Chapter 701: Speculations (1/2)

Li Ye stood aghast. “My mother and father?”

Looking blankly at his master, he asked, “Didn’t you say I was an orphan?”

Li Muyang’s eyes grew red as he said in a slightly choked voice, “You are not! And you never were! Conflicts break out between the Yang Sect and the Yin Sect all the time. The enmity our seniors held against each other was too deep to be reconciled, so...”

He glanced at Xing Huanyue. “So in order not to enrage our seniors, your mother and I chose to hide our relationship.

“In fact, when your mother and I were young, as chosen ones from the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect, we actually fought a lot. But as time passed, we gradually grew to have feelings for each other...

“However, fierce battles still kept breaking out between our sects. Even after we both became sectmasters, the grudge our sects held against each other was still unforgivable. We didn’t dare to defy our sects’ opinions, so we could only secretly put you in Master Zhen’s hands.”

Xing Huanyue’s eyes welled up as she walked up to Li Ye. With an intense look in her eyes, she said, “I’m so sorry, son.”

A violent shudder ran through Li Ye as he gazed back and forth between Li Muyang and Xing Huanyue, his eyes gradually reddening.

“Alright, you should find a place where you can have a good talk,” Zhen Huilan said.

Xing Huanyue grabbed Li Ye’s hand and walked away from the magnificent palace with him and Li Muyang. “Come, son. We’ll tell you whatever you want to know.”

Nie Tian was astonished by the unexpected revelation. “I can’t believe that Li Ye is actually their son!”

Pei Qiqi, however, seemed to have known about this all along. Her expression didn’t change in the slightest as she curiously examined the grand palace that was channeling starlight from the depths of the starry river.

Everyone else seemed surprised as they started to discuss things with each other.

“It’s hard to believe that the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect actually have special connections to the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.”

“Who would have known that Li Muyang and Xing Huanyue not only secretly fell in love with each other, but also had a son.”

“We can’t blame them for what they did. The feud between the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect has lasted generations. The previous sectmasters wouldn’t stop fighting until the other side was annihilated. What could those two have done?”

“If Nie Tian didn’t secure those two items for them and confirm that the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect shared the same origin, the two of them still wouldn’t reveal this matter. Now that they have those items, they’ll be able to show their sect members that their brawls with each other have been meaningless.”

Looking rather excited, Dong Li asked, “How did you manage to get this palace to rise to the earth’s surface, Nie Tian? And what’s in there?”

As soon as she asked these questions, everyone laid their eyes on Nie Tian.

After a moment of hesitation, Nie Tian said, “I realized that some something was hidden here a long time ago. It was just that my cultivation base was still too low back then, so I couldn’t pry into it.”

He didn’t give a straight answer as to why the palace had risen to the earth’s surface, and what was inside.

“You three may leave now,” Zhen Huilan said. “You can find another time to talk to Nie Tian.”

Cai Lan exchanged glances with the other two, and then they left with reluctant expressions.

After they left, all that remained in this place were people from the Spirit Condor, the Ice Pavilion Sect, and the Dong Clan.

They were all rather close to Nie Tian. Nie Tian didn’t felt the need to hide the truth from them, and thus said, “There’s a large-scale teleportation portal in the palace.”

“Where can you go through it?” Hua Mu asked without delay.

“There were four sets of coordinates,” Nie Tian said. “Three sets were coordinates for locations in the Realm of a Thousand Devastations, the Realm of Flame Heaven, and the Realm of Mystic Heaven. The fourth set of coordinates was a little different. They’re not for a location in the Domain of the Falling Stars. I tried to teleport to that location, but failed...” Nie Tian went on and told them about his teleportation attempts in detail.

He hoped that Hua Mu, Zhen Huilan, and the other experts could give him some useful information.

“If that’s the case, the problem is not on this end.” Zhen Huilan was the first to express her opinion. “Something must have happened to the teleportation device on the other end. It’s either broken, or has run out of materials to power it.”

Hua Mu chimed in, “Yeah, that’s probably it.”

“That’s what I figured,” Nie Tian said, nodding. “The location for the fourth set of coordinates is a place between the Domain of the Falling Stars and the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries...” he went on and explained the matter in detail.