At night, the kitchen of the "phoenix tail".

The group sneakily hid here, taking advantage of the night and the surrounding environment to hide their figures. Although they are a little unkind, they really look like rats.

Well, but they don't think so, or rat-catcher cats are their real role models.

"These damn bastards, why haven't you come yet?"

The night is getting deeper and deeper, and the "cats" around are also a little impatient. As the leading "cat", Dongfang Ling couldn't help but curse in her heart and felt unhappy for a while.

"What am I doing?"

Dongfang Ling was born in the first of the four great families, the Dongfang family, is the leader of the younger generation of the family, enlightened at the age of eight, built the foundation at the age of ten, and was already overhauled at the age of nineteen. Dongfang De, the head of the Dongfang family, attaches great importance to Dongfang Ling, and even wants to break the family tradition of "passing on men but not women" and pass on the position of head of the family to Dongfang Ling!

Here we would like to focus on the origins of the four major families in the Xiuzhen Realm and their inheritance system.

The historical origins of the four major families of Dongfang, Nangong, Ximen and Beichen can be traced back to the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in ancient times. At that time, the ancestors of the four families were all guards who were ordered to guard the arsenal of the Son of Heaven, and each time the emperor succeeded to the throne, they would open the arsenal for the emperor to practice the secret skills in the arsenal.

At the end of Emperor Yu, Xia Qi, the son of Dayu, killed Boyi, abolished Chan Rang, usurped the throne as king, and established the Xia Dynasty. The ancestors of the four families were ashamed of Xia Qi's behavior, refused to recognize the legitimacy of his throne, and all hung up their crowns and left. Before escaping, in order to prevent all the arsenal from falling into the hands of Xia Qi, the four of them divided the secret notes in the arsenal into four, each family kept a copy, and then scattered and fled according to the four directions of southeast, south, northwest, and north. Relying on the secret of the magic skills in the arsenal of the Son of Heaven, the four escaped the pursuit of Xia Qi, and settled in the four directions of China, and finally multiplied into the four great families of the current Xiuzhen realm.

The four great families despised Xia Qi's hereditary system of father and son, advocated competition, and pursued "good use of good talents, and those who can live in it", so they left their ancestors, regardless of the dignity of the descendants, the relatives are distant and close, and the children of each generation of the family can compete for the position of the head of the family. This is also the reason why Dongfang Ling is not Dongfang De's biological daughter, but Dongfang De has always loved her.

The competition in the Oriental family is fierce, and every member who has the intention of becoming the head of the family is ambitious, so naturally they don't want to see a strong and invincible competitor in the family. And Dongfang Ling's daughter is undoubtedly the best material for them to make a fuss.

The four major families of Dongfang, Nangong, Ximen, and Beichen in the Xiuzhen Realm are in the same spirit, and marriages happen from time to time. With the efforts of almost everyone in the Dongfang family except for the head of the family, Dongfang Ling made a marriage contract with Ximen Qian, the eldest son of the head of the Ximen family, and waited for Dongfang Ling to reach the legal age of marriage at the age of twenty, and immediately sent her to the sedan chair leading to the Ximen family!

Dongfang Ling is naturally unwilling to become a tool for marriage. She has never been delusional about the position of the head of the family, but her marriage can't be manipulated by those brutes dressed as "relatives" at will!

But Dongfang De, the only master of the family who loves her, has been hollowed out by those beasts, and she looks so weak and weak under the persecution of those beasts! Talent does not mean that strength is high, what Dongfang Ling lacks is time. Only in the early days of Jindan, how could she fight against a behemoth like the Oriental Family?

Just when Dongfang Ling was extremely entangled, the "demon's" cultivation realm conscription order appeared. It was an incomparably difficult errand for others, but in Dongfang Ling's eyes, it was the last straw that could save her from the sea of suffering! Although there were still influential sects, five temples and eight major factions in the cultivation realm, and the two mansions, three daos and four families were full of hostility to the "demons" who had already mastered the general trend, they did not have the courage to go against the country!

For the sake of his lifelong happiness, Dongfang Ling hid from everyone in the family and secretly ran to the ocean-going fleet to register. I have to say that Dongfang Ling's bet is not small, but the bet is right. Naturally, the Oriental family does not dare to talk to the "devil" dignitaries, let alone them, even if the four great families pinch and pinch together, they dare not say "no" in front of the invincible "devil" today!

She's finally free!

Now in this era of the end of the Fa, it is not easy to embark on the path of cultivation. Dongfang Ling, who is so fresh and tender in the early stage of Jindan, is actually a master among the more than 1,000 cultivators!

Of course, Dongfang Ling's age is a hard injury, so she is not qualified to enter the management of the ocean-going fleet. But the captain of a mere fuel ship, it's very simple.

Dongfang Ling originally came to escape from marriage, and he didn't care about the position of the arrangement. Of course, it still makes her very happy to be able to get autonomy, after all, she has experienced the "forced marriage incident", and she no longer wants to be controlled by others!

But being a captain means that there are a lot of troubles waiting for her, and if she doesn't handle it properly, she won't be the captain for a long time!

In the past two or three days, there have been many new faces on the ship, but Feng Lingzi, who is responsible for stuffing people into the boat, has never come. The others didn't know how many people there were on the ship, how could Dongfang Ling, the captain, not know! But anyone with a little brain could guess that someone must have been mixed in. Dongfang Ling is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart, and he is naturally very clear.

And the noise in the kitchen every night made her feel speechless. Can you be more professional? The people who came to lurk didn't even bring food, and they came to steal something to eat every night, and they stole a lot of them, when we were all blind?

However, although something happened, Dongfang Ling did not report it to the main ship. Contrary to the conjecture of the Supernatural Investigation Bureau, Dongfang Ling's reason for not reporting was to catch these "amateur spies" with his own hands, and then send them to the "Mirage", and they were all working!

Unlike other people who were forcibly recruited, Dongfang Ling volunteered to join the ocean-going fleet. If she is asked to choose a side between her family and the "demon", she will immediately stand behind the "demon" and shout without saying a word!

What can it do?

After experiencing the despair of being involuntarily, Dongfang Ling understood a truth.

This cruel world is a hell for the weak! If you want not to be bullied by the strong, you must either cling to the strong or become the strong!

She can become a strong person, she has this qualification, what she lacks is just time. But before she can become a strong person, she must find a strong person to attach to.

"Demon" is the strong person she chose!

However, it is not a simple matter to gain the trust of the "demon", and even Feng Lingzi, who is the head of the fleet, has a bad relationship with the "demon".

"This is just the first step!"

Dongfang Ling suppressed the fire that was about to erupt, and looked at the subordinates lurking around him, and suddenly felt much more relaxed. If you want the "devil" to trust you, you have to pay some price. Compared to others, she just needs to pay a little patience, no loss!

After recovering her spirits, Dongfang Ling began her plan of "waiting for the rabbit" again. But what she didn't know was that what she was waiting for was not a stupid rabbit, but a pack of hungry wolves with no discipline to speak of......