Staying temporarily at Gu Xintang's residence, Jiang Chen took meticulous care of his father every day. Under his careful attention, Jiang Feng's injuries healed remarkably quickly.
After three or four days, Jiang Feng's condition had improved to about seventy or eighty percent, and his mental state had similarly recovered to seventy or eighty percent. In appearance, he no longer differed from any ordinary martial artist.
During this period, Jiang Chen had been entirely focused on treatment and hadn't spoken to his father about anything else. Jiang Feng, for his part, was very cooperative. Knowing his son was eager to heal him, he didn't ask any questions.
It wasn't until Jiang Feng's recovery was nearly complete that he finally let out a soft sigh one day: "Chen'er, I never imagined that you and I, father and son, would meet here. I still don't understand—why did the Meteoric Heaven Society send me straight to the Moon God Sect when I went to inquire about information, and why did they throw me into the Black Prison Area? Is the Oblique Moon Upper Realm so different from other places?"
In truth, Jiang Feng was still completely in the dark about why he had been delivered to the Moon God Sect by the Meteoric Heaven Society, and why the Sect had then transferred him to the Black Prison Area. He was thoroughly confused.
He had spent many years wandering the Upper Eight Realms and had gathered information through various channels. Although he had often been deceived, he had never experienced anything quite like this.
He had merely sought information, yet he had ended up trapping himself.
Jiang Chen looked at his father with a complex expression in his eyes, sighed, and said, "Father, you might still be kept in the dark at this moment. You don't realize that the information you were investigating this time is actually very close to the truth."
"What do you mean?" Jiang Feng's expression grew solemn.
"Because... what you've been desperately searching for all these years is right there in the Moon God Sect. You inadvertently stumbled upon their secrets — do you really think they'd let you walk away after that?"
Jiang Feng's expression shifted dramatically. He shot to his feet. "Chen'er, what did you say? The information I was investigating — it's in the Moon God Sect? Are you saying... your mother, she was part of the Moon God Sect back then?"
Jiang Chen nodded. "That's exactly right."
Jiang Feng felt as though he'd been struck by lightning. He stood frozen in place, his face cycling between grave seriousness and a dopey grin, his lips mumbling incoherently. He was completely and utterly discomposed.
A long time passed before he managed to collect even a shred of his thoughts. He seized Jiang Chen's hand. "Chen'er, are you certain — your mother is in the Moon God Sect? And how did you find out?"
Jiang Chen didn't keep him in suspense. "When I was in the Glazed King City, I came across a piece of information — decades ago, a Holy Maiden of the Moon God Sect had once fallen into the secular world. That clue set me on this path. That's why I came to the Inclined Moon Upper Region, hoping to learn more. I never imagined that you, Father, had also found your way here. And yet, once you arrived, you had no idea that Mother was in the Moon God Sect all along."
"Heaven's will — this is Heaven's will, Chen'er! The heavens want our family of three to be reunited. This is fate, and no one can stand in its way!" Jiang Feng's lips trembled, his expression brimming with excitement. He gesticulated wildly, as though he wished he could sprout wings on the spot and fly to find his beloved wife.
Jiang Chen's face, however, was clouded with a complicated emotion. He let out a long sigh. "Father, you only know one side of the story. You don't know the other."
"Oh? What else is there? Don't tell me your mother... she hasn't been living well?" Jiang Feng's voice caught, and a tremor crept into his tone.
His deepest fear had never been failing to find his wife — it was finding her only to discover that she was suffering, or that she had long since forgotten him.
"She's probably not living badly, but I wouldn't say it's great either. Perhaps, just like you, Father, she spends every day thinking about you as well. It's just that she's trapped against her will — leaving the Moon God Sect is simply not an option for her right now."
"Why?" Jiang Feng's rage flared. "Those people are truly overbearing! If your mother doesn't want to stay at the Moon God Sect, why must they restrict her? Don't they know that a forced melon is never sweet? Don't they know your mother wouldn't stoop to be some Holy Maiden?"
Seeing his father growing agitated, Jiang Chen hurriedly tried to calm him. "Father, please settle down. Mother isn't the Holy Maiden right now."
"Oh? How do you know? She's not the Holy Maiden, then? That's even better! That means the obstacles to reuniting our family will be much smaller." Jiang Feng's face lit up with joy.
Jiang Chen knew his father harbored a dream — the dream of the three of them being together again. Only, their family was no longer just three people.
If you counted everyone, there were five of them now!
When Jiang Chen's expression grew conflicted, Jiang Feng's voice tensed. "Chen'er, is there something you're hiding from your father? Don't tell me… your mother…"
"No, no. Mother is at the Moon God Sect. It's just that she isn't the Holy Maiden — someone else holds that position. And because of this Holy Maiden, it's very difficult for Mother to leave the Moon God Sect."
"What does someone else have to do with your mother?" Jiang Feng shook his head.
"It concerns Mother, but it also concerns you and me — father and son. Because… the current Holy Maiden of the Azure Moon lineage is your daughter, my younger sister. And Mother was originally the designated successor to the Azure Moon lineage's Holy Maiden position at the Moon God Sect…"
"What? What did you say, Chen'er? Your sister? Our daughter?" Jiang Feng's eyes widened in shock, clearly stunned by the news.
Without a doubt, the revelation was utterly astonishing. When Jiang Chen had first heard this very same piece of information, he had been equally shocked beyond measure.
And right now, Jiang Feng was visibly shaken to his core as well.
"Impossible! How could you have a sister? How could your mother have remarried and had another child? This is false, this is false, Chen'er, this must be false!" Jiang Feng was on the verge of losing his composure.
Jiang Chen could only smile bitterly. "Father, who said Mother remarried? The child she carried was your own flesh and blood. It was simply that when you parted ways, she didn't yet know she was pregnant! Moreover, Mother's pregnancy wasn't just for a single younger sister. There was also a younger brother. They were twins."