In the small courtyard, Su Xuan felt quite uncomfortable sitting on the stone bench.
The reason was simple. Her beautiful eyes cautiously glanced to the side, where a pretty lady in a white dress sat.
Even Su Xuan had to marvel at the beauty of this spiritual formation elder from Beicang Spiritual Academy. This beauty not only came from her stunning face, but more importantly, from the temperament she inadvertently revealed while sitting there.
Quiet and indifferent, just one look can calm the whole heart.
Su Xuan had met the most mysterious elder of Beicang Spiritual Academy several times when she was looking for Ying Baiye. She also knew that the two seemed to live in the same courtyard, but until now, she She didn't understand the relationship between the two. Even though she asked the little fox following Ying Baiye many times, openly and secretly, she never got an answer.
"He's going to be up there for a long time, and if you're going to wait for him you'd better get some clothes on."
And just as she was carefully looking at Lingxi, Lingxi's expression remained unchanged and he spoke softly.
The tone was very calm. This calm tone reminded Su Xuan of the way Ying Baiye spoke. The two people were surprisingly similar in this regard.
"I just want to thank Junior Ying for saving his life." Su Xuan didn't know why she took the initiative to explain this. As soon as she said the words, she stopped and immediately showed a gentle smile: "Thank you Lingxi Elder’s reminder.”
The mustard bracelet was gently opened, and a thin cloak was draped on her body.
She watched Lingxi take out a pot of hot tea and put it on the stone table next to her. The tea had a delicate fragrance, which was a bit refreshing.
Su Xuan opened her mouth slightly, wanting to say something, but stopped.
She looked at Lingxi, but Lingxi didn't look in her direction. A pair of beautiful eyes just stared at the position of the roof. Su Xuan knew that from this direction, she could only see Ying Baiye's somewhat... The back view of Mo Lake.
Suddenly, she seemed to understand something, and then a beautiful smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Then he turned his head and faced forward.
It was quiet in the small courtyard, with only the faint fragrance of tea lingering in the air.
…
On the roof, Ying Baiye stared at the young man walking towards him, tapped his finger on the jade bottle at hand, and spoke calmly.
"Want a drink?"
Muchen shook his head. He and Shen Cangsheng reached the roof front and back. When he saw Shen Cangsheng climbing first, he waited there alone. He waited until Shen Cangsheng left before walking up.
He knew what Ying Baiye would say to him tonight, which was the truth that his father had not told him for more than ten years. Therefore, the longer he waited below, the more eager he felt.
He had been waiting for this day for a long time.
Ever since he was a child, although his mother's appearance in his memory has become more and more vivid, the movement in her blood has always reminded him of what a gentle mother that woman was.
The soft little tunes he had heard there would often ring in his ears, and he would dream about his mother caressing his forehead and telling bedtime stories that he could not remember now.
He asked Mu Feng many times where his mother had gone.
But every time, the answer he got was a smile without saying a word.
He knew that Mu Feng didn't want to lie to him, let alone put the burden on the young him.
Later, when Muchen was a little older, he stopped asking this question.
Because, he gradually understood that in this world, the strong are respected and one has to rely on strength to speak. His mother's departure was not voluntary. She only left them because she wanted to protect them.
So he didn't ask his father this question again, because every question he asked seemed to Mu Feng to remind him of his incompetence.
This is poking the wound in Dad's heart again and again.
Therefore, he did not speak again until he was sure that he could leave the Northern Spirit Realm.
But Mu Feng didn't know that he had already determined his future goals before he even started practicing.
He wanted to bring his mother back and reunite with his father, and they wanted to become a perfect family.
But his mother was too mysterious. He couldn't find any clues about her in the Northern Spiritual Realm, but when he came to the Northern Heavenly Spiritual Academy, he got a black eye again.
He once thought that he would have to wait until he became very strong before he could detect clues about his mother from this vast world.
But sometimes things are so unpredictable. He met Ying Baiye.
Just tonight, it seemed like he would know the truth.
So until the moment he sat in front of Ying Baiye, his violently beating heart still didn't slow down.
"Let's get straight to the point."
Muchen's eyes were sharp, staring straight at Ying Baiye in front of him.
He couldn't wait any longer.
But I can’t wait, I still have to wait.
Ying Bai glanced at him indifferently at night, but did not speak directly. Instead, he took a sip of the strong wine in the jade bottle, and then said: "You can ask, I can answer, but whether I want to tell you or not depends entirely on me. Feeling."
Muchen exhaled after hearing this, and his mood gradually calmed down.
