Chapter 660: Chapter 196: Rescue Qiulong County! Entering the Great Yan Dynasty! (10,000-word Mega Chapter for Subscriptions)_5

Or could it be that my own mother and grandfather actually had no blood relation, and some other elderly person had some strange blood connection? Was the real reason that my grandfather was cuckolded, and that’s why he never came to see my mother?

As Yun Jiuqing’s thoughts drifted and became increasingly bold, the faintly glowing figure of Qiulong County’s old Heavenly Master unexpectedly spoke!

A shadow casting human speech!!

"There’s no need to imagine communicating with me, for I am merely a phantom and a voice left by a unique secret technique. Since you have obtained this Jade Pendant, it seems you are already prepared to go to the Shangwu Dynasty."

"If you’re not prepared for that, it’s okay, after all, you don’t have to go back. Because with your identity, returning to the Shangwu Dynasty would be exceedingly risky."

"Officially, as your teacher, I hope you can return to the Shangwu Dynasty. You should not have fallen to such a fate; you should reclaim everything that belongs to you."

"Personally, I don’t want you to take such a great risk because one misstep could plunge you into an abyss."

"I won’t force you, the path you choose to walk from now on is entirely up to you."

The light emanating from the Jade Pendant formed a phantom, and it paused a moment when it said this.

It took a brief pause.

Then it continued: "The inscriptions within the Jade Pendant have disclosed your origins, but they have omitted some more detailed particulars. I am not merely an old Heavenly Master from Qiulong Temple, I also belong to the Shangwu Dynasty."

"I was once a court official in the Shangwu Dynasty, and although my rank was not particularly high in the Imperial Court, it was about the level of a second-grade official."

"I took you out of the Shangwu Dynasty because your father, the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty, passed away due to illness. With the position of the Crown Prince vacant, countless coveted it."

"At the same time, you, being the eldest son of the late Crown Prince, became a thorn in the side of many."

"Moreover, as the Shangwu Dynasty has a distinctive culture from top to bottom, His Majesty did not stop others from vying for the Crown Prince’s position, nor did he mind the turmoil potentially involving you, the Crown Prince’s orphan."

"His Majesty allowed such chaos to emerge, like nurturing gu (parasitic worms used in ancient practices), he required a son who could rise out of the chaos to eliminate all rivals and take the vacant position of the Crown Prince."

"His Majesty... he doesn’t really value kinship that much."

"Oddly enough, I shouldn’t have interfered in such matters, for getting involved usually leads to a bad end."

"But I could not bear to see an infant perish in such strife, and in a moment of folly, I took you away from the Shangwu Dynasty."

The phantom that the Jade Pendant transformed into continued to slowly narrate the past events.

The swindler master who raised Fan Wu was actually a Minister of the Shangwu Dynasty, and he was rather incorruptible and upright.

He did not wish to see Fan Wu lose his life in such chaos, and he felt very disappointed in the Emperor of the Shangwu Dynasty, who had no concept of familial affection.

Hence, he ran away with Fan Wu.

To avoid Shangwu Dynasty’s cultivators tracking them using some strange secret technique, Fan Wu’s swindler master willingly destroyed his own cultivation and used a forbidden technique to split his own three souls and seven spirits.

It was as if creating ten avatars, each fleeing in a different direction, with one of them carrying the Jade Pendant and bringing Fan Wu to the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Fan Wu’s swindler master’s phantom also emphatically claimed that his secret technique was so powerful that even the State Preceptor of the Shangwu Dynasty, known as the Terrestrial Immortal, was unable to unravel it.

The cultivators of the Shangwu Dynasty, even if they tried to pursue the two, would only track down the other nine decoy avatars.

In the end, their efforts would be in vain.

Nobody would have thought that he would bring the Crown Prince’s orphan so far away from the Shangwu Dynasty.

Directly to the Great Zhou Dynasty!

Therefore, the secrets of Fan Wu’s origin were such that even an Earthly City God and an Underworld Judge could not discern them. Was it because of the secret technique employed by his swindler master?

And his swindler master, had he only been able to swindle people with street-level magic because that secret technique had exhausted his cultivation, turning him into a commoner?

Was Fan Wu able to gain the attention of the True Martial Great Emperor because he had a special bloodline, being the orphan of the Shangwu Dynasty’s royal family?

No...

No, that’s not right!

Fan Wu’s eyes narrowed slightly; he felt the swindler master’s secret technique might fool an Earthly City God or even an Underworld Judge.

But with the identity of the Shangwu Dynasty’s Crown Prince’s orphan, could it really attract the attention of the True Martial Great Emperor?

Fan Wu was skeptical.

After all, no matter how powerful the Shangwu Dynasty was, it was just a mortal dynasty.

And the True Martial Great Emperor?

The two couldn’t even be compared!

"So... it turns out that Daoist Priest Fan’s origins are actually shrouded in such complicated secrets." Yun Jiuqing stared in astonishment, because she had just listened to every word said by Fan Wu’s swindler master.