After thinking everything through, Xiao Yu bid Xiao Xuan farewell and left the Tomb Mansion.
He still needed to collect more Energy Cores to prepare for his breakthrough to Dou Sheng, so he did not linger.
Before leaving, Xiao Yu also asked Xiao Xuan not to tell Xiao Yan that he did not possess the Xiao Clan's bloodline.
He was not afraid that Xiao Yan would grow distant from him. Rather, he feared the boy would struggle to accept that the cousin he had addressed as such for so long was not actually his blood cousin.
His main concern was still Xiao Zhan finding out.
Just imagine how devastating it would be to discover that the nephew he had loved and cared for all these years, treating him like his own son, was not actually related to him.
Xiao Yu could only say that the original owner's mother had behaved far too dishonorably.
Aside from that explanation, he could think of no other reason why this body would not possess the Xiao Clan's bloodline.
Could the original owner have been a child the Xiao Clan had picked up and raised?
Of course, Xiao Yu could not be certain that the blame lay with the original owner's mother. After all, there were many memories from before the original owner turned twelve that he could not recall.
Atop a mountain on the Third Layer of the Heavenly Tomb, a young man sat cross-legged. Faint wounds marked his body, his white robes were torn in several places, and his aura fluctuated somewhat unsteadily.
After leaving the Tomb Mansion, Xiao Yu continued to stay on the Third Layer to hunt energy bodies.
Over the course of a month, Xiao Yu obtained another two One-Star Dou Sheng Energy Cores.
Now, he had just fought