Chapter 1296: Spreading Seeds
After his consciousness withdrew from the Longevity Stone Heart, Qi Xuansu continued pondering this question.
If what Shi Hengbo said was true, then how did the Yao family come into existence?
Although Elder Yao did indeed have parents and family members, bloodlines could only be passed down to one’s offspring, never to siblings, parents, or relatives.
After all, Elder Yao only became Wu Xian later. She was not born as Wu Xian.
Yet the present-day Yao family undeniably possessed the bloodline of a Great Witch, which indicated that Elder Yao must have had offspring. This then contradicted Shi Hengbo’s statement.
Qi Xuansu was still inclined to believe that Shi Hengbo had not lied to him, because there truly were no records whatsoever about Elder Yao’s husband. The Yao family always spoke only of Elder Yao herself, never mentioning another ancestor, as if that person had never existed at all.
If they had followed the Li family’s practice of adopting sons and sons-in-law, then how was the Great Witch bloodline passed down? It surely could not be that Elder Yao artificially created a bloodline and implanted it into her adopted children, passing it down generation after generation, right?
Among the three great families, the Zhang family had the most orderly lineage. Every generation was clearly recorded. Their genealogy ran from the Ancestral Heavenly Preceptor all the way down to Zhang Yuelu’s generation without a single omission. They were a thousand-year clan that was comparable to the descendants of the Confucian Sage. The Li family was somewhat more chaotic, though at least, its line of descent could still be traced. Only the Yao family was the most mysterious and the least known to outsiders.
Qi Xuansu suddenly thought of someone—Lin Lingsu, the Imperial Preceptor of the Jin Dynasty.
Lin Lingsu had originally been one of the Three Corpse Incarnations of Master Tongwei Xianhua. Later, the original body completely severed the connection, turning Lin Lingsu into an independent individual, who then rose to become the Imperial Preceptor of the Jin Dynasty.
Could Elder Yao have left behind descendants through a similar method?
Since Immortals had too high a cultivation, it was extremely difficult for them to bear children through the ordinary union. But they could sever a part of themselves, spreading their seed.