Crafting an Immortal Race with Daily Hexagrams-Chapter 421 - 212: The First Bloodline Divine Power (Part 3)
The cultivator who had reported the news stood nervously to the side, fearing reprimand and punishment.
However, Shen Chongming did not look at him and walked straight towards Shen Chongxu, who was standing at the door.
"Ming... Brother Ming."
Shen Chongxu averted his gaze and saluted with clasped hands.
"Everyone, go about your business."
Shen Chongming glanced over his disheveled appearance and spoke indifferently.
The cultivators behind him quickly saluted and retreated.
He walked slowly forward, forcing Shen Chongxu back into the room, his eyes sweeping the surroundings, smelling the thick scent of alcohol mixed with various unpleasant odors, his expression complex.
"You are only twenty-two years old this year."
"Do you plan to spend your life in such a daze?"
Turning to look at Shen Chongxu by his side, Shen Chongming’s eyes were sharp, and he spoke in a deep voice.
Seeing that he just lowered his head and said nothing, Shen Chongming pondered for a moment and said, "Come with me."
As he walked out of the wooden house, he turned and grabbed Shen Chongxu’s shoulder, and the two of them transformed into a stream of light heading towards Hidden Dragon Mountain!
"Brother Ming, where are you taking me?"
In the void, Shen Chongxu seemed to realize something and wanted to struggle.
However, the Thunder Power emanating from the grasped shoulder rendered him numb all over, unable to mobilize a trace of Spiritual Power or strength.
"Scared?"
"Feel ashamed to go?"
As Shen Chongming spoke, his figure accelerated again, quickly arriving amidst the mountains behind the estate.
Their figures landed in front of a tombstone in the cemetery.
"Kneel!" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
Seeing Shen Chongxu turn his back, not daring to look at the tombstone, Shen Chongming shouted coldly.
"Kneel in front of your father’s and mother’s tombstone, let the two elders have a good look!"
"Look at what you’ve become now!"
The voice at his ear was like a clap of thunder, reverberating, piercing to his soul!
Shen Chongxu slowly turned around, staring at the large characters on the tombstone.
The grave of the late Shen Wenyan / Zhao Clan Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan awaited Shen Wenyan in the Shen Family for ten years before she died, never having seen her deceased husband.
After her melancholy demise, Shen Yuan specifically instructed that the eldest, Shen Wenxing, bury her body together with Shen Wenyan’s cenotaph.
This was to compensate for Zhao Xuan’s regret.
Since the couple was buried in this rear mountain cemetery, Shen Chongxu, harboring great resentment towards his father, never came to the grave to pay respects.
Now suddenly seeing his mother’s name on the tombstone, tears gradually welled up in his eyes beneath his disheveled hair.
Thud!
Shen Chongxu knelt hard in front of the tombstone, crying out in grief.
Seeing this, Shen Chongming felt somewhat choked up inside.
Over the years, he, along with his father, grandfather, and Shen Chongxuan, had all tried to find a way to help Shen Chongxu recover and move forward.
However, the childhood trauma had too deep an impact on him.
Combined with the presence of Hu Mei’Er and Shen Li, he felt even more grievance, gradually becoming what he is now.
"Second Uncle, Second Aunt."
"Nephew has brought Chongxu to you."
Shen Chongming adjusted his sleeve, and bowed respectfully towards the tombstone.
"Second Uncle, Second Aunt, it’s my and my father’s dereliction of duty not taking good care of Chongxu."
Speaking with a heavy voice, Shen Chongming slowly stepped forward, coming to Shen Chongxu’s side.
"Brother knows you cannot forgive Second Uncle."
"But you must consider Second Aunt, her entire life she was strong, if she knew in heaven, seeing you like this, what would she think?"
Shen Chongxu stared blankly at the tombstone in front of him, reaching out to caress his mother’s name.
Then he crawled forward on his knees, pressing his face against the characters "Zhao Xuan," crying and murmuring, "Mother, your son is unfilial, all these years never came to see you..."
Hearing his continuous lament, Shen Chongming quietly walked away into the distance, coming to a rock to sit down.
Looking down at several solitary graves.
There lay buried the Shen Family’s long-term servant Fu Gui, his maternal grandfather Huang Qingzhou, and Zhao Shuan and his son.
Shen Chongming sat quietly for a long time, then Shen Chongxu, with eyes bloodshot, came to his side, his voice hoarse, "Brother Ming."
Shen Chongming turned to glance at him, patting the place beside him.
"Brother has met the Liu siblings."
Sitting beside him, upon hearing this, Shen Chongxu was slightly startled, then spoke, "There’s no need for Brother Ming to persuade, I won’t marry her."
Shen Chongming said nothing, turned to look at him.
"She crawled into my bed while I was drunk."
"The two harbored ulterior motives, Brother Ming should be able to see it."
Shen Chongxu spoke calmly, without a hint of emotion in his words.
"Brother had the girl settled near the Black Water Pool."
"Leave aside the legitimacy, but she’s carrying the Shen Family’s bloodline, that cannot be ignored."
Pausing slightly, Shen Chongming sighed and continued, "Your eldest brother has yet to start a family, it’s a good thing you have an offspring, at least there is someone left in this branch of Second Uncle."
The mountain breeze blew gently, lifting the hair covering half of Shen Chongxu’s face, revealing a face slightly thin and haggard.
"Brother Ming."
Looking at Yunshui City below, after some hesitation, Shen Chongxu suddenly spoke, "I want to go out and explore."
Shen Chongming did not speak.
He didn’t know whether he should agree.
He only felt that if he kept him tied at home, he might never walk out of his gloom in his lifetime.
But if he let him leave, the outside world now is dangerous, if anything happened, how could he explain it to his deceased uncle and aunt?
"Brother Ming, rest assured, from visiting father and mother this time, I’ve resolved the knot in my heart accumulated over the years."
"Instead of the confines of family, I am more suited to the vast world outside."
"If in the future, by some luck, I achieve success in cultivation, I will return again."
