Chapter 1075 — The Song Family's Crisis

And Qiu Lingshan herself was now the strongest of the younger generation among all the noble houses, apart from the Yu family. With such power, the Song family surely looked formidably strong!

But in truth it was not so. A gap had now opened in the Song family's strength!

Qiu Lingshan had a younger sister by blood, still at school, who had already successfully advanced into the ranks of Huang-stage masters! And her second uncle's household had a younger brother, only that brother was far too young, only ten years old, and had not yet entered the ranks of Huang-stage masters. In this way a break had appeared in the Song family's strength, and among the noble houses such a thing was very dangerous!

The Song family did have a formidable second granduncle, but since his departure years ago there had been no word of him. Who knew whether he was still alive, or whether he would ever come back?

And at present the strongest fighter in the Song family was Qiu Lingshan's grandmother, Old Madam Song! She already possessed the strength of the mid Xuan stage! But her health was plainly worse year by year, and if grandmother were truly gone, the Song family would fall into a most awkward plight!

Her grandfather had only the strength of the peak of the late Huang stage, which among the noble houses did not count as very formidable, while her father was a bookworm, bent wholly on the study of theory! Her second uncle was no bookworm, but he was a dissolute wastrel, or he would not have married so late, with his son ten years younger than her!

The hope of the Song family, it could be said, rested on just three people: Qiu Lingshan, Qiu Lingshan's younger sister, and that younger brother!

For the moment only Qiu Lingshan had achieved anything of note, while her sister and brother still fell short, especially the brother. Though the boy's natural talent was fine, he was after all too small, and it was quite likely that before he grew up, the Song family would be struck from the roll of the noble houses!

To break this deadlock there were at present only two roads. One was marriage alliance! Qiu Lingshan and her sister would each marry sons of other families, and thereby enlarge the Song family's standing! But given the Song family's present state, a match was neither high nor low and hard to settle, and Qiu Lingshan herself had no liking at all for such a forced marriage!

So they could only take the other road, and that was to grow strong, ever stronger, to break through the Huang stage and march into the Xuan stage. Only thus could the Song family's position be preserved!

Unwilling to marry for alliance, Qiu Lingshan naturally had no choice but to keep growing stronger and raising her own power! In fact through all these years she had been working hard, only without any great progress!

Yet who would have thought that earlier, down in the dungeon, by pleasuring herself, she had by a strange twist of fate broken through the barrier at the peak of the late Huang stage, leaping in one bound to become a late Huang master! Even as Qiu Lingshan was left dumbfounded, she understood a certain truth!

Grandmother had been right. The Song family's art was indeed well suited for women to cultivate, but to break through, one had to practice dual cultivation together with a man!

Qiu Lingshan had thought nothing of it when she heard it before, but thinking it over now, it seemed to make real sense? Back then she had only fantasized about doing that with Wei Zhao, and as a result she had broken through the barrier that had held her for so long? If she were truly to do it once with Wei Zhao, might it not lift her straight to a master at the peak of the late Huang stage?

The temptation of such a rise in power left Qiu Lingshan unable to stop herself!

And with her reckless, smash-the-pot mood, Qiu Lingshan felt that having Wei Zhao as her boyfriend would be quite fine! Wei Zhao was domineering, and his strength was unfathomably deep, and all of that met Qiu Lingshan's standards for a mate! Why, only days before, the Yu family and the Xiao family together with Zhao Qibing had come to make trouble for Wei Zhao, only for it all to fizzle out to nothing. Such dominance was not something ordinary men could possess!

Setting aside the matter of Wei Zhao having a girlfriend, Qiu Lingshan was still quite infatuated with him. The fellow was overbearing, yet the more so, the more Qiu Lingshan felt that Wei Zhao was the great hero of her heart!

Girls who practiced martial arts always worshipped heroes, even though this hero rather looked down on her! He was always scolding her as a brain-dead girl or a silly little girl, but silly little girl could at least count as a step up from brain-dead girl. Her efforts had borne some fruit after all!

Qiu Lingshan thought, anyway her chastity was already gone, Wei Zhao had seen her bare to the skin, so she might as well go one step deeper with Wei Zhao. Anyway, so long as it could raise her strength, it was a good thing!

Qiu Lingshan herself could not make out what her state of mind truly was, whether it was because she liked Wei Zhao that she had been driven to throw caution to the wind, or because she had thrown caution to the wind that she was forced to like Wei Zhao. In any case the question was terribly tangled, like which came first, the chicken or the egg, enough to give one a headache.

So Qiu Lingshan stopped thinking about it. Anyway, given that Wei Zhao met her conditions for a mate, Qiu Lingshan felt she would not be losing out.

After dressing up, Qiu Lingshan lay by the window waiting for Wei Zhao's belated arrival. She waited until past eight in the morning, her eyes nearly staring straight, before a yellow Beetle at last appeared beneath her gaze!

This was Shen Yushu's car, usually driven by Wei Zhao, and Qiu Lingshan knew that.

After the car drove in, Qiu Lingshan clutched her phone and waited with reserve for Wei Zhao to call her, yet after waiting for ages, Wei Zhao's call never came.

Qiu Lingshan was puzzled. What was Wei Zhao doing? How could he have arrived and still not call?

After waiting a while longer, Wei Zhao's call still had not come, and Qiu Lingshan grew anxious. After a moment's hesitation, she called Wei Zhao herself, only to be frustrated to find his line busy!

What was Wei Zhao doing, running to her place to make phone calls? Qiu Lingshan had wanted to play reserved, but Wei Zhao gave her no chance! At last she could bear it no longer, and could only go downstairs first!

What kind of date was this! In other people's dates, it was the man who was anxious, yet here she, the girl, was the anxious one! But then Qiu Lingshan thought again, if Wei Zhao were like other men, meek and submissive before her, she would not like it at all!

Forget it. She was simply born to suffer for love. Who had told her to like men stronger and more domineering than herself?

Qiu Lingshan tidied herself up and went downstairs.

While she was in the elevator, Wei Zhao's call finally came in.

Joy sprang up at once in Qiu Lingshan's heart, and she answered the call: "Hello? Wei Zhao?"

But from the phone came only the "du-du" tone of a dropped call, and then it showed no network.

Qiu Lingshan was ready to explode with anger, and nearly smashed the phone!

How could there be no signal? Wei Zhao had finally called, only for there to be no signal?

It suddenly struck Qiu Lingshan that she was in the elevator, where having no signal was normal, and she gave a helpless sigh. Such was her fate.

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