Chapter 539: Chapter 52: Immortality (Part 2)
"Ah Nian, keep your voice down. Clarify the situation; don’t keep everything from me, okay? It was like this in the past, and it still is," Yu Gang was also annoyed, as everything should have a cause and effect. He just wanted to tell the truth to the child, yet he faced such criticism.
"I know you are a Cultivator, but do you know what Celeste’s background is?" Mei Nian knew her tone was too strong earlier, so she sat down with Yu Gang and poured him a glass of water.
The Roster family is one of the ancient families in Europe, established over five hundred years ago by a Romanian Countess. Initially, the Roster family was involved in the slave trade. After the discovery of the New Continent, they entered the United States with the pioneers and began investing heavily.
But those investments were all done in secret until the early 1990s, when the Roster family officially came into the public eye.
"I’m somewhat aware of the Roster family’s background, but what does that have to do with whether or not I tell Xiao Xian that I encountered Celeste in Xinjiang?" In recent years, the Roster family has intensified its development of the Chinese market, especially in agriculture and livestock, and Yu Gang is handling several evaluation projects in collaboration with the Roster family.
"I can only tell you that for so many years, the Roster family has only had one head of the family." The Cultivators of the Mei family are carefully selected from the descendants of the Mei family; some of them never leave the country in their lifetime, while others, due to their long lifespan, travel around.
As a result of their travels, they can collect many secrets unknown to outsiders. One coincidental fact is that the Cultivators from the previous and the recent generations of the Mei family both met the Romanian Countess and the head of the Roster family during World War II, leaving behind portraits.
"One person? But Ah Nian, even in the Mei family, no one lives over five hundred years..." When Mei Nian decided to marry Yu Gang, she had already told him everything about herself. This is where she differs from her twin sister of the Mei family.
Mei Xiang chose to hide things out of love, while Mei Nian believed that because of love, the truth must be revealed.
What Yu Gang said wasn’t entirely true. If such an anomaly truly existed, they would have been taken by Cangqiong Palace already.
Cultivators have stronger physical constitution than ordinary people, through the four stages of gold, silver, copper, iron; Iron-grade reaching one hundred years, copper one hundred fifty, silver two hundred, and gold three hundred years.
Those chosen by Cangqiong Palace are either Cultivators or superpowered geniuses under sixty years of age. Another type is those who missed the initial selection but reached Gold Grade in later cultivation, assaulting the Mirage Gate set by Cangqiong Palace on earth. Those who successfully break through can enter Cangqiong Palace.
Mei Xiang missed the selection during her first sixty years because of Bai Juyi. After reaching the limits of Gold Grade, she found a Mirage Gate in the ocean current near an island in the western Pacific; where she ended up is unknown.
"According to the portrait records of the Mei family ancestors, Celeste may have changed her appearance, but her Beast Taming skills and her pair of dark purple eyes have never changed. Another point, in every generation of the Roster family, there is no male heir; the heir of the Roster Family is always female, and they always take a husband into the family, each of whom doesn’t live for many years." Such an event happening once might be seen as coincidence, but if it occurs multiple times, then it’s not simply chance.
In the blazing heat, Yu Gang listened with cold sweat dripping down; recalling the Celeste he encountered in Xinjiang, who appeared to be just over thirty, with a seductive figure and sultry eyes that were violet.
"Don’t think I’m just trying to demonize that old witch out of jealousy. Isn’t it coincidental that after your father brought you back from Xinjiang, he reported Zhu Shijun? And it just so happened that Celeste saved you? You understand your uncle’s character; he feels guilty towards Zhu Shijun and refuses to reveal the truth. So, there’s only one possibility; he is being controlled. What could control an old man like him except his only son, which is you, Director Yu Gang?" Mei Nian couldn’t quite figure out what kind of person Celeste really was; however, once listening to Mei Xiang evaluate Celeste, she described her as unfathomable.
But seeing that Yu Gang still looked puzzled, she decided to make it clear.
"Can we just keep hiding this from the child forever? She’ll find out sooner or later, and if Zhu Shijun is indeed wronged, should we just let him suffer the injustice?" Knowing the potential danger, Yu Gang hesitated.
"She’s smarter than you; Xiao Xian might have a poor foundation, but her Spiritual Power is very strange, and she has a resilience about her. As long as we find the right method, I believe her future won’t be inferior to Mei Xiang’s. I’m not asking you to hide it from her forever, just until she becomes stronger. Only when she reaches Gold Grade can she protect herself," Mei Nian didn’t want Xiao Xian to merely avoid problems, but issues had to be solved one by one, and cultivation gradually improved.
Xiao Xian’s method of cultivating Spiritual Power through weaving mats, as Mei Nian heard it for the first time, sounded odd, yet it made some sense; each person’s cultivation method is different, perhaps Xiao Xian must rely on her own explorations for further progress.
The two discussed for a while longer before leaving.
Xiao Xian had also heard everything about Mei Nian and Yu Gang from Huang Yaoshi. Regarding Mei Nian’s approach, Xiao Xian agreed, and she quite liked Yu Gang, secretly thinking that she must find a way to bring Yu Gang and Mei Xiang together.
Since Yu Gang had been warned by Mei Nian, he kept tight-lipped afterward and didn’t mention Celeste anymore. Xiao Xian couldn’t get any details, and then she took out the Party Constitution again, pointing to the names of the other two individuals, "Then I can ask these two, right?"
Yu Gang furrowed his brow at the remaining two names in the Party Constitution, "You don’t need to find the second person; he passed away two years ago. As for the third person, you might find it difficult."
"Why?" Xiao Xian scrutinized the person’s name. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)