"Eggy, don't worry. I don't think Father is refusing to see me," Chu Feng said.
"If he's not refusing to see you, then what is he doing?" the Queen asked.
"I believe Father would not have set up this formation for no reason. He's… already left," Chu Feng said.
Chu Feng's words were not without basis, because he knew that his father had not been imprisoned here — he had stayed here of his own free will to cultivate.
As long as his father was still here, there would have been no need to set up such a formation. Now that the formation existed, the most likely explanation was that his father had already departed.
"Left?" The Queen's small face grew even more displeased upon hearing this, and she couldn't help but shout, "Then what about the promise to tell you about your mother? Is he going to break his word?"
"He shouldn't be. If Father wanted to leave, he could have simply left. The fact that he set up this formation must be for a reason — it's probably protecting something. I think what Father wants to protect is exactly what he wants to tell me," Chu Feng said.
"So you're saying this formation is meant to keep outsiders out, not you — and you can go straight through?"
The Queen was, after all, extraordinarily clever. She had been blinded by her earlier anger, but once Chu Feng explained, she immediately caught on.
"That's my guess. But whether it's true or not, there's only one way to find out."
With that, Chu Feng set off without hesitation, flying straight toward the formation.
Hummm— In the next moment, something miraculous happened. The formation, which appeared to be utterly indestructible, parted like water before Chu Feng, and he slipped effortlessly through it.
Before long, Chu Feng had passed through the formation layer and truly entered the forbidden grounds.
"It actually worked. Looks like your guess was right. Since you can pass through here, even if your father has left, he must have left something for you."
"Father and son through and through — for you to figure out something like this," the Queen said.
At that moment, the anger that had been written across the Queen's small face finally gave way to a faint smile.
Rumble— The moment Chu Feng's feet touched the ground, the earth began to tremble. In the next instant, streaks of luminous light rose from beneath the ground.
There were so many of them, like meteors flowing in reverse. Upon appearing, they began to intertwine and merge.
As they fused together, the lights shifted and changed, gradually coalescing into a figure that grew clearer and clearer, until it finally took the shape of a man.
Everything was so vivid and lifelike — even every last stitch on the robes was perfectly distinct.
The figure was none other than Chu Feng's father, Chu Xuanyuan.
Yet even though the Chu Xuanyuan before him looked utterly real, Chu Feng knew that this was not his father. It was a formation — an image his father had left behind.
But even if it was nothing more than a formation, Chu Feng still felt an overwhelming sense of closeness gazing upon it, and his eyes brimmed with both respect and longing, for this formation carried his father's aura.
The formation seemed to possess a will of its own. The moment it appeared, it turned its gaze upon Chu Feng, its eyes filled with warmth and tenderness.
"Feng'er, I hope you can forgive your father for leaving without saying goodbye."