After talking about some important matters, Elder Huang left, leaving Ji Tianyu to his own thoughts.
He stood up, walking towards the window before pushing aside the curtains and opening it.
As the night breeze brushed against his skin, Ji Tianyu looked up at the bright moon in the night sky, a complicated emotion arising within him.
"Ruyan... You have really made that child's life difficult by being his mother."
A trace of malencholy flashed by in his eyes as the face of an exquisitely beautiful woman, devoid of any emotion, appeared in his mind.
It had been over fifteen years since that day, yet it was still so vivid in his mind.
He subconsciously clenched his fist, ultimate power capable of leveling hills and cutting off rivers compressed into a mortal body roaring within him before he slowly let go, letting out a deep, resigned sigh.
However, just then, a strange, mechanical sound erupted in his mind, instantly bringing him back to decades ago, causing his pupils to constrict sharply.
[Ding!]
[The Peerless Powerhouse System has been activated!]
...
"Hey, did you hear that the former young master of the Su Mansion, Su Yang, has recovered his talent and even far surpassed his previous cultivation base?"
"What? Su Yang, known as the most useless person of the Lingshan County's younger generation, not only recovered to his peak but even surpassed it? Are you sure you did not hear wrongly?"
"It's true, I bet thirty taels of silver! He even fought the current young master of the Su Mansion, Su Xun, beating him up until he cried! Had it not been for Su Xun's father, the Grand Elder of the Su Mansion, pleading to Su Yang's father, the Su Mansion Lord, he would have really killed Su Xun!"
"Damn, isn't young master Su Xun at the Third Stage of Body Tempering Realm? To beat him up so badly, Su Yang must be at least at the Fourth or even Fifth Stage of Body Tempering Realm!"
"At such a young age, he has already attained such heights, seems like the First-Grade Talent of the Lingshan County has not only returned, but even made a strong counterattack!"
Pedestrians whispered quietly amongst themselves as they walked past the gates of the Su Mansion, causing a hint of pride tp appear on the old faces of the guards standing there as they listened to the conversation.
This was related to their Su Mansion and its future generation, and a talent like Su Yang being a part of the Su Mansion only increased its prestige, including even the guards and servants of the mansion. Of course, they would be proud to hear such things about the force they're affiliated with.
But at the same time, there were countless others, specially those who had grudges with the Su Mansion and members of the younger generation, who had gloomy expressions on their faces when this news reached them.
The Su Mansion, being one of the three great mansions of Lingshan County, had deep roots and a history older than the Lingshan County itself. When the Su Mansion's ancestors first came to Baiyun Prefecture, they were all considered top notch experts even in the prefecture city.
After a few years of the Su Mansion's establishment, during a great war more than 200 years ago, the Lingshan County was created on the border of the Baiyun Prefecture by the imperial decree to resist foreign invaders for the Great Jing Dynasty, becoming a powerful border town where Innate Realm experts resided.
The Su Mansion, being a powerful force within the Baiyun Prefecture at the time, was also favored by the fourth prince of Great Jing and sent to the border town of Lingshan County to accumulate merits and oversee the situation.
However, as the war came to an end, Lingshan County was gradually submerged into the annals of history, and with the fourth prince's defeat and exile in the battle for the throne, the Su Mansion also lost all support from the Imperial Capital, accelerating its already declining pace.
It was a tragic yet common fate for a force that chose to stand on the wrong side in the battle for the throne.
Now, the Su Mansion was merely one of the three great mansions of Lingshan County, and the weakest among the 3 at that, with the strongest person being the current Mansion Lord and Su Yang's father, Su Yuan, at the peak of the Meridian Cleansing Realm.
During the time when the Su Mansion had Innate Realm experts, they had offended many people in both Lingshan County and Baiyun Prefecture, including the second strongest of the Lingshan County's three great mansions, the Wu Mansion, a direct branch of the Wu Family Manor from Baiyun Prefecture City.
Although most powerful Innate Realm forces had already gotten their revenge in the past few decades after the death of Su Mansion's last Innate Realm expert and did not intend to completely uproot them to display their magnanimity, the Wu Mansion was different.
The Wu Mansion's genius young master and the only one to have First-Grade Talent in their branch family's history, the chance for them to go back to their main family in Baiyun Prefecture City, was crippled by the former young master of Su Mansion, Su Yang, 3 years ago in the Lingshan County Annual Talent Conference.
It was only because Su Yang also had First-Grade Talent and he was engaged to the young lady of a Innate Realm power in Baiyun Prefecture City that they did not dare take action at that time, for fear of angering the Innate Realm great power and having their entire mansion exterminated. Even Wu Family Manor in the Prefecture City wouldn't offend another Innate Realm power just for the sake of a mere branch that did not even have a Innate Realm cultivator.
However, Su Yang lost his talent and regressed in his cultivation after that incident, which greatly relieved the Wu Mansion, thinking that they did not have to take action at all and their child was also avenged.
But just a couple of weeks ago, the fiancée of Su Yang came to his doorstep with Innate Realm experts escorting her, and directly broke off the engagement!
It was because she had become a True Disciple of the River Cloud Sect, one of the overlords of the entire Qingyun Province, with a Foundation Establishment Realm ancestor guarding it on the surface!
The difference between them was indeed like heaven and earth, no longer of the same world.
But just when the Wu Mansion was about to take action to completely eradicate the Su Mansion, Su Yang actually regained his talent and became even stronger than before!
No matter what happened now, they would definitely not let either Su Yang nor Su Mansion off.
And the upcoming Annual Talent Conference of Lingshan County was the perfect time to do that.
All of this was common knowledge in the Lingshan County City, and even if Su Yang had regained his talent, no one expected that the Su Mansion would be able to escape this crisis unless some external forces were involved.
Such as the County Magistrate, or...
The most powerful of Lingshan County's three great mansions, the Ji Mansion.
Ji Mansion was not only the most powerful, but also the most mysterious force in the entire Lingshan County.
No one, not even the County Magistrate's Mansion, knew the true origins of Ji Mansion. Only that one day more than fifteen years ago, the Head of the Ji Family, Ji Tianyu, came to Lingshan County and quietly established the Ji Mansion here.
It wasn't until one day when a certain old ancestor of a second rate family at the Third Stage of Meridian Cleansing Realm in the city was single handedly suppressed by Elder Huang who always stayed by the Ji Mansion Lord's side, and that too without breaking a sweat.
The Ji Mansion's reputation soared from then on, and after some investigations by the strongest powers in the county at the time, Elder Huang was reported to be a Innate Realm powerhouse.
This immediately made the Ji Mansion the most unprovokable existences in the entirety of Lingshan County, a power that even the County Magistrate would have to be polite to.
Aside from those top tier powerhouses such as Elder Huang and the mysterious Ji Mansion Lord, who's cultivation base was unknown even to the County Magistrate's Mansion, the Ji Mansion on the surface already had more than a hundred Body Tempering Realm cultivators and no less than ten Meridian Cleansing Realm experts on their ranks.
No one knew how many powerhouses were actually hidden within the Ji Mansion.
This was the main reason why, despite the fact of Ji Haotian's low cultivation of barely the First Stage of Body Tempering Realm at fifteen years old, no one dared to have any guess about his talent or mock him openly.
Even ordinary people who weren't cultivators in Lingshan County knew that as long as the Ji Mansion was willing, they could directly stop all conflicts between the Su Mansion and Wu Mansion.