The nine families were the families of Gongshu, Dugu, Zuo, Fang, Long, Hua, Gongsun, Xuanyuan, and Tao.
Feng Wu had dealt with most of them. Some were her friends, and some were her enemies.
The four forces were Firmament Palace, the Sumeru Temple, the Shadowless Sect, and the Beggars’ Gang.
They each had their own territory in the empire, but they all had a branch in the imperial capital.
When the news spread in the capital city, it was soon delivered to the other corners of the empire, as if it had grown wings.
The common folk were only amazed at the existence of the Divine Phoenix Blood, and they went about their own business after that.
That wasn’t the case with the major families and forces.
They were influential players for a reason.
Most of their backgrounds went back thousands of years.
Their favorite thing was to keep valuable information to themselves and only share it within their inner circles.
The Divine Phoenix Blood was one such example.
The common folk were just amazed for a while, but the major forces knew something scarier.
Back then, the ruler of the continent was the honorable Master Mu.
He had the Divine Phoenix Blood.
They had just found out that Feng Wu had the same bloodline. That meant Feng Wu would have an unbelievable future.
Even if she didn’t achieve great things, her offspring would be more than likely to have the bloodline.
Holy crap!
Who wouldn’t want to marry such a girl?
There was no question about that.
No matter what kind of grudge a force might have held against Feng Wu before, their first reaction now was to send her a marriage proposal.
Feng Wu had no idea of her impact on most of the influential forces in the empire.
She also had no idea that people all over the empire were going to send her the most valuable gifts to win her heart.
They didn’t believe she was engaged to the crown prince, because if that were the case, the crown prince would have announced it already.
Moreover, wasn’t Zuo Qingluan, the crown prince’s fiancee?
Either way, they would send Feng Wu proposal gifts first.
No force wanted to be left behind.
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Feng Wu didn’t know anything about that.
Because of her great contribution, Imperial College gave her a week off so that she could go home and take a break.
Gongsun Mu told Chen Ziyun after Feng Wu left, “If we don’t let her go home, no one will be there to make His Royal Highness happy. When His Royal Highness isn’t happy, he’ll probably lash out at us.”
Hence, Feng Wu returned to Feng manor.
She was shocked before she even set foot inside.
Since when did they get so many visitors? Nobody ever came to the Feng family.
Why was there red silk draped over the front gate?
Feng Wu saw Feng Yanfeng greeting the guests outside the front gate in a fake humble tone. “Xiao Wu isn’t half as good as you say. Divine Phoenix Blood? There’s nothing special about that. It’s only slightly better than True Phoenix Blood.”
Feng Wu was speechless.
What a familiar scene.
When she was five and still a little genius, her uncle used to do this. He might sound modest, but nothing could hide the big smile on his face.
Feng Wu shook her head.
Instead of using the front gate, she returned to Fallen Star Yard by jumping over the wall.
