Mo Hua finished gathering information and returned to the cave abode of the four disciples and their master.
Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi had also come back, and they shared the clues they had discovered with Mo Hua.
Bai Zisheng had visited the bustling places like the market towns, teahouses, and restaurants, where he mostly heard about the Lu Family's misdeeds and scandals.
Bai Zixi, on the other hand, had visited some female cultivators and cultivator's wives in South Yue City, and she mostly learned about the Lu Family's gossip and rumors.
Mo Hua began to summarize the information and then listed the suspects.
And he calculated, within the Lu Family, who was most likely to be the traitor?
But the Lu Family was large, and the clan relationships were complicated and intertwined, making them difficult to investigate in a short time.
There were not only native elders of the clan but also guest elders from outside.
Some of the clan's native elders were not actually considered part of the clan, while some external guest elders might be distantly related by marriage...
Mo Hua looked at the bewildering array of relationships and couldn't help saying,
"This is so chaotic..."
Bai Zisheng nodded and said, "That's how clans are, the larger the family, the more complex the bloodlines, interpersonal relationships, and affections..."
"The Lu Family is still manageable, but if it were our Bai Family, it would be even more complicated."
"Even during festivals and holidays, the rituals and gift-giving involved a whole lot of etiquette."
Mo Hua felt tired just listening and shook his head helplessly.
Bai Zisheng glanced at the pile of Lu Family relationships in front of him and asked,
"Do you have the Lu Family's genealogy? If you have their genealogy, it would be clearer to understand. Otherwise, it would be just a wild guess regarding who is related to whom, who was born to whom, and who shares the same father..."
"The Lu Family genealogy... Outsiders should not be able to get their hands on something like that..."
Mo Hua frowned, then suddenly paused.
He remembered that the Family Head of the Lu Family, Lu Chengyun, seemed to have given him a special "genealogy".
It was a genealogy that Lu Chengyun had secretly given to Mo Hua in an attempt to lure him into marrying into the family.
Mo Hua opened his Storage Bag and searched through a pile of Formation Books and Formation Diagrams before he found the "genealogy."
Bai Zisheng exclaimed in surprise, "You actually have it?"
"Yes," Mo Hua nodded, "it's only a part of it, but it might help us sort things out."
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Mo Hua spread out the genealogy.
The three of them gathered close together and looked at it.
As they examined it, Bai Zixi realized something was amiss and looked up at Mo Hua with puzzled eyes, saying,
"Why does this genealogy only list young girls?"
Bai Zisheng also nodded in agreement, "And they all seem rather beautiful..."
Mo Hua's face turned slightly red, "Lu Chengyun gave it to me; I didn't know."
Bai Zixi's gaze became skeptical, "Really didn't know?"
"Yes, yes," Mo Hua nodded repeatedly.
Bai Zixi scanned Mo Hua's face, saw the honest look in his eyes as he met her gaze, and slightly nodded, not pursuing the matter further.
For some reason, Mo Hua felt relieved.
Afterward, the three began sorting through the relationships within the Lu Family.
This genealogy was quite simple, only introducing the main lineage, collateral branches, and other women related to the Lu Family, detailing their blood relations and degrees of closeness.
It also included portraits of the women.
At the same time, it briefly introduced their Spiritual Roots and talents.
These details would likely be considered family secrets.
Had Mo Hua's talent for formations not been so exceptional, already achieving the rank of a first-grade Formation Master at a young age,
Lu Chengyun would probably never have given him this genealogy.
The genealogy was not complete; it only contained part of the Lu Family's clan relationships.
But even this part was enough for the three of them to unravel the thread by thread, simplifying the clan's relationships among the cultivators.
From it, Mo Hua eventually isolated five names:
Lu Huaiyi, Lu Huaisheng, Lu Huaiyi, Pei Cai, and Jiang Long.
The three with the surname Lu were all men who had married into the family.
Moreover, each had at least a basic understanding of formations.
They were quite valued within the Lu Family, wielded real power, and had all managed mines at some point, even occasionally overseeing them to this day.
Pei Cai and Jiang Long, both with differing surnames,