Chapter 153: There Is A Third-Grade Martial Artist In Qinghe
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
It was a Memory Card.
It contained 10 years of memories of a man named Ge Yuzi from when he was alive.
Ge Yuzi was from Ci En Bank, it was unclear when he joined them.
In any case, at the very beginning of the 10-year memory, he had already joined the Ci En Bank.
All Su Jingxing knew about the Ci En Bank was that its biggest shareholder was the Lu Family.
Lu Cien was the founder of Ci En Bank in its early days.
But that was in the past, in ancient times.
A hundred years ago, the owners of Ci En Bank had taken turns to run it.
One of them was naturally the Lu Family, while the other was the Zeng Family.
According to Ge Yuzi’s memories, the Zeng Family’s ancestors were not from Ci En Bank at all.
On the contrary, a Zeng Family’s son had married into the Lu Family1and their status in the Lu Family was very low.
Unexpectedly, the Zeng Family’s second generation rose to prominence.
The Zeng Family ancestor who married into the Lu Family had an extremely talented son.
After he grew up, for some reason, he insisted on taking the Zeng name.
As there was the blood of the Lu Family flowing in his veins and because the person helming the Lu Family then doted on him, he was allowed to have the surname Zeng.
As a result, as soon as this exception was made, all the direct descendants of the Lu Family with great martial arts talent in the later generations changed their surname to Zeng.
Although members of the Zeng Family also had the Lu Family’s bloodline, cracks appeared between the other descendants of the Lu Family that didn’t have Zeng blood and the Zeng Family.
This rift had not been resolved until today. Instead, the descendants of the Zeng Family had not changed their surname back to Lu since a hundred years ago. They had also joined Ci En Bank to seize power.
The Lu Family descendant that Ge Yuzi was following was Lu Chen, whom Su Jingxing had heard of before.
Lu Chen’s status in the Lu Family was not bad, but he was not one of the top few.
As his follower, Ge Yuzi was naturally not any better off. In Ci En Bank, he was just a small leader of a branch.
He had come to Qinghe City with Lu Chen this time because Lu Chen had come to the city to find a map.
A mysterious map that could allow Lu Chen’s realm to advance by leaps and bounds and become a third-grade powerhouse.
Ge Yuzi did not know what secrets this map contained, where it was hidden, or whose hands it came from.
He only knew that the mysterious map was in Xuantian University, but he did not know its exact location.
They were hunting the young man who had transformed into a golden human and his companions because they had been following the trio for a long time.
Lu Chen sent people to Xuantian University to look for the map. After they never returned, he made use of his connections to investigate. In the end, they realized that the trio were also looking for the map.
Hence, he had Ge Yuzi lead his men to tail after them. The latter had left the city that night and came to the mountain forest. Their intended destination was the Tai Ming Mountain Reservoir but the reason was unknown.
Ge Yuzi fought with them completely because he and his men were exposed.
When Su Jingxing saw this, he guessed there was an 80% chance that the trio were heading to the Tai Ming Mountain Reservoir because of the Concentration Fruit Tree.
The Concentration Fruit Tree absorbed the energy in the air, underground, and in the water. It caused quite a commotion.
Su Jingxing was mentally prepared when he was underground.
When he came out previously, he didn’t find anyone near the reservoir and was a little puzzled.
Now, he finally figured it out. The trio had been paying attention!
It was just that they were very unfortunately followed, yet were fortunate enough to discover Ge Yuzi’s group who was doing that.
Then, the two groups of people got engaged in a fight.
Su Jingxing saw everything that happened subsequently.
At this moment, the section of memory that Su Jingxing was interested in was not about the trio, but when Ge Yuzi went with Lu Chen to visit a local martial arts family in Qinghe City.
The He Family!
Not the Li Family, nor was it the Zhou, Wang or Qi families. And absolutely not the Shi Family that Su Jingxing had destroyed.
It was the He Family who kept an extremely low profile.
In any case, Su Jingxing had never heard of a martial arts family with the surname He in Qinghe City.
To be called a martial arts family, the family must have a fourth-grade expert.
And the influence of the martial families that had fourth-grade powerhouses wasn’t weak. They were quite well-known too.
But this He Family was an exception.
Su Jingxing and the original Su Jingxing were both young, so it was normal for them not to know.
However, even in Wan Rong’s 40 years of memory, he was unaware of the He Family’s existence. That was astonishing.
According to Ge Yuzi’s memories, when he visited the He Family with Lu Chen, he had asked Lu Chen about this family’s background. He wondered why, given Lu Chen’s identity, that he had to humble himself to visit them.
In the end, Lu Chen’s reply shocked everyone with him.
That was, this He Family might have a third-grade powerhouse!
In both the Li Family and the Martial Suppression Office, fourth-grade was the highest realm in Qinghe City.
This extremely low-profiled He Family actually had a third-grade expert. This was too shocking.
Of course, what Lu Chen said was a possibility, not a certainty.
The reason why Lu Chen couldn’t confirm it was because he wasn’t sure if the previous patriarch of the He Family, the third-grade expert, was still alive.
That’s right, the previous patriarch of the He Family was a third-grade big shot!
Lu Chen was sure of this because he had seen it with his elders before.
That was when he was young. Now that almost 20 years had passed, he wasn’t sure if the other party was still alive.
When they arrived at the He Family’s residence, the person who received Lu Chen was not the previous patriarch but the current one.
At that time, Lu Chen had tried to meet the elderly patriarch, but he was perfunctorily rejected by the current patriarch.
They did not tell Lu Chen whether the elderly patriarch was dead or alive.
Anyway, after Lu Chen left, he threw a tantrum but did not dare to say anything.
According to Ge Yuzi’s memory, Lu Chen had revealed a lot of information when he was cursing.
The He Family was possibly in the know about the mysterious map that Lu Chen was looking for!
However, Lu Chen wasn’t sure if the elderly patriarch of the He Family was still alive. He didn’t dare to offend them.
That was why he didn’t force them to speak about the situation.
Regarding the He Family’s information, Ge Yuzi waited for Lu Chen to calm down before asking carefully.
Then, an old and low-profiled martial arts family that had existed since the founding of the Yu Nation for 400 years all the way until today, was exposed to Ge Yuzi.
Through Ge Yuzi’s memories, Su Jingxing also saw everything in his “mind”.
400 years!
The He Family had a history of as long as 400 years.
It was more than a hundred years longer than the Li Family, the number one martial arts family in Qinghe City.
Even though Su Jingxing had been through a lot during this period of time, he couldn’t help but feel deeply moved by this martial arts family that hid in the dark and never developed their own faction. They only held onto a Scholar Restaurant and kept a low-profile for four hundred years.
Compared to the Li Family and the Shi Family, the He Family was frighteningly low-key.
It was easy to keep a low profile for a while, but to do that for 100 to 400 years was unimaginable.
There were too many examples of family clans with wise ancestors but foolish descendants.
Even the Li Family had almost gone extinct because of their descendants’ stupidity.
The He Family, on the other hand, was able to maintain their position for 400 years. Outsiders never knew and never paid attention to them.
“There must be a secret!”