One person: Reborn as Huangxian, seeking the title of Feng Baobao at the beginning

I remembered her words of advice, but Shanhaiguan was our shield. Once we left the Northeast, my strength was limited, and I couldn't even find someone to help me…

If she could, why would Hu Jiu'er be willing to keep posting information about the water-suppressing mythical beast online?

She simply hoped that someone would notice the Water-Suppressing Beast and perhaps find its guardian.

Although Hu Jiu'er knew in her heart that something had happened to the Xu family.

It wasn't until she discovered that the torrential rain in the Xichuan area had stopped and that a warning zone had been established.

Under these circumstances, Hu Jiu'er worked even harder to spread the news.

"There should still be one child alive in the Xu family, right?"

Hu Jiu'er stared at Huang Miao almost pleadingly; she had truly placed her hopes on him.

"It must have been that child who used his blood that stopped the torrential rain."

"Director Huang, I beg you, you must save this child. He truly is the last descendant of the Xu family."

Is it really Hu Jiu'er's choice to place her hopes on others?

She herself was powerless to do anything about it, but since the Nine Gates Feng Shui Bureau had intervened, they would surely be able to solve the problem.

Without the water-suppressing mythical beast, Hu Jiu'er believed that the Nine Gates Feng Shui Formation might have other ways to resolve the issue.

"Miss Hu, since you have a relationship with the mistress of the Xu family, are you familiar with the other four guardian families?"

Huang Miao hadn't expected that Hu Jiu'er was involved with the Xu family. However, given how much the Xu family matriarch trusted Hu Jiu'er, Huang Miao thought that perhaps Hu Jiu'er knew more information.

"We've already sent people to Guanxian County, which is Dong family territory. The Dong family is absolutely responsible for the Xu family's current predicament!"

Others may not know much about the Dong family's status among the five guardian families, but Hu Jiu'er had heard about it from the mistress of the Xu family.

As the core of the Xichuan region, Chengdu has always held a pivotal position, not to mention the water-suppressing mythical beast buried beneath its surface.

From the very beginning, the Xu family has always been the most prominent of the five major families.

However, ever since Hu Jiu'er learned of the Xu family's existence, the Xu family has already declined and can only cower in Rongcheng, hiding among the crowd, trying to make the Xu family disappear completely from the sight of the other four guardian families, carefully guarding the water-suppressing divine beast of Rongcheng.

Even so, the last remaining branch of the Xu family knew that they couldn't hide for long.

The Xu family declined because they discovered an astonishing secret.

The water-suppressing mythical beast buried deep underground has encountered trouble.

No one knows why the water-suppressing divine beast buried deep underground has undergone such a mutation, but those who discover this secret know that if something really happens to the water-suppressing divine beast, not only will their guardian families cease to exist, but the entire Xichuan region will also be flooded by torrential rain.

No one wants to see such a consequence.

After much deliberation, the potential consequences of this matter were far too severe, so the person from the Xu family secretly went to the forbidden area where the water-suppressing divine beasts of the other four families were located.

When he discovered that not only the Xu family's water-suppressing beast was having problems, but the water-suppressing beasts of the other four families were also experiencing issues to varying degrees, he realized that this was a conspiracy targeting the five guardian families and the five water-suppressing beasts.

The Xu family members, who suddenly realized the truth, couldn't help but pass on the news to the heads of the other four major families.

After all, if this is truly a scheme targeting them, then without uniting, it's likely that no family can escape unscathed.

First, they need to find a way to repair the polluted water-suppressing mythical beast.

He also calculated that, based on the current level of pollution suffered by the water-suppressing mythical beast, it would take another hundred years before it was completely polluted.

There are so many things that can be done in a century.

They must keep all dangers out of them to avoid betrayal at crucial moments.

Currently, the water-suppressing mythical beast is only slightly polluted, and removing this pollution is not difficult.

With the combined strength of the five major families, resolving this issue of their own water-suppressing divine beast would be a piece of cake.

This is what the Xu family thought, and this is what they did.

Following a tip from the Xu family, the other four families also noticed the unusual behavior of the water-suppressing divine beast.

Unlike the Xu family, they all thought that there were still a hundred years or so left, so why rush to solve the problem?
At the collective meeting of the five guardian families, four families stood on the opposite side from the Xu family, and none of them could persuade the other.

In the end, the Xu family left the table in anger.

