Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 569

Chapter 569: 569

Chapter 569: Lot in Life [V6C99 – Sorrow of a Silent Parting]

“Why is that?” Qianye was puzzled . As he saw it, it wasn’t easy to find a creature more harmless than this clumsy fellow .

“I picked up the scent of an ancient vampire in her blood . Although very faint, she definitely has an ancient vampire bloodline . ”

“What? Really?” Qianye was shocked .

“I couldn’t have been wrong . ” Nighteye was serious .

Qianye’s expression sank as he fell into silence .

Nangong Xiaoniao was born in the Nangong family, and her ancestors were also lineal descendants . How could a vampire bloodline have appeared? It was fine if her bloodline was thin, but that wasn’t the case—there was, after all, a chance she could awaken . By that time, Nangong Xiaoniao would gradually turn into a vampire . After all, human bloodlines were inherently weaker and would usually face defeat in such a struggle .

Qianye had been fighting with the vampires for ten-odd years . It had also been several years since he himself had obtained blood energy—it could be said that he was extremely clear about its power . At the thought of this, his heart was once again thrown into turmoil . A human with mixed vampire blood like Nangong Xiaoniao would be put to death immediately after being discovered .

But the girl had always been giving her all for Blackflow City . If not for her, Song Zining might not have had such an easy time defending the city . In addition, it was more than likely that she was ignorant of her own condition . Under such circumstances, how would Qianye treat her according to the law?

From a different perspective, Qianye himself possessed blood energy and had even formed a blood core . Moreover, he had a vampire primo beside him and the princess of the Monroe clan at that .

Nighteye watched him in silence . No one knew what she was thinking .

Qianye sighed . “Who else knows about this?”

Nighteye shook her head . “Probably no one else . ”

Qianye sighed in relief and nodded . “That’s good . Don’t tell anyone else . ”

A wisp of delight appeared in the primo’s eyes . However, she didn’t allow Qianye to notice it and merely nodded in response .

But Qianye’s eyes remained locked in a frown . A vampire bloodline was a lethal danger regardless of its thickness . Fortunately, it seemed her bloodline was extremely thin, else Qianye should’ve sensed it during their long period of interaction .

Nighteye hesitated for a while and said, “Qianye, Xiaoniao’s matter isn’t that simple . I sensed a little bit of primogenitor aura from her . ”

“What?” Qianye was shocked . This astonishment was even greater than when he was informed of Xiaoniao’s vampire bloodline . Any matter or person related to a primogenitor could only mean great trouble .

Qianye calmed himself down and asked, “Do you know which primogenitor?”

Nighteye nodded . “It’s our Monroe clan primogenitor, Black-Winged Monarch Andruil . Although the aura in Xiaoniao’s blood is extremely thin, I’m sure that I’m not mistaken . ”

“Andruil? Nangong?” A flash of lightning tore through Qianye’s mind . He suddenly recalled how Andruil had wanted him to find Nangong Yuqing’s descendant back when he had obtained the monarch’s inheritance .

Back then, Qianye had investigated the Nangong family’s history but found no one by the name of Nangong Yuqing . Afterward, Qianye asked Song Zining for help, but the latter also returned empty-handed . Hence, Qianye came to the conclusion that this person wasn’t related to the Nangong family or that she was someone from a very distant branch . The Nangong family had existed for many generations and had hundreds of thousands of branch descendants . How was he to find her among them?

As such, Qianye paid this matter little heed later on; he would naturally find traces of her if he was destined to . But he had never ever expected that she would be related to Nangong Xiaoniao .

Qianye pondered for a long while . In the end, he felt that he needed to talk to Nangong Xiaoniao about this matter . As such, he explained his intentions to Nighteye and left to call upon the young girl .

Nangong Xiaoniao was in her workshop when Qianye found her, fully focused on installing an intricate piece of machinery . There were dozens of parts lying around her despite the assembled component being even smaller than a thumb .

Qianye brought Nangong Xiaoniao out of her working trance with a cough .

“Qianye, y-you’re back…” Nangong Xiaoniao stammered . She was already anxious after seeing Qianye .

“What are you working on?” Qianye wasn’t in a rush to get down to business since this matter was simply too significant . He was afraid the girl wouldn’t be able to accept it all of a sudden .

“I’m installing a control core . It can integrate many operations, and will sharply decrease preparation time for the stronghold cannons . ” Nangong Xiaoniao quickly regained normalcy at the mention of her profession .

Even Qianye, who only had a superficial knowledge of these things, could tell just how intricate the component in her hand was .

“Not bad!” Qianye offered his heartfelt praise .

“Ah, t-thank you . ” Nangong Xiaoniao was, again, at a loss for words .

Qianye sat down across Nangong Xiaoniao and said slowly, “Xiaoniao, I have something important to tell you . ”

“Is it about you and Sister Nighteye? I already know . You don’t need to tell me anymore!” Nangong Xiaoniao cried out, almost as if she were venting her feelings . She then lowered her head and refused to look at Qianye .

Qianye was startled . He then said with a sigh, “It’s not about that . It’s about you . ”

“Me? What’s up with me?” Nangong Xiaoniao was surprised .

