The Shangguan family and the Wenren family, after a thousand years, were finally united by a marriage alliance between their direct descendants.

Their own child, who clearly had the backing of the two great families of Qianzhou, was nevertheless plotted against and subjected to such a great murderous calamity.

The palace-dressed woman’s eyes flashed with a trace of sorrow, as if her grief was so excessive that her meridians and breath were somewhat disordered.

The man, pained in his heart, reached out to support her, but was pushed away by her hand.

“Then?” The palace-dressed woman said coldly, “Then, what did you all find again?”

The man helplessly retracted his arm and sighed:

“It was Gu…Changhuai who found a clue about Yuer. Following the clue, he chased to an eatery dozens of li outside the city and found a group of human traffickers with only early stage Building Foundation cultivation…”

“But…”

The man shook his head and said bitterly, “Yuer was kidnapped again…”

The palace-dressed woman was astonished, “Again?”

The man said bitterly, “It was another group of people…”

“Using array ambush, using spells to kill people…”

“The array was secretive, powerful yet sudden. The spells used were also common fireball techniques. The method was clean and neat, leaving not a single trace…”

“And among the human traffickers, there was one who knew the Broken Gold Sword Art…”

“Broken Gold Sect…” the woman said through gritted teeth.

The man smiled bitterly, “It has nothing to do with the Broken Gold Sect. It’s probably a rebel sect disciple. The Broken Gold Sect doesn’t have this guts, nor are they so stupid as to use such a conspicuous sect sword move…”

“I don’t care!” The woman said hatefully, “If we can’t find Yuer, their Broken Gold Sect will also have to pay the price!”

“Good…” The man could only agree. He knew that at this time, he couldn’t reason with her.

The man in the embroidered robe sighed and continued:

“The Broken Gold Sword Art is a gold system imperial sword method, mainly for attack and kill, with extremely great power…Obviously, the human traffickers encountered a strong enemy, on the verge of life and death, so they risked everything and revealed this sword art…”

“But…”

The man in the embroidered robe’s pupils shook slightly, “This sword art, recorded in the Building Foundation realm, which is extremely powerful, didn’t injure the enemy in the slightest…”

“Not a single trace of blood qi stained the sword, and the opposite side’s skin wasn’t even broken…”

“This explains that the opponent’s cultivation is very likely too much higher than these human traffickers…”

“Golden Core, or possibly even…Featherization…”

The woman laughed coldly, “Good ah, there are really many people who covet Yuer. Although he is a four or five-year-old child, what virtue or ability does he have to be remembered by so many people…”

“Before, it was a great power who penetrated heaven’s secrets setting up a scheme. This time? Could it still be some expert proficient in heavenly calculation, who failed to rob the way halfway?”

The palace-dressed woman asked her husband with sarcasm.

The man was questioned by his wife, lowered his head, and said helplessly, “This time…It can also be said to be.”

The woman was stunned, then said angrily, “Shangguan Yi, do you take me for an ignorant stupid woman?”

“When did the algorithm of heaven’s secrets become so cheap?”

“This one is a great power, that one is an expert, can there be so many experts?”

“In this world, how many cultivators are truly proficient in the algorithm of heaven’s secrets? Are they all full and have nothing to do, all coming to calculate my Yuer?!”

The man smiled bitterly, “Wan’er, I didn’t deceive you. I invited Elder Mei from Xuanji Valley, who is proficient in algorithm, to calculate…”

The palace-dressed woman said coldly, “What did he calculate?”

“He…” The man said with some difficulty, “…He went mad…”

The woman was stunned.

The man sighed, “Elder Mei…went to calculate the person who ‘robbed’ Yuer. At first, he couldn’t calculate anything, saying that heaven’s secrets were obscured, a chaotic mess, with no trace…”

“Later I repeatedly begged…”

“Elder Mei, unable to refuse, then consumed his essence blood and used the ancestral profound calculation of Xuanji Valley to deduce a bit…”

“Just at the beginning, he did push away the fog and saw a vague, like water, like mist small figure…”

“When he looked again, then…”

The man was silent for a moment.

