Chapter 1084 — The Yu Family Comes to Mind

For the moment, though, the pressing matter was this: Song Xiangwen decided he would first tell the Yu family the good news! This year's Great Gathering of the Noble Houses was about to convene, and Qiu Lingshan's breakthrough had undoubtedly added a powerful bargaining chip to the Song family's standing at the Gathering!

The strength of a noble house had to be judged on many counts. The strongest fighter it currently possessed was one aspect, wealth was another, but without question the most important was the strength of the younger generation! The young, after all, were the hope of every noble house's future!

And Qiu Lingshan, at this moment, had undoubtedly become the most formidable of them all, save for that mysterious scion of the Yu family!

True, the Yu family had lately suffered no small number of upheavals. Word had it that Yu Bide had been beaten to death and Yu Kun crippled, but none of that would shake the Yu family's standing! In the Song family's view, there were hidden noble houses standing behind the Yu family, and they could not possibly fail to step forward on the Yu family's behalf.

What was more, the Yu family still had an Earth Stage expert who had gone off to cultivate among the hidden houses. These formidable backers were the Yu family's foundation. The loss of a Yu Bide and a Yu Kun counted for nothing at all!

Nor was it possible for the Yu family to keep such matters hidden. Which of these noble houses did not have its own channels of information?

Only, in the eyes of these houses, anyone who set himself against the Yu family had surely grown weary of living. To actually dare raise a hand against the Yu family — the consequences were only too easy to imagine.

"Hello? Yes?" Yu Shuixing picked up the phone. His mood had been poor for some time now; the business with Yu Bide and Yu Kun had left him deeply depressed. And now Yu Feng was gone too. Within the Yu family, he had become a commander without an army!

Nor had any good news come back from Yu Feng's end. A vague foreboding suddenly rose in Yu Shuixing's heart! Could Wei Zhao truly be so mysterious, so hard to investigate? Otherwise, with Yu Feng's methods, how could he have failed to pick up even a whisper?

Over at the Yu family, his elder brother had made no move either, and there was no telling whether he could leave his seclusion. Yu Shuixing found himself caught between a rock and a hard place!

He had even begun to regret it. Had he not sent Xiaokun to Songshan City in search of the fragment of the map, none of what followed would ever have happened! Wei Zhao's ferocity had exceeded the Yu family's expectations. It seemed the Yu family had provoked an enemy it should never have provoked!

But what use was regret now? The man was dead. The debt still had to be repaid!

"Is this Mr. Yu? This is Song Xiangwen!" By seniority, Song Xiangwen was Yu Shuixing's elder. But the Yu family was now at its zenith, and Yu Shuixing was the current head of the Yu family, his equal at the Great Gathering of the Noble Houses — perhaps even a shade above him. So Song Xiangwen had no choice but to address him as Mr. Yu.

"Greetings, Patriarch Song!" The moment Yu Shuixing heard it was Song Xiangwen, his manner warmed at once. Unhappy as he was, he knew well that such displeasure could not be vented before the head of another noble house!

The Yu family was already in trouble. If he meant to protect the Yu family's interests, he could not afford to make enemies of the other houses — especially one like the Song family, a house of considerable strength. Such a house had to be won over, and only then could the Yu family's standing among the noble houses be preserved!

As things stood, the attitude of the hidden noble houses was ambiguous. They would neither say they would step forward nor say they would not, so Yu Shuixing could only devise his own measures for now. At the very least, at the coming Great Gathering, the Yu family must still stand as the foremost of the noble houses. It must hold the power of speech at the Gathering!

"Heh heh, Mr. Yu, I have good news to share with you. My granddaughter Shanshan has successfully broken through to peak late Yellow Stage strength — and not merely peak late Yellow Stage, but peak late Yellow Stage Great Perfection!" Song Xiangwen said with a pleased laugh.

Before the Great Gathering convened, every family would report its strength to the organizers. This was also to prepare for the seating arrangements at the Gathering! The stronger houses naturally sat in the higher places.

"Oh? Qiu Lingshan? She has already reached peak late Yellow Stage Great Perfection?" Yu Shuixing was slightly taken aback! He recalled that not long ago Song Xiangwen had told him Qiu Lingshan had only just broken through to late Yellow Stage. How much time had passed since then, that she had already attained peak late Yellow Stage Great Perfection?

Did that not put her just one step from early Mystic Stage? Yu Shuixing was astonished by Qiu Lingshan's advance in strength!

The young women of the other noble houses were all subjects of Yu Shuixing's attention! Not out of lust or any peculiar taste — he simply wished to find a girl of matching station for his son, a marriage alliance to shore up the Yu family's standing!

And Qiu Lingshan, Shen Yushu, Sun Jingyan, and Liu Jinghan were all candidates in Yu Shuixing's assessment! Not that these were the only girls in the other houses, but among those of an age with Yu Feng, only these few were suitable.

Of course, the first to be struck from Yu Shuixing's list was Shen Yushu! In the Yu family's eyes, the Chen family was all but finished! With Old Master Chen dead, Chen Yutian's middling strength was nowhere near enough to let the Chen family stand firm.

What was more, Shen Yushu was no cultivator at all, and had not a shred of value to exploit! In other words, taking her as a concubine for his son to toy with would be fine enough, but as a principal wife, absolutely not.

So the remaining candidates came down to Qiu Lingshan, Sun Jingyan, and Liu Jinghan!

Liu Jinghan had shown her talent for business, but according to the records, she too was no cultivator. The Liu family had risen through commerce and politics, and had no cultivators among them! So Liu Jinghan was likewise struck from Yu Shuixing's list.

That left Qiu Lingshan and Sun Jingyan! Both were true cultivators! Yet the two were vastly different from each other.

The Song family's arts were of the ordinary kind, yet they could assist in dual cultivation, enhancing a future husband's strength! The effect of dual cultivation, however, depended on the cultivator's constitution, and no two were alike.

The Sun family's arts, by contrast, were of the healing-support school. The Sun family's skills could mend wounds, and could also convert true qi for another's use!

Moreover, in terms of standing among the noble houses, the Sun family's was the more secure. Though the Suns were not skilled in attack, such support arts were much sought after. Which noble house would not want a walking hospital and a walking training chamber?

Marry Sun Jingyan, and she could aid Yu Feng in both cultivation and healing. Then even if Yu Feng, like Yu Kun, had his meridians shattered by an enemy, he could slowly recover under Sun Jingyan's care!

Though the recovery rate of the Sun family's first-tier arts was truly nothing to boast of, still, there was hope! This point stirred Yu Shuixing deeply!

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