Qianye hesitated for a while but finally decided to get to the point . “Xiaoniao, do you have a vampire bloodline?”

Nangong Xiaoniao trembled all over before gradually looking up to meet Qianye’s gaze . At this moment, she was unexpectedly calm . “So you already know? Is that why you don’t like me?”

“This has nothing to do with liking you or not . So it seems you already know about it . ”

Nangong Xiaoniaon nodded . “Actually, this matter is no secret in the Nangong family . My family wouldn’t have deteriorated to such a state if it wasn’t for this . ”

At this point, Nangong Xiaoniao revealed a dismal smile and said, “Since you already know, are you planning to kill me or drive me away?”

“Neither . ” Qianye shook his head . “Is there a woman called Nangong Yuqing in your ancestry?”

Nangong Xiaoniao gasped . “How did you know?”

Qianye knew he had guessed correctly after seeing Xiaoniao’s reaction . It was just that Nangong Xiaoniao was also born of the Nangong family’s main branch . Why then couldn’t he search for Nangong Yuqing’s data?

Nangong Xiaoniao managed to calm down moments later . Thereafter, she hid nothing from Qianye and told him everything he asked .

Nangong Yuqing was a genius of the younger generation during her childhood . The Nangong family, during that period, was only a middle-ranked aristocratic family . Their power and influence back then were far from today’s, but Clan Lord Nangong Canghai—Nangong Yuqing’s grandfather—was a man of great ambitions .

Despite her young age, Nangong Yuqing was not only talented in the martial path but also extremely beautiful . As such, Nangong Canghai had the thought of marrying her into the imperial family . It was just that Nangong Yuqing went out to experience the world when she was fifteen and vanished thereafter—even the clan experts accompanying her were nowhere to be found .

The Nangong family had used everything at their disposal to search for her but produced no results in the end .

Nangong Yuqing made no contact for many years . When she returned to the family many years later, there were already two children at her side .

This matter was a great humiliation to the Nangong family, but Nangong Yuqing refused to reveal the father no matter how she was interrogated . Nangong Canghai, in his anger, was prepared to put the two children to death . Just as he was about to take action, he found that the two children were of great talent and possessed powerful vampire bloodlines .

This put Nangong Canghai in a difficult position . In the end, though, he decided to let them live . He imprisoned them in a forbidden ground and studied them . Nangong Yuqing was also captured, and a gag order was issued throughout the clan . No one was allowed to talk about matters relating to her .

Ten years passed by in the blink of an eye . Nangong Yuqing had more or less been forgotten, and her children had grown up . Eventually, they began to produce offspring under the control of the family . However, the vampire bloodline grew thinner and thinner with each generation until it almost disappeared by the third .

Nangong Canghai had reached the end of his life at that point . As such, he released the offspring of the two children and placed them under the care of a distant branch family—up until present times .

“My ancestor is the elder brother of the two children . I’m the only one left of my generation . ”

Only at this point did Qianye understand why he couldn’t find any information about Nangong Yuqing in the Nangong family’s documents . It turned out that they had erased all traces of her since a long time ago and treated her as deceased .

However, something in Nangong Xiaoniao’s words caught Qianye’s attention . “What research was Nangong Canghai doing?”

Nangong Xiaoniao clenched her teeth and said, “He wanted to find a way to combine humans and vampires!”

Qianye was astonished .

Blood thralls were the most common type of combination, while the other was to receive the embrace . The vampire bloodline had the advantage in both of them and would eventually assimilate the human one . Just as Andruil had told Qianye back then, the growing primogenitor bloodline would, sooner or later, devour his human genealogy .

Presently, Qianye had a rough understanding of the reason behind this . It was because the vampire bloodline’s power was far above the human counterpart . A human might be able to maintain his intelligence after obtaining a drop of essence blood via the embrace, but he would still turn into a vampire in the end .

“He’s mad!”

Nangong Xiaoniao shook her head . “No, he’s not . What he wanted wasn’t powerful warriors but the vampires’ life . ”

Qianye’s expression turned odd . “He wanted immortality?”

Even dukes couldn’t remain immortal . The latter part of a vampire’s long life was spent mostly in hibernation . If they didn’t count the years spent in hibernation, their lifespan wasn’t that much longer than that of the arachne and werewolves .

There was no shortage of people looking to extend their life by utilizing vampire bloodlines . Nangong Canghai definitely wasn’t the first, nor would he be the last . Looking back at history, it would seem that his gambit inevitably failed in the end .

Nangong Yuqing’s two children were able to retain their ego despite possessing a vampire bloodline . At a glance, it looked like a perfect bloodline fusion, but unfortunately, these children didn’t live any longer than ordinary humans, and their vampire bloodline also grew thinner and thinner in their descendants . All signs indicated the fact that their father’s bloodline power wasn’t strong . Perhaps he was just a low-ranking vampire?

But Qianye felt inexplicably odd after listening to this . If the Black-Winged Monarch Andruil’s bloodline wasn’t powerful, then how many other powerful bloodlines were there?