Chapter 0924: Ancestral Treasure

Chapter 0924: The Family Heirloom Treasure

Gong Feiyan gave an embarrassed smile to Qin Yun and said, "Ah Yun, if we go with you, it should be easier to communicate with Grandpa!"

"In two more days, it'll be the city lord's grand birthday banquet. I'll go check first to see if there's a way to get in!" Qin Yun chuckled. "I should go investigate!"

"Let's go out together! I don’t want to stay in the Gong family—it's too dangerous!" Kang Feiqing quickly grabbed Gong Feiyan and headed toward the door, saying, "Grand Master, I bought a small house in the city. Let’s go there first!"

"Alright!" Qin Yun nodded.

Kang Feiqing took out a large vermilion and gold carriage from her storage treasure and gestured for Qin Yun to board first.

Once Gong Feiyan and Kang Feiqing were also inside, the carriage was immediately filled with a pleasant fragrance.

Kang Feiqing chatted and laughed with Qin Yun inside the carriage, chatting about various topics. After getting familiar with him, she stopped calling him "Grand Master" and instead addressed him as "Xiao Yun."

Qin Yun didn’t mind. From Kang Feiqing, he also learned some details about the beast horn.

Kang Feiqing knew quite a bit and confirmed that it wasn’t just a legend—it truly existed.

She wasn’t sure what kind of beast horn it was, only that it was extremely valuable.

"Xiao Yun, you’re so outstanding at such a young age. Are there many like you in the Supernal Ocean? If you have any good friends, could you introduce one to Yan Yan? Help her make a good marriage! I promise she’ll never be so willful again!" Kang Feiqing glanced at Gong Feiyan and laughed.

Gong Feiyan gave a helpless look.

Qin Yun smiled. "Sister Kang, such matters depend on fate! Yan Yan is still young—there’s plenty of time ahead!"

"Xiao Yun, are you and Meng Shu really just friends? I heard you’re also close with Yu Shutian, the Astromancer... You really live up to being a Grand Master, accompanied by such accomplished women!" Kang Feiqing said with envy. "My Yan Yan is not comparable—you’d definitely never take a liking to her!"

"Sister Kang, Meng Shu and Xiao Tian are just my friends. You and Yan Yan are also my friends now!" Qin Yun replied with a smile.

"Really? You, a Grand Master, truly consider us friends? Even though we gave Meng Shu three Imperial Source Stones, you must think nothing of them! I can’t believe we could befriend you just because of three Imperial Source Stones!" Kang Feiqing laughed. "Do you have some purpose in befriending us?"

Qin Yun shook his head with a smile. "Sister Kang, I befriend people through fate. The fact that we’re sitting here chatting now is fate itself!"

"It seems I’ve been too focused on gains, projecting my own thoughts onto others!" Kang Feiqing chuckled self-deprecatingly.

"Sister Kang, given your situation in the Gong family, if you and Yan Yan didn’t focus on gains, you wouldn’t have made it this far. In such a clan where power rules, if you don’t scheme against others, they’ll scheme against you. Over time, you naturally consider everything in terms of personal benefit," Qin Yun said. "I understand that."

Kang Feiqing and Gong Feiyan exchanged glances and lowered their heads slightly.

Gong Feiyan had once looked down on Qin Yun and forbade Hong Mengshu from associating with him because she thought his status was too low, offering no benefits.

Now, Kang Feiqing’s enthusiasm toward Qin Yun was also driven by considerations for her daughter and her own interests.

When Qin Yun earlier said they were his friends, they naturally wondered if he had ulterior motives.

"So, most of the time, it’s hard to make true friends when driven by interests," Qin Yun said lightly. "I hope you can transcend these circumstances someday and interact with others openly."

Kang Feiqing let out a quiet sigh. "Xiao Yun, you don’t look down on us, do you?"

Qin Yun smiled. "Respect is mutual. If you respect me, I’ll respect you too."

The carriage left the Gong family’s mountain villa and traveled for over two hours before arriving at a quiet neighborhood. Though there were many large houses here, few people were around.

After taking Qin Yun and Gong Feiyan inside, Kang Feiqing hurried off to make inquiries—mainly about how to attend the city lord’s birthday banquet and when the Hundred Towers Sect’s selection process would end.

At night, Qin Yun stayed in his room to cultivate.

Inside his Dark Sun, there was a vast amount of heavenly aura. He felt he was very close to mastering the Heavenly Dao Art—just shy of mastering it.

"Xiao Yun, go with the flow! If you obsess too much over mastering the Heavenly Dao Art, it might backfire! After all, cultivating Dao arts relies on epiphany or destiny—it can't be forced!" Ling Yuner advised.

To cultivate the Heavenly Dao Art, Qin Yun forced the terrifying heavenly aura into his entire body, making him extremely uncomfortable.

"Alright, I’ll listen to you!" Qin Yun exhaled deeply and reined in the heavenly aura.

"That’s more like it!" Ling Yuner suddenly purred suggestively. "Xiao Yun, it seems Kang Feiqing is trying to set you up with Gong Feiyan! That mother and daughter are quite beautiful, hehehe..."

