Chapter 1349 The higher you climb, the harder you fall
"Third Elder, please immediately order people to prepare a banquet for our benefactor, Master Gu, and Young Master Long." As he spoke, Long Yuting led everyone into the gate and ordered an old man.
"I have already made arrangements when I saw my benefactor. I must have started making arrangements now. Let's go directly to the dining room and we will have dinner in a while." The third elder of the Long family said with a smile.
Let’s eat! After hearing these two words, Murong Yi’s face not only turned green, but his eyes began to glow green.
She missed the cooking skills of the famous chef of the Long family very much.
Gu Qingxi glanced at her thoughtfully: No wonder Murong Yi did not travel around as before after arriving in Tiancang Continent, but stayed at the Long family. It turned out to be this reason.
The people of the Long family were so knowledgeable that Murong Yi had already started preparing a banquet for her before she even entered the house.
With Murong Yi's foodie nature, it would be strange for him to be reluctant to leave.
"Master of the Long Family, what about the young descendants of the Long Family? Why are there so many missing?" When they came to the dining room, Murong Yi looked around and asked strangely.
Although the Long family has been in decline for many years, it has always been prosperous, and the dining room used to be packed every time it was time for dinner.
Today, I am giving them a break. Logically speaking, it should be more lively, but instead, the hall is much deserted, and nearly one-third of the tables and chairs are empty.
After taking a closer look, the elders of the Long family were quite present, but most of the young people were absent, not even Long Jingyu.
"They... are preparing for the inheritance ceremony, so I didn't let them come over." Long Yuting hesitated for a moment, and finally said frankly.
"Inheritance ceremony?" Murong Yi was a little confused.
"My benefactor may not know that our Long family has been inherited for tens of thousands of years. When we were at our strongest, we were one of the four major demon cultivating families." Long Yuting said.
Hearing his words, Gu Qingxi and Murong Yi were greatly surprised.
They had vaguely heard Long Jingyu say that the Long Family had a long history and had good strength in the past, but they did not expect that the Long Family had such a long history and had such "good" strength.
"Then how did the Long family become like this?" Murong Yi asked in confusion.
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. As one of the four great magic cultivating families in the past, how could the Long family have no background at all? Even if it declines again, it will not be bullied like this by the Tang family, right?
You must know that the group of Tang family disciples who were beaten to death by her just now were all in the late Nascent Soul stage, and most of the other disciples were not even golden elixirs.
"This is related to the inheritance ceremony I talked about." Long Yuting smiled bitterly and explained, "Our Long family has an ancestral secret skill, which is said to have the power to shake the heaven and the earth.
It is by relying on this secret skill that our Long family can rank among the four great magic cultivating families. However, more than a thousand years ago, the seventh head of the Long family died unexpectedly, and this secret skill was lost. As a result, our Long family was in trouble and gradually disappeared.
It became what it is today.
Originally, the ancestors who founded the Long Family had long been prepared for this, and had left behind a inheritance hall. Even if the master of the family did not personally teach it, the secret skill could continue to be passed down.
But at the same time that the seventh head of the family died unexpectedly, the elder responsible for guarding the inheritance hall also fell into the demonic energy and died. Therefore, over the years, the inheritance hall has been tightly sealed by the forbidden formation, and no one can learn that secret skill anymore.
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It turned out to be like this. Gu Qingxi and Murong Yi suddenly realized.
Situations like the Long family are not uncommon in the world of cultivation. Many aristocratic families and sects rose to power because of a secret skill, but were knocked back to their original form due to an accidental loss of the secret skill, or even because they offended too many people.
Falling apart is also common.
The higher you climb, the harder you fall. This is the kind of family and sect that we are talking about.
The Long family once ranked among the four great magic cultivating families. It is actually very rare for them to still be able to stand for thousands of years after their ancestral secrets were lost.
I don't know how much effort the descendants of the Long family have spent and how many twists and turns they have gone through to survive until today. Both Gu Qingxi and Murong Yi couldn't help but sigh secretly.
Neither of them noticed that Long Qianli looked deeply at Long Yuting, with a rare look of excitement in his eyes, and his hands under the table trembled slightly.