The cultivation of this woman was not visibly high, but her aura was incredibly strong, resembling that of a queen. She seemed utterly unfazed by several peerlessly beautiful young women in front of her. As she moved with a swaying grace, she left a group of cultivators nearby dumbfounded.

"Who is she? Why is her aura so powerful?"

"She's quite unfamiliar; I've never seen her before."

"Indeed unfamiliar, but the aura is truly strong!"

People whispered among themselves, then watched as the woman in black brushed past Chu Qing, Lu Hongxue, Xuan'er, and Xuanxuan—some of the top young Heavenly Geniuses from the Heavenly Realm—presenting a golden card and sauntering into the Heavenly Dao Garden.

Just then, someone in the crowd suddenly exclaimed in a loud voice, "Ah... my Heavenly Dao Garden golden card is gone! Who stole my golden card? Who! Step forward!"

The crowd dispersed with a bang, revealing a cultivator with a pale face.

This cultivator anxiously looked around and said, "I... I really have a Heavenly Dao Garden golden card. I'm the young master of the Ouyang Family from the Heavenly Realm. My card has been stolen!"

There was an uproar among the bystanders, many of whom looked at the young man with a hint of sympathy in their eyes.

It was not strange for a young master from a well-known and sizable clan like the Ouyang Family in the Heavenly Realm to have a golden Heavenly Dao Garden card. But to have such an important item stolen... rendered everyone speechless, unsure of what to say.

The disturbance quickly subsided. As soon as the identity of the Ouyang Family's young master was verified by the Heavenly Dao Garden, they issued him a replacement card. As for who had stolen his original card, nobody knew. It had never before happened that a card from the Heavenly Dao Garden was stolen, so the incident became a rather amusing anecdote.

Lu Hongxue and the others had already entered the Heavenly Dao Garden, naturally heading to the newly constructed battle platform.

In fact, almost all the cultivators were there.

It was a rare sight for the Heavenly Dao Garden to look deserted after opening its doors.

...…

A secret chamber.

Only Hongyue and Chu Mo were present.

At that moment, Hongyue revealed her true face again, showing a face that was delicate and pretty. Her eyes were filled with affection as she looked at Chu Mo.

"Aren't you curious?" Hongyue asked with a mischievous smile, then took out an elixir from her person and handed it to Chu Mo, "Take this, and within an hour, you will fully recover."

Chu Mo did not take the elixir. An elixir that could restore the full strength of a Great Luo Golden Immortal in two hours was definitely not ordinary, and its price was surely steep. He looked at Hongyue and said, "Thanks for the kind offer, senior..."

"I told you, call me Auntie," Hongyue glared at Chu Mo.

"Uh... may I know why?" Chu Mo looked at Hongyue with hopeful expectation.

Hongyue indeed did not disappoint Chu Mo, "I knew it was you the moment I saw you. You look too much like your parents."

Chu Mo glanced at Hongyue and replied indifferently, "I am not in my true form now."

Hongyue spat, "Little thing, you think I don't know that? Isn't it just the Versatile Technique? Do you know where the Versatile Technique originated?"

Chu Mo was slightly startled, he hadn't expected Hongyue to even know about the Versatile Technique, and he stood there frozen.

"The Versatile Technique was originally a divine ability of your Chu Family!" Hongyue looked at Chu Mo with a smile that was not quite a smile, then couldn't help but let out a light sigh, "Time changes, and the world changes... ah, things and people are no longer the same. Hurry up and change back to your original appearance, let your aunt have a good look at you. Trying to discern you through the Versatile Technique... it's always a bit blurry when trying to unravel it."

"Unravel?" Chu Mo was startled once again.

"Your father taught me that, hee hee, I am the only person in this world, besides your father, who can unravel the Versatile Technique! Do you want to learn?" Hongyue looked at Chu Mo with a smile, then stuffed the elixir into his mouth, "Hurry up and swallow it, be good! I am your father's sworn sister, shouldn't you call me auntie?"

The elixir was stuffed into his mouth and the immense, mighty power exploded in Chu Mo's body in an instant, but all of this was not as shocking to Chu Mo as what Hongyue said last, "Where is my father?"

Chu Mo skipped all the preliminaries and directly asked the question he most wanted to know in his heart. His mother's name was taboo, not to be mentioned, but the whereabouts of his father... he should be able to know that, right? At least... Chu Mo wanted to know if his father was still in this world.

The smile on Hongyue's face disappeared instantly, and she looked at Chu Mo with a soft gaze, somewhat apologetically, "I don't know how to answer that question for you."

"Don't know how to answer? So that means... he's still alive?" Chu Mo's voice trembled slightly, as he seized upon the key point in Hongyue's words and asked loudly, "Where is he?"

"Don't get excited, hurry up and recover your strength. You're going to be in a battle in a little while." Hongyue looked somewhat forlorn as she spoke softly.

"Auntie..." It was the first time Chu Mo used this somewhat unfamiliar address, looking at Hongyue with pleading eyes, "Please tell me! Is he alive? Where is he?"

Hongyue paused for a moment, then nodded, "He's alive, but I don't know where."

"You're lying to me!" Chu Mo looked directly into Hongyue's eyes, "With your level of cultivation, how could you possibly not know where he is?"

"Auntie has no need to lie to you," sighed Hongyue lightly, "With your father's character and abilities, if he doesn't want anyone to know where he is, no one can find him, except for your mother."

When Hongyue spoke of Chu Mo's mother, there was a clear change in her tone, and then she paused, looking at Chu Mo, "Recover your strength first. After the battle, your auntie will have a good chat with you."

Chu Mo took a deep breath, his eyes slightly red, and said softly, "Recover my strength? It's not necessary. Even if he sealed himself up to become a Great Luo Golden Immortal, even at the peak of Great Luo, I could burst him with just two hands!"

Hongyue looked at Chu Mo, "Don't underestimate the top Heavenly Geniuses of the Heavenly Realm, they're not as weak as you think."

Chu Mo said, "At the same realm, I am invincible!"

"..." Even Hongyue found herself at a loss for words at Chu Mo's statement, "Well then, your auntie will take you out. Many interesting young people have come, including your cousin."

Hongyue said casually.

"Cousin?" Chu Mo twitched the corners of his mouth, "I have other relatives?"

"Of course, the Chu Clan has descendants," said Hongyue lightly, "Your grandfather had two sons, your father was the eldest, and you have an uncle."

"Oh." Chu Mo responded calmly, without saying anything more.

Hongyue just looked at Chu Mo deeply and said softly, "Don't blame them for not looking for you after they knew of your existence. They also have their own difficulties. Back then... someone had left divine sense imprints on them, and once they made contact with you, then... your existence would be inevitably exposed. If someone crosses the stars to kill you, we... may not be able to stop them."

As she spoke, Hongyue gazed at Chu Mo, "You must know, this is the Heavenly Realm! Not the Immortal Realm, and there are no Buddhist Pure Lands to protect you from disasters."

"..." Chu Mo looked at Hongyue speechlessly for a long time, then said bitterly, "So it turns out you all knew everything, and only I was foolishly kept in the dark."

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