The woman said angrily, “Then what?”

The man sighed, “Then…his expression was terrified, he spit blood from his mouth, his whole body was ice cold, his divine sense also produced abnormality, and he suddenly went mad…”

“His mouth was still muttering non-stop, saying something about great terror of cause and effect, something about a mountain of corpses and evil obstacles, and also saying that he was bitten by ‘corpse evil’, saying that he would soon also become a zombie, his whole body trembling non-stop…”

The woman’s expression changed, but after thinking carefully, she was somewhat angry again:

“What are all these messy things, what mountain of corpses, what corpse evil? Can you believe such absurd words?”

“What relation can these have with Yuer?”

The man was speechless.

He also didn’t know how Yuer got involved with these causes and effects, but the matter of Elder Mei was absolutely true.

He did go mad…

“That Elder Mei, is he really from Xuanji Valley?” the woman asked again.

“Yes.”

“Where is he now?”

“Elder Mei…his mind is mad, his sea of consciousness seems to be injured. He was sent back to Xuanji Valley for treatment…”

The woman’s eyebrows suddenly furrowed, and she said coldly:

“So, with no evidence and no witness, you are using this nonexistent Elder Mei to deceive me!”

The man said lowly, “Wan’er, when have I deceived you…”

His words had a hint of plea.

“Good, then I will go find Yuer myself!”

The palace-dressed woman said resolutely, turned around and wanted to leave.

The man’s heart panicked, and he immediately pulled her, “You can’t leave Qingzhou City!”

The woman took a deep breath, suppressing her anger and asked, “Why?”

“I worry about you…”

“Worry about what?”

The man’s voice was slightly cold, “I married you as my wife, broke some family rules, violated the ancestral teachings of the Shangguan family. Many people are staring at us…”

“They will target Yuer, and it’s also possible that they will be unfavorable to you…”

“Now that Yuer is missing, I’m afraid of losing you again…”

The woman said coldly, “Staying in Qingzhou City is safe, then?”

The man insisted, “Qingzhou City is within the boundary of Qianxue State, and has an array set up by our ancestors. Heaven’s secrets are clear. Outside Qingzhou City, heaven’s secrets are chaotic, and anything can happen…”

The man’s face was extremely solemn.

There is great terror in the cultivation world.

Some truly terrifying cultivators, who penetrate the great dao, have many unfathomable means against heaven.

Some people even set up big games to nurture dao evil.

The closer to the peak of cultivation, the more they know the reality of this world, and the more they feel the terror of the human heart in this world.

“So?” The woman said coldly, “You want me to hide in this city, regardless of my child…”

“Wan’er, you don’t intervene…” The man said gently, almost pleadingly, “This matter, the cause and effect are too great…”

And too terrifying…

The person who planned and kidnapped Yuer, their heaven’s secrets are profound, leaving no trace…

The person who robbed Yuer, in the cause and effect, also contains the great killing machine of heaven.

None of this can be done by ordinary cultivators.

Array dao, divine sense algorithm, heaven’s secrets cause and effect…These are all extremely profound and complex things.

Although Wan’er learned arrays, she only learned them well in a general sense.

Being regarded as a favored daughter of heaven, receiving praise and admiration, this is only a general “worldly” good…

It is the “good” within man-made norms.

She fundamentally doesn’t know what truly profound arrays, high and deep divine senses, and the great dao that is not bound by man-made norms are exactly like.

Those arrays that surpass the cognition of ordinary cultivators, the ever-changing principles of heaven, and the great dao that is not bound by man-made norms, how profound and terrifying they are…

The palace-dressed woman didn’t understand these things. She only looked at her husband, her gaze gradually turning from anger to disheartened.

“Do you…have a plan early on?”

The man was silent.

“If…” The woman paused for a moment, enduring the pain, and said word by word, “If Yuer can’t be found, what do you plan to do?”

