"Mother, what's going on? I've never mentioned you having any family before!" Nangong Jingqi couldn't help but ask.
Has your mother told you about her past?
Sima Jiaorong did not answer Nangong Jingqi, but instead looked up and asked Beiming Haotian.
"I have said it." Bei Minghaotian did not want to talk much about the past, because mentioning it would tear his heart apart again.
“Madam Nangong, in my opinion, it is more appropriate for you to speak. Haotian is most reluctant to mention his parents. He witnessed his parents lying in a pool of blood. I hope you can understand Haotian.”
Tian Haoze understood Bei Minghaotian's thoughts best. It wasn't that he didn't want to speak, but that he couldn't bring himself to say it. Mentioning the events of that year would only cause Haotian so much pain that he couldn't speak.
Sima Jiaorong suddenly took a few steps back, looking at Bei Ming Haotian with heartache. How much pain and suffering must he be in? All these years, he has been bearing this pain alone. He has truly suffered.
"Our Sima family is not from the Four Continents, nor from the Qihe Dynasty, but from the Xuanwu Continent, which is unknown to the world. Our father is the ruler of the Xuanwu Continent. Our family was very happy, but this happiness also had to end. My uncle had long harbored rebellious intentions. Overnight, the Xuanwu Palace was filled with blood. In order for my sister and me to live, my father used his last breath to send my mother, sister, and me out of the Xuanwu Continent. After that, the three of us were separated. I searched for them for nearly forty years in the Four Continents, but I still couldn't find them. I thought they were no longer alive in this world. And I couldn't find the way back to the Xuanwu Continent, so I could only stay here. But I never expected that my sister was so close to me, yet I still couldn't find her..."
"Wait, Mother, you said you've been searching for forty years. Not counting your previous age, Mother, how old are you this year?"
Nangong Jingqi interrupted his mother in disbelief. He had never considered his mother's age, because she was always just as beautiful as ever, and time had never left any marks on her face.
"Mother doesn't remember how old she is. Maybe she's almost a hundred years old! Or maybe she's over a hundred, Mother can't remember." Sima Jiaorong shook her head; she really hadn't counted.
"Mother, please don't scare Qi'er!"
Nangong Jingqi looked at his mother in disbelief. His mother was already a hundred years old, and they, as her sons, didn't even know?
"Qi'er, there are no elders like Venerable Nanxing in our Xuanwu Continent, because the people of our Xuanwu Continent can live forever, and some people don't even know how old they are. Everyone has a young face."
"What? There's such a wonderful place in the world that hasn't been discovered by anyone?"
Nangong Jingqi felt she couldn't accept this fact. If Yan'er could hear this now, she would definitely jump out of bed in surprise.
“Xuanwu Continent, Xuanwu Continent, right, I seem to remember my senior brother mentioning it before,” Tian Nanxing said thoughtfully.
"Venerable One, you said Venerable Yunxiao knows about the Xuanwu Continent?" Sima Jiaorong asked excitedly.
"I'm not too sure about that. Didn't you say that Haotian's mother is your sister? Maybe Jiaoru told my senior brother. Haotian's father is my senior brother's beloved disciple, so it's not surprising that my senior brother would know."
Tian Nanxing shrugged, because he didn't care and didn't remember very clearly.
"That's right, my mother is indeed from the Xuanwu Continent, and she does have a younger sister. Back then, my mother searched for them for decades, but to no avail. She then married my father. Because my mother was seriously injured back then, her cultivation level was greatly reduced after she survived. If it weren't for that, Bei Ming Yaowei wouldn't have been able to kill her at all."
Bei Ming Haotian finally spoke, but the pain in his voice pierced everyone's heart.
-End of this chapter-
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