Chapter 295: Blood Kin (Part 1)
Yun Canghai's sudden roar startled Yun Che greatly. He immediately turned around and saw Yun Canghai's entire face twisted, his eyes covered in a terrifying red from excessive agitation. His right hand grasped forward, his whole body struggling desperately, causing the chains to clatter loudly.
Such an exaggerated reaction made Yun Che's heart skip a beat: "You've seen this thing before?"
As he spoke, he quickly picked up the pendant, held it before Yun Canghai's eyes, then directly opened the pendant, revealing the small mirror inside that looked utterly ordinary.
Yun Canghai's eyes were fixed on that mirror, his eyeballs trembling as if they might fall out of their sockets. After a brief moment of deathly stillness, his whole body struggled even more violently, and he let out an intensely fierce roar: "Where did you get this thing? Why is it on you... Tell me! Why is it on you! Speak!"
Yun Canghai's reaction fully showed that he recognized the object in his hand, and not only recognized it, but it seemed extremely important to him. Yun Che's heart also began to race. He took a step back, hung the pendant back around his neck, and said in as calm a voice as possible: "It was worn on me when I was born. It is the only thing left to me by my biological parents, whom I never met... Since you recognize it, can you tell me what it is? Who was its original owner? The two people who put it on me... are very likely my biological parents!"
The air suddenly froze.
Both were agitated at the same time, their wide eyes locked on each other. Yun Che longed for his answer. This pendant was his only hope of finding his biological parents and learning his origins. Today, he had finally met someone who recognized it. Opposite him, Yun Canghai's expression changed, from intense to dazed... more and more dazed.
"This was... left for you by your parents?" He looked at Yun Che, speaking in a hoarse voice, difficult and slow.
"Yes!" Yun Che nodded. He picked up the pendant, took a deep breath, and said directly: "Not long after I was born, my parents were being hunted. To save my life, one of my biological parents' closest friends, who is also my adoptive father, secretly swapped me with his own son... After my parents left, there was no news. The only thing they left me is this! I have worn it since childhood, because it is my only proof to find my biological parents! Since you recognize it, do you know... who my biological parents, who left it to me, are?"
Eager to know the answer, Yun Che blurted out as much information as possible, waiting eagerly to get the answer he wanted from Yun Canghai's mouth. As he narrated, he saw Yun Canghai's eyes trembling more and more violently, and even... more and more tears glistening.
Yun Canghai's outstretched right hand froze in midair, like a spasm, unable to lower for a long time, or perhaps... in extreme agitation, he had forgotten how to control his body. His eyes stared fixedly at Yun Che, not blinking at all from start to finish. After Yun Che finished speaking, his lips opened and closed repeatedly, but for a long time, no sound came out. It was only after a long while that he spoke in a trembling voice, extremely labored: "Child... you... you... you... how old are you this year?"
"Nineteen," Yun Che replied. Around this time last month was exactly his nineteenth birthday. Kicked out of the Xiao Sect at sixteen, forced to leave his grandfather and little aunt, three years had passed without him realizing it.
"Nineteen... nineteen... nineteen..." Yun Canghai muttered. Every time he muttered, his eyes became more vacant. His arm, frozen in midair, moved, adjusting his fingers to a relatively gentle posture: "You... come here... extend your left hand to me... don't be afraid, I won't hurt you, nor will I snatch your things... extend your left hand to me..."
Yun Canghai's demeanor had become extremely strange, and it also made Yun Che's heart filled with astonishment. But from Yun Canghai's eyes, he found no malice or coldness. After a moment's hesitation, he stepped forward and extended his left hand.
Yun Canghai reached out and grabbed Yun Che's wrist. Immediately, Yun Che felt a strange and gentle force emanating from his wrist, quickly enveloping his entire left arm. He was about to ask something when he suddenly saw that on the back of his left hand, a small, thumb-sized, bright white sword-shaped mark slowly appeared!
"What... is this?" Looking at the mark that had suddenly appeared on his body, Yun Che asked in surprise.
But Yun Canghai, at the moment he saw the mark, suddenly broke down in tears. His gaze passed through the mist of tears to look at Yun Che. It was a look Yun Che couldn't comprehend. His lips quivered, and the sound he made... was a sobbing tone under emotional breakdown: "This is the mark of our Yun clan's... unawakened Mystic Steel! It... it proves you are a descendant of our Yun clan... it proves you are my Yun Canghai's... own grandson!"
The last few words were like thunderclaps ringing in Yun Che's ears, causing a violent shock in his heart: "You... you... what did you say?"
