Translator: Yuzu

Since the Sacred Dao Son had given the word, the guards of the Sacred Dao Sect outside the Hidden Cloud Valley could only dutifully issue tokens to the crowd.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and before Qing Yun could wait for the Sacred Dao Sect to open, his appointment with Qing Chen had arrived. As Qing Chen had said, the enthusiastic teenager actually wanted to invite Qing Yun to the Qing family.

“Yun Qing, open up! Don’t dawdle, you brat, if I wasn’t here today, are you going to keep Qing Chen outside the cave this whole time?” Mo Zhen pulled Qing Chen’s sleeve to drag the person inside Qing Yun’s cave.

Qing Yun had no choice but to open the cave’s restrictions and gave Mo Zhen a cold look.

In the past ten years, Mo Zhen has watched the round, chubby little boy turn into an ice cube that never melts, so he has a high resistance to Qing Yun’s indifference.

He stretched out the hand that was still stained with wine, ignoring Qing Yun’s disgusted gaze, and patted his disciple’s shoulder: “How can you change what you agreed to do? He has specially invited you to be his guest, so be a good boy and go.”

“Brother Yun remembers the appointment you and I made two months ago to fight?” Qing Chen also persisted. He had always wanted to fight with Yun Qing, and……in addition to that, he somehow, inexplicably felt very close to this person.

Qing Yun expressionlessly made a dust removal spell and nodded towards Qing Chen.

Seeing this, Mo Zhen then snorted and left.

“Since Brother Yun promised, why don’t you and I leave right now? My father also wanted to see what kind of handsome young man the rumored genius Yun Qing was long ago.”

As soon as Qing Chen’s words fell, he heard a low chuckle from a man from the interior of Qing Yun’s cave. Then, a man dressed in black robes with purple hair draped over a slightly demonic face walked out.

Of course, when he heard Qing Chen’s words, he wanted to laugh. His father said Yun Qing is a great young man? But they did not know that this “young man” was their family’s old ancestor.

Seeing the man appear in human form, Qing Yun turned his head and looked at him with raised eyebrows.

Ming Yan’s soul was not part of this space, and the Heavenly Dao has replaced the rules of this world. In the past, the man was afraid of being discovered by the Heavenly Dao and always would not easily appear in front of the beings of this world.

“Back then, when I infiltrated the Ming Yan Sword, I placed a restriction in the Qing family’s bloodline. They would not become the eyes and ears of the Heavenly Dao.” While transmitting a voice to Qing Yun, Ming Yan came forward and wrapped his arms around Qing Yun’s waist in an extremely intimate manner.

This man who likes to fool around, no matter what the situation is, wants to explicitly declare his possession of Qing Yun. These days, he had been appearing beside Qing Yun in sword form, and he had long been suffocating.

Qing Chen was unsurprisingly stunned by the intimate behavior between the two, and he asked with a puzzled face, “This is……”

“Just a friend, his name is Ming.” Qing Yun lightly explained while brushing off the man’s unfaithful hand.

Ming Yan’s expression immediately collapsed, but then he looked at Qing Chen: “You and Yun Qing are going to fight. I would like to witness which one of you two geniuses is stronger and weaker. This time, how about taking me along with you to the Qing family?”

“Naturally, you can……”

Qing Chen, a young man who only knows how to concentrate on cultivation, really can not see the ambiguity between the two and only felt that every move of these two had some strange feelings.

“Good then, let’s move now.” Ming Yan took Qing Yun’s hand.

Qing Chen looked at Qing Yun but sensed something was wrong, so he asked suspiciously: “Brother Yun, you don’t have a weapon? Why didn’t you bring the long sword you used in the battle against the Daoist that day?”

Hearing Qing Chen’s words, Ming Yan subconsciously stiffened, but Qing Yun hooked the corner of his mouth and said, “That sword? It was lost.”

Qing Chen became more and more confused about the relationship between the two and could only lead the way.

The Qing family was a long way from the Sky Origin Sect, and it took Qing Yun and Qing Chen half a day to get to where the Qing family was located.

As they got closer and closer to the Qing family, Qing Yun himself didn’t notice it, but the Ming Yan beside him could see clearly that Qing Yun’s gaze was getting colder and colder.

