Chapter 925 The Unexpected Truth

The east of Floating Cloud City was originally a continuous mountainous area, but it had long been turned into a flat land because of the Divine Phoenix Army.

Although Yun Che grew up in Floating Cloud City, he had never been to this place before he was sixteen years old. In the back mountain area where there were many low-level profound beasts, Xiao Lie would not prohibit him from entering too much with Xiao Lingxi or Xia Yuanba accompanying him. However, Xiao Lie would never allow him and Xiao Lingxi to go to the mountainous area in the east of the city. Perhaps it was because this place was too far away from Floating Cloud City and they could not be assured of their safety.

Yun Che came to the sky, and his spiritual sense was quickly released, covering the land trampled by the Divine Phoenix Army.

Although it was very faint, Yun Che could still vaguely sense that this land had been covered by a blockade profound formation. Obviously, after the Phoenix Divine Sect discovered the purple crystal mine here, it immediately set up an invisible isolation barrier to prevent the purple crystal aura from being detected by others.

But surprisingly, his spiritual sense swept all the way to twenty miles away, and did not sense any purple crystal aura.

There is no doubt that the Phoenix Divine Sect was extremely cautious about this matter and cleaned up the place thoroughly without leaving any trace. After all, for the Phoenix Divine Sect at that time, once the four sacred places noticed something, the consequences would be extremely dangerous.

Descending from the air and stepping on the thick soil, Yun Che frowned and thought, but still couldn't figure out why there were as many as 100 kilograms of purple veined divine crystals here.

Previously, he only had this doubt in his mind, and then there were too many things, and he threw the doubts about the purple veined divine crystal behind his mind. While dealing with Xuanyuan Wendao, he suddenly thought of something that was absolutely abnormal - 100 kilograms of purple veined divine crystals, even if they were buried very deep, would definitely release an extraordinary aura of mysterious crystals. It was already very abnormal that the four sacred places had not discovered it, and 24 years ago, the people of Tianwei Sword Domain and Sun Moon Palace had come to Liuyun City to hunt down his parents Yun Qinghong and Mu Yurou... Xiao Ying was also killed at that time.

If he had just been there, it would be barely understandable if he had not discovered it. But after they arrived at Liuyun City, they clearly searched the surrounding area for several days, even if they didn't dig three feet deep. With the strength of the Holy Land's spiritual perception, why didn't they notice such a huge and high-level purple crystal mine?

Moreover, those who were sent to hunt down Yun Qinghong and Mu Yurou must be figures at the level of the emperor... The Sword Domain was still led by the young master Xuanyuan Wendao.

Could it be that the purple crystal mine didn't exist at that time?

No... it's impossible. Such a huge purple crystal mine must have gone through an extremely long time, how could it be generated in just twenty years.

In addition, according to the depth of the ground under the feet that was secretly dug by the spiritual perception, the purple crystal mine was not buried deep. On the contrary, it can even be said to be quite shallow. The shallowest place is less than twenty feet deep from the ground-the Shenhuang Army sent 200,000 troops to station here, and made a huge noise through daily "exercises" to cover up the sound of grabbing the purple crystal mine in the shallow place.

Yun Che stood there for a long time, but he was puzzled. If he said that the four holy places had never been close to this land for thousands of years, and therefore had never noticed it, it might be a barely explainable explanation, but to say that all the people from the holy places who came to Liuyun City had short circuits in their brains and nerves... it was really unreasonable.

Just as Yun Che was hesitating whether to sneak under the mountain to find out, a figure suddenly appeared in the west, and was walking slowly towards this side.

Yun Che turned his eyes and saw an old man of medium build and kind face. His eyes moved immediately, and he stood up and flew over, landing in front of the old man: "Master Hong, why are you suddenly interested in coming here?"

The old man stopped and smiled: "It turned out to be the young master. Alas, it's the lady's sacrifice day soon, and the master asked me to pick some radish flowers that the lady loved most when she was alive. Young master, why are you here?"

In the Xiao Clan, Yun Che respected Xiao Lie the most, and the other one was Xiao Hong in front of him. Xiao Hong was not originally from the Xiao Clan, but was rescued by Xiao Lie's father when he was traveling abroad, brought back to the Xiao Clan, and changed his surname to Xiao. He has been taking care of Xiao Lie's daily life since he was a child and is loyal to Xiao Lie. When Yun Che and Xia Qingyue got married, he was also the one who escorted Yun Che to pick up the bride.

Every year on the anniversary of his late wife's death, Xiao Lie would bring a large bunch of purplish orchids. Because this was the flower that his late wife loved most when she was alive, and Yun Che and Xiao Lingxi knew this since they were young.

"I just wanted to come here to take a look." Yun Che looked around and said, "It seems that there are no purgatory flowers around here. How about I go to look for them somewhere else with Master Hong?"

"No need," Xiao Hong smiled and shook his head: "Young Master is now worth a lot of money, how can he accompany me to do such rough things. In previous years, purgatory flowers can be seen everywhere here at this season. Since the arrival of the Divine Phoenix Army, this place has been razed to the ground, and purgatory flowers seem to be difficult to find. Alas."

"So those purgatory flowers in previous years were all picked here." Yun Che said with emotion: "Speaking of which, from childhood to adulthood, Grandpa never allowed me and my aunt to come here to play. I don't even know what this place looked like before."

