Over the next few days, Li Changqing took up residence at White Snake Path, staying within the Inspector’s mansion.

All was peaceful.

Li Hengsheng, who had been tense for several days, also felt that Li Changqing was making a fuss over nothing. What could possibly happen?

Until the fifth day.

The inevitable still arrived.

A thunderous boom resonated above Tushan City, prompting all the residents to come out and watch. When they looked up, they couldn’t help but gasp in amazement!

Above their heads was a colossal warship!

The warship was like a towering mountain.

It also bore the flag of Tianhai City.

This scene shocked everyone. Why had the people of Tianhai City suddenly come to this godforsaken place?

Who had they come for?

“They’ve still come.”

When Li Changqing saw the warship, his eyes narrowed slightly. He had anticipated that Yue Hanjun would come looking for Li Hengsheng, and sure enough.

Since they had come, it was time to resolve everything today.

“Dad, the people from Tianhai City are here.”

Li Hengsheng also had a bad premonition at this moment.

“Don’t be afraid.” Li Changqing patted Li Hengsheng’s shoulder.

This gesture made Li Hengsheng pause. Why did it feel so familiar?

But at this moment, Li Hengsheng didn’t think too much about it.

The warship loomed over Tushan City like a giant dark cloud. At the same time, on the edge of the warship, apart from the many soldiers of Tianhai City, two figures appeared.

One figure had disheveled hair, dressed in white, with a faint smile on his lips.

The other person wore an iron mask, obscuring his face, but from him emanated a very strong aura.

Li Changqing knew this aura all too well—it was the power of the Divine Soul.

The iron-masked man’s Divine Soul power was almost comparable to his own?

Could he also be a Painting Sage on the verge of entering the realm of Great Freedom?

When Li Hengsheng saw Yue Hanjun, for some reason, he felt that this man was very familiar, as if he had known him for many years.

“Li Hengsheng.”

At this moment, a pleasant voice came from the warship, and another person appeared—a peerless young girl. As soon as she appeared, all eyes were drawn to her.

She was stunningly beautiful!

It was Yue Qingwu.

But Li Hengsheng didn’t recognize this person.

“You’ve still come.” Li Changqing looked up at Yue Hanjun. Although it was their first meeting, Li Changqing also felt a very familiar sensation: “You must be Yue Hanjun, right?”

“Li Changqing.” Yue Hanjun looked at Li Changqing with a smile.

“Yue Hanjun?” Li Hengsheng was somewhat surprised, for this name was very prominent in the Cangyuan Realm.

The youngest Painting Sage in history.

But what was he doing here, and why did he know Li Changqing?

For a moment, Li Hengsheng felt that there were too many secrets about Li Changqing.

“We meet for the first time, and it will also be the last,” Yue Hanjun said calmly.

“What do you mean?” Li Hengsheng, feeling confused, quickly asked, turning to Yue Qingwu: “Do we know each other?”

Yue Qingwu also spoke: “Li Hengsheng, I am your aunt.”

Upon hearing this, Li Hengsheng was stunned.

Even the many onlookers at the Inspector’s mansion were all ears. This woman, judging by her attire, was clearly from the Yue family. She said she was Li Hengsheng’s aunt?

Didn’t that mean Li Hengsheng was also from the Yue family?

Did Li Hengsheng have such a powerful background?

“Aunt?” Li Hengsheng couldn’t help but look towards Li Changqing.

But Li Changqing didn’t speak. Instead, Yue Hanjun and two others slowly descended from the sky, and Li Changqing became alert.

Yue Hanjun quietly looked at Li Hengsheng and said as soon as he landed, “I am your father, Yue Hanjun.”

Li Hengsheng’s eyes nearly popped out upon hearing this.

What nonsense?

“What are you talking about?”

Li Hengsheng clearly didn’t believe it.

“He is my father!” Li Hengsheng pointed at Li Changqing.

“Is that so?” Yue Hanjun chuckled, then pondered for a moment before saying, “If you insist on saying that, it’s not wrong. I am your father, and Li Changqing is also your father. These two facts do not conflict.”

Upon hearing this, Li Hengsheng felt as if his mind was on fire.

What was Yue Hanjun talking about?

Li Changqing also frowned.

What did Yue Hanjun mean?

