In the modern world, every illustrious house and great clan worthy of being called an aristocratic lineage held power and influence across every sphere. They had immense wealth, authority, prestige, and even military force.

Take the Tong family, for example. No matter how low-profile they appeared, they remained a colossal power capable of shaking Cliff City and stirring waves throughout Haizhou with the slightest move.

The Lou family was no different, and certainly no less formidable. Generation after generation had fought, schemed, and seized without regard for the cost to themselves. Over countless years, they had built unimaginable fortunes, unshakable authority, unparalleled prestige, and a legacy stretching back through the ages. It was something a self-made Chosen One like Ji Jue could neither imagine nor rival.

The Lou family alone had devised countless ingenious applications for Spirit Morph. They drew inspiration from the various paths of Supreme Benevolence, incorporating the purity of the Ascension Path, the destructive power of the Entropy Path, the transformations of the Ember Path, and the suppressive force of the Origin Path, among others. 

What Ji Jue was sensing now was the resonance of spirit matter shared between successors of the Lou bloodline, the “locator” that Lou Feng had spent an...