"Ye Qingyang, do you know that the Netherworld Phoenix is the same as the Divine Feather Phoenix? There's actually a difference between a juvenile and an adult. When it's young, the Divine Feather Phoenix looks like a little chick, but when it reaches adulthood, the Divine Feather Phoenix will become extremely gorgeous. The Netherworld Phoenix's juvenile form is similar to that of a crow, but what's different from a crow's is that their eyes are red. However, when it reaches adulthood, it will disappear without a trace, but every time it appears, the sky will turn dark. At that time, it will be the wind, lightning, and rain in the dark world. It will be an existence that you can sense."
"Tell me, Ye Qingyang, what color are your eyes in your beast form?"
Ye Qingyang's expression gradually changed.
He swallowed hard before saying in a low voice, "Red."
Sheng Xiao suddenly closed his eyes.
Eternal carried them through space. Zhan Wuya was sleeping because he had overdrawn his spiritual energy. Ye Qingyang glanced at Zhan Wuya, who was sleeping behind him, then turned to look at Sheng Xiao.
He felt that Sheng Xiao's aura had changed.
It was a little unfamiliar yet familiar at the same time.
Ye Qingyang suppressed his uneasiness and asked Sheng Xiao with a frown, "What do you want to ask me?"
Sheng Xiao opened his eyes and looked at the mysterious space in front of him as he said, "I once raised the only Netherworld Phoenix in the world. From the day he was born, I hid it in my shirt and placed it closest to my heart. I hatched him myself and watched him grow from a Little Crow into an incomparably powerful Netherworld Phoenix…"
"And he is the Undead Divine Master."
Ye Qingyang was stunned. "Then you're…"
"I'm Sheng Xiao and Yu Aofeng. Similarly, I'm also the father of the Undead Divine Master, the Sky Dragon Divine Master."
Ye Qingyang's mouth dropped open in shock.
"Oh my god…" Ye Qingyang suddenly turned around and covered his mouth with his hand. Only then did he stop himself from shouting out loud.
This was a rare lost of composure for him.
Ye Qingyang suppressed his shock and looked at Sheng Xiao again as he asked curiously, "How much do you remember about the Undead Divine Master?" Ye Qingyang wanted to find out more about the Undead Divine Master, so he would be able to completely inherit the inheritance of the Undead Divine Master when he returned to the Undead Continent.
"Of course I remember everything about Ling Xiao," Sheng Xiao said.
"So the Undead Divine Master's name is Ling Xiao." Ye Qingyang nodded and praised, "This name is really imposing. Only the child of the Sky Dragon Divine Master and the Phoenix Divine Master is worthy of such an imposing name."
"That's right. Ling Xiao has been smart since he was young and his cultivation level and talent were extremely high. However, he didn't like to cultivate the Spiritual Energy Dao. He liked to follow behind the Demon God Divine Master." After a pause, Sheng Xiao added, "The Demon God Divine Master was the founder of the Nurturing Demon Technique. In ancient times, demons were recognized, unlike now, when everyone stays away when they hear the mention of demonic existences."
"What happened after that?" Ye Qingyang asked.
"When Ling Xiao was 60 years old, he went to the desolate place and found his space seed. He refined that seed and lured all the undead in the world who couldn't enter reincarnation because their obsessions were too deep into his small world. Then, he turned his small world into the home of the phantoms. He also successfully created his own Ghost Dao and became a Grand Master of ghost cultivation. However, the phantoms were also once humans, so they also treated Ling Xiao as their God."
"When Ling Xiao was 100 years old, he became the youngest Divine Master in the world. However, when he was 600 years old, his good friend, the Demon God Divine Master, suddenly went crazy and became bloodthirsty. In order to stop his good friend from continuing to kill, Ling Xiao fought with him. In the end, the two of them perished together and fell into the Demon Spirit Abyss of the Undead Continent. When I rushed to the Undead Continent to find him, he had already died. His cultivation dissipated and he returned to the Undead Core. At that time, I had already sensed that there was something fishy about the Demon God Divine Master's demonic transformation. I didn't want to watch helplessly as they entered reincarnation, so I took their souls."
Ye Qingyang found it unbelievable and asked Sheng Xiao, "What did you do to their souls?"
