Chapter 1075 — The Song Family's Crisis
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And Qiu Lingshan herself was now the strongest of the younger generation among all the noble houses, apart from the Yu family. With such power, the Song family surely looked formidably strong!
But in truth it was not so. A gap had now opened in the Song family's strength!
Qiu Lingshan had a younger sister by blood, still at school, who had already successfully advanced into the ranks of Huang-stage masters! And her second uncle's household had a younger brother, only that brother was far too young, only ten years old, and had not yet entered the ranks of Huang-stage masters. In this way a break had appeared in the Song family's strength, and among the noble houses such a thing was very dangerous!
The Song family did have a formidable second granduncle, but since his departure years ago there had been no word of him. Who knew whether he was still alive, or whether he would ever come back?
And at present the strongest fighter in the Song family was Qiu Lingshan's grandmother, Old Madam Song! She already possessed the strength of the mid Xuan stage! But her health was plainly worse year by year, and if grandmother were truly gone, the Song family would fall into a most awkward plight!
Her grandfather had only the strength of the peak of the late Huang stage, which among the noble houses did not count as very formidable, while her father was a bookworm, bent wholly on the study of theory! Her second uncle was no bookworm, but he was a dissolute wastrel, or he would not have married so late, with his son ten years younger than her!
The hope of the Song family, it could be said, rested on just three people: Qiu Lingshan, Qiu Lingshan's younger sister, and that younger brother!
For the moment only Qiu Lingshan had achieved anything of note, while her sister and brother still fell short, especially the brother. Though the boy's natural talent was fine, he was after all too small, and it was quite likely that before he grew up, the Song family would be struck from the roll of the noble houses!
To break this deadlock there were at present only two roads. One was marriage alliance! Qiu Lingshan and her sister would each marry sons of other families, and thereby enlarge the Song family's standing! But given the Song family's present state, a match was neither high nor low and hard to settle, and Qiu Lingshan herself had no liking at all for such a forced marriage!
So they could only take the other road, and that was to grow strong, ever stronger, to break through the Huang stage and march into the Xuan stage. Only thus could the Song family's position be preserved!
Unwilling to marry for alliance, Qiu Lingshan naturally had no choice but to keep growing stronger and raising her own power! In fact through all these years she had been working hard, only without any great progress!
Yet who would have thought that earlier, down in the dungeon, by pleasuring herself, she had by a strange twist of fate broken through the barrier at the peak of the late Huang stage, leaping in one bound to become a late Huang master! Even as Qiu Lingshan was left dumbfounded, she understood a certain truth!
Grandmother had been right. The Song family's art was indeed well suited for women to cultivate, but to break through, one had to practice dual cultivation together with a man!
Qiu Lingshan had thought nothing of it when she heard it before, but thinking it over now, it seemed to make real sense? Back then she had only fantasized about doing that with Wei Zhao, and as a result she had broken through the barrier that had held her for so long? If she were truly to do it once with Wei Zhao, might it not lift her straight to a master at the peak of the late Huang stage?
The temptation of such a rise in power left Qiu Lingshan unable to stop herself!