Chapter 2030: Within the Divine Palace (1/2)

“Mother!” Xiao Man could not help but think of the old, extremely blurry figure that only existed in her memories when she heard Zi Yun’s words. Her eyes reddened slightly as she showed deep sorrow.

Her mother had departed far too early. Just when she had turned three years old, the old figure who had carried her every day and gave her deep, motherly love had left her.

Even though Xiao Man was only three years old when she saw her mother for the last time, she still had not forgotten everything that had happened when she was young. It had just become slightly blurry.

As for her father, Xiao Man never met him before, as he had already passed away before she was even born.

There were no images or memories. In the past few years, Xiao Man had only learnt a little about her father from her sister Zi Yun.

This was because her sister Zi Yun had seen her father. Everything she knew about him came from her.

Xiao Man only knew that her father was an old person with a head full of withered hair from Zi Yun. Her mother was a hunch-backed old woman, making both her parents extremely old.

“Sister Zi Yun, do you know how my parents died? Since my father taught you everything, doesn’t that mean he’s not an ordinary person? And my mother is not ordinary either, right? Since they’re not ordinary, they can’t have passed away from age,” asked Xiao Man with red eyes and sorrow. As she grew older, she understood more and more things. Now that she thought of the past, she realised that there were many illogical factors to her parents’ deaths.

Zi Yun shook her head. She was unable to answer these questions, as she did not know how to answer them at all.

She did not understand what had happened to Xiao Man’s parents either.

The only thing she was certain about was that Xiao Man’s parents were no ordinary people. Even though she could clearly sense that Xiao Man’s parents had no cultivation and that their bodies were sometimes not even as great as ordinary people, everything she learnt as well as the various powerful secret techniques and treasures for fleeing came from her master, who was also Xiao Man’s father.

Aside from her master, even her master’s wife, Xiao Man’s mother, had passed many things onto her. Not only did these things include comprehensions and knowledge on cultivation, but it also included the various brutal aspects on the Saints’ World and so on. As such, she already possessed a clear understanding of the outside world before she set foot there.

It was impossible for an ordinary person to know these things.

Most importantly, Zi Yun had spent over ten thousand years with Xiao Man’s parents.

If they were truly ordinary people, it would have been impossible for them to live for this long.

However, when Xiao Man’s parents passed away, they had no wounds at all. No matter the perspective, it seemed like a natural death, like an ordinary person reaching the end of their lives. There were no other reasons.

“Xiao Man, let’s enter the Neptunean Divine Palace,” Zi Yun said softly and approached the Neptunean Divine Palace with Xiao Man. She vanished using the Neptunean Medallion she had obtained from Xiao Man’s parents.

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When Jian Chen appeared again, he discovered that he was in a long hallway. Apart from Kai Ya, Chanlong, and the seventeen people from the Yun family, there was no one else around him.