"Yun’er, my beauty, how could they compare to you?" Qin Yun teased. "You little vixen, such a horny little devil!"

"Temptation springs from the mind! I’m your Dao spirit, born from your mind. If I’m lustful, it’s because deep down, you’re a perverted fiend who birthed this flirty little spirit!" Ling Yuner laughed coquettishly.

"Don't pin that on me! In my past life, though I tricked many beautiful women, I only swindled wealth, never their bodies—you know that! So your flirtatious nature is all your own, nothing to do with me!" Qin Yun retorted.

Sometimes, Qin Yun was tempted to take extreme actions, but Ling Yuner’s guidance kept him from spiraling into obsession.

Now, he had relaxed considerably. Otherwise, he might have recklessly continued forcing his cultivation of the Heavenly Dao Art.

Late at night, Qin Yun had just finished bathing and dressed when he heard a commotion outside.

Closing his eyes, he sent out his mental energy and immediately sensed several auras at the late-stage Martial King Realm!

"Someone’s entered the estate?" He swiftly activated the Piercing Mystic Art, passing straight through walls before turning invisible and following the auras.

At the estate’s entrance, Kang Feiqing’s ornate carriage stood parked.

Dressed in simple white robes, Kang Feiqing stood outside the carriage, surrounded by a group of people.

Gong Feiyan hastily threw on a blue cloak and rushed over, shouting, "Mother, what do they want?"

Kang Feiqing urgently called out, "Yanyan, go find Xiao Yun and have him take you away!"

"Don’t even think about running!" A black-clad figure immediately lunged at Gong Feiyan, grabbing her and dragging her before Kang Feiqing.

"Yanyan... Release her!" Kang Feiqing snarled, drawing a long spear. "If you harm her, I’ll drag you all to hell with me!"

The black-clad man restraining Gong Feiyan was at the late-stage Martial King Realm—no pushover.

The group surrounding Kang Feiqing were also dressed in black, their faces masked, making them unrecognizable.

Qin Yun had just arrived when he saw Gong Feiyan being seized.

One of the black-clad men barked, "Kang Feiqing, surrender that artifact in exchange for your daughter’s life! I’ll count to ten. If you don’t comply, I’ll rip her heart out!"

"One..."

Kang Feiqing gnawed on her crimson lip and said, "I’ll give it to you—just don’t hurt Yanyan!"

She hurriedly produced a black box.

"Open it!" the black-clad man ordered.

When Kang Feiqing opened it, a pale silver glow shimmered, revealing a ghostly apparition.

Qin Yun was startled—the ghostly apparition was composed of numerous intricate arcane sigils, both visible and hidden!

Though he had seen many such patterns before, he couldn’t place what these were.

He could be certain that it was a complete set of arcane markings, but because it was too complex, it appeared to be a combination of multiple groups of arcane markings.

"Your Kang family's ancestral treasure is every bit as legendary as they say!" The black-clad man sneered as he walked forward.

At that moment, Qin Yun threw out several talismans!

They were all paralysis seals!

Everyone present, except Qin Yun, was frozen in place!

Qin Yun blurred into motion, took out several enchanted daggers, and planted them deep within the bodies of the group. Controlling the enchanted daggers to burrow into their Dao Pills, he then scooped up the frozen Kang Feiqing and Gong Feiyan, carrying them away from the assailants.

Although the paralysis seals lasted only a short time, it was enough for Qin Yun to rescue them.

Once the paralysis seal's effect wore off, everyone could move again.

Kang Feiqing hurriedly put away the box and tightly hugged Gong Feiyan.

Seeing Qin Yun there, they breathed easier with him there.

"You... who are you?" one of the black-clad men demanded. "What did you put inside us?"

Qin Yun gave a razor-thin smile. "I just embedded talisman artifacts into your Dao Pills. Just one mental command, and I can make them explode. Now, shouldn't you be a little more polite to me?"

The dozen or so black-clad men went deathly pale, as when they probed inward, they indeed discovered something inside their Dao Pills!

Qin Yun had embedded them using the power of the *Piercing Mystic Art*!

Gong Feiyan was well aware of the potency of this move—it had previously forced Lei Xiong to kneel and broke down sobbing.

Only now did Kang Feiqing witness firsthand the might of a true Grand Master. A single talisman immobilized everyone, allowing him to effortlessly rescue her and Gong Feiyan.

Even someone at the Martial Emperor Realm would've struggled to save them under those circumstances.

Qin Yun gave the blades a mental twist, causing the black-clad men's legs to weaken.

"First, let me see what you look like!" Qin Yun chuckled.

"No need. They're from the Gong family!" Kang Feiqing said angrily. "These bastards have coveted my Kang family's ancestral treasure for a long time! They've tried every method to make me hand it over. Now that they've seen us leave the Gong family, they came to seize it—even risking an attack right in Hundred Tower City!"

Qin Yun could also tell that the treasure was extremely valuable. Now he understood why Kang Feiqing had suspected him of coveting something on them!

Clearly, Kang Feiqing had previously thought Qin Yun wanted her family's ancestral treasure!