"Originally, I wanted you to live out your life in peace and quiet. An ordinary life is a blessing."
"But I never expected that you would become so obsessed with the path of martial cultivation. Rather than letting you run around out there taking risks, I might as well tell you the truth," Song Xi's mother said.
At that moment, not only were Song Xi's eyes wide with shock — even Chu Feng, who was standing off to the side, felt his gaze sharpen.
Only now did Chu Feng realize that Song Xi's background was not as simple as it seemed.
"Your father was originally just an ordinary person. The year I met him, he was only a Half Ancestor — his talent for martial cultivation wasn't even as good as yours."
"But through a stroke of fate, he saved someone. That person was no ordinary figure — he was a supreme expert who had withdrawn from the world."
"Unfortunately, his injuries were far too severe to be healed, and he did not have long to live."
"That expert did not want all of his cultivation to go to waste. Grateful for your father's life-saving grace, he forced a portion of his cultivation and power into your father's body."
"After receiving that expert's cultivation, your father's strength soared dramatically. In a very short time, he rose from Half Ancestor to the True Immortal Realm. Unfortunately… your father… could not endure that expert's cultivation and power."
"The expert wanted to save him, but your father stubbornly refused."
"The expert warned that if this continued, your father would suffer a qi deviation and go berserk — and he feared your father might end up hurting you and me, his wife and child."
"In the end, the expert decided to construct a secret realm and seal your father inside together with him. If your father could ultimately withstand the inheritance, the expert would release him."
"But if your father could not endure the inheritance and truly went berserk, then the expert would perish alongside your father in that place."
"However, the expert said that if it truly came to that, he would extract his inheritance from your father's body and set up an inheritance formation there."
"And the expert gave the key to that gate to me. He told me that if the day came when you wished to accept his inheritance, I should take you there," Song Xi's mother said.
"Mother — does that mean my father might still be alive?" Song Xi asked.
"No." Song Xi's mother shook her head. "That expert said that if your father did not walk out of there within one year, he would certainly already be dead."
"So your father and the expert must both have perished," Song Xi's mother said.
"Mother, are you saying you want me to accept that inheritance?" Song Xi asked.
"I… I don't have much time left. I want to be buried together with your father, so I intend to go there to find him."
"At the same time, I want to ask you — are you willing to accept that expert's inheritance?"
"If you accept it, you will obtain power and martial talent that did not originally belong to you. But at the same time, it comes with enormous risk. If you cannot withstand that power, you will suffer the same fate as your father."
Song Xi's mother said this with an expression of inner conflict on her face the entire time.
After all, this was a dangerous matter. As Song Xi's mother, she did not actually want her son to attempt something so perilous.
Otherwise, she would have told him about this long ago instead of waiting until today.
But since she had chosen to tell Song Xi today, it meant she had come to realize just how dangerous the world of martial cultivation truly was.
Rather than letting her son live such a humble existence at the very bottom of the martial cultivation world, it was better to let him take a chance.