"Dad!" True Word Venerable buried her head in his embrace, her cries heart-wrenching.
She thought she would hate this man for a lifetime.
But when he passed away, her heart was pierced with pain.
Jiang Fan watched with eyes that mirrored her sorrow.
As he glanced around Wenhai Academy’s surroundings, he quietly retreated to the back of the crowd.
Rumble—
Nine Azure Dragons pulled a bronze chariot, racing out from the depths of the void.
It was none other than the saint who struck back the Nine-Day Giant Emperor with a single blow and wiped out several One-Day Giant Emperors!
The bronze chariot stopped over Wenhai Academy.
A woman with a long black skirt, charming and alluring, with a graceful figure leapt down.
She held a green bottle of spiritual liquid, gazing at Xingyuan Venerable’s body, her eyes immediately reddening.
"Still too late."
She was none other than Qian Jiao Venerable.
After the saint repelled the Nine-Day Giant Emperor, he took her and Xiong Xiong away from Central Earth.
Unexpectedly, Qian Jiao Venerable returned.
Having sought out from the outside world a spiritual liquid filled with powerful vitality.
Looking at the sobbing True Word Venerable.
Qian Jiao Venerable squatted down, gently patting her back:
"Before he left, hearing you call him dad, he was already without regret."
True Word Venerable turned back and glared at her hatefully.
Qian Jiao Venerable was unperturbed, sighing: "Don’t you understand yet? I am not your father’s wife."
"We, Xiong Xiong, and the lord, the three of us were hunted by some existence, forced to conceal our identities and hide in Central Earth."
"Your father agreed to shelter us in exchange for the lord’s help once."
"It was just unfortunate that it coincided with your mother’s passing, causing your misunderstanding."
"But our lord’s existence, he couldn’t explain to you."
True Word Venerable’s delicate body trembled.
The resentment that dwelled within her heart for years instantly vanished.
It turns out, she misunderstood her father.
Qian Jiao Venerable continued: "Your father also begged from the lord a strand of the saint’s will and embedded it in your body."
"It ensures your safety, turning danger into fortune."
"That’s why, even when the Five-star Giant King sent ferocious winds at you in the Heavenly Realm, you were able to return alive."
What?
True Word Venerable’s pupils widened.
No wonder back then when the Three Gods and One Bodhisattva entered the Heavenly Realm, the Black Sun King seized the opportunity to strike at her.
Surely, the Black Sun King’s precognitive domain discerned her extraordinariness.
And no wonder such terrifying winds, which even the Heavenly Human Five Declines would succumb to, she passed through unscathed, turning into a fireball and falling back to Central Earth.
It turns out, everything had a reason.
She simply didn’t think deeper about it.
Upon learning the truth, regret filled her heart as she looked at the cold body in her arms, tears pouring down:
"Dad!!!"
Snort—
Nine Azure Dragons seemed to sense something, suddenly becoming restless.
Inside the bronze chariot, an elderly commander in armor spoke:
"Qian Jiao, we should leave now."
"That being has already detected our presence."
Qian Jiao Venerable accepted Xingyuan Venerable’s body from True Word Venerable’s embrace.
Resting his head on her shoulder, she stroked his tepid cheeks, eyes shimmering with tears as she softly said:
"Lord, take the princely heir and leave."
"I... will stay with him."
"He suffered too much, losing his wife in his middle age, his beloved daughter turning away from him, still shouldering the fate of all Confucian practitioners silently."