Murong Junlin could not be bothered to argue with this shameless guy. He put on a serious face and said, "To tell you the truth, I am here today to congratulate your clan on its opening ceremony. I also have a favor to ask."
"Uncle, just tell me what it is. With our relationship, there's no need to ask for anything. You're just trying to shorten my life."
Ding Ning patted his chest and pretended to be unhappy. However, he changed the way he called him from uncle to uncle.
Murong Junlin was completely speechless. He didn't know what to say, so he pretended not to hear it. He coughed and said seriously, "Do you know the origin of the Murong Family?"
"I don't know."
Ding Ning shook his head honestly. This was not a lie. He really didn't know the origin of the Murong Family. Even Murong Yanran didn't know.
Murong Junlin said quietly, "Have you heard of the Invisible Door Clan?"
Ding Ning suddenly opened his eyes wide and asked in surprise, "Is the Murong Family also one of the Invisible Door Clan?"
Murong Junlin was surprised and said, "You know about the Invisible Door Clan?"
He thought Ding Ning didn't know. He couldn't understand. If Ding Ning knew about the Invisible Door Clan, why would he still go against the Three Sacred Halls? Didn't he know that the Three Sacred Halls were actually the Three Ominous Doors?
"Not only do I know about the Invisible Door Clan, but I also know that the Eight Mysterious Doors and the Invisible Door Clan originated from the Invisible Door Clan."
Ding Ning said with a bitter smile, but he was muttering to himself, "I not only know about the Invisible Door Clan, but I also know about its origin and mission better than anyone else."
"But what is the origin of the Murong Family?" "Is it some Mysterious Door Clan or the Invisible Door Clan?" "Why is Murong Junlin telling me all this?"
Murong Junlin looked at Ding Ning in surprise, but he didn't ask him how he knew. Since he took the initiative to ask, he must have his reasons. He immediately nodded and sighed with regret, "At that time, the Five Elements Hidden Armor Sect was at its peak, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it was the number one sect in the world. At its peak, it was said that even the secular dynasties had to act according to the sect's will. Unfortunately, in the end, internal strife broke out for the sake of fighting over a treasure, causing the once flourishing great sect to split into the current Eight Strange Sects and Five Elements Hidden Armor Sect."
Hearing this, Ding Ning felt very tired. "This father-in-law is not straightforward at all and likes to beat around the bush. Until now, he hasn't said anything substantial."
But he was not in a hurry. After all, his only goal tonight was to get Murong Junlin to agree to his marriage with Yanran. Listening to the story was just a convenience. Since his father-in-law liked to beat around the bush, he would listen.
Seeing that Ding Ning didn't say anything, just smiled and listened attentively, Murong Junlin immediately felt bored. He scolded this kid for not knowing how to talk. He asked him to play a one-man show, but he didn't cooperate at all. Was he not curious about the origin of the Murong Family?
Annoyed, he picked up the cold teacup and took a sip. After a moment of silence, he decided to change the way of the conversation and get straight to the point. Otherwise, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood sooner or later.
"The Invisible Door Clan was founded with a great mission. But after so many years, most people have been lost in the temptation of worldly power. A considerable number of people are focused on the path of immortality and don't care about worldly affairs. They have long forgotten their original purpose."
Murong Junlin's expression became serious and he finally got to the point. But when he talked about the mission, he was ambiguous. Ding Ning could understand this. After all, the Eight Doors of Space were very important. If it were him, he would not casually announce it to an outsider.
"But there is still a group of people who remember the mission. Even though there are not many of them, they are the righteous representatives of the Five Elements Hidden Door Clan when it split. As a result, many disciples from other clans who do not forget the teachings of their ancestors have turned against them and joined them."
Ding Ning still didn't say anything, but he looked thoughtful. He had a vague guess about the origin of the Murong Family.
"This group of people formed a group and took advantage of the endless war between the two great forces. They gave up fighting for the treasure and left the Five Elements Hidden Door Clan. They came to Gusu under the name of the Murong Family and continued to carry out their original mission in secret."
Murong Junlin spoke slowly. His tone was calm, as if he was telling someone else's story.
Ding Ning didn't think there was anything wrong with it. After all, Murong Junlin was not born in that era. Everything he heard from the ancestors of the Murong Family. Naturally, he wouldn't be too immersed in it.
However, this also allowed him to finally understand the origin of the Murong Clan. In fact, the Murong Clan wasn't a pure clan force. They had changed their surname in order to avoid being hunted down by the Occult Doors and the Five Elements Hidden Armor Sect.
They did not belong to any of the forces in the Eight Strange Doors Clan or the Five Elements Hidden Door Clan. But in a sense, the Murong Family was the only orthodox force of the Invisible Door Clan.
Of course, this had nothing to do with Ding Ning. He just treated it as a story. The only thing that made him a little curious was what the treasure that the Invisible Door Clan fought for was. It was actually able to tear apart a super sect that was at the peak of its power.
Murong Junlin didn't care about Ding Ning's reaction. He continued to speak with fervor and assurance, "The Murong Family quietly lay dormant. We wanted to slowly accumulate strength through recuperation to fulfill our mission. But the heavens didn't follow our wishes. It was probably during the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty. For some reason, the Spiritual Power of Heaven and Earth suddenly began to thin. For us Ancient Warriors, this was no less than a world-ending disaster."