It was only because the Qing family’s home has moved countless times over the years, but now it has moved back to the place where Qing Yun was born and raised.

Looking at the strange yet familiar scene below, Qing Yun suddenly remembered that he had never been back to this place since the year he was forced to leave home and later hunted by his own father.

Even when he used the secret method to draw out the root bone and return all the Qing family bloodline, he was somewhere else.

And he hasn’t seen his father since he was pushed into a spatial rift by the Qing Hong Sword Sect Master Ling Yan.

Now that he is back in this place again, those memories that were buried for a long time were flashing in Qing Yun’s mind again, frame by frame.

Back then when lying on the small window at the back of the ancestral hall waiting longingly for his father, all the time spent alone in the ancestral hall, the joy of seeing his father for the first time out of the ancestral hall, and……the moment of despair when he saw his father bringing people to hunt him down, were all deeply engraved in Qing Yun’s mind and are like bone-deep scar that could never be erased.

Over the Qing family, Qing Yun saw the location of the ancestral hall at a glance.

“Look, that’s where I first saw you.”

Warmth came from Qing Yun’s palm, and it was Ming Yan who held his hand.

“Yes.” Qing Yun nodded but was obviously a little distracted. When Ming Yan saw his appearance, his gaze couldn’t help but darken slightly for a moment. His baby said that he didn’t care, but how could the pain of being betrayed by someone close to him really be relieved?

It was for this reason that Ming Yan decided to bring him to this place.

“Brother Yun, Brother Ming, the Qing family is below, follow me down.” Qing Chen has not returned home for many years, and at this moment, he looks very excited even while bringing along his friends.

Qing Chen, who was excited to return home at this moment, did not know that there was another group of people who were also going to rush to the Qing family but were full of ill intentions.

In the premises of the Sacred Dao Sect, the elders of the Sacred Dao Sect just received a message from the Sacred Dao Son: “Two months ago, no trace of Qing Yun was found in the Hidden Cloud Valley. Now, check the people of the Qing family whose ages match, and bring them to the Sacred Dao Sect to check them one by one. If you find anything different, call me immediately!”

Since Qing Yun’s resurrection was suspected, the Sacred Dao Sect focused on the Hidden Cloud Valley and the Qing family.

Although the world knows that Qing Yun has returned the Qing family bloodline, the Sacred Dao Son, who has a connection with the Heavenly Dao, knows that the Qing family bloodline would be of great benefit to Qing Yun in reshaping his body, so he is likely to be born again to the Qing family.

So, the Sacred Dao Sect is keeping a very close eye on the Qing family. This was also the reason for the rapid decline of the Qing family in recent years.

The Sacred Dao Sect elder who received the transmission shook his head indifferently. A hundred years ago, he still had a great interest in investigating the Qing family. After all, as a lineage that stretched for years, the Qing family has accumulated a lot of benefits.

Before Qing Yun, that devil, died back then, the status of the Qing family can be said to be extremely high. Even though everyone knows that there is a dispute between the Qing family and Qing Yun, Qing Yun is after all part of the Qing family……

So no one dared to oppose the Qing family.

But it was different after Qing Yun’s death. The Qing family almost became a target, and the Sacred Dao Sect stationed there gained a lot of benefits from the Qing family.

If there was a Qing family member present, they would have found that most of this place, whether it was a formation or a magic weapon, was taken from the Qing family.

But what else does the Qing family have now? This resident elder wanted to apply for a transfer out of here.

While arranging for people to besiege the Qing family, the elder of the Sacred Dao Sect thought, why not raid the Qing family at this time? Although there are no precious items, pulling some Qing family members to be sold as war slaves was also an objective income ah!

On the other side, once he returned to the Qing family, Qing Chen first went to see his father, who had just left seclusion, the current head of the Qing family, while Qing Yun was taken by the butler to visit the Qing family’s martial arts arena.

The Qing family has been in decline for a long time. Now, there was not even a strong person at the Tribulation stage, which is why Qing Chen is highly anticipated by the Qing family, because he who is known as a genius can be said to be the only hope of the Qing family.

