"You little disaster, what did I tell you just now? Why didn't you stop Little Tian?" Luo Yushan cried out in panic, like someone about to drown.
"What sin did I commit to marry into your Liu Family and live in fear every day..."
Inside the hall.
"Within the myriad worlds, there are countless miraculous Dao Bodies, and among them, there is a distinction between innate and acquired. The innate form a Dao Fetus within the womb. The acquired may also have a chance to forge a Dao Body through powerful scriptures, secret arts, or peerless Great Dao Divine Medicine." Chu Tianyun explained to Chu Tian.
"So you're saying that after Liu Yun was born, the Liu Family used certain methods to turn her into a Dao Body?"
Chu Tian's brow furrowed even tighter. "But I heard that when Liu Yun was born, the Great Dao thundered and heaven-shaking phenomena appeared, sensed across a million li. Could even such celestial phenomena be forged? Even if the phenomena were artificially fabricated, they could not possibly have deceived so many powerful figures throughout the sect, could they?"
There were countless powerful figures within the Sacred Heaven Sect. On the surface alone, there were Chu Tianwang and Ye Tianxiong, two supreme experts ranked on the Hengtian Ranking. Not to mention that Jian Kongzhu had also been in the sect at the time.
The Liu Family was merely a second-rate family within the sect. It was truly difficult to believe that fabricated Great Dao phenomena could deceive the entire sect.
"It is precisely because the Liu Family made this deception so real that our family failed to notice it all these years. Little Tian, see it with your own eyes, and you will understand everything." Chu Tianyun's expression was extremely grim as he led Chu Tian deeper into the palace.
The palace was enormous. Beneath it, the Liu Family seemed to have dug through the ground, creating an exceptionally long and profound tunnel.
"This is..."
Chu Tian suddenly sensed a dense Dao aura spreading toward him. He had felt this same sensation from Chu Tianwang and Ye Tianxiong.
It was this Dao aura that allowed them, with a shift in mood, to stir winds and clouds, even causing celestial phenomena to be influenced by their emotions.
Soon, Chu Tian entered an underground cavern and immediately saw the source of that dense Dao aura.
It was a female corpse dressed in a white gauze gown, quietly floating in midair within the cavern.
Yet even though all life had left her and her eyes were closed, that earth-shattering Dao aura was still enough to horrify anyone.
"An Emperor Corpse." Chu Tian's expression changed, and he blurted it out.
Emperor Venerables were the most supreme existences in the myriad worlds, invincible wherever they roamed. Even among the top sects of the present Hengtian Continent, there might not be a single Emperor Venerable.
The Sacred Heaven Sect currently had two Emperor Venerables, enough to directly suppress even the most ancient holy land, the Cihang Sacred Sect. It was hailed by the outside world as the number one sect of the Hengtian Continent.
The corpses of such experts contained Dao Principles, remaining indestructible through the ages and holding immense power.
Beneath the Liu Family, there was actually the corpse of a female Emperor Venerable hidden away, and no one had discovered it. It was utterly shocking.
"More than an ordinary Emperor Venerable—this was an Emperor Venerable whose Innate Dao Body had reached Great Accomplishment. She was a sect master of the Cihang Sacred Sect who vanished one hundred thousand years ago, known as the Destiny Dao Venerable."
With a grave expression, Chu Tianyun told Chu Tian in detail everything he had learned.
After learning the truth behind it all, Chu Tian was incredibly astonished. There were actually things hidden within this that had never been described in the original plot.
It turned out that the root of everything lay in Chu Tianwang taking Jian Kongzhu, a divine maiden of the Outer Realm Divine Clan, as his wife.
The Sacred Heaven Sect's two Founding Families had a custom: the legal wives of their family heads—the current sect master and vice sect master—could only be chosen from within the sect. This was meant to unite the many families within the sect, share benefits, and stabilize the situation.
Throughout the generations, the heads of the Chu Family and Ye Family had not failed to seek women from other factions, but those women could only become concubines.
Yet Chu Tianwang broke this custom. Not only did he take Jian Kongzhu as his legal wife, he did not even take a concubine from within the sect.
This act of breaking tradition provoked widespread dissatisfaction among the sect's major families.
After Chu Tian was born, he possessed the Chaos Demon God Body, his talent shaking the world. This aroused the Ye Family's intense wariness and sent shockwaves through many of the sect's top families.
After all, Chu Tian's bloodline had not the slightest connection to any family within the sect. If he became sect master in the future, he would very likely harm their interests.
This was also why Chu Tianwang had been so eager to find a little girl worthy of his newborn son, arranging a childhood betrothal to quell the sect's many doubts and grievances.
The Liu Family, a rapidly rising second-rate family within the sect, saw this opportunity. Its current head, Liu Zheng, happened to have a wife about to give birth.
And so Liu Yun emerged out of nowhere.
"Liu Yun also possessed an Innate Physique. At birth, she held a mouthful of innate qi, resembling an Innate Dao Body, but the difference between them was as vast as heaven and earth."
Chu Tianyun's face darkened. "That bastard Liu Zheng released the aura of the Destiny Dao Venerable's Emperor Corpse. The birth of a Great Accomplishment Innate Dao Body naturally triggered immense heavenly phenomena. Then, using a secret art, he extracted the Dao Principles from the Destiny Dao Venerable's body and refined them into Liu Yun's body just after she was born.
"That dense Dao Principles actually deceived everyone in our Chu Family at the time, including your mother.
"All these years, Liu Zheng had also continuously and secretly infused innate Dao Principles into Liu Yun's body, deceiving our entire family.
"At the same time, the Liu Family exploited the authority of our Chu Family to make a fortune, grabbing countless sect resources.
"Your father was not unaware of it, but because of Liu Yun, he had always kept one eye open and one eye shut. It was not convenient for us to act either.
"But the Liu Family knew in secret that they were courting death, and that the truth would eventually be exposed. Thus, they actually extended an olive branch to the Ye Family in secret and began drawing close to them, hoping that after their exposure, the Ye Family could protect them.
"The Liu Family's upper echelon was not unaware of Liu Yun's maid Ju'er's origins, yet they tacitly approved of her for precisely this reason.
"Liu Zheng had even secretly ordered his subordinates to gather evidence of our family's crimes, intending to turn the tables on our Chu Family at a critical moment.
"If this matter spread, our family would likely become one of the Hengtian Continent's greatest laughingstocks. Our position within the sect would also be affected and severely shaken."
Chu Tianyun's face was incomparably grim, killing intent blazing. "Originally, your Third Uncle only intended to use this matter to warn the Liu Family, to make them restrain their conduct. After all, the things they had done were tacitly considered by the sect to have been directed by our family from behind the scenes. They were smearing mud on our family's face.
"But who could have expected the Liu Family to resist so fiercely? They refused to let the Law Enforcement Hall search the place and even killed several Law Enforcement Hall disciples. In fury, your Third Uncle led people in and forced his way through, only to discover this underground cavern. Afterward, the Liu Family Ancestor actually took action personally, intending to kill your Third Uncle and silence him.
"However, that old thing had already been killed by your Third Uncle. This matter had also blown up completely."
After saying this, Chu Tianyun smiled helplessly. "You juniors should have been focusing on cultivation, but this matter concerns Little Tian's childhood betrothal and has a tremendous impact. Your Third Uncle had no choice but to call you here to discuss it."
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