Chapter 158: Divine Power Fragment
“He…” Wu Xian was puzzled. “What’s wrong?”
“Back then, while campaigning with the family at the Dimensional Rift, he got trapped and died,” Xue Qingyang explained. “But Third Master Xue just said he seemed to have seen Second Uncle in the Dimensional Rift.”
Wu Xian fell silent. Coming back from the dead was obviously unlikely; he was just afraid that he had become a puppet of evil power.
“Insectoid Dimensional Rift, right?”
“Correct,” Third Master Xue nodded solemnly. “Looking across all of Yaoyang City, only your Gold Scroll can venture deep into it.”
Wu Xian understood. He would definitely help.
But he still had many confusions in his heart.
Not long after, they arrived at the Xue Family.
After hearing Third Master Xue explain the situation, everyone in the Xue Family was deeply moved, and even Patriarch Xue Zhengheng couldn’t help but have red eyes. “Third Uncle, are you sure you didn’t see wrong? It’s really Zhengying?”
“No mistake,” Third Master Xue said with absolute certainty. “That child Xue Zhengying, Old Man absolutely couldn’t mistake him.”
Xue Zhengheng took a deep breath and immediately began arranging family affairs, preparing to go with Third Master Xue.
At the same time, Xue Lingling, who had heard the news, also rushed out shouting.
“Second Brother… Second Brother is still alive?”
Xue Lingling’s emotions were agitated like never before; it was the first time Wu Xian had seen her so out of control.
“Little Sister, what are you doing?” Xue Zhengheng anxiously scolded. “Stay home and comprehend your ancestral inheritance peacefully. What are you joining in for? Go away, this matter is enough with us.”
“No! I must go—!” Xue Lingling’s gaze was resolute, her voice trembling. “I want to bring Second Brother home!”
Seeing this, Xue Zhengheng could only helplessly rub his forehead.
“At least confirm he’s still alive; there’s still a chance!” Third Master Xue took a deep breath, clearly not holding high expectations. “The sons of my Xue Family must eventually return to their roots.”
As he spoke, more than ten elites of the Xue Family had already assembled.
The group set off grandly on the campaign to the Insectoid Dimension, with determination and resolve on everyone’s faces.
“Third Master, why did you pull my good disciple into this?” Xue Lingling calmed down a bit and asked doubtfully. “This is our Xue Family’s matter; there’s no need to involve him.”
Third Master Xue sighed helplessly. “The place where Zhengying is located is too deep; Wu Xian will be of great use.”
Hearing this, the Xue Family members all showed confusion.
“Wu Xian’s Gold Scroll is an Insectoid Special Attack scroll painting, which will be of great help to us on this trip. You’ll understand when the time comes,” Third Master Xue said calmly.
“Insectoid Special Attack type scroll painting?” Xue Zhengheng and the others couldn’t help but be curious.
Even Xue Lingling’s eyes showed some confusion, after all, she hadn’t seen Wu Xian’s Sun Star Lord yet.
They only knew【Guardian Chicken King】 had significant effects against insectoid monsters, but the Guardian Chicken King was at most Silver Scroll level right now, right?
In fact, for this trip, they had only prepared a few Silver Scroll【Guardian Chicken Kings】.
“Guardian Chicken King upgraded to Gold Scroll?” Xue Lingling asked in surprise.
“Not exactly,” Wu Xian pondered as he explained. “Recently, I made another Gold Scroll, which can be considered an upper version of the Guardian Chicken King.”
“Upper-tier Scroll Painting of the Guardian Chicken King?” The Xue Family members were secretly shocked.
Xue Lingling’s beautiful eyes sparkled continuously. At this moment, she understood why Third Uncle insisted on bringing Wu Xian.
You know, the Guardian Chicken King already had very strong insect special attack ability, and its upper-tier Scroll Painting would only be stronger.
Wu Xian silently looked around at the Xue Family members and could clearly feel that everyone in the Xue Family cared deeply about that Xue Zhengying.
The purpose of this trip was just to bring back Xue Zhengying, who had died far from home.
“Master Sister, why was your Second Brother trapped and died in the Insectoid Dimensional Rift back then?” Wu Xian couldn’t help but ask curiously.
