Chapter 1583 — The Origins of the Ancient Lineages
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After offering his greetings, Feng Tianqi settled into his seat. Feng Tianhu's gaze toward him carried a glint of venom, though it vanished in an instant. Still, Feng Tianqi caught a chill from it.
He could only smile ruefully. He and his third brother had never gotten along. Ever since their eldest brother had left, open and covert struggles between them had been countless. But there was nothing to be done about it. When their eldest brother was still around, their father had long ago named him as the next head of the Feng family and had even arranged a marriage alliance with a powerful clan. It could be said that the eldest brother becoming the future head of the Feng family was the natural course of things.
But later events drove their eldest brother away from the family, leaving the position of family head vacant. Relying on the strength of the clan his marriage alliance had brought, Feng Tianqi barely managed to edge out his third brother and claim the title of young master. But the distance between young master and family head was still a long road, and he could not afford to let his guard down.
Especially after his third brother's son, Feng Nitian, mastered the Heaven-Defying Divine Art. His third brother, Feng Tianhu, had already been carrying himself as though he were the next head of the family. The reasoning was obvious: Feng Nitian would be the talent to shoulder the Feng family's future generation. If Feng Tianhu did not become head, then who would?
While Feng Tianqi was secretly growing anxious, he was powerless to change the situation. But now, this unexpected development had occurred!
From Feng Tianqi's personal perspective, it was a matter for celebration. But from the Feng family's long-term interests, it was not so simple. The emergence of Feng Nitian would change the Feng family's standing at the ancient level.
Until now, the Feng family had only been considered a minor presence among the ancient clans, not even a match for the Dark Night Palace. Although the Feng family had more Heaven-stage experts than the Dark Night Palace, the Palace was a genuine ancient sect, situated on sacred mountains along spiritual veins, with members capable of receiving ancient inheritances.
A family like the Feng family, however, was different. They had merely obtained treasures or cultivation manuals from ancient ruins. Other ancient sects and clans, by contrast, had not only secured treasures and manuals from such ruins, but had actually built their sects or families right on top of them.
In truth, the so-called ancient sects and ancient clans were not truly ancient, nor had they been passed down since time immemorial. They had merely discovered the ruins of genuine ancient sects, established themselves on those ruins, seized the treasures and cultivation manuals within, and after centuries of continuity, become what were called ancient sects.
Such ruins were mostly built upon sacred mountains and spiritual veins, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was dense, making cultivation far more convenient. Some ancient ruins even allowed disciples with suitable physiques to receive power inheritances from the primordial age.
For that reason, the status of these ancient sects and ancient clans was clearly above that of ordinary ancient sects and families.
This was also the reason the Dark Night Palace had fewer Heaven-stage experts yet held no lowly position. The Feng family, for all its four Heaven-stage experts, was in the end just a clan with no real heritage to show for it.
It was not that the Feng family did not want to build upon an ancient ruin. The problem was that by the time they had discovered such a ruin, thousands of years of change had left it in ruins, its spiritual energy long since dissipated. What is more, a town or even a city had already been built on top of it, making it utterly pointless to establish the family there.