"Once you have a wife, you forget your mother. Sigh."
Just as Ye Boqi entered the imperial palace's back garden, the old woman sitting there brewing tea casually uttered these words.
This made Ye Boqi touch his nose and smile slightly; his mother knew he was back.
Even after having a wife, he can't forget his mother.
He placed his hands on his mother's shoulders and gently massaged them, then whispered something in her ear.
“But Father can be forgotten.”
These words made the old woman smile immediately. She took Yi Boqi's hand and made him sit next to her, looking at her son's face with doting eyes.
"Yes, my son is already a great man."
"If only Mother could hold her grandson sooner."
Being with my mom always feels the warmest, because in her eyes he's the only one, and all the topics we talk about always revolve around him.
But Yi Boqi also felt that the time he spent with his mother was too short.
The subsequent conversation between the Emperor and Empress of Daqi and the Crown Prince of Daqi was no different from that of an ordinary family.
They asked how the food was, how well the sleep was, and whether the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law treated the child well.
After asking all these questions, he began to complain to Yi Boqi about his father, who was having fun outside and didn't know how to come home.
He Boqi just listened and smiled, thinking, "My mother has been too lonely these past few years."
She has been bedridden for eighteen years. Back then, her father, the Marquis of Shenwei, was away fighting wars for many years, and now she herself has been away from her side for a long time.
When a mother sees her son, she always has a lot to say. No matter how many people are with her, no one can replace her in her heart.
Although he had many things he wanted to ask his mother, he always waited until she had finished confiding in him before speaking.
The mother always complained in the same order; after complaining about the father, it was his turn to complain about this unfilial son.
Here and there, complaints and grievances came raining down on him, and all Xiao Boqi could do was nod and grin foolishly.
"Sigh, when you were little, I longed for you to grow up quickly so that you could take care of yourself and your mother. But after you grew up, I realized that the little one who would run to your mother's bedside to wipe away tears even if he wet his pants is now someone who wouldn't say a word to his mother even if he was bleeding or seriously injured."
As he spoke, he touched Yi Boqi's face.
"My son, all I want is for you to live, to live happily. No achievements matter."
Yi Boqi patted his mother's hand that was touching his face: "Don't worry, your son is very strong now, he's a half-emperor."
Dongfang Ruoyun looked at her son, who was boasting to her, with doting eyes and tapped his forehead with her finger.
"Alas, I wish I could stop time forever, but I know it's impossible. I even think that if I hadn't given birth to you, you wouldn't have to do so many dangerous things."
After saying that, he took out something and placed it in front of Yi Boqi; it was a piece of charred bone.
"This is your father's bone marrow, the bone marrow he sacrificed to help you reverse the three years of rebuilding."
These words startled Ye Boqi. He had discovered that his father had no bone structure when he was in the Ye clan, and now his mother was telling him that his father's bone structure was sacrificed to reverse time.
The sacrifice was made solely for the purpose of a different kind of reincarnation and rebirth.
"You should already know in the Imperial Land that our lineage's ancestor, the Qi family patriarch, is named Qi Jiubo. He is the descendant of the progenitor and the Mingyue Patriarch of Wuji Temple. He came to the Eastern Divine Land to seek refuge and also to make arrangements for the progenitor."
"The lineage that came to the Eastern Divine Land has extremely poor natural talent and aptitude because the ancestor extracted the aptitude of Ancestor Qi Jiubo, so the Qi clan that came to the Eastern Divine Land has remained unknown."
His mother's words also dispelled the doubts in Qi Boqi's heart. Based on what he knew of Qi Laoxie's abilities and schemes, the Qi family of the Eastern Divine Land lineage should not be unknown.
However, the Ye family he knew was not a large family at all, and had never produced any important figures.
Aside from myself, the highest-ranking person was my grandfather's generation, but he was only the Marquis of Shenwei in the Dayang Dynasty, and his cultivation level was not even at the Nascent Soul stage.
"The purpose of extracting the Ninth Ancestor's bone marrow was twofold: first, to conceal the aura of the Yi family's bloodline; and second, to absorb the power of the Heavenly Dao to nourish future generations."
These words made Xiao Boqi frown.
"Absorbing the power of the Heavenly Dao?"
Dongfang Ruoyun nodded slightly: "The Ancestor placed the Ninth Ancestor's bone in the void to steal the power of the Heavenly Dao, thereby enhancing the compatibility between the descendants and the Heavenly Dao. More importantly, it was to cultivate the host of the Stealing Heavenly Book."
These words truly shocked Yi Boqi. Stealing the Heavenly Book was his greatest secret, which he had only discussed with Zhang's patriarch and Yi Dasan until now. He had never mentioned it to his parents or even his wife.
But how did I know that!
"Don't be surprised. I am your mother. You were chosen as the host of the Book of the Heavenly Stealer. Your father sacrificed his roots and cultivation for this. I know this very well. No one can touch a hair on my son's head without my consent."
"All of this was part of the Ancestor's plan. Even I was part of the Ancestor's plan. I was bedridden for eighteen years so that I could lay the foundation for your alternative reincarnation and cultivation. Without that experience, my son's state of mind would not have changed."
Dongfang Ruoyun gathered her thoughts briefly before speaking again.
"With the Ninth Ancestor's root bone removed, the Eastern Divine Earth Clan has been mediocre. This not only allows them to evade the Heavenly Dao's detection but also buys them time to rise. Three generations later, the root bone that absorbed the power of the Heavenly Dao begins to nourish future generations."
"The talent of this lineage of the He clan has begun to improve, but not everyone can be nurtured. However, those with outstanding talent are all sent away in their childhood."
After speaking, he looked at Yi Boqi in front of him.
"It was sent to the Yunqin Heavenly Dynasty."
"Those clansmen who do not awaken their talents will become just ordinary people, and will never remember their origins or their ancestors until their death."
"Throughout this process, this lineage of the Ye clan has always had a guardian family, a family with the surname Dongfang."
Seeing the question in her son's eyes, Dongfang Ruoyun nodded.
"The Dongfang in the name of the Dongfang Ancestor is also the Dongfang family of my mother's lineage. Back then, the First Ancestor persuaded the Dongfang Ancestor to take care of this line of the He clan descendants. Our Dongfang clan is descended from an orphan adopted by the Dongfang Ancestor back then."
After saying that, she reached out and stroked her son's furrowed brow.
"If you had not been born, these days and secrets would have continued indefinitely, but you are the one who is most in tune with the Heavenly Dao Divine Book, and the descendant that the Ancestor has been waiting for."
"So from the moment you were born, your destiny was already set; you will become the most important link in the ancestor's plan."
As he spoke, he pointed to the location of Yiboqi's sea of consciousness.
"Your Book of Stealing the Heavens is actually the result of the countless years of stolen roots and bones of the Ninth Ancestor, and it has been fused with the power of countless imperial scriptures."
"This is also the origin of your ability to control the stars and seize the foundation of others' fortune."
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