The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 389 The culprit behind the whole thing is...

Lang Jiuchuan and Apiao had calculated the original body's background several times and believed that this body was from the Rong family. Now, after hearing Zheng Yangzi's words, they were not surprised. It was as if the dust had settled and it was indeed so.

The information revealed by Zheng Yangzi confirms that the Rong family head and Madam Rong the Fourth were definitely aware of the original owner's background and existence.

So how did this child end up being transferred to the Lang family, and where did Cui's children go?

Zhengyangzi didn't know.

“How could we, as non-Rong family members, know about such secrets involving bloodlines and private matters?” Zheng Yangzi shook his head and said, “If we had known about your talent earlier, we would most likely have persuaded the family head to take you back for training. Putting aside everything else, just to increase the strength of our family, that would have been the right thing to do. But if it weren’t for Young Master Rong’s accident, we wouldn’t even know of your existence. But the family head and the others must know exactly what your bloodline is like.”

There are no coincidences. After the young master's accident, countless methods were tried. When the fourth madam approached the head of the family, she used the Great Evolution Divination Method to find the opportunity. Then she found Lang Jiuchuan, removed his tendons and bones and reconnected them. It was so perfect. Who would believe there was nothing fishy about this?

It's just that everyone here is smart, so they just keep it to themselves.

Lang Jiuchuan recalled what Gong Qi had said and asked, "I heard that Rong Qingcang once made a private engagement with a woman outside the marriage. Is that true? How did he later agree to follow the arrangement and marry Xi Yun? Was he truly willing to get married?"

Mentioning the Fourth Master of the Rong family, Zheng Yangzi sighed again, saying, "It is true, but the Xuan Clan has an heir with extraordinary and righteous Dao roots, and they would never marry an outsider. That woman was just an ordinary person, so how could the patriarch agree? Later, he complied, and it is said that the woman was on the verge of death. He begged the patriarch to open the Rong family's treasury, took the clan's most precious treasure, the only Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill, and used a life-borrowing technique to give her twenty years of his own lifespan. In exchange, he obeyed the clan's arrangement to marry her."

Ah Piao hissed and gasped: "Fourth Master Rong, a prodigy, is actually such a womanizer?"

“If he hadn’t been entangled in the karma of borrowing life, he wouldn’t have lost his Dao root and been damaged when he fought that vengeful ghost, and would have been confined to a wheelchair ever since.” Zheng Yangzi sighed, “If he had been well, the position of young master would not have fallen to his daughter, and the Rong family would not have been ranked at the bottom of the Xuan clan.”

"I heard that he and Xi Yun didn't get along after their marriage. Is Rong Huanxuan really their daughter?"

"Of course, otherwise, why would the patriarch value it so much? As for the discord, he was simply complying with the family's wishes by getting married. His fourth wife was pregnant, and later gave birth to an heir with Daoist roots. He could be said to have retired after achieving his goal, and he used the excuse of seclusion to live alone. In Daoist matters of marriage, what kind of divine couple is there? Not to mention that the fourth master is inherently rebellious, and he only relinquished his position to obtain the clan's most precious treasure. Otherwise, he would be as rebellious as the young master of the Gong family!"

Lang Jiuchuan disagreed.

She rubbed her temples; she had received too much information at once, and her temples were throbbing, her head buzzing.

Lang Jiuchuan didn't want to dwell on the most important question, so he only asked what kind of magic weapon Ling Xu used, when he reached the Foundation Establishment stage, and what his weaknesses were.
Immediately afterwards, she asked Rong Huanxuan about her recovery after her bones and muscles were restored, and what her intention was in binding the original body's soul.
Zheng Yangzi said, "After she recovered her strength, she went into seclusion. I was ordered to come to the Ren family to guard the formation, but I didn't expect to fall into your hands. It's just an eye for an eye."

His tone was somewhat wistful.

Lang Jiuchuan sneered and said, "You have more than just this one karmic burden on you. How many of the wronged souls at the bottom of the lake died because of you? Don't you know that?"

Zheng Yangzi froze, then gave a silent, bitter laugh.

"How did you find out about the Ren family's water dungeon? Was the Ren family massacre also caused by the Rong family?" Lang Jiuchuan asked coldly. Zheng Yangzi immediately shook his head: "I didn't do it. I was just ordered by the family head to guard the formation. When we came here, the family head brought us here. The formation was also drawn by the family head. I only took over later."

"Patriarch, Patriarch," Lang Jiuchuan said, her eyes narrowing. It seemed that this Patriarch Rong was the one who held the biggest secret and was the culprit behind the whole affair. It seemed that as long as she took him down, she would be able to know everything, including the whereabouts of the child born to Madam Cui.

The thought that the child Cui gave birth to was most likely his own made Lang Jiuchuan feel heavy-hearted. She was dead too, her remains were nowhere to be found, and her soul was incomplete. If she hadn't died so heroically, why would her soul be incomplete?
Lang Jiuchuan suddenly looked a little dejected.

Seeing her in such a state, Zheng Yangzi was a little puzzled and subconsciously looked at A Piao.

Ah Piao glared at him. In the end, it was the Rong family's fault, it was all the Rong family's fault!
It's truly a case of a dog falling into the plains. Zheng Yangzi has tolerated it, but he'll wait until Zheng Yangzi has a chance to turn the tables and then teach him a lesson.

Lang Jiuchuan quickly perked up and said, "You still haven't said what Rong Huanxuan's intentions are in capturing souls, whether she has any lackeys protecting her, and by the way, what is the cultivation level of the Rong family head?"

“I really don’t know what the young master wants to do by capturing souls. After that incident, I have been guarding here and cultivating. However, the Rong family has a treasure book, which is the Ancestral Master’s Ghost Control Technique, which is only passed down to the direct line.” Zheng Yangzi said, then seemed to think of something and said, “There is another possibility.”

He hesitated, as if he were afraid of Lang Jiuchuan, and didn't dare to speak.

"explain."

“Soul Devouring,” Zheng Yangzi said. “She has fused with the bones and muscles of your body. If she were to devour your soul as well, the compatibility would be even more perfect, and there would be no rejection. It might even be more beneficial to your cultivation. And the art of controlling ghosts says that by planting a ghost eye on one's body, one can summon ten thousand ghosts to serve one’s purposes…”

The ghost retorted angrily, "Bullshit! You call it controlling ghosts, but it's really just refining ghosts. The Rong family has a precedent for this. You dare to call yourselves righteous? Bah!"

Zheng Yangzi fell silent.

The Xuan Clan is the Xuan Clan because it was truly descended from a great Taoist master, not some wild or unorthodox lineage. Even the Rong family's ancestor was known as the Wonderful True Lord, who could conjure soldiers from beans with his bare hands—a feat of unparalleled skill.

Unfortunately, with each generation, the legacy has declined, and the family fortune of their ancestors has been almost depleted. Their former glory has faded, and in order to maintain their former prominence, they have no choice but to resort to extreme measures, which, to put it bluntly, means that their moral compass has gone astray.

But if it weren't for the righteous path, why would he have accepted this offer in the first place? It's just that over the years, he's been elevated too much, his heart has become impure, and he's put the cart before the horse, which is why he's ended up like this.

They are burdened by power and also trapped by power.

This is the current crisis facing the Xuan Clan.

Zheng Yangzi glanced at Lang Jiuchuan again. Now that someone dared to stand against the Xuan Clan and make a fuss, the Daoist sect was likely to face a sudden and dramatic change in the future.