“Li Changqing, aren’t you curious why you’ve never been able to break through to the realm of Great Freedom?”

Yue Hanjun said with a smile.

Li Changqing narrowed his eyes. How did Yue Hanjun know about such a thing?

“That’s because you lack one soul.”

Yue Hanjun spoke leisurely: “Humans have Three Souls and Seven Spirits. You have one soul and five spirits. The Li Changqing who died in Changting Town had one soul and two spirits. Even though he’s dead and you’ve returned to his body, you now have only two souls and seven spirits at most. Naturally, you cannot break through to the realm of Great Freedom because your soul is incomplete, and no matter how much power you absorb, it will only leak away.”

“And your last soul is with me.” Yue Hanjun pointed at his own head.

Li Changqing’s pupils shrank. Such news was almost unbelievable.

No wonder he could never truly step into the realm of Great Freedom. It turned out he was missing a soul. But if what Yue Hanjun said was true, then who was he?

Wasn’t he Yue Hanjun himself?

What in the world was going on?

Li Changqing and Li Hengsheng, father and son, were both utterly baffled.

“It’s easy to explain,” Yue Hanjun said, looking at Li Hengsheng. “Li Hengsheng is the child of me and Jiang Tianyun’s daughter, Jiang Qianrou. Back then, Jiang Tianyun saw an ancient stele in the Black and White Forbidden Area. It was written that whoever obtained the Cangyuan Seal and the Boundary Pearl could become immortal. Therefore, Jiang Tianyun has always monopolized the position of the Cangyuan Realm Master and refused to give it up, all to guard the Cangyuan Seal.”

“At the same time, Jiang Tianyun was also desperately searching for the Boundary Pearl. Unfortunately, he searched for a long time without success.”

“Eventually, Jiang Tianyun got lucky and found the whereabouts of the Boundary Pearl. Just when he wanted to seize the Boundary Pearl, he didn’t expect that the Boundary Pearl could flee and even merged into a person’s body. That person was your mother, Jiang Qianrou,” Yue Hanjun told Li Hengsheng.

“My mother…”

Li Hengsheng stared blankly at Yue Hanjun, murmuring to himself.

This was the first time he had heard news of his mother and the first time he had heard her name.

Her name was… Jiang Qianrou?

Hearing his mother’s name for the first time, Li Hengsheng kept repeating it, as if trying to imagine what she looked like. But he had never seen her and couldn’t conjure up her face.

“My mother is Jiang Qianrou, so does that mean the Cangyuan Realm Master Jiang Tianyun is my grandfather?” Li Hengsheng said in disbelief.

“He doesn’t deserve it.”

Yue Hanjun’s expression turned cold: “When he learned that the Boundary Pearl and Jiang Qianrou had merged, he actually wanted to refine his own daughter to obtain the Boundary Pearl! If it weren’t for Qianrou and me fleeing, your mother would have died at the hands of her beastly father long ago!”

“Later, you were born,” Yue Hanjun looked at Li Hengsheng. “At that time, we were being hunted by Tianhai City. Your mother was exhausted from running and had no way to give birth to you, but she used the power of the Boundary Pearl to forcibly bring you into the world. The Boundary Pearl merged with you, but without the Boundary Pearl, your mother could no longer survive.”

Li Hengsheng’s heart was struck by thunder upon hearing this, filled with mixed emotions.

Li Changqing, hearing this, also felt a vague sense of heartache, as if there was an emotional resonance.

“To protect you and prevent Jiang Tianyun from succeeding, I used a long-lost secret technique of the Ghost Clan to split myself into three. My true self retained only one soul, and the other two bodies were Li Changqing, who raised you. The last body, I asked the Faceless Painting Sage to exile beyond the Cangyuan Realm, not knowing where it ended up.”

“So even if that old man Jiang Tianyun used the power of causality, he could never find you.”

“The Faceless Painting Sage?”

Li Changqing suddenly remembered that when investigating Yue Hanjun’s information, there were records of Yue Hanjun clashing with the Faceless Painting Sage in the Cloud Wilderness for three months. And the person before him was the Faceless Painting Sage.

If Li Changqing was not mistaken, this Faceless Painting Sage must also possess a special eye technique.

Otherwise, how could he have exiled one of the split bodies beyond the heavens?

So, was he merely a split soul of Yue Hanjun?