He simply organized his thoughts, then confirmed the questions in his mind, and then looked at Ying Baiye again: "First question, what is your relationship with my mother?"
"Aunt Jing is a very important family member to me. If I have to define a relationship, you can think of her as my and Lingxi's adoptive mother."
Ying Baiye said calmly.
Adoptive mother...
Muchen's eyes fluctuated slightly when he heard this title.
Not only Ying Baiye, the mysterious spiritual array elder was also related to his mother.
He did not doubt the authenticity of Ying Baiye's words, because Ying Baiye had no need to lie to him. If he didn't want to tell him, Ying Baiye could just refuse.
Therefore, Ying Baiye and him should really be brothers in law.
In this case, Ying Baiye is someone who can be trusted and belongs to his mother's side.
Although he had thought that this might be the case before, Muchen didn't really feel relieved until this moment was truly confirmed.
"Second question." Muchen paused slightly, raised his eyes, and looked at Ying Baiye with a hint of expectation. "Can you tell me my mother's information?"
There were only fragments of memories left by his mother, and he wanted to know what kind of person his mother was.
Any information about Aunt Jing?
When Ying Baiye heard this question, he lowered his chin slightly and saw Muchen's expectant eyes.
Also, he once heard Aunt Jing mention that Muchen was only a few months older than him, but before meeting him, Aunt Jing had been wandering on the mainland for two years. In other words, maybe Aunt Jing had already left Muchen when Muchen was still an infant.
Muchen probably didn't remember anything at that time.
Ying Baiye thought for a moment, and then spoke slowly in a calm tone: "Aunt Jing's name is Qing Yanjing."
Qing Yanjing.
Muchen's eyes flashed slightly.
This is his mother's name.
"When I met Aunt Jing, I was probably around three years old..."
Ying Baiye's eyes filled with memories, and he recalled his first encounter with Aunt Lingxi Jing on the Bingling Continent.
His tone was very calm, but Muchen could still hear Ying Baiye's kindness towards his mother from this calm voice. Every time he mentioned the word "Aunt Jing", Ying Baiye's tone They will all become a little softer subconsciously.
He listened to Ying Baiye describing the image of his mother, and a gentle and elegant woman seemed to appear in front of him so intuitively.
She stretched out her jade hand, caressed the top of her head, and sang a soft tune to coax him to sleep.
That seemed to be the only image of his mother in his memory.
There was a soft halo around my mother, making her whole body look so gentle.
He looked at Ying Baiye and subconsciously felt a little envy in his heart.
No jealousy, just the purest envy.
I envied Ying Baiye for being able to spend such a warm time with her mother.
His mother left them for him and his father. She endured loneliness and loneliness and could only wander around alone. He could feel his mother's love for him, so he was not jealous.
On the contrary, he was very grateful to Lingxi and Ying Baiye. After leaving their mother, his father and he still had each other's company, but after leaving their mother, she was the only one.
If Lingxi and Ying Baiye weren't there, my mother would be so lonely and alone.
Loneliness can kill.
That kind of loneliness will only torture people to death.
Ying Baiye didn't tell many stories between him and Qing Yanjing, he was just describing the almost perfect Aunt Jing in his memory.
This narrative went on for a long time until...
At the age of nine.
Ying Baiye stopped talking.
Muchen was confused for a moment, and then realized what happened during this time period.
"The third question, mother...why did you leave me and dad?"
Muchen's voice was a little disappointed, this was the question he wanted to know most.
Ying Baiye was silent for a long time after listening to this question.
Muchen did not rush, but waited quietly on the side.
Why did Aunt Jing leave Muchen and his son?
Regarding this issue, Ying Baiye had actually been thinking about it for a long time.
To protect Muchen and his son?
There is no doubt about this.
Accompanying Aunt Jing, he felt the longing and suffering in Aunt Jing's heart many times. If possible, she really didn't want to leave the father and son.
But why is leaving a protection?
"Do you know about the ancient Buddha Clan?"
After a long period of silence, Ying Baiye's voice broke the silence.
"I don't know." Muchen shook his head. His understanding of the world was a bit poor, and he knew very little about other continents.
"It is a very powerful super force. As for how powerful it is, if we use the analogy of other forces, it is almost as powerful as the Endless Fire Domain that Li Xuantong mentioned to you."
Endless fire domain!
Muchen's heart trembled slightly, and he suddenly understood what kind of status this "Ancient Buddha Clan" had in the world.
But why should Ying Baiye say this at this time?
After that, Ying Baiye quickly gave the answer.
"Aunt Jing is from this ancient tribe, and is now imprisoned in this ancient tribe."
