Yōu Kexin slowly bowed to Lu Yin. “I’m sorry, Alliance Leader Lu, I went overboard just now.”
Lu Yin raised a hand to stop the woman from proceeding. “It’s fine, as long as you’re better now.”
A slight smile appeared on Yōu Kexin’s face. “I’m much better. Alliance Leader Lu, I would truly like to know what Yōu Keyan offered you. After all, not just anything can interest someone like you.”
Lu Yin replied, “She didn’t pay me anything. I can’t get the Yōu Secret Art since it can only be inherited by a single person at a time, and such techniques are also usually related to one’s bloodline, which means that no one outside of your Yōu clan can ever obtain it. That secret technique is your greatest treasure, and other than that, they have nothing at all that they can offer me.”
“Still, I have some understanding of you, Alliance Leader Lu. While the Yōu Secret Art might be priceless to most others, it may not hold much of an appeal to you, Alliance Leader Lu. What is it that you want from my Yōu clan?” Yōu Kexin stared at Lu Yin as she recovered the typical calmness and wisdom that she displayed as the Yōu matriarch.
Lu Yin leaned back against the side of the boat and calmly answered, “Everything you know about Progenitor Yōu Ming.”
The wooden boat suddenly stopped moving.
Yōu Kexin stared at Lu Yin in shock.
Yōu Lao slowly turned his head around to also stare at Lu Yin with his aged eyes.
Lu Yin looked back at Yōu Lao. “This junior is very curious about Progenitor Yōu Ming, the secret regarding the Yōu family, and why the Yōu clan separated. While I was able to learn almost everything from Madam Yōu and others in the Yōu family, there’s one thing that they could not answer, which is about Progenitor Yōu Ming’s Impious Sutra.”
Yōu Kexin was confused, as she actually knew much less about the Yōu Secret Art than even Madam Yōu and Yōu Ye’er. After all, Yōu Kexin had never received the Yōu Secret Art.
However, Yōu Lao was different. He was the Yōu clan’s oldest and most powerful member, and Lu Yin suspected that the old man had likely inherited the Yōu Secret Art in the past. Thus, it was likely that the old man’s understanding of the Yōu Secret Art far surpassed what Yōu Ye’er knew.
This was precisely why Lu Yin had stepped onto the wooden boat.
Yōu Lao lowered the oars. “So it turns out that Alliance Leader Lu is interested in our ancestor.”
Lu Yin solemnly responded, “More precisely, I’m interested in the Undying Manual.”
Yōu Lao shook his head. “The Undying Manual? The technique rumored to have appeared in the Starfall Sea that can grant immortality? What does that have to do with our ancestor?”
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed in an instant. “Senior, do you really not know?”
“I really don’t.”
Lu Yin stared out at the Great Abyss, lost in his own thoughts.
He felt that the Starsibyl Sect’s divination should be trustworthy, and they had determined that there was some sort of connection between Undying Yushan and Progenitor Yōu Ming. Undying Yushan had cultivated the Undying Manual, and that was the only thing that Lu Yin could think of that might be connected to Progenitor Yōu Ming. There seemed to not even be any other possibility.
“Senior, what sort of relationship was there between the Yu family and the Yōu clan?” Lu Yin suddenly asked.
This was something that Yōu Kexin absolutely would not know much about, as the Yu family had already left the Seven Courts when she had become the matriarch of the Yōu clan. Thus, Yōu Lao was the only person who could answer Lu Yin’s question.
Yōu Lao thought back. “The Yu family? Our relationship with them was the same as it was with the other families of the Seven Courts. We worked as one to protect Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum, but we didn’t ever really have any other ties between us aside from that.”
“Did the Yu family ever come into contact with the Yōu Secret Art?” Lu Yin asked.
Yōu Kexin instantly replied, “Of course not! The Yōu Secret Art has always been passed down through the family in a direct line, so how could anyone from the Yu family have come into contact with our secret technique?”
Yōu Lao stared at Lu Yin. “I’ve heard that you have a strong relationship with the remnants of the Yu family and that you’ve also learned their secret technique. But now, you’re asking me about my Yōu clan and our ancestor. Can you tell me why?”
Lu Yin thought for a bit, but finally said, “There’s a member of the Yu family known as Undying Yushan, and he’s trained in the Undying Manual. This junior once asked the Starsibyl Sect to perform a divination on that man, but the only thing that their divination could determine was some sort of connection between Undying Yushan and your Progenitor Yōu Ming. This is something that I’ve been questioning ever since I heard of it.”
Yōu Lao and Yōu Kexin glanced at each other. “How could that be possible? How could someone from the Yu family have any connection to our Yōu clan’s Progenitor?”
“That is exactly what I would like to know,” Lu Yin replied.