Chapter 673: The Three Great Families

"Of course I've thought about it, but we are already fourth-generation immigrants. We haven't had any relatives we could still contact in Huaxia for a long time."

"What's more, the journey from Wuji Island to Huaxia is long. Just the cost of airfare and ferries alone would be tens of thousands, and the procedures for obtaining an exit visa are extremely complicated. That's why very few of us ethnic immigrants would spend so much effort to return to our homeland."

Xu Tian could understand what Xiang Yunfei was saying. The long, arduous journey from Huaxia to Wuji Island required seven or eight flight transfers, with the longest flights taking eight or nine hours. Altogether, it would be impossible to reach Huaxia from Wuji Island in less than a week.

For those who had already firmly taken root on Wuji Island, there was indeed no need to go to such great lengths for a strange homeland.

While they were talking, Xiang Yunfei led Xu Tian into the villa and asked the servants inside to notify her parents.

Soon, Mr. and Mrs. Xiang came down from upstairs after receiving the news. They did not show any disgust or discrimination toward Xu Tian, an outsider; instead, they enthusiastically asked him about the customs and traditions of Huaxia.

"Technology in Huaxia is very advanced. We can now use the electronic payment functions on our mobile phones and don't need to carry cash," Xu Tian explained.

"Electronic payment?" Mr. Xiang was stunned, then asked uncertainly, "We have that here, too."

Xu Tian: "..."

Wasn't it said that apart from martial arts, the development of public infrastructure on Wuji Island was slightly backward?

"Then do you have a facial recognition system?"

"We have one, but it's not very useful here. After all, if we really encounter any fugitives, they are executed on the spot by people from the Wuji Martial Arts Association before facial recognition is even needed."

Xu Tian: "..."

Although it was different from what he had imagined, Wuji Island was not as backward as he had thought.

While eating, the television in the dining room was playing a currently popular drama. Xu Tian watched a few glimpses while eating and discovered that the plot was similar to the melodramatic soap operas in Huaxia over a decade ago.

Through casual conversation with Xiang Yunfei, Xu Tian discovered that the technological development on Wuji Island was not inferior to other places; it was just that due to the traditional and stubborn nature of the residents, many high-tech products were not widely promoted.

In other words, apart from the relatively backward culture, everything here was no different from the outside world.

Of course, the cultural backwardness was also due to the fact that they valued martial arts over literature, which gradually widened the gap with other countries in the world.

For example, the development of the literary, music, and film circles here remained at the level of Huaxia over a decade ago. The popular songs here were also of the retro dance hall style from Huaxia ten years ago.

If the popular songs from Huaxia were introduced to Wuji Island, he wondered if they would be popular.

Xu Tian had spent nearly two years in the entertainment industry, so his way of thinking was somewhat influenced by occupational habits, but his thoughts were soon interrupted by Xiang Yunfei.

"Mr. Xu, Huaxia is so far from Wuji Island, and travel is quite inconvenient. I assume you didn't come here just for tourism, but for other important matters, right?"

After all, the stowaways Xiang Yunfei had heard of before were all from countries surrounding Wuji Island; Xu Tian was the first Oriental person to come from Huaxia.

"I am indeed not here for sightseeing."

Xu Tian paused, then continued: "I came here to find someone."

"Then I wonder who Mr. Xu is looking for?" Mr. and Mrs. Xiang looked at each other and asked curiously.

Other stowaways were either curious or wanted to come to Wuji Island to strike it rich; they had never seen anyone like Xu Tian who came to find someone.

"Hmm..."

Xu Tian thought for a moment and recited a set of numbers.

"Mr. Xiang, Mrs. Xiang, may I ask which city on the island this phone number belongs to?"

The number he recited was the one displayed on the phone in Tang Bingyan's study. He had used Yun Shuying's phone to call it before, but after the other party answered once, it could no longer be connected.

"Let me think..."

Mr. Xiang thought for a while, then shook his head with regret: "I don't know."

"I don't know either," Mrs. Xiang said. "The number you mentioned is indeed a Wuji Island number, but we don't know which city it comes from."

"I actually think this number sounds a bit like one from Kun Cheng, but I can't be sure," Xiang Yunfei said hesitantly.

"Kun Cheng? What kind of place is that?" Xu Tian only knew that this place was called Wuji Island, but the island must have its own administrative divisions, yet he knew nothing about the detailed divisions.

Although there was no clear administrative planning, Kun Cheng was equivalent to the capital of other countries.

Xiang Yunfei explained to Xu Tian: "Actually, a long time ago, there were eight administrative divisions on Wuji Island. However, decades ago, a civil war occurred here. Afterward, all the major families suffered a certain degree of heavy damage. In order to recuperate, they unified all eight administrative regions into the current Kun Cheng."

"Therefore, the current Kun Cheng is the center of the entire Wuji Island. The three great families, the richest family—the Lu family—as well as the Wuji Martial Arts Association and the famous bounty hunter school are all located here."

"Our Xiang family has some status locally, but Kun Cheng is a place beyond our reach. Small families like ours don't even have the qualifications to go to Kun Cheng; there is simply no way to gain a foothold there."

"So that's how it is," Xu Tian nodded in understanding.

"The Yun family, one of the three great families in Kun Cheng, worships martial force and has countless bounty hunters under their command. The Yue family is similar to the Yun family, but they focus on controlling the underground forces in Western Europe."

"As for the Lin family, they appear somewhat mediocre among the other two great families. The reason they are able to occupy a seat among the three great families is also because of their ancestors."

"As for the Lu family, they are a special existence on the entire Wuji Island. Their family's most important goal is to make money; they are businessmen through and through."

"The Yun family you just mentioned..." Xu Tian hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "Is there a woman named Yun Shuying?"

"Yun Shuying?" Xiang Yunfei replied with some confusion, "I'm not clear about that. Families like ours that have settled in small cities around Yun Cheng cannot understand the specific information regarding the three great families. What's more, the Yun family has numerous collateral branches, with nearly ten thousand people up and down; it's impossible for us to know them all."

"And, let alone a member of a collateral branch, even for their current family head, we only call him Mr. Yun; we don't know his real name at all."

Don't look at the Xiang family as a famous martial arts family locally; compared to those great families in Kun Cheng, they are like a tiny speck of dust, not even worth mentioning.

Just as Xu Tian was chatting with the Xiang family, a little girl wearing a pink dress and pigtails ran in from outside with stumbling steps. ===== CHAPTER 674 =====