Protect Our Clan Leader

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"Congratulations, Shouzhe…" Old Ancestor Longyan also approached joyfully, gently stroking Wang Zongteng, "Our family has gained another child. With its potential, as long as it is carefully nurtured, it will accomplish great things in the future. I hope he will protect the family and the human race once he grows up."

All along, old Ancestor Longyan had considered protecting the family as her primary task.

She devoted herself to cultivation, even infiltrating the Yinsha Sect to obtain the Codex of Yinsha, not for power nor prestige, but simply to better protect this family.

As for protecting the human race, that was just auxiliary.

"Rest assured, Old Ancestor." Wang Shouzhe also replied seriously, "This family, Shouzhe will protect till death."

"You, don't exhaust yourself too much." Old Ancestor Longyan, always doting on Wang Shouzhe, persuaded, "Now that the kids at home have grown up, you can delegate any miscellaneous tasks to them, and let them shoulder some responsibilities."

Beside them, Wang Anxin's cheek twitched.

Isn't my great grandfather leisurely enough? He's so leisurely that he "gave birth" to a grandpa with the surname Zong for me!

"Rest assured, Old Ancestor." Wang Shouzhe laughed and said, "I've been delegating tasks to the kids, like Zong'an, Shi Zhao, Anye, and Rich; they are excellent, along with Ningxi, who is also a top genius. They have relieved a lot of my worries."

Wang Anxin's face twitched.

Great grandfather, I'm right here in front of you; couldn't you at least praise me a bit?

How is it that his status in great grandfather's mind isn't as important as his son, Wang Ningxi?

Thinking about this, Wang Anxin felt a wave of melancholy.

Wang Anxin, as the vice legion commander of Wang's Civilian Corps, possesses a formidable bloodline talent that could be regarded as top-notch within even a first-grade prominent family of the Immortal Dynasty, the core of the core among the young generation of the family.

Yet in the Wang family…

No matter how you rank them, horizontally or vertically, he can only be considered ordinary, with no distinct features; no, to be precise, he does have a distinctive feature.

After all, he fathered Wang Ningxi, who, with his own talents, pioneered the profession of Puppet Master!

But this also results in others' first response upon seeing him to be, Wang Ningxi's dad.

"Great grandpa, take another look at these crystal stones; I noticed they resemble demonic marrow crystals, can you check them further?" After a moment of self-pity, Wang Anxin promptly bolstered his spirits and moved to Wang Shouzhe's side to assert his presence, claiming credit, "I dug them out with great effort."

Wang Shouzhe expended considerable effort to restrain himself from kicking Wang Anxin out.

Enough with the face-slapping already, right?

How could he possibly recognize crystals formed by such alien life forms? Didn't Wang Shouzhe care about face at all?

"Anxin, your great grandpa doesn't understand these." Green Fern junior sister clearly saw Wang Shouzhe's awkwardness and giggled as she picked up those crystals, explaining, "This is the specialty of the Energy-devouring Demon Vine I cultivated. It can absorb various miscellaneous energies, store them inside, and then compress and condense them, gradually converting them into prime energy crystals. This black crystal, brimming with demonic energy, is indeed the rare demonic marrow crystal."

"However, this demonic marrow crystal is a product formed after it has absorbed a large amount of demonic energy. Such a treasure would be considered precious if it fell into the hands of demons beyond this realm. Unfortunately, our constitution leans more towards positive energy, and using this demonic marrow crystal to stimulate and enhance our bloodline would only produce negative effects."

Wang Shouzhe's spirit perked up: "Then are these demonic marrow crystals effective for Old Ancestor? She now possesses the icy evil bloodline and has switched to cultivating the Codex of Yinsha."

Yinsha itself is a manifestation of negative energy.

"Yinsha itself is a byproduct of demonic energy and should be useful. Moreover, magical techniques like the Codex of Yinsha were born from humans imitating the cultivation methods of demons beyond this realm. Naturally, this cultivation method is sufficiently localized, and differs greatly from those demons." Green Fern junior sister explained, "These demonic marrow crystals have decent quality; roughly about three of them can elevate a Purple Abode realm unparalleled heavenly child demonic cultivator from Grade D to Class C."

A single one of their effects surpasses even the Reborn Immortal Pill.

"However, be aware that these crystals have a domineering effect and will cause significant impact to the body, not recommended for use by those below the Purple Abode realm." Green Fern junior sister further advised, "Additionally, using too much reduces their effectiveness. I haven't personally tested this; you could experiment a bit yourselves."

"Then give me five, since no one at home can use them anyway." Old Ancestor Longyan impulsively took five demonic marrow crystals and put them away.

She didn't clarify that she was already at the Celestial Women Level, and the improvement was just a drop in the bucket for her.

"Then I'll keep the remaining five; maybe they'll come in handy someday." Wang Shouzhe also kept the remaining demonic marrow crystals.

After handling the demonic marrow crystals, everyone focused their attention on the other crystals, which looked translucent and were imbued with a celestial aura.

Especially Wang Anxin, whose breaths became rapid.

"These should be the Heavenly Essence Crystals, right?" Wang Shouzhe remarked, "I've used some heavenly essence, but I haven't seen the crystals themselves before."

"It's called Heavenly Essence, but essentially they are positive energy crystals like spiritual energy." Green Fern junior sister, having the deepest understanding, once again assumed the role of explainer, "Within our world, positive energy such as spiritual energy or celestial energy predominates, hence we habitually refer to this type of energy as heavenly essence. If it were in a world saturated with demonic energy or evil qi, their heavenly essence would be demonic energy or evil qi."