Transmigration: The Main Character is Not Becoming the Cannon Fodder!-Chapter 268 - 6: Surviving Direct Lineage of the Annihilated Clan (Part 6)
The celebration lasted for a day and a night, during which all the members of the Yu Family gathered in the gigantic garden where Yu Meiren flowers were planted.
Li Shuning was an outsider, and Yu Hua, worried that Li Shuning might not understand, explained the details of the celebration to her.
Li Shuning wore a smile on her face, appearing very obedient, which made Yu Hua’s heart itch.
On the second day, the celebration ended.
Li Shuning saw the priest of the Yu Family collecting the nine red Yu Meiren flowers and handing them to the clan leader.
The clan leader entered the Ancestral Temple, and when he came out, those nine red Yu Meiren flowers were gone.
After the celebration, all the direct lineage of the Yu Family entered a closed-door retreat.
The Yu Family’s clan grounds also activated a sealing formation, preventing outsiders from entering.
Li Shuning knew that this retreat would last for three days.
After three days, the Yu Family would return to normal.
She only had three days. Missing this opportunity would mean waiting another year.
Li Shuning, not being a part of the Yu Clan, didn’t need to go into retreat. On the first day, she lingered in the Yu Meiren garden, seemingly enchanted by the flowers.
Members of the Yu Family who saw her just smiled, thinking it was normal for a young girl to like beautiful flowers, especially since the Yu Meiren was very pretty.
Li Shuning stood inside her room, spreading her hands, and looked at the transparent insect in her palm, smiling.
She had exerted a lot of effort to find this insect in the garden, and once she found it, she returned to her lodging immediately.
Even at the peak strength of the Li Family, they couldn’t come to this garden and find such an insect.
The name of this insect was unknown, but it was easily recognizable, and once grown, it became quite formidable.
The Yu Family’s garden was nurtured with many valuable resources to have a patch of Yu Meiren imbued with spiritual energy and sentience.
People who tended to the Yu Meiren were naturally exceedingly careful, and these insects would be cleared away immediately upon birth. Finding an insect as big as a pinky was extremely difficult.
Li Shuning stored the insect in her Divine Domain, and then she specifically asked the gardeners for some dried Yu Meiren flowers.
Li Shuning displayed an intense fascination with Yu Meiren.
On the second day, she also sought out some Spirit Jade to carve the likeness of Yu Meiren.
Li Shuning crafted the Spirit Jade into jewelry, which she specially gifted to the Yu clansmen she had regular interactions with.
On the third day, Li Shuning suddenly calmed down, spending the entire day in the small cabin Yu Hua had prepared for her.
Once the three days passed, all the retreating members of the Yu Family emerged.
Wherever Yu Hua went, Li Shuning would follow.
That day, Yu Hua took Li Shuning out to visit the Chen Family.
However, on the way, Yu Hua was attacked once again.
Although the attackers were masked, Yu Hua recognized them, positively identifying them as from Qianzhu Tian.
Yu Hua had guards protecting him, and there were quite a few of them. As the youngest son of the clan leader, the guards were naturally very diligent in their protection, whereas Li Shuning only had one or two guards watching over her.
Even so, Yu Hua was seriously injured, and Li Shuning was abducted.
Yu Hua was taken back to the clan grounds by the guards.
When Yu Hua woke up, a year had already passed. He wanted to search for Li Shuning, but with the celebration approaching, he had to repress his anxiety temporarily.
During that year’s celebration, the Yu Family members, upon retreating, discovered something was amiss. Originally, after the celebration, all direct lineage of the Yu Family could gain some strength, but this time, there was no reaction at all.
The clan leader ordered an investigation, only to find that the nine Yu Meiren flowers had been swapped.
How could items stored in the Ancestral Temple be swapped? How did this happen? Who managed to infiltrate the Yu Family’s clan grounds, and so stealthily swap the items without anyone noticing? Who had such capability?
Soon, a disciple of the Yu Family detected a faint fishy smell in a corner of the Ancestral Temple and discovered a small piece of fur.
A powerful member of the Yu Family inferred from the fur that its owner was likely from the Qianzhu Clan, and the fishy smell was undoubtedly theirs as well.
The two clans already had old grudges, and now with new enmity, tensions rose immediately.
The nine Yu Meiren flowers were of great significance to the Yu Clan, so they sent people to confront the Qianzhu Clan. However, the insects of the Qianzhu Clan believed the Yu Family was picking a fight. They hadn’t infiltrated the Yu Clan grounds, and being framed so blatantly was infuriating. Hmph, if they want war, then let there be war. Who’s afraid of whom?
The Yu and Qianzhu families clashed directly.
A battle between two super clans caused quite a commotion, throwing the Divine Domain into chaos.
Initially, it was just small skirmishes, but when Qianzhu Tian was killed by Yu Hua with a single strike, the battle escalated into a full-scale war.
Yu Hua was in anguish; Xiaoshu was killed by Qianzhu Tian, that damned wretch. Killing him was a mercy.
He was completely unaware that Li Shuning had already left the Divine Domain that year, hiding in a Lower Realm.
The nine Yu Meiren flowers lay quietly in her Qiankun Ring, swapped secretly by her on the third day.
The Qiankun Ring belonged to tasks from another world, something not from this world, naturally imperceptible and beyond prediction.
Nevertheless, Li Shuning dared not take the items out.
But obtaining these nine Yu Meiren flowers was enough, whereas the Yu Family, huh, would likely only grow weaker from now on. Those nine Yu Meiren flowers were crucial to them, determining their future cultivation.
Li Shuning remembered vividly that when the Li Family was annihilated, their bodies were pierced with hidden weapons carved with Yu Meiren markings.
Their bodies were also tainted with some Yu Meiren pollen. She went to the Yu Family, taking action when the opportunity arose, achieving all her goals.
The Divine Domain wasn’t somewhere she could return to for a long time.
Behind the Yu Family, there was a powerful presence, much more covert compared to the Li Family, while the Qianzhu Clan had a force supporting them from behind.
The Yu Family also helped that power in wiping out the Li Family. Who knew which side that power would support now?
As far as Li Shuning knew, the language of Yu Meiren symbolized separation through life and death, and a song of sorrow.
The flower’s language was indeed unfavorable.
This was just the beginning.
No one in the Divine Domain was truly innocent.
Eighteen years later, Li Shuning, having altered her appearance, returned to the Divine Domain.
The blood she left in Qianzhu Tian’s eyes that day was her own essence blood, with which she had already seized control of Qianzhu Tian at that moment.
Later, Qianzhu Tian’s attacks on Yu Hua were all under her instructions.
The items left in the Yu Family’s Ancestral Temple were, naturally, intentionally left by Li Shuning — she aimed to unsettle the Divine Domain.
Only when the water is muddied can she fish in troubled waters, can she not?
At that time, through Qianzhu Tian, she controlled some non-essential insects of the Qianzhu Clan.
Returning at that moment, she learned from those controlled insects that the war had ended.
In that case, she should return too, for there were still many things to do.
