Xu Mu sat up from the sofa and glanced at Xu Shou. “I’ve made it to the Inner World and had a chance to show off a little. I came back this time to let my friends know I’m safe.”
“Make time for me to meet your master. I want to see what level of senior expert could have taught a monster like you.”
Xu Shou smiled and sat down across from him. “So, what do you want? If this is about Luo Fengchan, we’ve already met.”
“Is that so?”
Xu Mu looked a little surprised. He then put away his phone. “But that’s not why I came. This is about me.”
“About you? What is it?”
Xu Shou pulled a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.
Could this kid have already found out that he was the one who had been redeemed?
The last time they were on the Battlefield of the Gods, they had discovered a divine-tier body-refining technique.
They had thought of how powerful Xu Mu’s body was, so they had asked Zhang Que to give it to him.
Unexpectedly, Xu Mu had handed such a precious technique over to Jiang Huihui instead.
Jiang Mingzhuo had been overjoyed and had unilaterally declared that it counted as the betrothal gift.
As the saying went, “When a nephew stands at his uncle’s door, the family line is not severed.”
Jiang Mingzhuo had no children of his own, while his younger brother did. Although Jiang Huihui was not a son, she could still carry on the Jiang family’s bloodline. He had long regarded her as his own daughter.
Unfortunately, Jiang Sheng did not appreciate it.
In the past, Jiang Mingzhuo had secretly sent all the rare treasures he obtained to the Jiang family, hoping to improve Jiang Huihui’s strength.
But Jiang Sheng had used every one of those treasures to feed the chickens. After that, Jiang Mingzhuo stopped sending them.
Xu Shou lit his cigarette and smiled at Xu Mu.
In any case, he had never intended to hide it deliberately. He had even brought those brothers of his home before, and Xu Ningbing had already met them.
“Did you cheat on Mom?”
Xu Mu suddenly fixed his eyes on Xu Shou.
“Cough, cough!”
Xu Shou coughed several times, smoke pouring from his nose and mouth. “Watch your mouth, kid. If I dared cheat on your mother, she’d kill me.”
“Then why do I feel a little like a bastard?”
As he spoke, Xu Mu raised both hands. A ball of red flame appeared in his left hand, while a mass of black, frigid energy formed in his right.
Xu Shou’s pupils contracted sharply. He stared at the black, frigid energy and remained silent for a long time before finally speaking.
“Can you watch your language? That’s called being of mixed blood, not being a bastard.”
“My mother is from the Great Wilderness Clan?”
Xu Mu withdrew the qi within his body and asked calmly.
“She is.”
Xu Shou took a drag from his cigarette. “I didn’t expect you to break through the seal. Your master must have helped you, right?”
Xu Mu hesitated for a moment before nodding slightly. “But he didn’t tell me why. He didn’t even tell me what race this qi belonged to. I exposed it in the Inner World this time. Hopefully, I can keep it hidden.”
“Qi is actually similar to life itself. When two parents combine, if one side’s qi is stronger, the child will usually inherit that stronger qi. The odds are at least seventy percent.”
Xu Shou flicked away some ash. “Some qi is naturally gentle and calm, so the child inherits the weaker side. In other cases, the two types of qi fuse, and together with the power generated by the child, the result is completely random. Those cases usually account for the remaining thirty percent.”
“That adds up to one hundred percent. What about me?”
“People like you are extremely rare. The qi of both your parents was exceptionally fierce, and neither side was willing to yield. In the end, you were born with two types of qi.”
Xu Shou explained, “People like you are usually crippled from birth. When you first gain control of your qi, both powers awaken at the same time and begin devouring and battling each other. They can rupture your fragile meridians.”
“So you chose to seal one of them?”
Xu Mu asked.
“That’s right. Your mother and I went to a supreme expert and had half of it sealed away, but you were still considered crippled.”
Xu Shou shook his head slightly. “You were born with only half as much qi as other people, so it would have been extremely difficult for you to become a master. That’s why I never planned to let you become an ancient martial artist.”
Xu Mu nodded inwardly. He remembered that when his qi sea had first manifested, he had indeed been able to see it. It seemed to have been divided in two by someone.
“I just never expected you to work so hard and train your body to such a powerful level. With your physical strength supporting you, your body can contain both types of qi at once.”
Xu Shou smiled. “If I’d known this would happen, I would have let you come into contact with ancient martial arts from childhood. With your current cultivation, you definitely wouldn’t be stuck at this level.”
“What’s the story with your wife?” Xu Mu asked with a mischievous grin. “How did you meet her? And how did she end up giving me a mother from the Great Wilderness Clan?”
“Heh, that’s a long story. Your mother is an older woman who took a younger man. I first met her when I was six or seven years old, and she already looked almost exactly as she does in the photographs.”
Xu Shou shook his head with a smile. “When I was little, I hated her more than anyone. Who would have thought fate would lead us together?”
“She has a longer lifespan. What’s so strange about that?”
Fu Jinyu was already forty years old by calculation. If that was correct, then when Xu Mu had still been running around in split-crotch pants, she had already been well past childhood herself.
“Why did you hate her?”
Xu Mu wore an expression of unabashed curiosity. “Did she use her age to bully you all the time?”
“She didn’t bully me all the time. We didn’t meet often when we were kids. Your father—well, I was a proud child who never bowed or yielded to anyone, and I never put up with anyone’s bad habits. That’s why I hated your mother.”
Xu Shou leaned back against the sofa and gazed at the ceiling. As he recalled his childhood, a warm smile spread across his face.
Xu Shou had been an orphan. Back then, a senior expert had brought him back from the Inner World.
Shentu Wan had also been taken in by that senior expert.
At the time, Shentu Wan was a chubby little boy who was constantly bullied, and Xu Shou had always stood up for him.
Even when they faced children several years older than themselves, Xu Shou had never been afraid, despite often being beaten until his face was swollen and bruised.
He was still the leader of the kids his age, and from that time onward, Shentu Wan became his most loyal underling.
One day, a beautiful woman wearing leather armor and her hair tied in a single ponytail arrived at the ruins where they lived.
The older disciples who saw her reacted as if they had seen a ghost.
She immediately called the senior expert by name and ordered him to come out.
Xu Shou couldn’t tolerate that. The senior expert was his savior, so he stepped forward to argue with her.
Before he could even finish speaking, the woman stomped him to the ground. She drove her sword into the earth, the tip stopping less than an inch from his eye.
Yet no matter how she beat Xu Shou, he refused to submit. There wasn’t the slightest trace of fear in his eyes.
That infuriated the woman. She was used to people obeying her, but this little brat actually dared to talk back.
Still, she couldn’t kill Xu Shou, so she simply tore his pants apart.
Then she flicked his manhood in front of everyone.
When she saw the fear on Xu Shou’s face, the woman laughed—an incredibly delighted laugh.
The incident became Xu Shou’s humiliation. The older disciples often teased him about it, and Xu Shou hated that woman for many years.
Who could have imagined that she would eventually become his wife?
…
“I can understand,” Xu Mu said with a nod and a laugh. Xu Shou came from a respectable, orthodox background, and it was only natural that he would hate the people of the Great Wilderness Clan after encountering those villains for the first time.
“What about Mom? She isn’t dead, is she?”
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