Chapter 386: After Modification: Chapter 386 Lin Yi’s Mom
The Phoenix Race, is an incredibly ancient clan in the upper realms, with a long history, mysterious and powerful.
It is said that they are the descendants of the original Phoenix, yet they have shed their phoenix forms and have completely transformed into human forms.
After becoming human, they not only retained their original Phoenix abilities and talents but also acquired the innate Dao Body of the Human Race, making them uniquely gifted in both talent and bloodline.
In the hearts of the Phoenix Race, their bloodline is considered the noblest under the heavens, with no other race able to compare.
Thus.
They place extreme importance on the purity of their bloodline, always marrying within the clan, and absolutely forbidding any other race from tainting the bloodline of the Phoenix Race.
However, several decades ago, a matter of utter disgrace occurred within the Phoenix Race - the Holy Daughter of the Phoenix Race fornicated with someone from the lower realms and even gave birth to a bastard!
In the ancestral land, the sacred bloodline artifact wailed, indicating that the bloodline of the Phoenix Race had flowed outwards and been tarnished by outsiders.
This was absolutely intolerable to the Phoenix Race, so they began sending people to the lower realms to trace the bloodline aura and capture the Holy Daughter, meanwhile, eliminating the outsider who desecrated her and the bastard child!
Yet, before they descended to the lower realms, the Holy Daughter returned on her own and concealed the bloodline aura of the bastard.
In this way, they could not find the bastard.
The upper echelon of the Phoenix Race was infuriated.
The Holy Daughter suffered terrible torture, almost soul-scattering.
But faced with the family’s interrogation, she was tight-lipped, determined to protect her husband and child even unto death.
In the end, the Holy Daughter’s brother, the current leader of the Phoenix Race, pleaded for her, saving her life.
But though spared the death penalty, she could not escape punishment, being forever imprisoned in the forbidden grounds of the Phoenix Race, never to see the light of day.
And on this day.
The dark underground of the forbidden grounds, a person arrived.
He was a burly man, commanding respect without anger, exuding a faint fiery glow, a terrifying aura causing space to distort.
"Sister, I have come again."
He said calmly.
"Mm."
Ahead, a woman in a white skirt sat cross-legged on a giant rock, facing him, responding indifferently.
Despite his sister’s attitude, the burly man was not at all angry, instead, he calmly said, "Do you know why I have come this time?"
"Hehe, ready to execute me?"
The woman in the white skirt sneered, unafraid as if life and death were trivial matters.
The burly man was silent for a moment, his expression somewhat complex; she was his own younger sister, yet now she held such animosity towards him.
He thought for a moment and still said, "We have found your husband and child."
Wham!
The woman in the white skirt trembled suddenly.
The burly man continued, "You would never have guessed, the lower realm they were in was the fallen Xuanhuang Heaven of the past, and now, Xuanhuang Heaven has returned to the upper realm, bringing them along."
"Impossible!!"
The woman in the white skirt shouted, turning around to reveal a beautiful yet pale face.
"It’s impossible to be wrong. The people I sent found that world by tracing the remnants of the aura you didn’t erase. Moreover, that child carries our clan’s bloodline and your Jade Pendant from back then."
The burly man said.
"This... how could this..." The woman’s eyes became hollow, her face full of despair, seemingly plunged into hopelessness.
The burly man continued:
"What surprises me is that your son has become the new Celestial Lord of Xuanhuang. With merely a cultivation of the Divine Realm, he gained the recognition of Xuanhuang Heaven, such fortune causes even me to sigh in awe."
"Celestial Lord of Xuanhuang?!"
The woman in the white skirt abruptly lifted her head, her eyes suddenly lighting up with hope, joyfully saying, "Does that mean the family acknowledges him?!"
In her view, no matter how proud the Phoenix Race, the identity of the Celestial Lord of Xuanhuang is certainly worthy of the bloodline of the Phoenix Race.
Her son had become the Celestial Lord of Xuanhuang, so naturally, he could acknowledge his ancestry and she could reconcile with the family.
This was a matter of universal delight.
However, the burly man shook his head and sighed, "No, not only will we not acknowledge him, but... we must kill him."
"Why?!"
The woman in the white skirt screamed.
The burly man paused and said:
"If he were the Celestial Lord of any other of the eight heavens, our clan would naturally accept him, possibly even allowing him to become the next leader of the Phoenix Race, but unfortunately, he is the Celestial Lord of Xuanhuang Heaven."
"You should know some of the inside story of how Xuanhuang Heaven fell back then, that force is terrifying. We must sever ties with Xuanhuang Heaven, otherwise... there could be a danger of extermination."
"And the bloodline of our Phoenix Race runs through the Celestial Lord of Xuanhuang, this is an inseverable connection. Only by killing him can our Phoenix Race remain uninvolved."
He sighed and said softly:
"You should understand, even if we don’t kill him, that force will not spare him. If they discover he carries our Phoenix Race bloodline, we will be unable to explain."
Upon hearing this, the woman in the white skirt fell into utter despair.
If it were merely the outflow of bloodline, there might still be room for maneuver, but if it concerned the family’s survival, there was no room to turn back.
Her son had to die!
Moreover, even if she could choose, she couldn’t trade the survival of the entire family to save her son; this was the greater good.
"Why, why!!"
She shouted to the heavens twice like a mad lion, then lowered her head, tears pattering down.
After quite some time.
She lifted her head, looking at her brother with determined and sincere eyes, her voice trembling, "Can... can I see him once?"
The burly man looked at his sister, with a tinge of pity on his face because he knew, his sister, who understood the greater good so well, had accepted the fact that her child must die.
This was the child she had protected even unto death, yet for the survival of their family, she had no choice but to give him up.
This pain, who could understand?
He took a deep breath, looking into her eyes, solemnly nodded and said, "I can use the Mirror Flower Water Moon Secret Technique to summon his projection from Xuanhuang Heaven for you to see."
"Thank you, brother."
The woman in the white skirt was silent for a moment, then bit her lip and said.
"Ah..."
The burly man sighed, then suddenly stomped his right foot, an indescribably terrifying aura bursting from him.
"Boom!"
At that moment, the entire forbidden ground trembled, the sky above changed, myriad paths roared, and even the Celestial Vault seemed about to shatter.
"With my Great Dao, pierce through Xuanhuang, if there be cause and effect, let it all be upon me! Mirror Flower Water Moon, open for me!"
Boom!
An invisible and majestic power erupted from him, piercing the sky, directly connecting to the infinitely distant Xuanhuang Heaven.
At the same time.
Qin Zi, who was in closed-door cultivation in his cave, suddenly felt an unmatched terrifying power descend upon him.
"This..."
He was incomparably terrified, unable even to cry out, as he felt a dizziness, as if his consciousness were being drawn out of his body.