Chapter 132 Third Uncle Han Yu
Tears welled up in her eyes.
The man she was holding stiffened for a moment, but didn't push her away, letting her continue to cry in his arms. After a long while, Han Wei finally heard him speak: "I'm not your father."
What?
Han Wei looked at him through teary eyes, meeting his bloodshot gaze.
These weren't her father's eyes, so Han Wei immediately distanced herself from him, but she could definitely feel the blood connection between her and this man.
Suddenly, she remembered her third uncle, whom she had never met.
So she tentatively called out, "Third Uncle?"
Han Yu looked at her with mixed feelings and nodded gently.
"Third Uncle, are you really my third uncle?" Han Wei asked.
Han Yu approached, gazing intently at her. After a long while, he reached out to stroke Han Wei's cheek, but stopped just before touching her. He looked away and turned away.
"If I weren't your third uncle, how could you still be alive?"
Upon hearing this, Han Wei composed herself and bowed solemnly: "Han Wei greets Third Uncle."
After bowing, Han Wei looked Han Yu over again, her mind full of questions.
Just as he said, if he weren't her third uncle, how could she still be alive? If they weren't related, why would he have saved her just now? He killed that purple-haired demon with ease, so there was no need for him to pretend to be her relative in front of someone at the Integration Stage.
But what's Uncle San doing here?
And he also...
His entire body was shrouded in demonic energy, making him clearly a demon.
Third Uncle, has he fallen into the demonic path?
There are two types of demons: those born innate and those acquired later in life. Cultivators all possess inner demons; if they survive the tribulation of their inner demons, they will merge with them and become demons themselves. Even immortals who have already attained immortality can fall into the demonic path; so-called fallen immortals are also demons.
Han Yu turned to look at Han Wei, his expression seemingly cold. He said, "Han Wei? Your name is Han Wei?"
Han Wei nodded: "Yes, it's the 'Wei' in 'rose,' the name my mother gave me."
“When I left, you weren’t even born yet. So many years have passed; a lot must have happened. Tell me about it,” Han Yu said.
Han Wei nodded again.
"Let's find another place to talk." After Han Yu finished speaking, a red light emanated from his body, enveloping Han Wei, and he teleported away with her.
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Inside a cave deep in Wuzhong Mountain, Han Wei and Han Yu sat at a table.
Han Wei looked around the cave. It was hardly a good place to live. It was gloomy and dark. Although there were no dead bones piled up and it was quite clean, there was a sense of oppression everywhere, and the light was very dim.
Han Wei looked away and saw Han Yu staring at her intently. Feeling a little uncomfortable under his gaze, Han Wei softly called out, "Third Uncle?"
Han Yu snapped out of his daze and said somewhat awkwardly, "You look a lot like your mother."
Han Wei stroked her cheek; someone had said that to her when she was little. As she grew up, she also felt she looked like her mother. But her mother was long gone, and no one had ever told her how much she resembled her.
"Your parents..." Han Yu began, then suddenly paused.
Han Wei looked dejected and said with her head down, "They're gone."
Han Yu wasn't surprised; he had already anticipated it. Han Wei's excitement upon seeing him and the words she spoke had all confirmed his suspicions. His brother and sister-in-law were no longer alive.
"How did your parents die?" Han Yu asked coldly.
Han Wei said, "When I was six years old, Li Ke, the leader of the Thousand Illusions Sect of the Demonic Path, joined forces with other sects to besiege the Qingyun Sect. My parents and Li Ke died together."
Upon hearing this, Han Yu's eyes flashed with murderous intent: "Qianhuan Sect, Li Ke, Master shouldn't have let him go back then." In his rage, an extremely terrifying aura emanated from him, causing Han Wei to tremble instinctively. Her face paled as she said:
"Third Uncle, the Thousand Illusions Sect has been wiped out."
The dangerous aura emanating from Han Yu vanished at those words, replaced by sorrow and regret. He said painfully, "If... if I hadn't left back then, perhaps they wouldn't have died. I've been trapped in this place for a thousand five hundred years. All these years, I've been wondering what would have happened if I hadn't left the Yunlan Realm?"
"I never imagined that our parting back then would truly be our last."
He was immersed in grief, and after a long while, he asked Han Wei, "What happened next? After your parents perished, how did you leave Yunlan Realm?"
Han Wei clenched her fist.
"After my parents died, Xie Yun became the sect leader of Qingyun Sect and took me as his disciple. At first, he pretended to be nice to me, but later he locked me in a secret room and took my blood every few days."
"What?" Han Yu exclaimed in shock and anger.
Han Wei recounted her story of being a Wood Spirit, as well as her relationships with Xie Yun, Su Rumei, Heavenly Demon Saintess, and Gu Qi. She couldn't reveal her rebirth, so she slightly altered the story, only saying that Gu Qi had saved her and allowed her to escape the Qingyun Sect.
She couldn't bring herself to tell her complicated master-disciple relationship with Gu Qi, even in front of her third uncle. So she cut and edited the story, only saying that Gu Qi died in the Jade Palace. After that, she came to the Star Luo Realm by chance, and then from the Star Luo Realm to the Cloud Wilderness Realm. Later, she obtained the Xuan Tian Token. When she left the Xuan Tian Secret Realm, she accidentally entered this place because the Xuan Tian Token was destroyed.
"I never imagined you'd been through so much," Han Yu exclaimed.
Three hundred years after he left, Han Wei was born. He appeared to save Han Wei because he sensed that Han Wei had a blood connection with him, and because Han Wei looked very much like her mother, he guessed who Han Wei was.
"Gu Qi, you actually became his disciple, it's truly a strange world," Han Yu said again. Back then, Han Wei's father went to Gu Qi's sect, White Lotus Mountain, to save his younger brother, Han Yu. Han Yu had met Gu Qi, although they had never exchanged a single word.
Han Yu's feelings for Gu Qi were somewhat complicated; Gu Qi's entire clan was wiped out, and in a way, Han Yu was partly responsible for it.
If he hadn't been poisoned, his elder brother wouldn't have needed to go to White Lotus Mountain, and wouldn't have encountered Gu Qi. Gu Qi wouldn't have helped his elder brother, wouldn't have been punished, and wouldn't have needed to search for the Nine-Turn Ice Heart Lotus later, thus avoiding the subsequent annihilation of their clan, and he wouldn't have become the cold-blooded Blood Sword Immortal.
"Third Uncle, what exactly is this place? How did you end up here? What happened after you left Yunlan Realm? What are you now..." Han Wei wanted to ask, "How did you become a demon?" but she didn't dare to say it directly.
Han Yu looked at her, his handsome face expressionless, and said, "As you can see, I have become a demon."
Han Wei's eyes flickered for a moment after hearing this, but she continued to listen to him quietly.
"After I left the Cloud Realm, I realized how vast the myriad worlds are. At first, I was very excited, excited that I, a frog at the bottom of a well, had finally jumped out of that well. But once I left my homeland, I had no help at all, and I had to find a way to solve whatever I encountered on my own."
"After surviving several brushes with death, I had a stroke of good fortune and reached the Integration Stage. Later, I encountered that guy in an ancient ruin..."
At this point, Han Yu clenched his fists, a violent glint in his eyes.
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