The father and son reunited, and the scene was like a battlefield!

Yan Capital, Old City District.

This was an area completely abandoned after that terrifying Beast Tide fifty years ago.

Broken walls and debris remained, with wild grass growing in abundance.

Shattered billboards made strange 'creak-creak' noises in the night wind.

The air was filled with a decaying smell of dust, mixed with the faint, metallic scent of dried blood.

Li Xuan'er supported Ye Xuan, walking unevenly through these ruins.

Ye Xuan's expression was even uglier than the surrounding night.

He didn't know why Li Xuan'er had brought him to this godforsaken place.

Ever since he had agreed to that humiliating condition, he had become a walking corpse without a Soul.

Li Xuan'er seemed completely oblivious to his emotions.

She walked ahead, her high heels clicking on the gravel road, making a crisp yet lonely sound.

Finally, she stopped in front of a church that had half-collapsed.

In the shadows of the church stood a blurry figure.

That person wore a voluminous black robe with the hood pulled low, shrouding their entire being in darkness, making their features invisible.

He just stood there quietly, as if he had merged into one with the ruins.

If Li Xuan'er hadn't stopped, Ye Xuan wouldn't have even noticed someone was there.

"I've brought him."

Li Xuan'er's voice rang out in the deathly silence, carrying a trace of respect that she herself hadn't even noticed.

The black-robed person slowly nodded.

He moved.

Step by step, he walked out from the shadows.

He walked very slowly, each step feeling like it was treading on Ye Xuan's heartbeat, giving him an inexplicable sense of oppression and palpitations.

Ye Xuan's body instinctively tensed up.

He watched this black-robed person of unknown origin with vigilance.

Although he was now a waste, his instincts from once being a Martial Artist remained.

He could feel that the black-robed person before him was dangerous!

Extremely dangerous!

It was a terrifying sense of pressure, as if facing a sleeping prehistoric Vicious Beast!

This person was definitely a powerhouse!

A powerhouse far beyond his imagination!

Who exactly was he?

To think Li Xuan'er had such a figure backing her?

Countless thoughts flashed frantically through Ye Xuan's mind.

The black-robed person walked up to Ye Xuan and stopped. He didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

Though he couldn't see the other's face.

Ye Xuan could feel a scrutinizing, complex, and penetrating gaze falling upon him.

Under this gaze.

He felt as if he had been stripped naked.

From inside out, all his secrets, all his resentment and malice, were seen clearly!

"Who... are you?"

Ye Xuan's voice was hoarse and dry.

The black-robed person did not answer his question.

He slowly raised his hand.

That hand was very clean and pale.

It didn't look like the hand a peerless powerhouse should have.

Then, under Ye Xuan's extremely tense gaze.

He took off his hood.

The moonlight was cold as water.

It spilled onto the face that emerged from the darkness.

In an instant!

Ye Xuan's body suddenly stiffened!

His whole being felt as if he had been struck from head to toe by a bolt of Nine Heavens divine lightning, charred on the outside and tender on the inside!

His mind went blank!

Boom—

It was the face of a middle-aged man.

His features were handsome and well-defined; although there were some traces of the passing years at the corners of his eyes, his youthful handsomeness could still be seen.

And this face... actually shared a seventy percent resemblance with Ye Xuan himself!

Old City District.

If Ye Xuan was an un-grown wolf cub.

Then the man before him was a true alpha wolf standing at the mountain peak, looking down on the world!

"Xuan'er..."

The middle-aged man spoke.

His voice had a peculiar magnetic quality; it was gentle, yet contained an unquestionable majesty.

"You've grown up."

These four simple words.

Were like a billion-ton giant hammer, ruthlessly smashing against Ye Xuan's already collapsed mental defenses!

Who... who was he?

Why... did he look so much like himself?

Why... would he use such a tone to call his name?

A thought so absurd it made him want to laugh uncontrollably surged up from the deepest depths of his Soul!

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

He was an orphan!

He had grown up in an orphanage since he was a child!

He had no father!

His mother had passed away long ago!

"You... you have the wrong person!"

Ye Xuan almost roared these words.

His body was trembling violently; because of his internal agitation and confusion, his wounds were aggravated, and the intense pain made him nearly faint.

However, the expression on the middle-aged man's face did not change in the slightest.

He just looked at Ye Xuan quietly, and in that complex gaze, a trace of pity and a trace of disappointment were added.

"It seems the suffering of these years has caused you to even forget your own Bloodline?"

He slowly extended his hand, palm facing up.

Buzz—!

A cluster of blood-red flame, seemingly condensed from the purest blood, ignited out of thin air in his palm!

The moment he saw that cluster of blood flame!

Ye Xuan's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of needlepoints!

His Bloodline, at this moment, boiled uncontrollably!

Every drop of blood in his body was screaming, cheering, and... surrendering!

