Chapter 669 - Rong Family’s Past Affairs (1/2)

Rong Zhishui turned his face to look at Yan Tianhen and suddenly laughed. He spoke with a bit of self-depreciation and indifference, “Do you think I am an unfilial son?”

Yan Tianhen stared at him. “Zhishui, if your mother’s death was not cleared, but you chose to ignore it in order to accommodate the status of the young master of the Rong family, you’re really unfilial, but in fact, I don’t believe you truly gave up on the truth.”

Otherwise, why would Rong Zhishui hide his identity and come to Myriad Dao Academy to study?

However, it’s just that even if he cultivated the Daoist techniques of his clan, it would still be hard for him to surpass the elders in the clan in a short time. But once he entered Myriad Dao Academy, he could find another way. Maybe in the next decade and a half, he could become a cultivator to be reckoned with.

He has never forgotten his hatred.

Rong Zhishui sighed softly and clenched the quilt under his hand. “One day, I will make those people pay the price. What in the world is a family? Not only do they fear the strong and bully the weak, but families are also full of political intrigues — it’s so messy? Just like Rong Chaoxi’s story back then, if you count it, I don’t know which is worse.”

Yan Tianhen asked, “I’ve been curious for a long time. Why did Rong Chaoxi kill so many people in the Rong family after entering the Dao overnight? I could never guess what his deep hatred was, and it shouldn’t be entirely his fault, otherwise Myriad Dao Academy wouldn’t risk offending the Rong family by accepting Rong Chaoxi into the sect.”

Rong Zhishui was silent for a while before he said, “The former Patriach position of the Rong family absolutely wouldn’t have fallen on my father, who married eighteen concubines. Fifty years ago, the Rong family had a heavenly prodigy named Rong Chi. Some people say that he was the reincarnation of the Spirit Emperor. He could understand the voices of all living beings and plants as soon as he was born, and he could also control the plant spirits. Everyone believed that he could lead the Rong family to new glory.”

“If you count the age and generation, Rong Chaoxi should call him uncle, but Rong Chi was about the same age as my father.”

There were geniuses and fools, and Rong Chaoxi was the latter.

After he was born, he couldn’t learn to walk for three years, and he couldn’t learn to speak for five years, let alone cultivate and enter the Dao. His whole person looked stupid. When placed in a Divine Clan, any such idiot was regarded as a humiliating existence in the clan, and the parents would be ridiculed by others. Rong Chaoxi grew up under this kind of ridicule.

His parents were truly cruel. When he was 7, food would fall from his mouth when eating. In the winter of that year, his parents threw him down from the cliff to die. However, fortune favors fools. After falling off the cliff, Rong Chaoxi was picked up by Rong Chi, the young master of the Rong family, who was cultivating at the bottom of the cliff, and was saved easily.

Rong Chi was only about sixteen or seventeen years old, but he seemed to have the aura of a family head. When he found out about this, he was furious. First, he punished the couple severely, and then he announced that he would take Rong Chaoxi under his wing and support him personally. Because when he saw Rong Chaoxi, he thought of his brother who fell off the cliff and died when he was seven years old.

Rong Chi was very patient. In less than a year, he taught Rong Chaoxi how to walk and talk. At least it was no problem to take care of himself. The Rong family disciples despised and envied Rong Chaoxi, and some people even said, “To think we’re even inferior to a fool.”

“How could he have died?” Yan Tianhen frowned and asked, “Even if you lose all your cultivation, most of the time it won’t be permanent. In most cases, it will come back in a few days. What exactly happened?”

“Yes, Rong Chi was at the critical point of breaking through. In fact, he just needed to recuperate for a while. However, there was more than one person who had malicious thoughts.” Rong Zhishui showed an extremely mocking smile. “Do you know that the Rong family’s ancestor had a beautiful face? That Rong Chi who was truly blessed by the ancestor. When I saw his portrait, I just felt that I was a firefly compared to him. Compared with the morning sun, I am dimmer.”

Yan Tianhen felt his heart skip a beat. Suddenly bringing up his appearance was not a good sign.

“That face that could bring about the downfall of a country was naturally good when he was strong enough to protect himself, but when he suddenly lost his cultivation and was unable to protect himself, it became his greatest disaster. Those disciples, at that time, led by the young master of a main branch elder, were so jealous and dominated by their desires. They took advantage of the time when Rong Chi was recuperating in seclusion. They broke into the secret cultivation room and tried to treat him unfairly.”

“You could imagine what a person whose cultivation no longer existed would suffer when he met these enemies who had coveted and hated him for a long time.”

Yan Tianhen felt cold at the bottom of his heart. He couldn’t help wrapping himself tighter in the quilt. “It can’t be, right? They’re from the same clan. They are blood related. How can they do such things even lower than animals? What’s more, didn’t they use their heads to think that Rong Chi just lost his cultivation temporarily, and the elders of the clan can’t give up on him. If they make a move on Rong Chi, they will be punished.”

“But, the law doesn’t punish a crowd of people.” Rong Zhishui sneered, “At that time, the disciples who went there were all from the Rong family’s main branch. They just relied on the fact that their parents were reluctant to punish them all, so they swarmed on. Only one timid main branch member didn’t follow them and was ridiculed.”

No one knew what Rong Chi had experienced, but when Rong Chaoxi came back to the Rong residence, what he saw was already a corpse.

They caused such a major event. How could it be hidden? And those people completely regarded Rong Chaoxi as a fool who couldn’t even speak well, and discussed the event without any fear that he would overhear them, “It’s a shame that he died. Those main branch disciples are really extremely daring.”

“When the elder saw Rong Chi’s corpse, he didn’t say anything. He punished a few unfavored disciples and settled the matter. Which of the remaining main branch disciples were punished? It’s just a matter of calming things.”

“Poor Rong Chi. He was such a noble person, but his clothes didn’t even cover his body when he left the world. It was really pitiful. If the elder hadn’t arrived in time, even his corpse would have been desecrated.”

“How can the inside of the Rong family be like this?”

Rong Chaoxi stood stupidly, listening to these gossiping people rushing to piece together the truth. He just felt that the pain in his heart made it hard to breathe, and he couldn’t wait to die.