“For the family’s continuation.” Xue Lingling’s voice was filled with grief and bitterness.
“Huh?” Wu Xian didn’t understand.
Facing Wu Xian’s doubt, the Xue Family members fell silent.
Finally, Third Master Xue spoke faintly. “As a dojo founding family, continuing to this day is no easy feat, right?”
“How so?” Wu Xian was still puzzled.
Third Master Xue paused, then gazed wistfully at the sky. “Generations of Xue Family disciples have sacrificed countless lives to continue the ancestral inheritance.”
Wu Xian took a deep breath, suddenly realizing a serious problem.
By rank, it seemed the Xue Family was “missing” quite a few people.
In other words, the Xue Family surviving to this day was entirely exchanged with lives and sacrifices.
“Because of what?” Wu Xian asked solemnly. “Targeting from other Undead Dojo families?”
“Targeting from other families is only secondary,” Xue Zhengheng shook his head and sighed. “The main thing is maintaining that Divine Realm Authority in the【Founding Core】, which is also the most important mission of generations of my Xue Family descendants.”
Wu Xian grew more confused the more he heard. “Divine Realm Authority still needs maintenance?”
“Of course,” Xue Zhengheng said without hesitation. “Once a Divine Realm is constructed and condensed, it’s like a wheel that can never stop, requiring massive resources to sustain, and the authority imprinted in our family’s inheritance is naturally the same.”
“Once a Divine Realm is constructed, it can’t stop anymore?” Wu Xian was stunned in shock.
Xue Lingling shook her head. “It’s not that it can’t stop, but once it stops, everything has to start over from the beginning.”
Wu Xian secretly clicked his tongue.
“And maintaining and developing the Divine Realm relies on a thing called【Divine Power Fragment】 from other dimensions,” Xue Lingling continued to explain. “My Xue Family’s Divine Realm Authority is essentially a string of underlying code imprinted in the Undead Divine Realm back then. Other founding families don’t care about this string of code, so we can only rely on ourselves.”
Hearing this, Wu Xian finally understood.
In short, every generation of the Xue Family over the past millennium had been working hard to maintain the continuation of this “authority.”
Just waiting for an outstanding descendant to stand up and lead the Xue Family back to the Undead Divine Realm.
“What is a Divine Power Fragment?” Wu Xian expressed doubt. “Divine Power Factor?”
“Divine Power Factor can only be considered Divine Power Fragments that have dispersed and weakened into countless branches, and Divine Power Factor further dispersed and weakened becomes so-called spiritual substance.” Xue Lingling explained. “And Divine Power Fragments exist only in the bodies of true otherworldly beings.”
Wu Xian nodded in realization with a tsk.
As mentioned before, Yaoyang City’s so-called three Dimensional Control Zones were essentially human territories eroded and assimilated by otherworldly power, not true otherworldly realms.
And generations of Xue Family descendants venturing deep into Dimensional Rifts one after another was to obtain【Divine Power Fragments】 to maintain that Divine Realm Authority.
In subsequent inquiries, he learned that in Third Master Xue’s generation, there were six direct brothers and sisters, and in the end, only the eldest and third survived; the collateral and branch lines also suffered heavy casualties.
The eldest was the father of the current Patriarch Xue Zhengheng, who ultimately passed away early due to hidden injuries.
And that third was the current Third Master Xue.
Xue Lingling, as the youngest daughter of the previous Patriarch, was raised by her brothers and sisters from a young age, and had deep feelings with her brothers and sisters.
Yes, Xue Lingling’s generation of direct descendants also had four people.
Besides Xue Zhengheng and Xue Zhengying, there was also an older sister who, five years ago, died in the Abyssal Rift Dimension while acquiring Divine Power Fragments for the family.
Speaking of these past events, everyone in the Xue Family had red eyes and was grief-stricken.
As an outsider, Wu Xian felt an inexplicable heaviness in his heart.
Although he could understand the sacrifices of generation after generation of the Xue Family, he couldn’t help but feel puzzled by their persistence.
Was it really worth it for that so-called Divine Realm Authority?
At least the Xue Family members thought it was.
Perhaps this was also the fundamental reason why the Xue Family had continued to exist to this day?