The reason he had traversed to the Cangyuan Realm was not that he had died and transmigrated, but because Yue Hanjun felt the time was right, so he summoned him to the Cangyuan Realm. He and the Li Changqing who died in Changting Town were originally one, so he was reborn in his body.

Everything was calculated.

Even his previous life on Earth had been part of the calculation.

He had never escaped this chess game.

The chessmaster was Yue Hanjun.

“Li Changqing, you’ve given me a great surprise. I never expected your Divine Soul to be so strong. This was beyond my expectations,” Yue Hanjun looked at Li Changqing.

“So you’ve come today to acknowledge kinship? Or are you also here for the Boundary Pearl?” Li Changqing didn’t believe Yue Hanjun’s sanctimonious act. He even suspected that when Yue Hanjun took Jiang Qianrou away, he had already set his sights on the Boundary Pearl.

“Heh.” Yue Hanjun chuckled, then said, “But there’s no Boundary Pearl in Li Hengsheng anymore. To get the Boundary Pearl from Li Hengsheng, you’d have to wait until he’s eighteen. However, the Boundary Pearl is no longer in his body, which means there’s only one explanation.”

“You have a child.”

Yue Hanjun uttered five words, leaving Li Hengsheng dumbfounded.

What? A child?

Where?

Li Changqing also looked at Li Hengsheng in surprise, thinking to himself, impressive!

When did this happen?

But Li Hengsheng’s heart skipped a beat. Could it be?

That night?

So his child was the Boundary Pearl?

“Where is the child?” Yue Hanjun asked Li Hengsheng.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Li Hengsheng said coldly.

No matter what, he definitely wouldn’t betray Lu Qiaoqiao. It wasn’t because Li Hengsheng still had feelings for Lu Qiaoqiao.

But if the other party really had a child, how could he tolerate Yue Hanjun refining his own child?

Moreover, although Yue Hanjun claimed to be his father, Li Hengsheng didn’t feel any familial affection from Yue Hanjun’s eyes, only a desire for power and strength.

How could such a person be fit to be his father?

But at this moment, Li Hengsheng also understood something. The Li Changqing by his side had shown so many flaws because he indeed didn’t have the memories of raising him from childhood. And the Li Changqing who had raised him had already died in Yue Hanjun’s plan.

And when he asked the immortal Li Changqing in his dream if he was his father, the answer was yes, which was also correct.

Yue Hanjun was his father, and Li Changqing was a split soul from Yue Hanjun, so in a sense, Li Changqing was indeed his father, because they shared the same bloodline.

Everything seemed like a dream.

Leaving Li Hengsheng’s mind in a daze.

“When your father becomes immortal, what kind of woman can’t you have?” Yue Hanjun stepped forward: “Where is your child? Tell me, and in the future, we father and son will dominate the Cangyuan Realm, unmatched. Isn’t that a good life?”

“I have nothing to say to you.”

Li Hengsheng frowned and said, “I never thought of you as my father. My father has always been only Li Changqing, and you, I don’t even know you. It’s ridiculous to come out of nowhere claiming to be my father!”

“Unwilling to talk?”

Yue Hanjun’s gaze flashed coldly.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Many soldiers descended from the airship, surrounding Li Changqing and Li Hengsheng.

“Inspector!”

The people outside the Inspector’s mansion saw this and wanted to rush to help, but before they could take a few steps, they were pinned to the ground by the many soldiers of Tianhai City!

These people were very strong, and they could not contend with them.

“If you refuse to speak, then come back to Tianhai City with me until you’re willing to talk,” Yue Hanjun commanded, and the soldiers behind him stepped forward.

“Brother!”

Yue Qingwu was anxious to stop them, but Yue Hanjun’s cold glance made her halt her words.

“Don’t even think about touching my son.”

Li Changqing roared!

He immediately stepped in front of Li Hengsheng, and at the same time, with a wave of his hand, a sword case flew out. The seven Qinglian swords instantly flew out, seven Divine Weapons soared, and the Sword Formation swept through like a hurricane, intending to block those who had just rushed forward.

But how could they possibly be a match for Li Changqing with their strength?

They were instantly shattered by the sword qi!

“Qinglian Sword Sovereign!”

At this moment, Li Hengsheng behind Li Changqing was stunned.

The Qinglian Sword Sovereign was actually his father?