The man somewhat dared not look into the woman’s eyes, shifted his gaze, and said lowly,

“Dad’s meaning is to let us…have another one…”

The woman’s face was pale, her whole body trembled, and within her gaze, there was endless sorrow and hate.

She hated both her husband and herself.

“Shangguan Yi, you have such a cruel heart!”

The woman said with tears, “Good! Good! If you want to have a child, you yourself find another woman to have one!”

“I, Wenren Wan, in this life, only have Yuer as my one child!”

“Yuer he…is so well-behaved, so kind, how could it be…”

Yuer’s smiling face floated in the woman’s mind. The woman’s heart felt a needle-like pain. Suddenly, her heart trembled, as if in the darkness, she could feel that Yuer was waiting for her somewhere…

Her own child was waiting for her…

The woman’s heart was extremely painful. Regardless of everything, she turned around to leave.

“Wan’er, it’s too dangerous…” The man still wanted to stop her.

The woman’s gaze was ice cold, “You don’t go find him, I will. If I can’t find him, I’ll find him for a lifetime!”

“Even if I die, I want to die with Yuer.”

“You just wait to be your Shangguan family master, casually find a woman…to have a child for you.”

After the woman finished speaking, her eyes were full of tears, and she flicked her sleeve and left.

The man wanted to keep her, but when he reached out his hand, he didn’t grab anything.

His face was pale, and he sighed.

After a moment, a small servant entered the door and said respectfully, “Young master, master wants you to go once…”

The man was in a daze for half a while, then said weakly, “I know…”

He was the young master of the Shangguan family, the master of the next generation of the Shangguan family.

But he felt that he was not like a “master,” but more like a dilemma-ridden “slave.” But in this vast family, he also didn’t know whose “slave” he exactly was.

Shangguan Yi sighed deeply, walked to a study in the Gu family compound, stood respectfully for a moment, then heard a deep voice from inside.

“Come in.”

Shangguan Yi entered the door and bowed, “Father.”

The study was elegant and luxurious.

In the center sat a cultivator with a deep breath and extremely dignified presence. His appearance was majestic, but his temples were slightly white, and there were faint crow’s feet at the corners of his eyes, but one could still see his extreme handsomeness in his youth.

This person was exactly Shangguan Yi’s father, and also the true master of the Shangguan family—Shangguan Ce.

“In a few days, I will leave. You handle the matters here yourself.”

Shangguan Ce was writing something, his voice deep and indifferent.

“Yes,” Shangguan Yi said respectfully.

Shangguan Ce raised his head and looked at his son, saying indifferently, “You shouldn’t have married Wenren Wan as your wife…”

“She is too impulsive, willful in her actions, and lacks consideration.”

“No matter what, she is a direct line woman. I don’t know how the Wenren family teaches…”

“Family women, before they are married, can be willful, but once they are married, they both represent the face of the family and must maintain the interests of the family. They should always act appropriately, and even if they are sad, they should endure…”

“Dad…”

Shangguan Yi’s voice was slightly louder, interrupting Shangguan Ce’s words.

“Wan’er she…is a good wife. Yuer is missing, and she is excessively grieved. Being somewhat impolite is a common human emotion…”

Shangguan Ce looked at his son, didn’t comment, and after a moment, slowly opened his mouth:

“How is Yuer?”

“Still looking.”

Shangguan Ce sighed, “Yuer he…has a pure and kind heart, he is a good child, but, he will not be a good master…”

Shangguan Yi interrupted, “Dad, I only have Yuer as my one son.”

Shangguan Ce’s gaze was slightly cold, “I told you, if…”

Shangguan Yi said, “Then the next master must also be the child of me and Wan’er…”

Shangguan Ce laughed coldly, “She may not be willing…”

“I will wait until she changes her heart…”

Shangguan Yi lowered his head, bowed his body, but his tone was firm, without doubt.

Shangguan Ce’s eyebrows twitched slightly, but he eventually didn’t say anything, only said indifferently, “I know…”

The atmosphere in the study was somewhat stiff.

