As the Xiao family left, figures began to flow in the secluded underworld.
"Xiao Li is my sworn brother. We once fought side by side. With his peerless talent, I knew he would win today.
A mere Yun Yimeng is nothing to my sworn brother Xiao Li."
The old will-o'-the-wisp still showed no sign of leaving, pointing at the void and spat at the people around him.
However, almost no one paid attention to him, and he was mostly talking to himself.
Some even cast disdainful looks at him.
We are really sworn brothers, why don't you go up and get together with him?
…
"Gone." Chu Ran, the ninth princess of the Great Chu Dynasty, also watched helplessly as Xiao Li disappeared into the air. After secretly shouting, her figure also flew into the air.
Recalling that when I first met the young man with a black sword on the northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, his martial arts cultivation was actually on par with mine.
However, just a few years later, the gap has widened so much.
Now that young man can wipe himself out with just one sword.
"Xiao Li!" She couldn't help but whisper the name.
"Ancestor." Lie Ya, the young master of the Lieyan Divine Sect, greeted him respectfully after seeing the blood-haired ancestor return.
"Yes." The blood-haired ancestor nodded gently to him, "It's time for us to leave."
"Yes, ancestor." Lie Ya said.
"After watching this battle, have you made a decision in your heart?" the blood-haired ancestor asked him.
Upon hearing the blood-haired ancestor's words, Lie Ya's face immediately showed a look of determination: "Ancestor, I have made a decision!"
"Well, very good!" The blood-haired ancestor looked pleased, "As long as you go through that calamity, as long as you survive that calamity, your future achievements may not be worse than that of Xiao Li!"
…
"Well!"
When everyone in the Xiao family was in the air, there was suddenly a cry of pain.
Xiao Li saw his father, Xiao Mingyuan, holding his heart tightly with his right hand, with a look of great pain on his face, and his whole body was shaking violently.
"Father!" Xiao Li exclaimed when he saw it.
He found that his father's entire face, full of pain, was also turning green, as if he had been poisoned.
"Second brother!"
"Mingyuan."
"Mingyuan."
Xiao Mingyuan, Xiao Tianchen, and Xiao Tiankuang also shouted after seeing him.
Then, Xiao Tianchen took out a white pill and put it into Xiao Minyuan's mouth.
But Xiao Li sensed an evil and familiar aura from that white pill.
That is very similar to...the evil spirit that protects the place that a clan protects.
After Xiao Mingyuan swallowed the white pill, his whole body relaxed a lot.
However, the green color on his face still did not fade away.
"Father, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Li asked him quickly.
"It's okay." After hearing Xiao Li's words, Xiao Mingyuan put away the pained look on his face, showed a smile, smiled at him, shook his head, and said:
"It's nothing, it's the same old problem."
"Old problem?" Upon hearing Xiao Mingyuan's words, Xiao Li frowned tightly.
He had never seen his father have this habit before, and had never heard him talk about it.
"It's nothing serious. As long as you return to the place of protection, you'll be fine." Xiao Mingyuan replied to Xiao Li again.
"Is it okay if you return to the place of protection?" Xiao Li said again.
I remembered the white pill that my grandfather Xiao Tianchen fed my father just now, which exuded the evil aura of the guardian land.
In other words, that pill was indeed made from that evil energy?
My father will be fine only if he is invaded by that evil spirit.
Thinking of this, Xiao Li seemed to have thought of something again, and looked at Xiao Tianchen.
Seeing Xiao Li looking at him, Xiao Tianchen seemed to have read through his thoughts and asked Xiao Li: "Boy, do you think your father's situation is caused by your grandpa?"
"Yes." When Xiao Li heard what Xiao Tianchen said, he did not deny it and nodded to him.
He did think just now that his father had left the place of guardianship behind his back, so he was punished.
"Li'er, don't think too much. This matter has nothing to do with your grandfather." Xiao Mingyuan said quickly after hearing the conversation between Xiao Li and Xiao Tianchen.
"No matter how good my grandfather is, he still knows that tiger poison cannot eat its seeds." Xiao Tianchen said to Xiao Li again.
"Then where did father's illness come from?" Xiao Li asked again.
His eyes turned to Xiao Minyuan again.
"Hey." After hearing Xiao Li's words, Xiao Tianchen sighed deeply.
"Back then, my father was injured by a mystery, and he was possessed by a mysterious poison.
I originally thought I wouldn't live long.
But I didn't expect that after I returned to the Guardian Land, the evil spirits in the Guardian Land could actually suppress the poisonous power.
However, it can only be suppressed but cannot be eliminated.
As long as I leave the place of protection for too long, the poison will take effect."
Xiao Mingyuan answered.
"Mysterious man? What mysterious man?" Xiao Li asked again.
Someone actually hurt his biological father!
"Just think of it as a mysterious person. He has always refused to say who he is." Xiao Tianchen said again at this time, "It should be related to your mother."
"Mother!" Xiao Li's expression suddenly changed.
A familiar yet unfamiliar word.
His eyes were fixed on Xiao Minyuan's face at this moment.
But at this moment, the expression on Xiao Minyuan's face became calm and indifferent, without any ripples.
It was as if nothing was heard and nothing happened.
"Father, is mother still alive?" Xiao Li spoke up again and asked Xiao Minyuan.
"No, your father is no longer alive." Xiao Mingyuan answered him calmly.
"Where is my mother's grave?" Xiao Li asked him again.
In my memory, my father Xiao Mingyuan never took me to worship my mother.
In the past, Xiao Li thought it was nothing.
But now that I think about it, there is something wrong with this.
"Your mother doesn't have a grave." Xiao Mingyuan replied, "I have already scattered her ashes."
"You lied to me!" Xiao Li shouted coldly.
Upon hearing this, I felt something was very wrong.
"Mother, is she still alive?" Xiao Li shouted again.
At one time, he didn't think there was anything mysterious about his mother.
However, just now, grandpa Xiao Tianchen said that his father's injury was related to his mother.
The origin of someone who could hurt him must be extremely complicated.
"I'm not feeling well, so don't ask." Xiao Mingyuan said again.
But when he avoided answering like this, Xiao Li felt that something was wrong.
Mother, must still be alive!
"Where is she?"
"Where did she go?"
"If she is still alive, she is so cruel and abandons herself and her father. She has not come to find me for so many years!"
"Is there something difficult about her?"
Thoughts flashed quickly through Xiao Li's mind.
The more he thought about this, the more he wanted to know...