"Mother~"
Mu Chen smiled and performed a full kowtow before the woman in white.
That inexplicable sense of familiarity, the blood bond that made him want to draw close to her, couldn't be wrong.
"My son, why are you paying such respects? Quickly, get up."
The gentle woman in white hurried forward and helped her son to his feet.
After all, children ought to bow to their parents.
Still, such solemnity was rare under ordinary circumstances.
It was like a family where father and son had always been on good terms, until one day you suddenly dropped to your knees and banged your head against the floor three times before your old man, nearly scaring him half to death.
Your dad wouldn't happily accept it and call you a good son.
He'd stare at you in alarm and ask, "My son, what's troubling you?"
"This is the first time I've seen your true face, Mother. I was moved."
Mu Chen rose with the flow and explained.
After giving birth to him, Qing Yanjing had left in haste less than a year later to evade the clan's pursuit and protect her bloodline.
Twenty years had passed since then, yet mother and son had met only a handful of times.
Once, she had intervened in the Spiritual Road Plane to help her son escape.
Another time, on the Relic Continent, she had suppressed the Radiant Holy Dragon at the Upper Earth Sovereign level in Holy Spirit Academy, helping Mu Spirit Academy, under the Hundred Spirits Royal Clan, rise to the top of the Five Great Academies.
Both times, she had appeared only as a wisp of consciousness or a spiritual energy avatar.
Their meeting in the Ancestral Land was the first time he had seen Qing Yanjing in person.
"Chen'er, you have