The truth peeled back layer by layer

"Not stupid enough yet," Lu Chuan's tone finally carried a hint of affirmation. "Then... merit, where shall it come from?"

Bai Yimo's heart skipped a beat.

Isn't the secret realm that can prove the authenticity of the Lu family legend a great merit in itself?

Bai Yimo had seen with his own eyes and personally experienced the extent of the obsession noble families had for secret realms and inheritances.

Once they were allowed to leave, wouldn't he and his Benefactor become the ones in danger?

"I understand, Benefactor."

Bai Yimo's voice was heavy.

Lu Chuan took an arrow he had obtained from the Blond-haired Man out of his spatial device and threw it in front of Bai Yimo.

"Then, go do what you need to do."

Bai Yimo picked up the arrow, approached the Owl Bird step by step, gripped the arrow with both hands, and raised it above his head.

"If you don't even dare to snuff out a potential threat, then there's no need for you to persist in your father's dying wish."

"I'll find you an orphanage where you can live out your life under an assumed name."

Upon hearing this, a flash of ruthlessness erupted in Bai Yimo's eyes.

With a "puchi" sound, the arrow sank into flesh.

More blood flowed from the Owl Bird's shattered throat, and her opening and closing mouth seemed to be cursing silently.

She still wasn't dead!?

Lu Chuan was somewhat surprised.

He dared not imagine what a terrifying character she would be if she hadn't been unluckily pinned down by these black rods that could block dark energy.

Perhaps... she would have easily swatted him to death, right?

When the time comes, heaven and earth work together; when luck fades, even heroes are not free.

Fate really is a strange thing.

"Pierce in from the back of the fragile head and crush the brainstem and the brain."

Bai Yimo followed Lu Chuan's instructions almost reflexively.

Not until the person under his hands stopped breathing did Bai Yimo finally realize the warmth on his face and the stench of blood in his nasal cavity.

"Ugh—"

Bai Yimo vomited until he felt dizzy and disoriented.

Lu Chuan couldn't help but speak up, "You can't handle this? That wasn't your reaction when you were drawing blood from those Transcendent Creatures."

Bai Yimo finally found his voice, "How is that the same!?"

What is different?

"You can't accept it because you consider yourself human."

Bai Yimo wanted to say, "Aren't I human?", but he had no strength left.

After Lu Chuan used the taotie's fang to drain the Owl Bird's blood, he pocketed the weapon resources from the three spatial devices.

That's right, three of them.

They came from Lu Qingyu, the Owl Bird, and Rain Ink, respectively.

After finishing this, Lu Chuan casually took out a Recovery Potion and threw it to Bai Yimo.

"Drink it and keep up."

Picking up the Recovery Potion, Bai Yimo drank it in one gulp.

He didn't forget to look back repeatedly before catching up with Lu Chuan's pace.

He knew that the corpse of the young girl named Lu Qingyu was lying in one of the spatial devices.

"Are we just going to leave that young miss's corpse alone?"

"What? You want to take her out and give her a proper burial?"

"If her corpse leaves this place, the ones who will end up without a burial place will be us."

Transcendent noble families have ten thousand ways to track everyone who has come into contact with that corpse.

Bai Yimo stopped talking.

Sometimes he found it hard to understand this guy whose every word and action went against his own father.

But he could feel that this man not only harbored no ill will toward him but was actually trying to teach him something.

Bai Yimo had never gone to school and didn't know if this man was right.

But he knew that his kind father, who always thought of others, must have been wrong.

If his father was right, why did he end up with such a fate?

If his father was right, then this world is wrong, and a wrong world seemingly doesn't need to be treated with correct methods.

If his father was right...

Bai Yimo thought of ten thousand possibilities where his father was right, only to sadly discover that regardless of whether his father was right or not, he seemed to be drifting further and further away from his father's convictions.

Along the way, the two remained silent.

Until they walked into a space as grand and solemn as a palace, Bai Yimo knew he had finally reached the destination on the treasure map.

As for what he was going to do next...

His gray eyes met eyes as deep and bottomless as an ancient pool.

"See that stone pillar? Put your hand on it."

Bai Yimo trusted Lu Chuan.

He dared not imagine what he would do if he didn't even have one person in this world he could trust.

The moment his pale, thin hand touched the stone pillar, a phantom image slowly unfolded on the pillar like a screen.

Not only did Bai Yimo see it, but Lu Chuan saw it too:

A six-winged, human-bodied, bird-headed creature fell in love with a human girl.

Their love was not tolerated by the world.

Yes, how could a human fall in love with a monster?

If such love is correct, why did the great Creator allow reproductive isolation to exist?

But in the face of the powerful human-bodied, bird-headed Transcendent Creature, people were helpless.

It was a thorn, stuck in the flesh, unable to be removed, festering and oozing pus...

Until a woman holding a curved blade appeared, and everything finally took a turn.

She was very strong; with a Ninth-Rank body, she fought against a Catastrophe Level Transcendent Creature and actually snapped off two pairs of wings from this Catastrophe Level creature that had the ability to summon wind and rain.

In the end, she even used her life as the price to inflict heavy injuries on that Catastrophe Level creature using poison-type abilities.

That poison was truly toxic!

The poisonous mist spread from the Catastrophe Level creature's wound, and wherever it passed, nothing could grow.

In order not to implicate the human lover it had hidden away, the Catastrophe Level creature held on with its last breath and flew into the distance, finally diving headfirst into a Rift in the Endless Forest.

This scene naturally attracted the attention of countless Transcendents.

A Transcendent Creature above the Fifth Rank is a treasure from head to toe.

Let alone a Catastrophe Level creature?

Almost every Transcendent with some ability wanted to go in and get a share.

But they didn't expect to be nearly sent to the afterlife by the poisonous mist leaking from the Transcendent Creature's wound.

To save their lives, a Transcendent with the surname Lu sacrificed a giant Stone Array disc brought back from a secret realm, which finally suppressed this poisonous bird underneath.

Due to the erosion of the poisonous mist, the Endless Forest, which was originally rich in resources, began to decay and eventually became the neglected place it is now.

"But the powerhouse with the surname Lu didn't know that the Stone Array disc he used to suppress the Transcendent Creature was not a one-time spell weapon, but a container concealing a powerful spatial-attribute spiritual artifact."

"That Catastrophe Level Transcendent Creature didn't die immediately but was taken into that spatial-attribute spiritual artifact, and by paying the price of overdrawing its crystal core, it merged with this spatial device."

Lu Chuan narrowed his eyes, "This is truly interesting!"

Although time has passed and the Lu family has developed into one of the top powerful clans in the Imperial City, if they had discovered the mystery of the Stone Array disc back then...

Then perhaps it wouldn't be the Alliance's world now, but the Lu family's world.

Bai Yimo tried hard to digest the information he had received, "The Stone Array disc was obtained by the Lu family's ancestor, so Lu Qingyu's blood could activate the Stone Array disc."

"Because it hated the human who sealed it, did that Transcendent Creature kill Lu Qingyu the moment the Stone Array disc seal disappeared?"

Lu Chuan's voice followed, "If I'm not mistaken, the human who fell in love with the Catastrophe Level Transcendent Creature should have been pregnant."

"And successfully gave birth to an offspring."

Bai Yimo's mind conjured up the gray pupils of that Catastrophe Level Transcendent Creature.

"So... its offspring is me?? "

Unlike Bai Yimo's self-doubt.

Lu Chuan was completely immersed in the joy of the new discovery:

Can reproductive isolation be ignored when the rank breaks through to a certain level?

He seemed to have a new idea for "creation"...