"That white Mystic Steel mark is the proof of the Yun bloodline! The thing you've worn since childhood is a treasure our Yun clan guards for the Demon Emperor Clan! I always carried it with me, never leaving my person. When I went to Tian Xuan Continent to find the Demon Emperor, I entrusted it to my son... and my son entrusted it to you... You are the son of my son... I am your... own grandfather!"
Yun Che's mouth fell wide open, his eyes bulging, and he became dazed from this seemingly otherworldly information. He staggered back two steps, shaking his head in a lost, bewildered manner: "Impossible... impossible... How could you be my grandfather? How could there be such a coincidence? Impossible... impossible..."
His repeated cries of "impossible" were completely unconscious, shouted out in his dazed state. After learning that Xiao Lie was not his biological grandfather, the word "blood kin" had become infinitely distant and ethereal to him. The pendant that had always hung around his neck became the only link between him and his blood relatives.
And now, when he was completely off guard, this Yun Canghai, who had brought him into the abyss, shared his dwelling for over a year, and was someone he had to kill... suddenly told him that he was his relative, even his own grandfather. His brain, subconsciously unable to accept it, fell into a chaotic state, almost completely losing the ability to think.
"Yes... in this world, there could actually be such a coincidence..." Yun Canghai's face was covered in tears, his voice so agitated it was completely blurred: "Your Mystic Steel mark, and the pendant on your body, these are ironclad proof... Do you remember the day I brought you down here, that junior from Tian Wei Sword Domain once said that my son and daughter-in-law, twenty years ago, had broken into Tian Xuan Continent to search for me, and later even found the vicinity of this place... Afterwards, they were hunted by Tian Wei Sword Domain... The time, the experience, the location... all match perfectly! You are the offspring left behind by my son during those two or three years he was searching for me in Tian Xuan Continent!"
Yun Che: "!!!!"
"If... if you still don't believe me, then you can undergo a blood kinship verification with me... That is the most direct and undeniable proof!"
As Yun Canghai spoke excitedly, he flipped his right palm, and drops of blood dripped from his index fingertip.
Blood kinship verification was the most authoritative way to prove blood relations. When the blood drops of two people were mixed together and flicked with the most basic profound energy, if they were directly related, they would merge completely; if not, they would instantly separate... There was never an exception!
Ling Kun's words that day were still clear in Yun Che's ears. Thinking about it now, the timing surprisingly matched.
Could it be...
Could it be...
Could it really be...
Looking at the blood drops dripping from Yun Canghai's fingertip, Yun Che was so nervous he could barely breathe. He clenched his teeth, trying to calm his mind as much as possible. Without speaking, he stepped forward and extended his finger. Profound energy surged, gently breaking the skin at his fingertip. A drop of blood slowly gathered at the tip, then fell downward, touching Yun Canghai's drop of blood.
Yun Che crouched down, holding his breath, and extended his palm toward the two drops of blood that had touched... His hand moved extremely slowly, a distance that should have been instantaneous felt like an eternity. Finally, a wisp of the most basic profound energy was released from his palm, enveloping the drops.
The two drops of blood trembled slightly, and then, almost in an instant... they merged completely!
Yun Che's mind went dizzy...
Yun Canghai's whole body trembled, an endless mix of sorrow and joy surging in his heart, making him unsure whether to wail loudly or laugh with abandon. He waved his only movable arm, letting out hoarse cries that even he couldn't clearly hear: "My grandson... you are my grandson... my own grandson... my own grandson ah ah ah..."
The two completely merged blood drops were deeply imprinted in Yun Che's pupils and soul. He looked up at Yun Canghai, muttering in a daze: "You really are... my... grandfather... my... grandfather..."
"Yes... I am!!" Yun Canghai looked up at the sky, roaring with a voice that was neither crying nor laughing: "Heaven has not been unkind to me. Not only did it give me a grandson, it also brought him to my side. And he is so outstanding... The only young man I've ever appreciated in my life is actually my own grandson... Haha... hahaha! Heaven has not been unkind to me, heaven has not been unkind to me!!"
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[1. Found a bug. Among the previously listed Seven Calamity Realms of the Evil God, the third realm was "Heart Incineration", and the fourth was "Purgatory". However, in the ranking battle and in the previous chapters, the third realm that Yun Che forcefully opened was actually "Purgatory". Such a low-level mistake really makes me want to kneel... I can only calmly state that the third realm is "Purgatory", the fourth realm is "Heart Incineration", and the fifth realm is "Yama King". The initial setting, just treat it as my writing error. Yes, that's it. Thanks to Tieba user "Big Teacher lz" for the reminder!]
[2. Announce a not-so-good news. From Thursday to Sunday, these four days, I will be spending time in Anji and Hangzhou, so updates will probably be in a big pit for four days! I didn't mean to... lol tz...]
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