Ultimately, unwilling to see their family's long-protected water-suppressing divine beast suffer harm, the Xu family decided to take action and purify the beast first.

Led by the head of the Xu family, he led a group of Xu family elites to the location of the water-suppressing divine beast, intending to gather the strength of the Xu family elites to purify the polluted part of the water-suppressing divine beast.

However, after the purification began, the head of the Xu family at the time discovered something strange: what appeared to be only a small area that had been contaminated was actually severely polluted inside.

Originally, with the strength of the Xu family's elites, according to their calculations, purifying this area would have been more than enough.

However, once the purification began, it could not be stopped. The Xu family members who participated in the purification ceremony eventually exhausted all their strength and could not even leave the place.

After this battle, all of the Xu family's elite members, including the family head, were gone. Even though they protected the water-suppressing divine beast, the Xu family was completely ruined.

It is only natural that the Xu family has fallen to such a state and declined.

In order to preserve the last bloodline of the Xu family, the Xu family went into hiding and no longer participated in any matters related to protecting the family.

"If the Xu family continues to decline gradually like this, at least they have preserved their last bloodline and may still have a chance to develop again. The fate of the family is closely linked to the water-suppressing divine beast. As long as the water-suppressing divine beast guarded by the Xu family is safe and sound, the Xu family can still hope to restore its former glory in the future."

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. The Xu family chose to retire gracefully, sacrificing most of their fighting strength to protect the water-suppressing divine beast. However, the other four families were unwilling to see the Xu family in such a state.

They never offer help in times of need, but they are adept at kicking someone when they're down.

Whether it's territory or other interests, everything the Xu family has is being gradually eroded by other families.

They even shamelessly claimed that since the Xu family didn't have the energy to manage these things anyway, and as fellow guardian families of the water-suppressing divine beast, helping each other was only natural, and assisting the Xu family in managing these assets was their inescapable duty!

Hu Jiu'er slowly recounted the story. Although she had heard these things countless times from the mistress of the Xu family, telling them herself felt completely different.

She couldn't help but get angry!
How could there be such a shameless family?

How could they do something so shameless? The key point is that after doing all this, they still weren't willing to let the Xu family off the hook.

“Miss Hu, according to you, the Xu family discovered the problem with the water-suppressing divine beast about a hundred years ago, right?”
So, back then, the four major families did not purify the water-suppressing beasts that they guarded like the Xu family did. After a hundred years, have all the water-suppressing beasts of the four major families met with misfortune?
Is this the real reason why the water-suppressing mythical beast beneath Chengdu's Tianfu Square has disappeared?

Hu Jiu'er was in a bad mood, but Huang Miao still managed to extract key information from what she said.

The Xu family estimated that the water-suppressing mythical beast was completely polluted in about a hundred years.
Back then, the Xu family had to sacrifice almost the entire family's resources just because it was only slightly contaminated. And now?

How can the increasingly polluted water-suppressing beast be purified?

Or perhaps, there was no purification process at all, and someone simply tampered with the water-suppressing divine beast guarded by the Xu family?

After all, if you think about it carefully, only this water-suppressing divine beast is still unpolluted!
Huang Miao felt that since the mistress of the Xu family was able to tell Hu Jiu'er all these things, she must know Hu Jiu'er's identity. However, she might not be sure whether Hu Jiu'er could be of any help.

After all, due to the regional restrictions imposed by the Five Immortals of Northeast China, Hu Jiu'er's strength was diminished after arriving in the Western Sichuan region, and she was unable to even protect the last member of the Xu family.

If Chen Tian and his team hadn't discovered Xu Yuyi in time, the Xu family's only heir would probably have been completely wiped out!
"That's right. Although the Xu family members have gone into hiding, they remember the reasons for the Xu family's decline very clearly, so their calculations of time are exceptionally accurate."

I remember the look of worry on the face of the Xu family matriarch when she told me the time had come.

I think she already sensed her fate then and there was no escaping it!

Unexpectedly, Director Huang Miao was quite remarkable, guessing the truth of the matter solely from his own account.

While his guess may not be entirely accurate, it is very close to the truth.

"Director Huang, I believe you can definitely resolve this matter, right?"

Hu Jiu'er gazed intently at Huang Miao, stood up, and bowed deeply to him. Her voice was low but firm.

"I am willing to go to Chengdu to assist the Nine Gates Feng Shui Bureau in finding the other four major families!"