Muchen's eyes suddenly grew larger, and he felt that his ears were ringing.
The power that imprisoned my mother was actually so huge!
That is almost the pinnacle of the entire world.
"What happens after that is just my personal guess. After you listen, it's best to forget about it after tonight." Ying Baiye said to Muchen.
Muchen's eyes flashed slightly, and then he nodded.
Without looking at him, Ying Baiye said to himself: "The ancient Futu clan is divided into three lines, namely Qing, Xuan, and Mo. Among the three lines, the Qing line is much weaker than the other two lines. This situation continued until Aunt Jing became a saint of the ancient Buddha tribe, and then things got better."
"But with the death of Aunt Jing's father, the decline of Qingmai was like a collapsed dam, completely irreparable. It was at this time that Aunt Jing left the ancient Futu clan and wanted to find a way for herself. A breakthrough, and then I met your father, and then I had you.”
"These ancient gods always have a particularly strict set of measures for bloodline monitoring, so the Futu Ancient Clan can sense your birth. Although I don't know how Aunt Jing concealed your location, it is obvious that , the same method did not work for her, a clan member who has lived in the Ancient Buddha Clan for decades, so she chose to leave you and your son, because your father is really weak to the Ancient Buddha Clan, and they will not I recognize the marriage between Aunt Jing and your father, let alone your existence that has 'tarnished' the bloodline of the God Clan."
How could the aloof Gods allow such a disgraceful thing to happen.
Sometimes, face is really important to these ancient tribes.
But, is it really just like this?
If this was really the case, this matter wouldn't have confused Ying Baiye for so long.
Because Aunt Jing was imprisoned voluntarily, why?
If it is really just a matter of appearance, in fact, when Aunt Jing's strength reaches that stage, she will be able to face any storm. As the same saying goes, in the world, strength is the most respected.
During those years of wandering, Qing Yanjing was not only trying to avoid being tracked by the Ancient Buddha Clan, she was also accumulating enough strength to negotiate with the Ancient Buddha Clan.
Later, the tens of thousands of meteors that hit Futu Xuan in the ancient Futu clan proved that she had that strength.
But even so, Aunt Jing was still voluntarily imprisoned.
He combined some of the information revealed to him by Aunt Jing and some intelligence collected in Yinglong City over the years to gradually complete the truth behind this matter.
He suspected...
"Aunt Jing left you because she didn't have the ability to protect you at that time. In order to prevent your position from being exposed by her, she left you. However, she was imprisoned voluntarily. It may be directly related to the struggle of the three meridians. Xuan , Mo Liangmai will not want to see Aunt Jing, whose strength has greatly increased, return to Qingmai, so they will try their best to prevent it, and the best way to prevent this from happening is to find Aunt Jing's weakness. , that is... you and your son. Therefore, she was voluntarily imprisoned in order to allow you to avoid the vortex of this power struggle. "
At the end of the day, it's for them.
Muchen's eyes were a little dark. Strength and power, because of their weakness, became the source of his mother's suffering.
He lowered his head, feeling a little uncomfortable.
However, when he lowered his head, Ying Baiye frowned at this moment.
The accuracy of such a speculation is indeed not low. This is also the conclusion he has reached after years of investigation, but as he said before, he has really investigated it for many years.
If it were just these, it wouldn't take much time at all.
There was only one reason why he spent so much time. He always felt that he still had something to catch.
Is the reason behind this really that simple?
Perhaps for other people, it is already very complicated to deduce such a conclusion, but for Ying Baiye, he only feels that more and more doubts are constantly arising.
What puzzled him the most was the attitude of the great elder, Fu Tu Xuan.
how to say?
I always feel that throughout the entire incident, Futu Xuan's decision-making seemed very, well... mentally retarded.
I forgive Ying Baiye for using this word to describe the peerless strong man in the supreme realm of Saint Grade Heaven, but the same sentence is too feeble-minded. It is impossible for a weak-minded person to make a decision that such a strong person can make.
Even ordinary people can't do such stupid things.
Imprison a high-end combatant.
I really don't understand.
Because Aunt Jing's purpose was very simple, just to protect Muchen and his son, it was so simple that she was able to let him infer so many things.
But when I put my eyes on this great elder, I feel that there seems to be something hidden under the water that has not emerged.
Ying Baiye didn't know if he was thinking too much, but his intuition told him that this matter might not be that simple after all.
It's just that he has too little information, so he can't dig out the last layer yet.
There must be things in the Ancient Buddha Clan that he doesn't know about.
