A Father Stands Strong

Su Jie's heart trembled slightly at those words. He looked Su Yun up and down and hesitated. "Senior, you knew my mother?"

"There was once a bond of fate between us."

Unhurriedly, Su Yun said, "She regarded me as a tribulation, and saw family and affection as obstacles on the path to ascension. In the end, she left alone."

Su Jie's expression dimmed. "Mother saw me as a tribulation too, which was why she named me Su Jie. The surname Su was my father's..."

He looked at Su Yun, his lips twitching, but the word never left his mouth. He continued, "She took me with her to search for the path of ascension. When I was young, I depended on her greatly, but she grew more and more distant from me. By the time we came here, she had severed every tie and ascended to the Immortal Realm."

Yingying could not help saying, "The Seventh Immortal Realm is the Immortal Realm! Where else could she ascend to? The Sixth Immortal Realm? What nonsense!"

Su Yun knew that Chai Chuxi harbored an almost impractical grand ambition. Ascension had become her obsession. She did not believe the place that had birthed and raised her was the Immortal Realm, and so she pursued it bitterly.

During those years when no one could become immortal, Chai Chuxi stubbornly wandered the world with Su Jie, searching for that misty, illusory Immortal Realm.

The place she eventually found was the Immortal Realm Gate. It was where the Three Holy Emperors had wished to go with the spirits of the saints, not the Immortal Realm Chai Chuxi had sought.

"Perhaps even after reaching the Eighth Immortal Realm, she will continue searching without rest."

Su Yun said, "There is an Immortal Realm in her heart, a place she