Chapter 628 – Mother and Son (II) (2/2)

After he finished his story, Chen Changsheng's mouth felt rather dry. After finishing off the tea in the cup, he realized that she was a bit too calm.

This only increased her mystery in his eyes.

”My lady…just who are you?”

He asked her curiously.

The Hundred Herb Garden was very quiet. There was not even a wisp of a breeze, so there was naturally no sound of wind. The drizzle suddenly stopped, so there was naturally no sound of rain either.

Even the mournful cries of the insects at the base of the wall and in the grass had vanished.

After a very long silence had passed, a voice suddenly rang out.

”Who am I?”

Chen Changsheng was abnormally shocked, because she had spoken these words.

He had heard loud and clear these three words emerge from her mouth.

He had always believed that she could not speak.

In these two years, it had always been him speaking. She had never spoken a single word.

And yet, it turned out that she could always speak, she just did not want to.

Just who was she?

Still overcome with shock, Chen Changsheng suddenly had an extremely intense feeling of wariness and unease.

Because she stood up.

She suddenly became incomparably tall and vast, just like a mountain range suddenly appearing in the world.

She slowly placed her two hands behind her. With the light flick of her sleeves, a gale blew through the forest.

She looked down upon Chen Changsheng, her expression indifferent, the temperature of the forest dropping several degrees.

As the breeze caressed her face, her two eyebrows extended toward her temples, like two swords simultaneously taking flight, or like two wings unfurling.

Her eyes became particularly clear and holy, like stars lay within.

In the space of a few breaths, her mediocre face transformed into the most beautiful face imaginable.

The Qi emitted from her body became incomparably powerful.

Who was she?

Of course, she was the Tianhai Divine Empress who reigned supreme over the heavens above and the earth below.

The forest of the Hundred Herb Garden became even quieter.

Chen Changsheng was holding a teacup and, in his shock, had forgotten to put it down.

After quite some time had passed, he stirred from his daze and placed the teacup down on the table.

He was quiet for another long period of time, then he looked at the teacup and said, ”Greetings, my lady.”

Very simple words, a proper courtesy, but they should have never appeared between the two of them.

HIs voice was very calm, but his emotions were unimaginably complex.

Simultaneously, he also understood a few things.

When Xu Yourong had entered the Garden of Zhou, she had once disguised herself. No one had been able to see through it. Later on, she said that it was a secret technique of the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green. But though he was well-versed in the Daoist Canon, he had never heard of such a thing.

Now he naturally knew that Xu Yourong's disguise and the technique of the Divine Empress were both the same, or perhaps it was that Phoenixes had the ability to freely change their form?

”Shouldn't you be calling me Mother?” the Tianhai Divine Empress looked at him and asked.

As she spoke, her voice was very apathetic, yet he couldn't tell if it was truly emotionless.

Chen Changsheng raised his head and gazed at this woman so beautiful that it was impossible to look straight at her and thought to himself, is this my mother?

In those years living in Xining Village's old temple after being picked up by his master from the stream, he had naturally considered the question of his mother's identity countless times, but he never had an answer.

Only when that rumor began to spread through the capital last year did he begin to directly confront this question. Then, in Mount Han, he had obtained a sort of confirmation.

Whether before the rumor or after, he would occasionally wonder, if they met…what sort of scene would serve as the backdrop, what he should do. Even when he was jumping out of the window of the house in the Orthodox Academy, resolved to enter the Imperial Palace and directly confront her, he was still considering these questions.

Yet when they truly met, he realized that all his preparations were meaningless.

His mind was somewhat dazzled, his body somewhat cold.

He searched her indifferent and emotionless face of beauty, unable to find a single hint of those feelings he had wanted to have, such as warmth.

The Tianhai Divine Empress sensed the changes in his emotions and arched her brows. ”Useless thing, I should have never birthed you in the first place.”

As she spoke, her two brows were like swords, seemingly ready to fly into the night sky.

Coupled with the apathy on her face, she gave an even colder aura.

Chen Changsheng was somewhat angry, his nose slightly flaring. ”Just a moment ago, I went to kill Zhou Tong.”

For these words to appear at this time was rather abrupt, rather inexplicable.

The Tianhai Divine Empress asked, ”Do you want to prove that you have a little use? That you have the courage to face this world? To seek a few candies from me to eat?”

Chen Changsheng thought, that's not it, I just wanted to tell you that there are some matters that you don't care about that I can also not care about. I have the courage to kill Zhou Tong, so I also have the courage to confront you.

Even if we are mother and son, even if you are a mother so cruel that you would personally kill your own son.