After the old patriarch and Mu Nanshu and their group left, the Shen family was still in deep shock and it took them a long time to recover.

As night fell, the whole family felt a chill spreading from the soles of their feet up to the entire body.

Mr. Shen called an emergency family meeting and took his two sons and daughters-in-law to the study on the second floor.

Only Shen Luoting was allowed to participate among the younger generation.

Everyone else, including the servants present today, stayed in the living room and asked the housekeeper to watch over them.

No one is allowed to go up to the study on the second floor.

Mr. Shen also sternly warned the whole family that no one was allowed to leak any information about what happened today.

If anyone disobeys, he will be expelled from the Shen family!

Everyone was silent and trembling with fear.

The old man has been retired for nearly twenty years and has been staying in his old house to relax and recuperate.

All matters at home and in the company were left to the eldest son, Shen Cangming.

Everyone seemed to have forgotten that the old man was once the patriarch of the Shen family, holding the power of life and death over everyone.

No one dared to underestimate the drastic measures he used when he was young.

*

In the study room on the second floor.

There was a moment of oppressive silence, making everyone feel suffocated.

Old Madam Shen took a bottle of heart-saving pills and, with the comfort and support of Yao Lixuan, she was finally able to sit safely on the sofa.

Until now, her legs are still shaking.

When she thought of the old patriarch and the head of the Shen family coming with such a fierce momentum, her heart began to pound wildly, almost jumping out of her chest.

Shen Luoting tugged at his tie and spoke to break the weird atmosphere, "Grandpa, is Xiaoying a member of the Shen family? What about the Eaglet Plan they mentioned?"

There were too many unsolved mysteries, which made him uneasy.

I always feel that things have gone off the track and are spiraling out of control.

The other members of the Shen family were about to ask as well, and all eyes were on the old man.

Mr. Shen was turning a pair of jade balls in his hands, his face gloomy and uncertain.

Seeing that his son, daughter-in-law and grandson were all looking at him, he knew that there was no point in hiding the matter any longer, so he might as well take this opportunity to speak out.

Otherwise, the family will have a thorn in their hearts and will always feel unhappy when getting along with each other in the future.

Mr. Shen pondered for a moment and told the story of that year.

That year, the joint meeting of the twelve noble families launched a "Young Eagle Plan".

The original plan was to select the more talented children from the next generation and send them to Yu Zizhou's island for training.

It is hoped that by practicing ancient martial arts, they can cultivate successors for the family.

In recent decades, the old patriarchs of each family have been worried about one thing.

The ancient martial arts abilities of the family's descendants are getting weaker and weaker. They cannot break through the Xuan level, and they cannot cultivate a family successor.

When the generation of the old patriarch passed away, the twelve powerful families had no successors.

Ancient martial arts and family heritage will disappear and be destroyed.

The reason why the twelve noble families have been able to survive for a thousand years is because of ancient martial arts and family heritage.

If these are lost, the noble families admired by the world will fall into the mortal world and become ordinary families.

For many years, the elite of the wealthy families stayed in the territory of Yuzizhou and practiced ancient martial arts. They were out of touch with modern life and were not good at running a business.

Therefore, in terms of economic strength, the Twelve Great Clans may not be able to compete with ordinary families.

Especially some financial families, although they do not understand ancient martial arts, they crush the twelve noble families in terms of financial wealth.

If no changes are made, within a few generations the Twelve Clans will disintegrate, and their descendants will become increasingly ordinary until they are lost in the crowd.

The old patriarchs and family heads did not want the powerful families to decline, so they decided to launch the Young Eagle Plan.

But at that joint meeting, one family made a bold suggestion.

Yuzizhou is the only place in the world where spiritual energy is preserved, but due to the influence of the environment, the spiritual energy there is becoming increasingly thin.

Spiritual energy is indispensable for the cultivation and upgrading of ancient martial arts, and the soil rich in spiritual energy is also necessary for the cultivation of medicinal herbs.

As spiritual energy becomes less and less, ancient martial arts are becoming more and more difficult to practice, and masters who can break through the Xuan level are rare.

If this continues, it is only a matter of time before the twelve powerful families perish.

It would be better to adopt medical experimental methods and use genetic technology to enhance the potential of the next generation.

Doing so may help train the next generation of inheritors at the fastest speed.

As soon as the suggestion was put forward, the whole audience was in an uproar.

Four family representatives immediately stood up and slammed the table to express their strong opposition.

Using genetic technology means sending these children into laboratories and allowing researchers to conduct experiments on them like rats.

It's really cruel.

Both sides held their own opinions and argued back and forth, and finally a resolution was reached through voting.

Five families supported it, four families opposed it, and three families abstained.

The "Young Eagle Plan" project was successfully launched, and the two leading families were the Dijing Mu family and the Shen family.

Each family selected their blood-related children, and the Shen family from Haicheng was chosen.

The eldest grandson Shen Luoting is treated as a treasure by the whole family and it is impossible for him to be used as an experimental subject.

Mr. Shen plans to send Shen Qingrong away.

But six-year-old Shen Qingrong resisted so much that she jumped off the balcony and broke her leg.

The little girl hugged Shen Cangming and his wife, crying very sadly.

Mr. Shen also felt reluctant to part with his eldest granddaughter, so he turned his attention to his two-year-old granddaughter.

Shen Guanhai and Liu Beiyun didn't know about the Eaglet Project.

The couple was starting a business at the time and, as usual, left their daughter in the care of a nanny.

Mr. Shen attacked the two-year-old child and took her away to complete his task.

When Shen Guanhai and his wife returned home, they found their daughter was missing and immediately called the police to look for her.

The old man told them that it was the head of the Shen family who took the child away and took him to Yuzizhou for training.

There seemed to be no mention of the Eaglet Project in the conversation.

Later, Mr. Shen secretly inquired about the progress, but heard that the experiment had failed and the project plan was cancelled.

Fewer than ten of his eighty children survived, and his little granddaughter is no longer alive.

After hearing this, Mr. Shen felt regretful for a while.

I didn't dare tell the news to Shen Guanhai and his wife.

The couple has suffered a severe mental trauma since losing their daughter.

I regret that I was too busy with my entrepreneurial work and could not accompany my daughter all day, which led to someone taking her away.

After that, Shen Guanhai took up a sinecure in the Shen family company. Liu Beiyun often fell ill and her health deteriorated day by day.

In order to see their daughter, the couple held on and held on until today.

Not long after, the Shen family encountered a crisis and needed to perform a bloodline sacrifice.

The Shen family in Haicheng was unlucky and drew another death lot.

This time, Mr. Shen thought of replacing one thing with another.

Spend tens of millions and let the middleman find a substitute.

A few years later, the substitute successfully returned to the Shen family, and who would have thought that she was the Shen family's granddaughter.

After Mr. Shen finished speaking, he sighed deeply, "No matter how many times I go around in circles, I can't avoid it. This is fate!"

How could he have imagined that the little granddaughter he gave away that year would return to the Shen family in this way.

Now that the truth has been revealed, he feels heartbroken and guilty, and feels sorry for his second son and his wife.

But I was more shocked. There were so many things that were beyond my expectations that I couldn’t digest them all at once, and my mind was a mess.

Everyone was stunned and had different expressions.

Shen Guanhai's face turned pale and his eyes were filled with tears, expressing deep pain and resentment.

"Dad, how could you do such a thing? Niuniu is your granddaughter!"

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