This is the place where the sect masters of all generations rested and lived, and it is also located in the center of Xuanyuan Pavilion.
Chu Nan walked into this quaint-looking courtyard without anything special. After passing through the pavilion and reaching the attic, he quickly saw the people sitting cross-legged on the futon in the tea room, leisurely looking out the window at the beautiful scenery and drinking tea.
Zhuo Lingtian.
Chu Nan didn't make a sound or sit down, just quietly looking at the incomprehensible old guy drinking tea not far away.
"Now that you're here, let's sit down and have some tea. It's time for us to explain some things clearly."
Zhuo Lingtian glanced at Chu Nan and said with a smile, "Look, this stubborn look really looks like me and your mother."
"You still have the nerve to mention my mother?
You imprisoned her on the Saintess' Peak for decades because of your cruelty. Don't you feel the slightest guilt in your heart?"
When Chu Nan heard that Zhuo Lingtian mentioned his biological mother, he became angry and said, "Not only did she punish her, but she even refused to see her. Don't you think you are going too far?"
Hearing Chu Nan's question, Zhuo Lingtian took a sip of tea and seemed not to be angry. After a long time, he said, "Chun Nan, your dragon-shaped jade pendant was given to you by your adoptive mother, right?
I sent someone to check and it seems that your adoptive mother has passed away?
Is she that girl Zhou Hailan?"
"What are you still doing there?
Is this interesting?
Don’t you know whether my adoptive mother is dead or not?”
Chu Nan sneered, "Besides you, who else has the motive to kill her?"
"Chun Nan, you must know that your adoptive mother and I have no hatred, why should I kill her?
Her death is indeed very strange, but you can't blame it on me, right?
What evidence do you have that I killed her?"
Zhuo Lingtian said in confusion, "You can't slander people without evidence."
"My adoptive mother has been unknown all her life. She is just a common citizen. She has no secrets except my life experience. Why was she assassinated for no reason?"
Chu Nan sneered and said, "Except for the people from Xuanyuan Clan who want to kill me in order to find my whereabouts, no one has the opportunity to deliberately assassinate an ordinary middle-aged woman!"
"Chun Nan, don't get excited, just listen to what grandpa tells you."
Zhuo Lingtian said seriously, "I admit that your mother privately refused to marry and ran away from home, and fell in love with others and lost her virginity, which made me very angry and dissatisfied. However, I never knew the whereabouts of Zhou Hailan from the beginning to the end, let alone you.
When did your mother give birth to you? As a powerful Heavenly Warrior, I don’t even bother to trouble a little maid. And even if your mother left home because she may have been bewitched by her, I won’t be that narrow-minded.
!”
Chu Nan was stunned for a while after hearing this, then frowned and said, "You mean, you don't know my existence?"
"I don't know. If I had known, I wouldn't have forced your mother to get married because I wanted to continue the legacy of my Zhuo family, and I wouldn't have ended up with her resisting..." When Zhuo Lingtian said this, he sighed deeply and said,
"Actually, I don't bother to explain to the outside world that you don't know anything about your mother. Some things are not cruel to me. I am really helpless."
Hearing this, Chu Nan obviously didn't quite understand.
What's the meaning?
Is there something hidden here?
"The regret of my life, Zhuo Lingtian, is that I was unable to continue the lineage of the Zhuo family. After I gave birth to my daughter Jia Ning, due to a mistake in my cultivation, I was no longer able to have children.
Maybe this is God's deliberate act to punish me, so I have always wanted a descendant that truly belongs to me."
Zhuo Lingtian said patiently, "I adopted my adopted son Zhuo Jiaxu in order to marry my daughter Jia Ning when she grows up and give birth to a descendant belonging to the Zhuo family.
If I knew that she had given birth to you outside, why would I force her?"
"Didn't my mother tell you when she came back..." Chu Nan's question suddenly stopped at this point.
Obviously his question is unnecessary! Nonsense, his mother refused to marry and ran away from home. Losing her virginity is already a serious sin, let alone giving birth to a child outside the home.
So of course the best way is not to mention it at all, otherwise it would have been better if his mother had just brought him back with him, so why would he have to let his adoptive mother Zhou Hailan secretly raise him up?
Even he himself only found out about his life experience after he grew up. It was so well hidden that it was perfectly normal for Zhuo Lingtian not to know about it.
"Okay, I believe it's true that you don't know about me, but you really don't know about my adoptive mother being assassinated?
Apart from you, I really can't think of anyone else who would have such a grudge against her that he would die."
Chu Nan still didn't believe that Zhuo Lingtian didn't send someone to kill Zhou Hailan.
"As a Heavenly Warrior and the leader of the Xuanyuan Sect, I naturally promise a huge sum of money, so how could I lie and deceive others about this?
Do you think it’s necessary?”
Zhuo Lingtian frowned and said, "If you care about this matter, I will send someone to investigate. Don't worry, this matter is not difficult to investigate. If it was really someone from my Xuanyuan Sect who did it, we will definitely find out soon."
Chu Nan nodded. Since Zhuo Lingtian said he wanted to investigate, he had nothing to say.
Gradually, as the truth came to light, he felt that his grandfather was not as hateful as he had originally thought.
But after all, it was him who caused his mother to be imprisoned for more than 20 years. This kind of damage cannot be repaired in any case.
"Okay, if you say you don't know my existence, I can believe it.
If you say you are not the murderer of my adoptive mother, I can believe it.
But is it true that my mother has been detained by you for so long?
I don’t ask you for anything, I just want you to release her so that we, mother and son, can meet.
I hope you can agree to this request."
Chu Nan came here after all the trouble just to meet his biological mother. Now that the situation has improved a bit, he naturally couldn't wait to make the request again.
Zhuo Lingtian glanced at him, but his eyes were full of complexity. He opened his mouth, but he didn't seem to know what to say.
After half the payment, he sighed and said, "Well, since you are Jia Ning's biological son, I should confess some things to you."
"something?"
Seeing Zhuo Lingtian's hesitant expression, Chu Nan gradually had an ominous premonition for some reason.
"Chun Nan, I know that in the eyes of many people, even you who grew up outside, they always think that grandpa is an inhumane and cruel monster.
Yes, he was able to lock up his own daughter for more than twenty years. Anyone who hears such cruel and inhumane methods will despise him."
When Zhuo Lingtian said this, he smiled bitterly and said, "But who can understand my difficulties?
It's okay for me to be misunderstood by people all over the world, but I don't want to be misunderstood by my own grandson.
The matter of your mother being imprisoned on the Saintess' Peak is a secret of Xuanyuan Sect. In order to keep this secret, I even listed it as a taboo of Xuanyuan Sect. No one can mention it. This is precisely because... I want your mother to
Without being disturbed by the outside world, you can truly sleep for a long time."
"Long...sleep?"
Chu Nan suddenly stood there like a thunderbolt, and it took him a while to react suddenly, and said excitedly, "I, what happened to my mother?
What happened!!”
"Don't worry, kid. As a direct bloodline of me, Zhuo Lingtian, you are naturally the only descendant of the Zhuo family and the future successor of the entire Xuanyuan Clan.
Therefore, you are qualified and should know about what happened back then."
Zhuo Lingtian said seriously, "I will tell you everything exactly."