Hearing those words, Chu Feng suddenly tensed up, then quickly asked, "Who is it?"
As he asked this, Chu Feng's entire gaze changed.
Before, when Chu Feng had learned that people from the Main Realm of the Starfield had been secretly suppressing his grandfather and his father, even threatening their lives and driving them out of the Ancestral Martial Starfield, his eyes had been filled with fury.
But now, amidst that fury in his eyes, a look of resolute determination emerged.
Even though he didn't know who the enemy was, at this moment, he was already prepared to stand against that power.
"Even I don't know who they are. Your father never told me."
"But he did say that their force was one that few in the entire vast expanse of the outer heavens could contend with," the Chu Heavenly Clan's Clan Chief said.
"Then my father could have simply left. Why did he choose to be imprisoned?" Chu Feng asked.
"Now that is something you don't know. In fact, before this, even I didn't know," the Clan Chief said. At this point, he smiled — a complicated smile — and after a moment, he said to Chu Feng, "Within the Heavenly Path Forbidden Land of the Ancestral Martial Lower Realm, there is a certain kind of power."
"Staying inside that forbidden land for a long period would cause one's cultivation to regress, regardless of one's realm. It was precisely for this reason that our Chu Heavenly Clan's ancestor, Lord Chu Yetian Hong, designated it as a forbidden land and sealed it off."
"But your father said that the terrifying power within could actually awaken his Heavenly Bloodline. Only after his Heavenly Bloodline awakened would he gain the power to contend against that force."
"That was his primary reason for returning to the clan. And in order not to attract the attention of that force, he had to keep a low profile. If he wanted to keep a low profile, he couldn't enter into direct conflict with the Main Realm of the Starfield — he could only endure in silence."
"Of course, the way things developed back then was never intentional. Rather, after a series of events unfolded, he was simply pushed into that position with no other choice."
"The results of your talent test back then were genuine."
"And after someone humiliated you, your father's fury was real when he killed the people of the Main Realm of the Starfield."
"But it was also true that the Main Realm of the Starfield wanted your father dead."
"So the way things ended up was also a matter of being left with no alternative."
"I had originally proposed secretly raising you, because I truly feared that your father taking you into the forbidden land would cost you your life."
"After all, that forbidden land could strip even a martial cultivator of their cultivation. For a child like you, it would have been nothing short of hell."
"But your father refused. He told me not to interfere in your affairs, to pretend I didn't understand his intentions, so that to everyone it would look as though the two of you, father and son, had truly been cast out by the Chu Heavenly Clan."
"At the time, I didn't understand your father's thinking. I didn't know what he was really after — after all, you were still just a child."
"But now, I think I understand. Your father, from the very beginning, had his own private motives."
When the Chu Heavenly Clan's Clan Chief said this, the way he looked at Chu Feng subtly changed.
"Senior, what private motives did my father have?" Chu Feng asked curiously.
In truth, Chu Feng still couldn't quite understand.
Even if his father had wanted to go into seclusion for cultivation, there were many ways to do so. There was no need to be expelled from the Chu Heavenly Clan and despised by everyone.
At the same time, just as the Clan Chief had said, even if his father had wanted to use the excuse of being imprisoned to enter the forbidden land for cultivation — everything was still under the Chu Heavenly Clan's control. There would have been no need to send him away from his side.