"Wait."
"You two can catch up later."
"Answer my question first."
"Dongfang Hansong, what is this about the Prison Lord you just mentioned?"
Chu Feng asked in a solemn voice.
Compared to Chen Hui, he was even more firmly convinced that what Dongfang Hansong said was true.
Chen Hui was indeed Dongfang Hansong's son.
But what truly piqued Chu Feng's curiosity was why Dongfang Hansong called him Young Master—and what this Prison Lord was all about.
Dongfang Hansong rose to his feet, flipped his palm, and two masses of intertwined bloodline aura drifted into the air.
Chu Feng immediately sensed that the aura was extremely familiar.
And it was a familiarity that stemmed from the very depths of his soul.
"Our Prison Sect's current standing is all thanks to the Prison Lord."
"However, no one within our Prison Sect knows the Prison Lord's true identity."
"Lord Cang Li was once fortunate enough to glimpse the Prison Lord's side profile. He said... the Prison Lord bears a resemblance to you."
"Combined with your exceptionally powerful Prison Infant and your control over the Sacred Weapon, Lord Cang Li suspected that the Prison Lord, who led our Sect's reforms and brought it to its current heights, is your relative."
"To verify this, Lord Cang Li did not hesitate to damage his own body, extracting the Prison Lord's bloodline aura from within himself."
"After that, he sent me to your homeland — the Greater Heaven Upper Realm — to seek out your grandfather's bloodline aura and determine whether the two matched."
"Through my search, I was able to confirm that your grandfather, Chu Hanxian, who disappeared many years ago, is the Prison Lord who led our Prison Sect to prominence."
The moment Dongfang Hansong finished speaking these words.
Apart from him, the other three present were all greatly shaken.
"My grandfather… is actually the Prison Lord of the Prison Sect?"
Chu Feng's first reaction was shock, but after recalling what that mysterious old man had told him back then, it seemed he could understand after all.
Chu Feng had once entered an unfathomably deep secret realm, where he had met a mysterious old man who was likely someone who had survived since ancient times.
Yet that old man had addressed Chu Feng as "Young Master."
From that old man's words, Chu Feng had learned roughly some things about his grandfather.
Back in his day, his grandfather had risen to prominence as a genius, and his emergence had alarmed the then-dominant force of the Ancestral Martial Star Domain, the Nameless Clan.
The Nameless Clan would not allow anyone to threaten their dominant position, so they secretly sent people to deal with Chu Feng's grandfather.
Although Chu Feng's grandfather managed to escape with his life, he also realized the intentions of the Nameless Clan. He did not choose to retaliate. Instead, he used the time before he had fully risen to power to leave the Ancestral Martial Star Domain.
He intended to cultivate elsewhere, throw off the Nameless Clan's surveillance, and once his cultivation reached a great level of attainment, return to the Ancestral Martial Star Domain to single-handedly revive his family clan.
By a twist of fate, Chu Feng's grandfather entered that unfathomably deep secret realm.
Afterward, for reasons unknown, he lived inside that secret realm for many years.
Most likely, it was a span as long as roughly nine thousand years.
It was not until approximately one thousand years ago that Chu Feng's grandfather finally left that secret realm.
However, after leaving the secret realm, Chu Feng's grandfather did not return to the Chu Heavenly Clan.
According to that mysterious elder, it seemed his grandfather had something he absolutely had to do.
Because that mysterious elder had also told Chu Feng that his grandfather was not a bad person — if he had committed wrongs, there must have been a reason — and told Chu Feng not to blame his grandfather.
In Chu Feng's view, his grandfather must have been compelled by circumstances, forced to do certain things.
Thinking about it now, perhaps the thing he had to do was related to the Mortal Realm.
……
"Lord Prison Marshal, is Chu Feng... truly a descendant of the Prison Lord?"
At that moment, Chen Hui's voice broke through Chu Feng's thoughts.
It was clear from Chen Hui's expression that he was even more shocked than Chu Feng.
"Yes. The Prison Lord is Chu Hanxian of the Chu Heavenly Clan from the Upper Realm of the Grand Chiliocosm — he is Chu Feng's grandfather."