From the moment Hu Jiu'er agreed to the Xu family mistress's request to find a way to protect Xu Yuyi, she was already deeply mired in this mess and unable to extricate herself.

Now that the people of the Nine Gates Feng Shui Bureau are here, Hu Jiu'er believes that everything will gradually get better.

After all, this is an official department. If even the officials can't solve this problem, she feels that the entire Xichuan region will probably gradually disappear with the passage of time.

How long can the other four major families, besides the Xu family, hold out?

The schemes against the water-suppressing divine beast and the guardian families, which began a century ago, officially began when the four major families chose to annex the Xu family.

It's laughable that these families are still foolishly plotting against the Xu family, attempting to completely wipe them out.

Hu Jiu'er even felt that once the Xu family had lost even their last bloodline, the five water-suppressing divine beasts would truly never recover.

She was willing to go to Chengdu and become a sharp weapon of the Nine Gates Feng Shui Bureau to expose the conspiracy behind it.

"Miss Hu has an affinity with the Nine Gates Feng Shui Formation. In that case, we'll trouble you to make this trip!"

Huang Miao was not surprised by Hu Jiu'er's choice. He had already anticipated that Hu Jiu'er would make this decision when she agreed to go to the Nine Gates Feng Shui Bureau.

"Tongyu, accompany Miss Hu on this trip. There's no need to rush back from the Xichuan region. Perhaps this final scheme is somehow related to you!"

Huang Miao called Shen Tongyu into his office and gave her earnest instructions.

Just now, Huang Miao cast a divination.

Unlike the usual divination results, this time the divination he received indicated a karmic connection not only with the fat man but also with Shen Tongyu.

Just as Huang Miao was about to delve deeper into the divination, the hexagram suddenly went blank, as if the result he had just calculated was just an illusion.

While anyone could make a mistake in divination, Huang Miao would never. There are many reasons why the divination might be blank, but Huang Miao tended to believe that the behind-the-scenes outcome was causally related to previous events; this is the meaning of the saying "heavenly secrets cannot be revealed."

Huang Miao didn't insist on the result of the divination. He watched Shen Tongyu and Hu Jiu'er's backs as they were about to set off after receiving their mission.

Huang Miao didn't know if Shen Tongyu had also noticed something, otherwise, when he mentioned Shen Tongyu's cause and effect, Shen Tongyu's expression didn't change much. She just nodded lightly and left with Hu Jiu'er without asking any extra questions.

Given Shen Tongyu's special status, it's not surprising that she could sense her own future.

With that thought in mind, Huang Miao stopped dwelling on the issue and turned to walk into his office.

Just now, the system, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly appeared!
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Xichuan District, Guanxian County, Dong Family Old Residence.

It can be said that more than half of the entire Guanxian County belongs to the Dong family, and the people here are more or less related to the Dong family.

That's why the Dong family knew about any major developments in Guanxian immediately.

The current head of the Dong family is a middle-aged man dressed in a blue long robe, with a square face that exudes an air of authority. He sat in the main hall of the Dong family's old residence, his brows furrowing slightly as he watched the steward rush over.

"What's going on with Dong Yuxin and Dong Feng? Why haven't we heard anything from them? What's the museum up to? Yuxin's bloodline power is about to awaken. If anything goes wrong, he'll be dead. We need to find them quickly!"

A barrage of questions, coupled with an agitated tone, was enough to show that the Dong family patriarch was extremely agitated at the moment.

He was so angry he was about to explode.

"Master, we used the soul-summoning bell, but Dong Yuxin's soul showed no reaction at all. I even suspect that Dong Yuxin's soul is not in his body at all!"

Faced with the Dong family patriarch's questioning, the head steward was also at a loss. Everyone knew that Dong Yuxin's bloodline awakening was of paramount importance; who could have imagined that something would happen to him at such a crucial moment?

In an effort to find Dong Yuxin's soul in time, the head steward even brought out the soul-summoning bell, but to no avail.

"People from the restricted area suddenly arrived in Guanxian. We don't know why, so we dare not make any rash moves, for fear of accidentally attracting the attention of the restricted area."

Furthermore, I've received information that Dong Yuxin was last seen inside the restricted area hospital!

In the end, even the head steward was filled with helplessness.

In other places, with the Dong family's power, finding someone would be relatively easy, but the place they found was inside a restricted area.

That's a restricted area! (End of Chapter)