“Two gentlemen, please follow me. In front is the Qing family’s martial arts arena.” The butler bowed and said.

The pattern of this place has not changed. Qing Yun not only knows where the Qing family’s martial arts arena is but also knows that the martial arts arena, the Qing family ancestral hall, and the library are all connected together.

The butler found something wrong as he guided them along the way. It was clearly the first time that Mr. Yun had come to the Qing family, but why was there no sense of unfamiliarity despite his slow pace?

Qing Yun followed the path that had changed so much in his eyes and crossed the Qing family’s martial arts arena. He caught a glimpse of the small, dilapidated window at the side of the ancestral hall.

His gaze paused before he looked away and asked the butler, “When will Qing Chen be able to come and fight me?”

The relationship between him and the Qing family had already ended, so there was no point in coming here anymore. After dealing with his engagement with Qing Chen, he should leave.

Sensing Qing Yun’s impatience, Ming Yan took the first step to look at the ancestral hall and said to the butler, “I heard that the Qing family is full of heroes, as friends of Qing Chen, can we go forward to offer incense to the ancestors of the Qing family?”

“This……” the butler hesitated for a moment, and then a bitter smile appeared in his eyes. They just want to go to the ancestral hall to offer incense, not to go to the hidden scripture pavilion, nor to see the precious images left by the Qing family ancestors, so why should he hesitate?

Besides, the Qing family was now no longer in its former glory, and there are no other places for people to see.

With this in mind, the butler agreed to Qing Yun and Ming Yan’s request and led the two of them to the ancestral hall.

“Go on.” Ming Yan led Qing Yun forward.

Ancestral Hall? A light flashed in Qing Yun’s eyes. The Qing family’s ancestral hall contained the memorial tablets of every family head with secretly sealed images. His father would naturally be there.

Just thinking about this, the corner of Qing Yun’s mouth pulled into a mocking smile mixed with inexplicable meaning. That man’s tablet must be placed in the highest place, right? After all, when his father, Qing Zhan, served as the head of the clan, it can be said that the entire family was brought to the top.

Qing Zhan was ruthless enough to have his own son captured and killed as a way to gain a good reputation for the entire Qing family.

Qing Yun stepped into the Qing family’s ancestral hall. As soon as he entered the door of the ancestral hall, he saw the lingering incense and the tablets arranged high up in a tower.

Qing Yun subconsciously looked up and searched for Qing Zhan’s name. He did not know when this man died, and where he died. Although all this was no longer related to Qing Yun, he still persistently searched. For this reason, he did not hesitate to unfold his powerful divine sense and carefully swept through the thousands of tablets.

However, Qing Yun did not find Qing Zhan’s name, not even in the most closed corner.

Qing Yun’s gaze could not hide his surprise, and he was almost stunned in place. How could it not be there?

That man has given so much for the entire Qing family, so how could there not even be a tablet.

Ming Yan looked at Qing Yun’s side face quietly. He pinched a spell in his hand and caused some commotion outside to lure the butler who had been following them out.

He took Qing Yun’s arm and slowly led him towards the inner room at the back of the ancestral hall, “Baby, since we’re back, aren’t we going to take a look?”

Qing Yun’s mind was in turmoil, so he didn’t notice Ming Yan’s leading words. If it were usual, he would have been able to notice that something was not quite right with this man.

When he reached an extremely dark corner, and Qing Yun had just entered the door that occupied all the impressions of his childhood, he immediately saw a simple offering table by the door, on which stood a very dilapidated tablet. The word “Qing Zhan” on it has become blurred with the erosion of the years.

It’s actually here?

Qing Yun would have never thought that it would be here, in this small and dark room, that he would see the tablet of the most powerful head of this Qing family in history.

Qing Yun staggered a bit, holding the door frame beside him. He lowered his head and his eyes were hidden in the shadows, but a sarcastic low laugh came out of his mouth: “This man……has done so much for the Qing family, but in the end, he actually……surprisingly, he is only worthy of staying in this small, dark corner, not even qualified to be on the Qing family’s altar……”

Ming Yan was speechless and could only look at Qing Yun with a caring gaze, watching him feel the impact of the ideas that had persisted in his heart for tens of thousands of years.

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