Ding Ning immediately perked up, and a look of interest appeared on his face. Although it was common knowledge that the Spiritual Power of Heaven and Earth had dried up, this was the first time he had heard someone accurately say the exact time when the Spiritual Power had declined.
This was very different from what he knew. He had always thought that after Chi You returned from fighting for fate, he used all the fate to "nourish the heavens." This caused the Spiritual Power of Heaven and Earth to gradually decline. There was a very long period in between.
But now it seemed that this was not the case at all. The Spiritual Power of Heaven and Earth did not gradually decline. Instead, it suddenly began to decline during the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty. This completely overturned his previous understanding.
It was reasonable to say that Ye Manyao was the chieftain of the Holy-goddess Tribe. She should have known about this. Why didn't she tell him?
However, he quickly realized that Ye Manyao's information came from the records of his ancestor's personal letter.
As one of the Seven Holy Gates, the Holy-goddess Tribe occupied a Blessed Enclave. The sudden decline of the Spiritual Power of the outside world did not have much impact on the Holy-goddess Tribe, who had lived in the Blessed Enclave for a long time. In addition, the martial arts world was in chaos because of the internal strife of the Qimen Dunjia Sect. The Holy-goddess Tribe must have chosen to close the mountain gate at that time to avoid being affected. This was in line with the usual style of the Holy Gate, so it was normal that the ancestors of the Holy-goddess Tribe did not record this matter.
The Murong family was different. Although Murong Junlin spoke so righteously, Ding Ning knew in his heart that he was just flattering the ancestors of the Murong family. The real historical facts were probably not as dignified as he said.
He was sure that the Murong family was not willing to withdraw from the fight for the treasure. It was only because they saw that there was no hope for the fight that they used the banner of orthodoxy to win people's hearts. In the end, when they saw that things could not be done, they had to withdraw from the scuffle to protect themselves, hoping to make a comeback in the future.
To put it nicely, it was a strategic retreat. To put it bluntly, it was actually a defeated army and a stray dog. Otherwise, if they really had the power to protect themselves, why would they hide in Gusu and hide from the pursuit of the Qimen Dunjia Sect and the Five Elements?
Ding Ning even maliciously believed that the "predecessor" of the Murong family should be the weakest party in that turbulent internal strife. They were so weak that they were not taken seriously by other competing forces. Otherwise, how could they have escaped so easily?
This also explained why the Murong family was so clear about the exhaustion of the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth. It was because they were so weak that they did not have the power to seize the blessed enclave. They could only linger on in the secular world. That was why they had such a deep memory of the exhaustion of the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.
Thinking of this, Ding Ning already had a very deep understanding of the Murong family's origin. But he knew that Murong Junlin had gone in a big circle, and what he said next should be the real key.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth suddenly declined. This was tantamount to cutting off the entire Murong family's cultivation path. With the Murong family's character, how could they not try to find another way to continue their cultivation path? Where did the Star Technique and the Shifting Stars, which did not rely on the Spiritual Qi but absorbed the power of the stars to cultivate?
Sure enough, Murong Junlin's next words confirmed his guess.
The Murong family faced the predicament of the exhaustion of the Spiritual Qi and the decline of their strength. They were not willing to fade into the crowd. It just so happened that the Divine List Battle that happened once in a thousand years began. The Murong family held the idea of treating a dead horse as a living one and sent the Murong family's top 10 experts into the Void Mountain.
They knew very well that there was no hope for them to enter the Divine List, so their goal was very clear: the ancient ruins in the Void Realm.
It had to be said that the Murong family's luck was quite good. After paying the heavy price of seven of their experts dying and two of their experts being heavily injured or crippled, the only unharmed expert brought back a stone that was glowing with starlight from a certain ruin.
"A stone that emits starlight?"
Ding Ning's heart skipped a beat. He could not help but think of the immortal crystal raw ore. Could it be that the Murong family had obtained a piece of immortal crystal raw ore?
"That's right."
Murong Junlin nodded. However, as he spoke, Ding Ning realized that the stone emitting starlight was not the immortal crystal raw ore that he had thought it was, but an inheritance stone that was similar to an inheritance jade scroll. He could not help but secretly click his tongue in wonder. The world was indeed full of strange things. There was actually someone who had left an inheritance in a stone.
At that time, the only unharmed expert from the Murong family did not think that the Star Stone would contain any inheritance. He only thought that the family had paid such a huge price and could not return empty-handed. Thus, he brought back the Star Stone, which he had never seen before, as a rare treasure.
After the Murong family's appraisal, they felt that the Star Stone would definitely be very valuable. However, compared to money, how could it be more important to continue the path of cultivation?
Therefore, the entire family was gloomy, as if the sky was about to fall. No one cared about the Star Stone at all.
No one would have thought that the ancestor of Murong Junlin's bloodline, Murong Ye, who was just a child at that time, would play with the Star Stone out of curiosity. It was unknown whether the inheritance was fated to be with him or if his unintentional action had activated the inheritance, but the Star Stone instantly emitted starlight that shot up to the sky and enveloped him. He was in so much pain that he kept rolling on the ground and howling. Everyone in the Murong family was so shocked that their expressions changed.
Fortunately, the phenomenon only lasted for a moment before it returned to normal. The Star Stone, however, turned into a dull, ordinary stone.
Murong Ye, on the other hand, was reborn. He was able to absorb the power of the Big Dipper. Not only did he obtain the Star Art, but he also obtained a memory about the treasure map.
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