Moon Southern Marquis Mansion, reception room.
Old Song was arranged to sit at the head seat by Yin Zhengqi, who then sat below Old Song. Zhu Ziyang and Zhang Lexuan stood behind Old Song.
"This senior, how should I address her?" Yin Zhengqi asked respectfully.
"This Old Woman's surname is Song, and her Titled Douluo is Divine Eagle," Old Song said with a chuckle. They were here to seek cooperation, not to cause trouble, so there was no need to put on airs or pretend.
"Then this junior will presume to call you Old Song!" Yin Zhengqi saw Old Song smiling, and his hanging heart relaxed. At least, this Divine Eagle Douluo was not here to cause trouble. The Yue Nan Islands were remote, so Yin Zhengqi did not know what a Divine Eagle Douluo represented. He asked curiously, "Old Song, may I ask why you are looking for this junior?"
"Haha, Marquis, you're too polite," Old Song said with a smile. "This Old Woman comes from Shrek Academy."
"Shrek Academy!" Yin Zhengqi's face showed shock. Although the Yue Nan Islands were geographically remote, he had indeed heard of Shrek Academy's great name. When he was young, he had even thought about visiting Shrek Academy. He became even more curious. His Yin Clan had no connection with Shrek Academy, so what exactly did the people from Shrek Academy want by suddenly showing up?
"This Old Woman is here to discuss a major matter concerning your clan's future with the Yin Clan," Old Song said with a smile.
"Please enlighten me!" Yin Zhengqi was even more confused and asked.
"The Moon Lineage Remnants of the Sun Moon Royal Family!" Old Song uttered a few words, and Yin Zhengqi's face immediately changed.
"Your Excellency, what about the Moon Lineage Remnants?" Yin Zhengqi thought of a reckless Moon Lineage collateral branch who, in his youth, had made a request to Shrek Academy behind his father's back. Could it be that the other party was here because of this matter? But fifty years had passed, and that fellow had long been fed to the fish!
"Haha! Marquis, there's no need to be nervous," Old Song said with a smile. "Shrek Academy knows about the relationship between your Yin Clan and the Royal Family's Moon Lineage. After the Shi Yue Palace Coup, your clan must have also been affected. I don't believe you are wholeheartedly loyal to the Sun Lineage, who are currently in power. Otherwise, you wouldn't openly shelter the Moon Lineage Remnants."
"Your Excellency, this has nothing to do with your Academy!" Yin Zhengqi's face was grim. Even though the other party was a Titled Douluo, he showed displeasure when such a sensitive issue was involved. He said, "If your Academy wants to use this to overthrow the regime of my Sun Moon Empire, then you don't need to bother. Although my Yin Clan is dissatisfied with the Xu family's Sun Lineage rule, we will never betray the Sun Moon Empire!"
"Marquis, you underestimate my Shrek Academy too much. If my Shrek Academy wants to defeat the Sun Moon Empire, we will do so with honorable strength and disdain these underhanded tricks," Old Song said seriously. "Your clan's loyalty to the Sun Moon Empire is admirable. However, are you truly content to be purged by the Sun Lineage? I think not. Your sheltering of the Moon Lineage Remnants, isn't it because you hope to one day restore the Moon Lineage to the throne?"
"Uh..." Yin Zhengqi was momentarily speechless because Old Song was right. Restoring the Moon Lineage to the throne was indeed the aspiration of several generations of his Yin Clan. He could only let out a cold snort and say, "Hmph! This is the Yin Clan's own business, and it has nothing to do with you!"
"Hehe, does the Yin Clan still have that power now?" Zhang Lexuan, behind Old Song, sneered. Ever since deciding to implement the Empress plan, she had been catching up on information related to the Sun Moon Empire, and she had a good understanding of the Yin Clan's history and current situation. "Does the Yin Clan currently have more than a hundred clansmen? How many Titled Douluo are left? Furthermore, are those few collateral branches of the Moon Lineage you've sheltered truly qualified to ascend to the imperial throne?"
"You... rude!" Yin Zhengqi's sore spot was poked by Zhang Lexuan's words, and his face immediately turned angry. The aura of a Spirit Douluo pressed down on her.
Facing Yin Zhengqi's actions, Old Song sat as still as a bell, and Zhang Lexuan naturally showed no fear. She also released the aura of a Spirit Douluo, easily crushing Yin Zhengqi's aura back.
Yin Zhengqi was pushed back two or three steps by Zhang Lexuan's aura, then looked at Zhang Lexuan with a face full of disbelief, and said bitterly, "Spirit Douluo! Truly worthy of Shrek Academy!"
He hadn't expected that Zhang Lexuan, this young girl who looked only in her twenties, was also a Spirit Douluo, and her strength was even greater than his. This made Yin Zhengqi feel very frustrated, believing that his seventy years had been lived in vain.