Sheng Xiao stared at Ye Qingyang with a complicated gaze as he said, "I sealed their souls and shuttled through space to hide their souls in the chaotic spatial rift. I thought that after I found out about the scheme, I could personally send them into reincarnation. However, before we could find out the truth, we were schemed against by the Great Dao."
Ye Qingyang asked, "In that case, the souls of the Undead Divine Master and the Demon God Divine Master are still shuttling through the spatial rift?"
Sheng Xiao shook his head.
He said, "I'm a powerful person and will never allow anyone to snatch the energy that belongs to my son. Therefore, I left a wisp of my spiritual consciousness on the Undead Divine Master core. With that wisp of spiritual consciousness, no one can obtain the inheritance in the Undead Core."
As Sheng Xiao stared at Ye Qingyang, he pressed the tip of his tongue against the roof of his mouth nervously and said hoarsely, "Only Ling Xiao's soul body can obtain the energy in the Undead Core."
However, Ye Qingyang obtained the energy in half of the Undead Core.
This meant…
Ye Qingyang gasped.
Zhan Wuya, who had woken up long ago but had not opened his eyes, was also shocked.
In that case, wasn't Ye Qingyang Ling Xiao's reincarnation?
In other words, he was Sheng Xiao's…
Son.
Zhan Wuya didn't dare to believe it. He was afraid that Ye Qingyang would kill him to keep this secret forever.
Ye Qingyang said with an impassive expression, "Stop making up stories for me. Don't think that just making up a story can make me change my address and call you Daddy. I'm Ye Qingyang, the young master of the Ye family."
With that, Ye Qingyang turned around and ignored Sheng Xiao.
Sheng Xiao looked at him quietly and didn't disturb him anymore.
After Ye Qingyang laid on Eternal's back, he used his right arm as a pillow and closed his eyes to take a nap. However, he thought of a past that he had neglected for many years—
Ever since he was young, the Ye family had thought that Ye Qingyang was talented because he was born with it.
According to Ye Qingyang's grandfather, on the day he was born, the day suddenly turned into night. The entire Divination Continent lost sunlight and countless meteors flashed across the sky. A black meteorite landed in the sky of the Ye family, but it disappeared right after.
After the meteorite landed, in less than two minutes, Madam Ye gave birth to the young master of the Ye family.
The birth of the Young Master made the days dark. There was once a person who thought that the Young Master of the Ye family was a mysterious existance. In order to change his grandson's fate, the old patriarch of the Ye family named his grandson Ye Qingyang.
The word 'Qing' meant that this child would have a bright future and become extraordinary.
The word Yang was the old patriarch's blessing to his grandson. He prayed that this child wouldn't be touched by evil.
However, Ye Qingyang still became a ghostly cultivator in the end.
Back then, after the Ye family was exterminated, all the factions on the Divination Continent thought that Ye Qingyang had brought disaster to the Ye family. Even Ye Qingyang believed this.
Recalling the past and combining what Sheng Xiao had said earlier, Ye Qingyang finally understood why the day he was born turned into a dark night and why a meteor flew across the sky.
Because when the Netherworld Phoenix appeared, darkness would definitely descend.
"I won't call you Daddy. You'd better give up on that thought," Ye Qingyang said gloomily.
When he was ranked second on the Doomsday Battlefield's Grand Master Ranking, Sheng Xiao was still fighting to enter the Grand Master Thousand Ranking List. In Ye Qingyang's eyes, Sheng Xiao was still that weakling who was bullied by the participants of the Great World and needed his help.
How did he become the reincarnation of Sheng Xiao's son in the blink of an eye?
Ye Qingyang couldn't accept this fact.
Sheng Xiao smiled. When he spoke, his tone was full of doting. "You don't have to change your address. I'm relieved to see that you're safe."
Ye Qingyang felt that Sheng Xiao was coaxing a child, so he sat up and glared at Sheng Xiao as he said angrily, "Don't talk to me like you're coaxing a child. I'm the Prime Master Ye Qingyang!"
Sheng Xiao couldn't help but laugh. However, he nodded cooperatively. "Alright, whatever you say."
Ye Qingyang was speechless.
He became even angrier.