It was a kind of absolute suppression and resonance originating from the deepest part of the Bloodline!

"No... this is impossible..."

Ye Xuan's lips lost all color.

He slumped to the ground, completely losing all strength to resist.

Despite a thousand reluctances in his heart.

A fact was ruthlessly laid out before Ye Xuan!

He knew.

He no longer needed to doubt.

The man before him.

This man who brought him endless oppression and Fear.

Was truly... his... father!

...Lin Family.

Back Garden

The sun was just right, and the breeze was mild.

Lin Yuan was lying comfortably on his exclusive lounge chair, covered with a soft cashmere blanket, sleeping soundly.

His life these past few days had been as leisurely and dull as ever.

Besides sleeping, it was just changing locations to sleep.

[Ding! Detected that the host has successfully 'slacked off' in public for over 24 hours. Achievement 'Social Terrorist' reached. Reward: Small increase in cultivation!]

[Ding! Detected that the host has continuously refused to communicate with others over two hundred times. Achievement 'King of Social Withdrawal' reached. Reward: Heaven-Grade Low Grade Cultivation Technique: "Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns" Introductory Chapter!]

[Ding! Detected that the host's total 'lying flat' time has exceeded one hundred hours. Milestone achievement 'Ultimate Salted Fish King' reached. Reward: Earth-Grade Peak Medicinal Pill: One Profound Dragon Crimson Blood Pill!]

...These days.

Rewards were distributed on time.

As for the storms caused by the aftermath of the Su Family banquet.

Things like the Chen Family being tied to the war chariot, the Liu Family being exasperated, and that girl named Chen Ruoxi locking herself in the lounge for several hours before coming out... none of these had anything to do with Young Master Lin.

Could anything be more important than sleeping?

Just as he was reaching a critical moment in his date with the Duke of Zhou's daughter.

Boom!

An energy more majestic and pure than any before, like the Nine Heavens' Milky Way pouring down, instantly flooded into his limbs and bones!

Lin Yuan's Qi Sea Realm first-level cultivation Bottleneck couldn't even hold out for a second before being directly smashed through like dry weeds!

Qi Sea Realm sixth level!

Done!

The entire process didn't even leave a single ripple on his serene sleeping face.

He just impatiently smacked his lips in his sleep and rolled over.

Hmm... seems like a Breakthrough happened.

Not bad, Qi Sea Realm sixth level. The spiritual energy in my body has become much thicker; I'll be able to sleep even more soundly in the future.

As for that "Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns" technique... Lin Yuan's Divine Thought swept over it casually.

Oh, a technique that can operate on its own in dreams to temper the Divine Soul and Physical Body.

Not bad, not bad at all. It's practically a divine skill tailor-made for this young master!

Now even the time for Cultivate is saved, and I can devote myself entirely to the great cause of sleeping!

System, you really understand me!

Lin Yuan nodded in satisfaction, preparing to continue sleeping.

But, speaking of which... where exactly did that fellow Ye Xuan go?

Reasonably speaking, with his Dao Heart shattered and him becoming a wanted criminal, the people from the Martial Alliance should have caught him long ago.

But it's been several days now, and there's no news at all.

It's as if he has evaporated from the face of the earth.

Lin Yuan's mind unconsciously began to recall the plot from the original work.

In the original work, although Ye Xuan's public identity was an orphan, in reality, he had a father.

And that father of his had quite a background.

He was a through-and-through super villain hiding behind the scenes, stirring up the world's storms!

The leader of a mysterious organization called the "Divine Court"!

This organization recruited countless evil-doers and outlaws dissatisfied with reality, and had always been dedicated to overturning the existing order to establish their so-called "Kingdom of God."

In the original plot, Ye Xuan's father would personally appear in Yan Capital for a certain plan during the key juncture of the "Wasteland Hunt."

Then, by a stroke of luck, he would reunite with Ye Xuan.

And after that, it would be a melodramatic drama of the "righteous son" against the "evil father," a mix of love and hate, loving and killing each other.

But now... the plot had been flapped into complete disarray by himself, this butterfly.

Ye Xuan had fallen to rock bottom early and become a stray dog.

That woman Li Xuan'er had also disappeared to who knows where.

With these two together... could it be... that Ye Xuan has made contact with his villain father ahead of schedule?

A "former protagonist" whose cultivation was crippled and who was filled with hatred for the entire world.

A "super villain" with wild ambitions who wanted to overturn the world.

If this father and son pair got together early... then things would get really interesting!

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan's salted-fish-like heart couldn't help but feel a slight ripple.

Things seemed to be getting more and more interesting.

He slowly closed his eyes, a playful smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.

Whatever.

Anyway, no matter how they tossed and turned.

Before this young master's absolute strength, they were all nothing but clay chickens and pottery dogs, not worth worrying about!