Only after a long while did Tang Ya lift her head from her parents' embrace, staring in shock at the two people she had seen only in her dreams!
"Dad, Mom! Weren't you already..." Her voice still trembled with tears. Her shaking fingertips brushed her mother's cheek, and the warmth beneath them was so real that her heart quivered.
"Back then, I clearly saw..."
Memories surged like a tide: that night of flames reaching into the sky, her parents fighting desperately to send her to safety, only to die beneath their enemies' blades. For ten years, that nightmare had torn at her again and again.
"Well... we don't know either. When we woke up, we were already here!" Tang Ya's parents exchanged bewildered looks, unsure how to explain.
"Let me explain!" Tian Chen stepped forward.
"Xiao Chen!" Seeing him approach, Tang Ya hurriedly stepped out of her parents' embrace.
Tang Wei, the former sect master of the Tang Sect and Tang Ya's father, looked puzzled at the sight!
"What exactly is going on? Xiao Ya, he is..." Tang Wei raised his head and asked in confusion.
"Let's go inside first!" Tian Chen led everyone into the main hall.
Tang Wei and his wife followed, looking somewhat puzzled and wary.
"It's all right, Dad, Mom! Xiao Chen means no harm!" Taking her parents by the hands, she led them inside.
Once inside, Tian Chen sat down.
"Here's what happened!"
Time returned to the moment Tang Ya had entered the Iron Blood Sect.
"Teacher! Please show yourself!"
As Tian Chen's voice fell, a curtain of light appeared beside him, and Electrolux slowly stepped out of it.
"Xiao Chen! What is it?"
"Teacher! As an expert on souls, do you know whether some people retain their souls after death?" Tian Chen bowed respectfully.