"Le Xuan, don't be rude!" Old Song first feigned a reprimand to Zhang Lexuan, then looked at Yin Zhengqi, who was still in self-doubt, and said, "Marquis, the Yin Clan wants to restore the Moon Lineage to the throne, and my Shrek Academy also has this idea. Therefore, we can absolutely unite! The Yin Clan has the name, and my Shrek Academy has the power. This is a win-win choice!"
"And then the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Family will become Shrek Academy's puppets?" Yin Zhengqi's lips curled into a sneer and he said, "If this isn't an underhanded trick, then what is it?"
"We just want to reclaim what belongs to the Moon Lineage!" Zhang Lexuan said coldly.
"Reclaim what belongs to the Moon Lineage?" Yin Zhengqi narrowed his eyes, looked at Zhang Lexuan, and then looked at Old Song, saying, "Your Excellency, please leave. The Yin Clan will not cooperate with you. In my opinion, cooperating with you is no different than asking a tiger for its skin. Since that's the case, it's better to be purged by the Xu family than to be branded as forgetting our ancestors."
"Marquis, I know what you're worried about," Old Song said with a smile, unperturbed by Yin Zhengqi's dismissal. "I can guarantee you on behalf of Shrek Academy that Shrek Academy absolutely has no intention of controlling the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Family. All we are doing is helping the Moon Lineage reclaim their rightful position!"
"What good does doing this do for your Shrek Academy?" Yin Zhengqi said after hearing Old Song's guarantee. "I don't believe your Shrek Academy would do something without any benefit."
"Haha!" Old Song laughed, then pulled Zhang Lexuan in front of her and said, "We are doing this, in fact, all for this child."
"Her?" Yin Zhengqi was bewildered, looking at Zhang Lexuan in confusion, not understanding Old Song's meaning.
Zhang Lexuan also didn't speak. She chose to express her identity through action. So, a bright silver full moon slowly rose from behind her, and along with it, eight spirit rings of yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, and red. At the same time, a Spirit Seal of a beauty bowing to the moon appeared between her eyebrows, causing her entire body to be enveloped in a silver glow, appearing full of divine mystery.
The Spirit Seal on Zhang Lexuan's brow, which she originally thought was just an ordinary Spirit Seal, she only understood its true meaning after learning about the Sun Lineage and Moon Lineage of the Sun Moon Empire. This Spirit Seal was also a symbol of the Sun Moon Royal Family!
"This, this, this..." Yin Zhengqi was stunned speechless by this scene. Zhang Lexuan's red spirit ring surprised him, but the Moon Spirit and the Bowing Moon Spirit Seal stirred his heart even more.
"As you can see, I am a genuine direct descendant of the Moon Lineage!" Zhang Lexuan said with a hint of pride.
"It's truly the Moon Spirit!" Yin Zhengqi's face was blank, muttering. His body trembled, and then a silver-white curved saber, shaped like a crescent moon, appeared in his hand. Behind him, two yellow, two purple, and four black spirit rings emerged. This was his Spirit, the Silver Moon Curved Saber, the most common Spirit in the Yin Clan today.
Seeing his Spirit automatically released and hearing cheers of joy, Yin Zhengqi was certain that the young girl with the Moon Spirit in front of him was truly a direct descendant of the Moon Lineage, unseen for over a hundred years!
"Which branch of the Moon Lineage are you from?" An old, hunched Old Woman suddenly appeared in the reception room, directly grabbing Zhang Lexuan's hand and asking excitedly.
The moment the Old Woman appeared, Old Song's expression flickered, but her body did not move, clearly she had long sensed the Old Woman's presence. Zhu Ziyang, on the other hand, looked at the suddenly appearing Old Woman with interest. From the Old Woman's methods, it was not difficult to see that she was a Titled Douluo.
Shrek Academy did not know much about the Yin Clan of the Yue Nan Islands. Besides the successive clan leaders, only high-level combatants were worthy of Shrek Academy's attention. However, in the Academy's intelligence, the current Yin Clan did not have any Titled Douluo. The appearance of this Old Woman either indicated that Shrek Academy's intelligence work was insufficient, or that this Old Woman was not a member of the Yin Clan.
Of course, it was also possible that she was part of the Yin Clan's hidden strength. After all, as a family with a ten-thousand-year heritage, it was normal to have some special hidden strength.
Yin Zhengqi, seeing the Old Woman appear, immediately sobered up and instantly retracted his Spirit, bowing respectfully and devoutly to her, "Your Highness, Great Priestess!"
This special title immediately caught Zhu Ziyang's attention.
"Great Priestess" indicated that the Old Woman was a follower of a certain religion, while "Your Highness" meant that her status was related to the Royal Family or nobility.