Chapter 455 Little Roc’s mother (2/2)

”Hmph- what a fine son you raised!” Although the elder was angry, he still got his men to hold back.

That roc flapped her wings and flew over. She looked tenderly at Little Roc saying, ”Child, do not be afraid. I am your mother. You should be able to sense the blood relation we have.”

Little Roc saw the female roc. Although he was suspicious, he truly could feel a different feeling.

He knew that the beast clans were the most sensitive to bloodlines.

”You are Mother?” Little Roc looked at the female roc and was slightly moved. So it was his mother. He had a clan.

”Yes, you are my child.” The female roc's eyes began to water. She had not heard the term 'mother' for a few hundred years.

Sima You Yue patted Little Roc's back, signaling him to place her on the ground.

Little Roc understood Sima You Yue and took her to the top of the mountain. Once she got off, he stood beside her.

The female roc followed them to the ground. She looked at Little Roc and stepped forward and pecked Little Roc twice softly. Her eyes slowly filled with tenderness.

”Child, you're finally back.” the female roc used her wings to embrace Little Roc. She was extremely pleased.

”Mother, what in the world is happening?” Little Roc looked at the rocs in the sky. The weakest of them were sacred beasts. If they wanted to harm Sima You Yue, there was no way they had a fighting chance.

The female roc looked at Little Roc, then looked again at Sima You Yue, saying, ”I am Little Roc's mother. The clan calls me Ninth Roc.”

”He- Hello.” Sima You Yue did not know how she should address Ninth Roc. According to custom, she should call her Aunty, but she really had no idea how to call address a bird like that.

Ninth Roc saw that Sima You Yue did not speak, and with a flash, she turned into a beautiful lady. She was dressed in a long feathered skirt.

Seeing his own mother change, Little Roc turned small as well to match them in height.

”Mother, why do they call me their king?” Little Roc asked.

Ninth Roc stretched forth her hand to pat Little Roc's head, saying, ”Because you were initially the king of us four winged rocs.”

”But I've merely come up from the lower continent.” Little Roc said.

”But you were born here. That year, we had no choice but to send you to the lower continent.” Ninth Roc said.

”You had no choice? So it wasn't that you didn't want me?” Little Roc had always thought that he was a child that had been abandoned by his parents. Because he saw that Little Tu had been abandoned by his family, he thought that he was the same.

”We would even die for you. How could we not want you?” Ninth Roc said.

”Then, why?”

Ninth Roc sighed, saying, ”This is because of something that happened tens of thousands of years ago. Ever since the divine bird passed millions of years ago, the roc king turned into the Great Roc. Later on, Great Roc disappeared as well. So, anyone with the bloodline of Great Roc would have a high possibility of turning into the king of the bird species. Every few years, a roc with the bloodline of the Great Roc would be born. However, other bird clans were not willing to see something like this happen, so before those rocs had the chance to awaken their bloodline and turn into the Great Roc, they died.

When she said this, she saw that Little Roc's eyes flashed with pride and worry.

”A few hundred years ago, when you were born, you seemed to possess the trait. The elders then decided that that was a sign of the Great Roc's bloodline appearing. Because those birds died prematurely no matter how hard we tried to protect them, we decided to send you down to prevent others from knowing about your existence. We never thought that, after a few hundred years, we would not have to look for you. You came up on your own. You have even successfully awakened the bloodline. So, you are now the king of us four winged rocs and the future king of all rocs.

Little Roc looked at his mother. He couldn't really digest this sudden onslaught of information.