Shangguan Yi was unwilling to stay long, so he got up to take his leave.

“Yi’er…”

Shangguan Ce called out to stop Shangguan Yi, hesitated for a moment, his tone slightly softening.

“You must know, being a master is not so easy…”

“Cultivation families are rooted in the clan. You need to be clear about the pros and cons, know loss and gain. Being indecisive and having childish affections won’t work.”

“A cultivator’s life is very long. No matter how much you like someone, over time, love will fade, and the human heart will also change…”

“As a master, you must know what is most long-term and what is most beneficial.”

“You also must harden your heart and make decisions. Only then can I convince the old ancestors and hand over the Shangguan family, which has endured for ten thousand years, to you…”

Shangguan Yi said silently, “Dad, I know.”

Shangguan Ce only glanced at him and knew that his son fundamentally didn’t understand.

He was somewhat irritable, but after all, he had a deep understanding of the world, so he only suppressed his heart and sighed:

“Think more. Yuer is your child, he is a direct line bloodline, but he is also only one of the many disciples of the Shangguan family. Which is light and which is heavy, you weigh it yourself.”

Shangguan Yi’s face was pained, but he didn’t say anything. He bowed and respectfully withdrew.

Shangguan Ce lowered his head and looked at the jade slip. Long after, he raised his head, looked at the place where Shangguan Yi had just stood, thought of his worried face, felt some anger, and even more anger that he couldn’t live up to expectations:

“The old man has been romantic all his life, passing through a myriad of flowers, yet not a single leaf touched his heart. How could the son he bore…be such a foolishly infatuated one…”

“He looks handsome and talented, but he has no ambition, thinking only of his wife and child every day…”

Shangguan Ce’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed, full of dissatisfaction.

Long after, he sighed and spread out a map.

On the map was the entire Qianzhou.

At this time, a strip route was outlined. After deduction with a compass, it turned into profound heaven’s secrets patterns, yet it had no beginning and no end, not knowing where it came from, nor where it was going.

Only traces of a barbaric, ancient aura remained.

This was the handwriting of the person who kidnapped Yuer.

Shangguan Ce’s gaze was solemn, his face ashen, and he murmured:

“From the marriage alliance, birth, to death…Everything was calculated well?”

“What kind of person has such a big scheme?”

“Actually able to hide from the old ancestors, and take the only direct line descendants of the two great families, Shangguan and Wenren, as sacrifices…”

“What do they want…to sacrifice to, what do they want to reverse the life and death of?”

Shangguan Ce only felt a chill that was deep to the bone marrow…

Gu family courtyard.

Wenren Wan, in a palace dress, her heart filled with thoughts of Yuer, but after stepping out the door, she felt a wave of blankness again.

“Find…How to find, where to find?”

Yuer was kidnapped, it was very possible that he was no longer in this state boundary, or even in Qianzhou…

Her heart gave birth to vast despair and deep powerlessness.

The cultivation world was so big, boundless.

She didn’t know how to deduce, let alone understand heaven’s secrets. Wanting to find Yuer was like fishing for a needle in the sea.

She also deeply hated herself, hated herself for not begging the old ancestor at first to learn this profound and obscure cultivation method.

Otherwise, she could now rely on herself to calculate Yuer’s cause and effect…

Even if her divine sense was exhausted, even if her sea of consciousness dried up, even if…

Wenren Wan stood blankly for half a while, then came back to her senses, looked around blankly, thought for a moment, called the Wenren family guards, and asked them to drive the carriage to send her out of the city.

No matter what, she had to get out of Qingzhou City first…

Outside the city, she might be able to find some trace of Yuer…

Wenren Wan secretly made up her mind.

If she couldn’t find him in one month, she would look for one month.

If she couldn’t find him in one year, she would look for one year.

If one year didn’t work, she would look for ten years, a hundred years, until her lifespan was exhausted.

“Must find Yuer, see him alive…”

She dared not think of the last four words. She was afraid of seeing Yuer’s cold, lifeless little face, afraid of knowing that her cherished child was already gone…

This was more painful than killing her, this mother.

