Given Su Chenxiao's love for her, if she admitted her mistake after he woke up,
he would forgive her, right?
Su Yaohuang had no idea what Lin Qingran was thinking at that moment.
In the end, she cast her a cold glance, rose to her feet, and looked toward the surviving Qingcheng people, whose faces were filled with terror.
She spoke in an unquestionable tone.
"Before my little brother wakes up, none of you may leave this place by even half a step!"
She lightly waved her right hand.
Boom
A divine flame of terrifying heat, capable of incinerating the void, spread out in a flat sweep.
It directly sealed off the entire martial arena so tightly that not even water could pass through.
Even within the flames, they would have to endure the searing heat terrifying enough to roast them alive.
After doing all this, Su Yaohuang carried the unconscious Su Chenxiao and headed straight into a building.
She quietly waited there for their parents to arrive.
Within the scorching sea of flames,
the Qingcheng crowd remained shaken, their souls not yet returned to their bodies.
Everything that had happened today had come far too suddenly, like a dream.
No one had expected that behind the seemingly backgroundless Su Chenxiao stood a mighty figure from the Upper Realm!
"Q-Qingran..."
One of the Lin Family elders who had survived by sheer luck crawled over, trembling.
His heart seemed about to leap from his chest. He could not calm himself for a long while, and asked in deep fear,
"Did that Su Chenxiao... ever say that he came from the Upper Realm?"
Quite a few people harbored the same question.
From the other party's attitude, they were not killing them yet because they seemed to be waiting for Su Chenxiao to wake up and make the decision himself.
The other two Qingcheng families were one thing.
But the members of the Qingcheng Ye Family, who were the most terrified, had all gone ashen-faced and collapsed limply to the ground in despair.
In order to curry favor with the Tianqi Dao Lineage, they had tortured Su Chenxiao more than anyone else!
Lin Qingran glanced at the elder beside her and shook her head.
"Qingran!" The elder grabbed her arm and pleaded as though weeping blood and tears.
"I know that you usually had a very good relationship with Su Chenxiao. Once he wakes up, you must put in a good word for our Lin Family!"
"You should know that our Lin Family has never done anything to wrong Su Chenxiao!"
"We had no choice either. We were forced by the Tianqi Dao Lineage!"
If they had known this would happen, why had they done it in the first place?
If they had known Su Chenxiao's origins were this astonishing,
who would have joined in merely to please the Tianqi Dao Lineage?
Every member of Qingcheng's Three Great Families regretted it beyond measure.
Even Lin Qingran herself wore an incomparably complicated expression as she lightly bit her crimson lips and said,
"I... will try my best."
As for her father's death, she strangely did not feel much in her heart.
Instead, Su Chenxiao's identity made her heart race and filled her mind with countless thoughts.
At worst, she could just go and apologize to Su Chenxiao.
She would say that she had been forced by Senior Brother Fang Yuancai.
Seeing Lin Qingran agree, the many Lin Family elders were overjoyed and nodded repeatedly.
"Good! Good!"
"That would be best, that would be best!"
Even now, they still clung to a sliver of fantasy.
Now that Su Chenxiao's relatives had arrived, his identity and status were no longer what they had once been.
If the Lin Family could latch onto even a fraction of that connection, then perhaps...
they would not even need to put the Four Great Dao Lineages in their eyes!
One day later.
"Xiao'er, Xiao'er!"
Su Chenxiao seemed to hear someone calling to him again and again.
During his slumber in endless darkness, many memories from his childhood seemed to have been unsealed and surfaced.
Su Chenxiao slowly opened his eyes, only to find his vision somewhat blurry.
"This is..."
"Xiao'er! Xiao'er, you're awake?!" A voice brimming with joy rang out.
At the bedside, a beautiful woman with tears streaking her face was beside herself with joy and hurriedly helped Su Chenxiao sit up.
Su Wudao, who had been pacing restlessly around the room in extreme agitation, also shuddered all over and walked over with a face full of guilt.
"Xiao'er!"
Su Chenxiao looked at the two before him. Their appearances gradually overlapped with the memories that had just awakened in his mind.
He called out instinctively,
"Father... Mother?"
All of his sealed memories from before the age of twelve had been released. He was the son of the Imperial Clan Su Family's patriarch in the Upper Realm.
And they were his biological parents.
Excitement was impossible to conceal in Chen Wanyue's beautiful eyes. Covering her mouth, she softly sobbed,
"My good Xiao'er, you've finally woken up. You frightened your mother to death!"
Although no emotional fluctuation could be seen on Su Wudao's face, his eyes had clearly softened considerably.
He slowly sat down, reached out with his broad palm, and gently stroked Su Chenxiao's hair as he said in a deep voice,
"Good child, do you still remember your father?"
"Xiao'er, you have suffered in this Lower Realm..."