"Haha, of course," Xiao Hong smiled and said with emotion: "After all, this is the sad place of the master. Even he himself rarely comes here again after that."

"Sad place?" Yun Che was slightly stunned: "What happened here? Why is this the sad place of Grandpa."

"Oh?" Xiao Hong looked surprised: "Has the master not told the young master yet? Oh... Hehe, that's no wonder, the master should not take the initiative to mention that kind of thing to you. After all, that is also the most painful part of the master's heart."

"..." Yun Che felt that the matter was unusual, and asked: "Master Hong, what happened here? Why is it the most painful part of grandpa's heart? If you know, please tell me in detail, after all, I am not the child I used to be. After knowing, maybe I can still help grandpa get out of the shadow here."

Xiao Hong shook his head: "I can't help, after all, the dead are gone. However, it doesn't matter to tell the young master about this, after all, the young master is such a great person now."

"Young master, do you know how the lady died back then?" Xiao Hong suddenly asked.

Yun Che said, "Uncle Xiao Ying was killed, his wife committed suicide, and their child's life or death is unknown. Grandma was hit too hard, and she became depressed and died soon after giving birth to my aunt... Although this is not what grandpa told me, Xiaomen and Liuyun City all say so. Could there be some hidden secret?"

Xiao Lie's wife died of depression after giving birth to Xiao Lingxi because of the pain of losing her son. Yun Che never doubted this before he was sixteen years old. After the age of sixteen, he had more memories of Cangyun Continent. When he thought about this incident again, the medical skills he learned naturally made him doubt.

As the saying goes, women are weak, but they are strong as mothers. Although the pain of losing a son is heartbreaking, Xiao Lie's wife will transfer all her attention and love to her newborn daughter after giving birth to Lingxi. No matter how much pain there is in her heart, she will try to turn it into strength-this is a mother's instinct, and it is also the greatest thing about mothers.

No matter what, she would not just give up and die of depression after giving birth to her daughter.

Moreover, she was definitely not alone at the time, and there was Xiao Lie who had a deep relationship with her.

Therefore, whether from the perspective of medicine or human nature, Xiao Lie's wife should not have died of depression, there must be other reasons. For example... died of illness?

Xiao Hong looked at the flattened mountains in the east and slowly narrated: "Back then, Master Xiao Ying was murdered, and the young master was missing, and the situation was not good. Madam suffered a great blow and cried every day. She was pregnant at that time. The master was afraid that she would be too sad and hurt her body, so he tried to comfort and cheer her up every day... Alas, the master was also heartbroken at that time, but his feelings for Madam were indeed deep."

Yun Che: "..."

"When Madam was pregnant with Miss Lingxi for about six months, the pueraria flowers here were blooming. Pueraria flowers are Madam's favorite flowers. The master brought Madam here to quietly appreciate the pueraria flowers blooming, hoping to ease her pain of losing her son. I followed and served by her side at that time."

"From morning to evening, Madam's mood did improve. Just when the master was about to take Madam back to Liuyun City, an unexpected accident suddenly happened."

"What accident?" Yun Che asked immediately.

"Madam...suddenly, she was struck by a thunderbolt." It has been more than 20 years since that scene happened, but when Xiao Hong thinks of it now, he still looks horrified.

"Hit... a lightning?" Yun Che was stunned, and his brain couldn't figure it out for a while: "What does it mean? How could she be... hit by lightning?"

"My master and I are also puzzled." Xiao Hong sighed: "The bougainvillea flowers are blooming, the sky is clear, let alone dark clouds, there is not even a thin cloud in the sky. But suddenly a lightning bolt fell from the sky and struck Madam... And that lightning bolt was strangely black."

"... Black!?"

"Yes, my master and I saw it clearly. It was indeed a black lightning bolt, which my master and I have never seen in our lives. Its color and its appearance were extremely strange. My master thought that someone had plotted against him, and that the evil man who killed Master Xiao Ying had come back to wipe out the roots. He was furious and searched for him, but there was no other figure in the entire mountain except the three of us. After that, there was no other accident."

"What happened after that? How did grandma get hit by the black lightning bolt?" Yun Che asked anxiously, frowning tightly.

Thunder in the clear sky was extremely abnormal. If he encountered it, his first reaction would definitely be that someone had done it. As for black lightning… the basic color of lightning profound power is purple. After his Yun family’s Purple Cloud Power reaches a very high level, it will turn into red lightning. However, whether in the Profound Sky Continent, the Illusory Demon Realm, or the Cangyun Continent back then, he had never seen or heard of anyone or any sect whose lightning power could be pitch black.

When Fen Juechen and Xuanyuan Wentian released their dark profound power, the extremely compressed dark profound power sometimes formed a lightning-like profound light, which looked like black lightning… However, there was no dark profound power in the Profound Sky Continent more than 20 years ago. The only one who could use the dark profound power, the Moon Killing Demon Lord, was firmly locked in the Moon Killing Demon Cave outside the continent.

"The lady was struck by lightning and fell unconscious on the spot. She was unconscious for three whole days before finally waking up. But strangely, there was no sign of injury from the lightning on her body. But after that, the lady's body became extremely weak. She often had convulsions during the day and nightmares at night. The master sought out famous doctors inside and outside the city and tried all kinds of tonics, but there was no improvement. Later, the lady was pregnant for thirteen months before she finally gave birth to Miss Lingxi. After that, her health deteriorated and she passed away not long after..."