Wenren Wan only felt a sharp pain in her chest.

The carriage left the Gu family, passed through the main street, through the market, and after an hour, approached the city gate.

Wenren Wan’s heart was set on going outside the city, and she didn’t notice that inside a noodle shop near the city gate, two small cultivators were eating noodles “huhu”.

And Mo Hua and Yuer, who had waited for several days and were tired and hungry, were busy eating noodles. They also didn’t notice that a low-key but luxurious carriage was silently driving towards the city gate outside…

The city gate was noisy and congested.

The two passed each other, each in their own time. Wenren Wan suddenly felt a stun.

For a moment, as if connected by mother and child, she seemed to feel that her son was nearby, even very close…

But she knew that Yuer was no longer by her side…

Her well-behaved and sensible son, she didn’t know whose hands he had fallen into, his life and death unknown, let alone whether he had been abused and tortured.

Wenren Wan’s heart ached even more.

The carriage continued to drive towards the outside of the city.

But as the carriage went further, Wenren Wan’s heart became more uneasy, even in a trance, she had a premonition.

As if she was leaving Yuer, going further, and as long as she went out of this city gate…

She would be separated from her son forever.

It would be impossible to meet again in this life!

A cultivator’s heart omen is not without reason.

Wenren Wan’s heart was panicked and uneasy.

She immediately said, “Stop the carriage!”

The carriage stopped, and she immediately got off, looked around blankly, and after a long time, suddenly her corner of her eye caught sight of a noodle stall in the distance…

Wenren Wan was instantly struck by lightning.

At the noodle stall, there were two small cultivators.

One was slightly bigger, his eyebrows like a painting, his temperament clear and warm.

The other was smaller, four or five years old, and looked very similar to her Yuer…

Wenren Wan’s heart trembled, almost unable to breathe.

She wanted to speak, but her emotions surged, and for a moment she couldn’t say a word…

Mo Hua was just eating noodles when his divine sense suddenly moved, detecting someone looking at him. When he looked up, he saw a beautiful, dignified and noble woman in the distance, her face full of tears, looking at him with disbelief.

This woman was both strange and somewhat familiar.

Mo Hua had never seen her, but he seemed to have some vague impression of the cause and effect.

Mo Hua suddenly realized, then patted Yuer beside him.

Yuer was just learning from Mo Hua, eating noodles with his head down, “huhu”. When Mo Hua reminded him, he looked towards the distance. His little face was in a daze, and his chopsticks dropped to the ground with a “ba da” sound.

Yuer’s eyes instantly filled with tears.

“Mother…”

It was noisy around, but this “mother” still clearly reached Wenren Wan’s ears.

The immense joy of being reunited with her lost child made her chest suffocate, making it hard to breathe.

Her tears blurred her vision, so she couldn’t see Yuer’s appearance clearly, but she still rushed towards Yuer regardless of everything.

She seemed to forget that she was a Golden Core realm cultivator, forgot that she had cultivation, and only remembered that she was a child’s mother.

Yuer also had eyes full of tears, and took small steps to meet her…

The two embraced.

Although her eyes were blurred by tears and she couldn’t see Yuer’s appearance clearly, Wenren Wan still hugged Yuer tightly in her arms regardless of everything.

She didn’t dare to let go.

She was afraid that if she let go, her child would disappear again.

Even if it was a dream, she hoped that this dream could last longer, so that her child could stay in her embrace for a while longer…

The mother and child, Yuer and his mother, embraced and wept.

Mo Hua nodded in relief.

Although it was a “confused” calculation, it seemed that his “calculation” was quite accurate.

Yuer had found his mother, so he should be safe.

He was also relieved.

Next, he could go to Qianxue State and pay his respects to the mountain gate of Qian Dao Sect!

Thanks to the rewards from Tongxiu Xianren, Wang Shui Lun Lian, Tao Tao Bu Jue Zhong Le, and Hei Ye.