Su Chenxiao looked at them. His head was still somewhat muddled, but he nodded.
The moment Chen Wanyue heard those words, her expression turned cold.
She shot Su Wudao a frosty glance and said,
"Su Wudao, you still have the nerve to say that?"
"If not for that detestable Su Family clan rule of yours, would my Xiao'er have suffered such a calamity?"
Ever since arriving in the Cangshi Realm and seeing Su Chenxiao's miserable state,
Chen Wanyue had not shown Su Wudao a pleasant face.
Su Wudao blamed himself deeply as well. He nodded guiltily without denying it.
"You are right... That rigid and harsh rule should indeed be changed."
"Madam, Xiao'er should be fine now."
"I specifically brought the Creation Undying Pill with me."
"Not to mention that Xiao'er has gained a blessing from disaster and awakened the Innate Chaos Divine Body—with the Creation Pill, even a mighty figure with one foot in the grave could be dragged back from the gates of hell!"
Chen Wanyue said nothing. Instead, she turned to Su Chenxiao and asked in an incomparably gentle voice, filled with motherly love,
"Xiao'er, how does your body feel now? Are you better?"
Su Chenxiao sensed his current condition.
His eyes lit up.
Someone had changed out of his blood-soaked clothes.
Now, he only felt his blood and qi surging, his soul sea full and abundant, while all his injuries had long since completely recovered.
Not only that,
even his previously crippled Spiritual Roots and cultivation had fully recovered!
He had even crossed an entire major realm in one leap!
Ninth Layer of the Shattering Realm!
His whole body seemed filled with inexhaustible strength. He had never felt better!
Looking at his parents' worried and concerned faces, a warm current could not help but rise in Su Chenxiao's heart.
"I feel much better now..."
"It is just that my head hurts a little." Su Chenxiao muttered, rubbing his forehead.
Upon hearing this, a smile finally appeared on Su Wudao's perpetually stern face. He said gently,
"Xiao'er, you have just recovered the memories from before you were twelve. You need some time to digest them."
"Madam, Xiao'er has only just awakened, and his body is no longer in danger. Let us step outside first and give him some time alone to calm down."
Chen Wanyue also knew that, after being separated from her precious child for so many years, he was likely still somewhat unfamiliar with them.
Thus, somewhat reluctantly, she held Su Chenxiao's cheeks in her hands.
Filled with heartache and motherly love, she kissed his forehead and said,
"Xiao'er, you have suffered all these years in the Lower Realm."
"Now that your memories have been unsealed, Mother knows that you may find it difficult to accept..."
"Your father and I will go outside first. If anything happens, call for us anytime, understand?"
That warmth came from her palm against his cheek.
His mother's warmth made Su Chenxiao nod involuntarily. He said softly,
"Mm, I understand."
His parents left the room.
Before long, the voice of his second elder sister, Su Yaohuang, came from outside.
"Mother, has Little Brother woken up?"
"I want to go in and see him!"
"Yaohuang, listen to Mother. Let us leave first. Your little brother's memories have only just recovered, so let him adjust by himself for a while."
"All right..."
Listening to the sounds outside, Su Chenxiao lowered his head and muttered,
"So this is family affection..."
"It feels pretty good."
In his previous life, his parents had abandoned him very early on. He had never even seen what they looked like.
Even fortune tellers had said that he was born with the fate of a lone star of heavenly balefulness.
He had thought this world would be the same, yet unexpectedly, there were so many family members here who cared for him.
Su Chenxiao smiled and gathered his thoughts.
"System."
"Are you still alive?"
Master, I am here.
"I want a deduction replay. I want to see exactly what happened while I was awakening the Innate Chaos Divine Body," Su Chenxiao said blandly.
As you command, Master. The deduction replay function requires 100 Villain Points. Would you like to spend them?
"Spend them."
Ding... Deduction successful. Current Villain Points: 9900 Replay begins...
Half an incense stick later.
"This jade bracelet... Su Chenxiao gave it to me!"
Su Chenxiao looked at Lin Qingran in the deduction interface, wearing an innocent expression like a pure white lotus, and let out a cold, expressionless laugh.
"Heh..."
"Good for you, Lin Qingran. I never expected you to survive."
Through the system's deduction replay, Su Chenxiao learned everything that had happened earlier.
Fang Yuancai had gotten off easy.
But he had not forgotten another chief culprit—the bitch Lin Qingran who had pushed him into a desperate situation!
Lin Qingran was quite clever. She knew to use the unclear relationship between them to muddle through.
Su Chenxiao slowly rose to his feet, a flash of cold light flickering through his eyes.
"Let's go. Since I am a villain who repays every grievance with the bite of a canthus beast, it is time to settle the score with those people properly!"
"Since I am a villain, then I should have a villain's awareness!"
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