. Earlier, he and An Yiqing were about to leave the fourth floor, but, unfortunately, ran into Xuan Mo coming up the stairs. If not for An Yiqing’s Invisibility Technique and Old Jin’s Barrier, they wouldn’t have avoided a confrontation.
An Yiqing glanced indifferently at Tianfa Pavilion, "Let’s go back."
At this point, it was already past two in the morning. The entire tribe had fallen asleep; after returning, Long Zixuan transformed into a small snake and snuck into Yin Xilin’s bed, while the light in An Yiqing’s room was still on.
In the room, An Yiqing sat in front of the table, continuously flipping through the photos on her phone. She spent an hour reviewing all the photos she had taken and let out a deep breath.
"Why the shocked expression?" Old Jin, lying on the bed, lifted an eyelid and looked at An Yiqing’s face full of disbelief.
"I didn’t expect the Dragon Taming Clan and the Sky Punishment Pavilion to have the same lineage; it’s utterly unexpected."
An Yiqing sighed. In "Xuan’s Chronicles," it recorded all the history and secrets of the Pavilion Master’s lineage of the Xuan Clan. It turns out, the Ancestor of Sky Punishment Pavilion, Xuan Qing, was neither human nor dragon. He was the offspring of a union between a human and a dragon. In the past, the Ancestor of the Dragon Clan traveled across famous mountains and rivers and rescued Xuan Qing, who was considered a monster in an unknown village. At that time, Xuan Qing, unable to control the dragon force within him, transformed into a dragon-headed deity, leading humans to consider him a monster. After saving Xuan Qing, the Ancestor Long learned his background, felt compassion, and took him along on his adventures. Eventually, the two faced life and death together, fought off external enemies, and experienced various adventures, becoming a legendary tale passed down through the ages.
During the time Xuan Qing fought against the Black Dragon, he relied on his extraordinary talent to create the "Dragon Taming Technique," which could slay members of the Dragon Clan! The Dragon-Slaying Sword was refined with all his life’s learning and was the best weapon to pair with the "Dragon Taming Technique."
Later, Xuan Qing passed away, and the Xuan Clan passed down the inheritance of Sky Punishment Pavilion. Just like the eternal law of nature, where trees grow and branch out, the Sky Punishment Pavilion experienced a split thousands, even tens of thousands, of years later.
It must be noted that Xuan Qing was half-human and half-dragon, so his descendants were also of such a lineage. This was a great shame to the Dragon Tribe with pure bloodlines. At least, within the Xuan Clan, a half-human, half-dragon lineage was considered a mongrel.
They tried many methods to remove the human bloodline within them, to become true members of the Dragon Clan. However, after hundreds of years of research, they still could not escape the human bloodline.
In the end, the Xuan Clan came up with a solution.
They developed a medicine that could separate embryos, which was given to pregnant women of the Xuan Clan. Regardless of whether the pregnant woman was carrying one or two, they would ultimately give birth to twins. Among these twins, one would have a pure Dragon Clan bloodline, and the other would be purely human.
However, this medicine had two drawbacks: one, after these two children were born, it would take until they were ten years old to determine their bloodline. The other drawback was that when they grew up and got married, their wives would also need to take the medicine.
This meant that ever since the medicine was developed, with each generation, one child from the Xuan Clan would be kept, and another would be cast aside.
The ancestor of the Situ Family, Situ Ming, was precisely the castaway from the Xuan Clan.
In that year, Situ Ming’s father tried to protect his wife and child by fleeing, yet he could not escape the pursuit of the Sky Punishment Pavilion. His wife was forced to take the medicine, leading to the birth of two identical children. Situ Ming’s brother had a pure bloodline, a pure dragon, while Situ Ming was the castaway that the Sky Punishment Pavilion wanted to eliminate.
The Elders of the Sky Punishment Pavilion were worried about the impurity of the bloodline becoming known, so they wanted to kill Situ Ming.
When Situ Ming’s father heard of this, he was heartbroken. While the elders were not paying attention, he stole the last two Chapters of the Dragon Taming Technique from the Xuan Clan and gave them to his ten-year-old son. Then, he entrusted him to a trusted friend and sent him out of the Dragon Tribe.
From then on, Xuan Myeong took the surname Situ, and there was no more Xuan Myeong in the world, only the ancestor of the Situ Family, Situ Ming.
Situ Ming’s father was a branch of the Xuan Clan and always disdained the Sky Punishment Pavilion’s research on bloodlines. Unfortunately, he and his wife became the first test subjects of this medicine. Since understanding things, Situ Ming was a mature boy. The clan’s watchful eyes and lack of freedom cultivated his resilient nature.
