652: Chapter 652 Qin Yao Questions

The three immortal slaying swords invoked the Power of the Great Dao, following that mysterious connection of the Origin, and across the endless Void Realm, struck directly at Old Ancestor Yin Hanshan's true body.

In a desolate starry sky, unimaginably far away, on a deserted Shattered Star Continent, inside an Immortal Cave wrapped in layers of over a dozen illusion formations, Old Ancestor Yin Hanshan's true body suddenly opened his eyes, his face filled with terror.

Blood began to flow from his seven orifices, and a surge of the Power of the Great Dao rampaged within his body.

His hands disintegrated inch by inch, followed by his legs, and then his lower body.

"No! No! No!" he roared hoarsely. "I have worked hard to cultivate for thousands of years, hiding in the shadows my entire life—why? Why!?"

Before he could finish speaking, his head also dissipated.

The qiankun ring rolled onto the ground with a clang, like a final sigh—many years later, a young man fleeing for his life accidentally stumbled into this Immortal Cave. He picked up that qiankun ring and, from that moment on, soared to success, becoming a legendary figure.

On your side—

Feng Yichen watched as the Jiemie Clone disintegrated itself, then watched as Old Ancestor Yin Hanshan's Clone also vanished; he opened his mouth wide and widened his eyes, at a loss for what to do.

He looked at the three immortal slaying swords, which were recalled by your beckoning hand, and then looked at Ancestor Tianxuan, his lips trembling.

He glared at you viciously: "Old man, who exactly are you? Are you not afraid of the Venerable Tianming coming to settle accounts with you?"

You did not waste words; you raised your hand and clenched it.

Invisible Law Power surged from all directions, tightly wrapping around Feng Yichen.

He tried his best to teleport, but under the pressure of the vast Law Domain, his body remained completely motionless.

His bones creaked, his skin began to crack, blood seeped from the fissures, and his entire body was compressed inward by the invisible force.

"Ah—!"

The heart-wrenching scream only lasted for half a sound.

The next second—

Bang!

With a dull thud, he exploded into a pulp of flesh.

You waved your hand, and the flesh was disintegrated by the Law Power, vanishing into nothingness.

The twenty Golden Core guards were trembling all over with fear.

"Th-this... what kind of technique is this?"

"Jiemie was a Body Integration powerhouse, yet he ran away just after seeing him?"

"He has white hair? The one who came to the Imperial City last time also had white hair... Could he be the Dean?"

You ignored these idle whispers, and with a thought, you restored your true appearance.

Ancestor Tianxuan looked at you, his tense nerves finally relaxing: "Look at the trouble you've caused."

You looked at him without replying.

Because you did not know what to say.

Qin Chuan and Qin Yao looked at you, their eyes turning red.

They remembered this face of yours, this figure of yours.

Ever since you left the Imperial City, they would stand on the city walls every day, gazing at the teleportation plaza, waiting for that long-awaited figure to appear.

You walked toward them, each step feeling as heavy as carrying a mountain.

Your heart was filled with guilt—you had missed decades of their lives, the most important decades.

After a moment of silence, you spoke first: "How is your mother doing recently? Why didn't I see her in the Imperial City?"

Qin Chuan did not reply.

He just looked at you, his eyes complex—strangeness, anticipation, resentment.

He opened his mouth, then closed it again, and in the end, said nothing.

Qin Yao also did not reply.

She looked at you, her eyes gradually turning red, her lips trembling.

Suddenly, her tears burst forth, her voice choked with sobs: "When we were ignorant and young, where were you?"

"We stood on the city walls every day, remembering the teleportation plaza when you left... Do you know how many tears we shed?"

"Every day! It was every single day!"

She clenched her fists, her voice growing louder and hoarser: "We were on the city walls, watching the teleportation array's beams of light ignite and extinguish, ignite and extinguish again."

"Every time the light beam lit up, we thought it was your figure... But every time, it was someone else."

"Time after time, we held onto hope, and time after time, we were met with disappointment."

"Do you know? You have no idea at all."

Her face was already covered in tears, and she looked at you with trembling lips, her eyes red.

Listening to her words, your heart felt as if it had been fiercely pinched by something.

It wasn't pain, but a dull, stifling discomfort, like a stone stuck in your throat that you could neither swallow nor spit out.

You opened your mouth, wanting to say something, but discovered your throat felt as if it were being strangled; not a single word could be squeezed out.

You could only stand there, watching her cry.

She gritted her teeth, her tears streaming down uncontrollably: "Later, the Heavenly Palace sent tens of thousands of Cultivators to besiege the city. Do you know how desperate we were then?"

"Do you know that Mother was injured in that siege? If the Dean hadn't stepped in, you wouldn't be able to see us anymore!"

"Wuwuwu..."

She finally broke down into sobs, her voice full of the grievances and resentment accumulated over decades.

"Since you couldn't protect us, love us, or take care of us... then why did you bring us into this world? Why did you lie to Mother? Why!"

By the end, it didn't sound like an interrogation anymore; it sounded like she was crying for herself to hear.

She did not wait for your answer, or rather, she did not need your answer at all.

She just wanted to speak; after decades of grievances, someone was finally listening.

You did not speak, just standing there in front of her, listening to her vent sentence by sentence.

The wind blew over, messing up her hair, but she paid it no mind.

"That's enough," Ancestor Tianxuan finally spoke. "This place is not suitable for a long stay. Let's head back first."

"What about the immortal medicine and the divine wood spirit peach?" Qin Chuan suddenly became anxious. "If we can't find them, what will happen to Mother?"

You opened your hand—a stalk of immortal medicine and a divine wood spirit peach were floating quietly in your palm, emitting a gentle spiritual light.

Qin Yao's eyes suddenly lit up.

She wiped the tears from her face and stared at you: "You have them? Why didn't you take them out earlier?"

You opened your mouth, but did not reply.

It wasn't that you didn't want to speak, but that you truly didn't know what to say.

You really wanted to step forward and give your daughter a hug, but you didn't dare to move, and you didn't know what you were afraid of.

"Let's go back first." You put away the immortal medicine and the divine wood spirit peach, your tone calm.

Ancestor Tianxuan said nothing more, nodded, and his Clone dissipated.

You summoned the void-breaking boat and took them back the way you came.

The void-breaking boat flew a hundred miles, and by the side of the road, three people were standing side by side, hunched over, with ingratiating smiles on their faces—they were the three Late Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators who had been tailing you.

You glanced at them sideways without speaking, tapped your foot lightly, and the void-breaking boat turned into a beam of light, whistling away.

"Oh my god..." the lean man's voice trembled. "What kind of monster did we target?"

"No wonder he was so high-profile," the short, fat man took a deep breath. "It turns out the fools were us."

"Second brother, third brother," the female Cultivator said with a serious expression. "In the future, do not provoke people who are high-profile."

When those Divine Thought Clones appeared just now, the three of them had already been so scared that they wanted to run.

But they understood that they couldn't escape.

They simply stood where they were, not daring to move, watching the entire process unfold with their own eyes.

As a result, they witnessed a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.