However, these are not important now, the most important thing now is...
Ying Baiye frowned and looked at Muchen beside him, who had his head lowered.
It seems that there is a bit too much information. It is the ancient Futu clan and the three lines are competing, so it will not hit this little guy.
"So, what are you going to do?"
Ying Baiye asked calmly.
Muchen breathed out: "I don't know what I should do, but..."
but?
Under Ying Baiye's calm gaze, Muchen suddenly raised his head.
"But just get stronger."
His voice was sonorous and powerful, and his eyes were as sharp as swords.
"As long as I become stronger, I can take my mother out of the Ancient Buddha Clan. As long as I become stronger, the Ancient Buddha Clan will also recognize the marriage between my father and mother. As long as I become stronger, no matter what the three lines of marriage are, I don’t care if it’s a fight or some two-line struggle for hegemony.”
He can protect the people he wants to protect.
Father, mother, Luo Li, all the people he cares about will be protected under his wings and will not be invaded by any wind or rain.
As long as he is strong enough.
Therefore, he doesn't need to worry about the face of his bloodline, and he doesn't need to understand those so-called power struggles. He doesn't know what he should do, but there is only one thing: his attitude is clear.
He must become an extremely strong man.
The heart of a strong man.
Ying Baiye looked at Muchen with a sharp aura, a hint of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.
Good character.
But it didn't bury Aunt Jing's reputation as a parent.
Oh, although he still thinks Muchen is not as good-looking as Aunt Jing.
But at least...
"I have also imagined the scene after meeting you."
Ying Baiye said with a smile. "I thought at that time, if you are a good child with no talent but a pure heart, I will give you a life of happiness and prosperity for Aunt Jing. But if you are a person with extremely bad conduct, no matter you No matter how talented you are, I will destroy you to prevent you from tarnishing Aunt Jing's name. But now..."
Under Muchen's doubtful eyes, Ying Baiye took a sip of wine.
"Not bad, his talent is just enough, and his character is not bad. He is worthy of being Aunt Jing's son."
Aunt Jing's son.
Muchen's eyes softened, and when he looked at Ying Baiye in front of him, he felt a little kindness in his heart.
Through tonight's conversation, he already knew what kind of status his mother had in the eyes of this evil senior. Being recognized by him as "worthy of being Aunt Jing's son" was probably the highest thing for Muchen at the moment. Just give it an evaluation.
"How do you know that I have a good character? It seems that we have never met each other."
Having settled a long-standing worry, Muchen relaxed and couldn't help but joke with Ying Baiye.
"Ha, although in my opinion, my cousin is a bit stupid, in fact, I can still trust her vision. The person she likes will not have bad character."
Ying Baiye smiled casually.
Of course, what's more important is that Muchen is standing in front of him, and nothing can be hidden from his eyes.
I'm afraid only Qing Yanjing and Ling Xi can understand the extent to which he has mastered people's hearts since he was a child. After all, when he was a child, he was, well, very curious.
What's more, in front of Yan Tianjing, there are probably not many people who can hide it from him, at least not Mu Chen.
"I accepted this sentence without ceremony."
Muchen was stunned for a moment, and then a bright smile appeared on his face.
To be honest, Ying Baiye was the first person to say that Luo Li had good taste. Li Xuantong had a different attitude before. He simply felt that Luo Li was unkind to others and Muchen was not good enough for Luo Li.
There are not a few people who have such thoughts in the entire Beicang Spiritual Academy. In fact, Muchen can imagine that there may be more people like this in the future.
At least judging from Li Xuantong's attitude, I'm afraid that the Luo Shen clan where Luo Li belongs to would not have such a "good taste" towards him.
But, so what?
If Luo Li chooses him, then he will definitely prove that he has a really good eye for girls.
Everything will be left to time, time will prove everything.
"Um, are you done drinking?"
At this moment, Ying Baiye's voice suddenly sounded.
He had just poured the last bit of wine from the jade bottle into his mouth.
"Then that's enough for tonight."
Under Muchen's gaze, Ying Baiye stood up.
That's it? This is the end of the conversation, right?
Muchen thought in his mind that his doubts were almost answered, and it was indeed time to leave.
But just when he was about to get up, Ying Baiye's voice sounded again.
"Very well, let's start the second activity tonight."
Um?
The second activity?
what?
Muchen looked at Ying Baiye doubtfully.
Then, he saw Ying Baiye holding a white scroll in his hand and casting a playful look at him.
Wait, he felt like he had forgotten something.
hiss--
Muchen grinned.
Suddenly he remembered what Ying Baiye said before.
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