Chapter 1936: NO.556: Then I'll ask you

NO. 556: Then I'll ask you

The foundation of the Xiangzheng Family's rise is the horse racing industry, but among the countless families that have accompanied the development of the horse racing industry for a thousand years, there are also very few long-standing families, and the core reliance that allows the Xiangzheng Family to continue is luck.

Yes, luck.

Although everyone involved in that history subconsciously believes that it was everyone's hard work that brought about the family's lasting prosperity, even the Xiangzheng Family's high-pressure operation method itself is regarded as a kind of 'witchcraft of reproducing the former strong clan members'.

The reason it is called witchcraft is that, compared to other more stable and clear-cut technique systems, witchcraft is purely a ritual system. Furthermore, compared to divine art, the difference lies not in the deities but in the completeness of the system.

In the Federation, all belief-based source-energy ritual systems can be registered and promoted.

And those ritual systems that are not registered, or whose completion degree is low after registration review, are all classified as witchcraft; their characteristic boils down to one sentence: you don't need to know the principle, just follow the simulation.

Thus, in the Federation, 'witchcraft' is a common derogatory term thrown around in casual talk, used to describe any blind foolishness that lacks systematic research and merely copies things superficially.

Therefore, when Aomo looked back at the Xiangzheng Family's development history in a special way, he couldn't help but praise the precision of Ludaofu Xiangzheng's wording when evaluating.

Yes, the so-called special way of looking back at the Xiangzheng Family's history refers precisely to the young master's oral account.

As merely a trainer, Aomo Lindun naturally had no qualification to browse the Xiangzheng Family's inheritance scrolls, and not even Tianlangxing Xiangzheng had that qualification.

But Ludaofu Xiangzheng was forced to study from a young age.

Knowing the family's history, understanding various lessons and setting goals and responsibilities—this is the family's demand of the young master, and Ludaofu Xiangzheng indeed did this, so she belittled it to nothing.

The past method was wrong.

Or more accurately, it has been completely wrong since sixteen years ago.

This is her conclusion.

She could understand her grandmother's compromise at the time, when there really was no other choice, and also understand her grandmother's unwavering determination after that compromise, after all, the racecourse is like that—an ever-changing racecourse where only a slim chance exists and absolute-success strategies are rare.

When choosing one, if one cannot persist, it will only bring worse consequences.

But having said that, even if you persevere to the end, it doesn't guarantee a good outcome.

So you need to persist all the more.

A truly strong person will not doubt their own determination.

Even if it's wrong, you must make it right, just like Speed Xiangzheng back then.

But such determination itself will thoroughly bind you to that road, often causing injury, with no option to easily break free.

Even when you forcefully try to break free, the path you originally stepped onto will mutate and deform, reaching out with countless hands of chronic ailments to drag your steps.

So, after understanding all this and without resenting her grandmother, Ludaofu Xiangzheng still made a decision.

She decided to overthrow the empire her grandmother had built.

And she will also accept Aomo's contemptuous evaluation of her family's development history.

By luck.

The unity and mutual aid from long inheritance, and the strict training that arises from it, are nothing but a scam; in fact, when you are qualified to truly survey that family's development history, you will find that the backbone and beams touted by educators are replaceable, and their effect is merely so-so.

Only such leaders, or those standing beside a leader who truly holds the right to speak, are truly irreplaceable great figures; such figures always find ways to borrow external intervention to inject new vitality into this massive diseased body while reforming internally and bringing in external aid, thus managing to save the collapsing mansion and eradicate the family's pests.

And within this family, such a leader is always a horse girl born at just the right time.

They serve as the most important juncture throughout the family's history, linking the declining and the nascent. This also keeps the Xiangzheng Family's focus always bound to horse racing, and the position of family head often proceeds with inheritance by giving horse girls priority in competition.

Perhaps this is also a kind of witchcraft—Aomo has proposed this view before.

By now, everyone knows that the selection of horse racing souls for human juveniles is not random but follows a set of criteria, yet those criteria vary with different horse racing souls and are hard to explore and summarize.

So even now, the birth of a horse girl in everyone's eyes is still as hard to grasp as randomness, always depending on luck.

So whether it's Ludaofu or Aomo, looking at the Xiangzheng Family's history, seeing that the irreplaceable great-person role is always a horse girl recorded over a dozen times, they both feel: it's truly surprising that this family has survived to this day, with luck accounting for no small share.

Many elites are cultivated, and many family members work hard, but whenever the family faces life-or-death crisis, these people are often purged clean, so that when the Horse Girl Savior System appears, they must seek strength from outside—even this time is no exception.

If Aomo Lindun had not been present then, the Moon-charge Xiangzheng who introduced monster power would have led the Xiangzheng Family somewhere—no one would know where.

But if you analyze that history, and analyze that history where horse girls always come forth to turn the tide, and then link it to the diverse conditions of horse racing souls attaching to human fetuses, perhaps you could understand why Aomo calls this perhaps also a kind of witchcraft.

A family on the verge of collapse—this is not necessarily a harsh condition requirement.

If born under such conditions, those horse girls must also be destined from birth to resist this and forge a legend.

But……

You can still see an obvious luck component in it, right?

Bearing the fate of battle and whether one can win are two different things.

Rather than clinging to a twisted, morbid style under the pretense of 'reproducing talent,' raising pressure there, breeding insects to screen out similarly obsessive, morbid family members, it would be better to step back and consider why those great figures always ended up so difficult as to be isolated and helpless.

Family continuation is not about chasing stars.

A blazing, eye-catching lone star, placed in the entire horse racing history, has rarely succeeded in being created, yet the Xiangzheng Family intends to pursue that goal from the perspective of family heirs, and will not hesitate to personally set up harsh, morbid trials and pressure for them……

Quite good at courting death, huh?

It's basically like pretending one won't die, but both Ludaofu Xiangzheng and Aomo Lindun feel that such a Xiangzheng Family is very prone to die.

If it hasn't died, it's just good luck—so good that it could make other horse girl families envy and resent it.

As for that, Speed Xiangzheng couldn't possibly be unaware.

Unless she still holds something not yet handed over to the young master that could reveal a completely new aspect of the family's entire history; otherwise she is merely stubbornly clinging to her own path, gripping both good and bad tightly to avoid losing control while waiting for the granddaughter to take over the baton.

But how to take over the baton is a problem.

Whether it's on the path of inheriting this road, or stepping onto another road to proceed by overthrowing oneself——

"Don't you think this problem isn't with me, but with that Luna child herself?"

Heh, still answering a question with a question.

Aomo originally wanted to loudly rebuke her, but helplessly this is the sponsor, and this counter-question is itself a kind of answer.

A kind of answer that, compared to avoiding the important and focusing on the trivial, better fits 'I support that child'.

And what she said is not without reason.

One who had already denied the elders' path during the talks, and who had already made a new personnel arrangement months ago while handling the aftermath of the uncle's madness, appearing as if to smoothly transition, replacing every trace of the old-timer's presence with the young master's likeness.

She has been putting on a show of not being strongly competitive during this half-year of training— isn't that her own problem?