773 Illusion, Reality

As he walked in along the door, he saw a majestic and domineering hall. Its entire body was pitch-black, giving off a complete pressure. The rotten copper and iron seemed to have been burned by a huge fire. It still had the aura of fire.

Looking at the hall in front of him, Ye Qiu suddenly thought of something and stopped Ye Wuhen.

"Senior!"

"Yes, what's wrong?"

Ye Wuhen turned around in confusion. Ye Qiu looked at the ruins on the left and said, "I want to go there to take a look."

As soon as these words were spoken, Ye Wuhen instantly frowned and looked in the direction Ye Qiu pointed. That was once the ancient site of the Ye Clan. The place where the Patriarch lived back then was completely burned down by the fire because of the chaos decades ago.

After experiencing the tragic death of his wife and child, Ye Wuhen did not dare to face that mansion and never set foot in that ruin again. Therefore, it had been abandoned until now. Now that he heard Ye Qiu say that he wanted to go over and take a look, Ye Wuhen immediately fell silent.

He didn't know why Ye Qiu suddenly wanted to go there, but after a long silence, he seemed to have gotten over his past.

"Haha, since you want to go, let's go take a look." Ye Wuhen didn't refuse and immediately led the way. As he walked, he introduced, "There was once a mansion here. It's where my main lineage is. Unfortunately, a huge fire back then burned this place down. All these years, I've been busy taking care of the family and stabilizing the situation in the family. I haven't cleaned up."

Hearing him talk about the past of this ruin, Bai Junlin and Yaya pondered and nodded silently, feeling that it was a pity.

But Ye Qiu, who walked silently behind him, suddenly turned around and walked towards the abandoned hall made of copper and iron on the left.

Ye Wuhen was very puzzled by his strange actions, but he didn't stop him and let him go. Ye Qiu arrived at the abandoned hall, passed through the side door, and walked to a chopping board at the back.

"Big Brother, what's wrong?" Bai Junlin walked up strangely. He saw Ye Qiu squat down and search under the chopping board, as if he had triggered some mechanism.

Bang!

Suddenly, there was a clear sound. A door suddenly opened in the distant iron wall.

"Hmm?" At this moment, Ye Wuhen was completely shocked. How did Ye Qiu know that there was a secret door there? If he remembered correctly, behind that secret door was the secret room that the dead eldest son had once gotten someone to build for his cultivation.

However, after the secret room was successfully built, he was still underage and could not cultivate. Therefore, he never used it, and there was chaos in the Ye Clan.

Ye Qiu's solemn expression suddenly revealed a smile as he watched the secret room gradually reveal its original appearance.

"Haha… What a familiar place. Is this a dream, or have I really been here before?" Ye Qiu couldn't help but ask himself. There were many images of this place in his mind, but most of them were incomplete and scattered.

It seemed to have appeared in his dream, but Ye Qiu couldn't remember. The secret room was very empty. Ye Qiu slowly walked in. Through the crack of the secret room, he could see every move outside.

It was as if in his dream, in a huge fire, the flames of war were flying and smoke was lingering. A woman was lying helplessly in the sea of flames, looking at him with an indignant gaze. She kept telling him not to come out.

Ye Qiu's fingers gently stroked the stone wall. He turned around and looked at the bed behind him. There seemed to be a child hiding below. The child was not old, only three or four years old. He did not know what was happening outside and slept peacefully.

Ye Qiu watched quietly. Suddenly, a tear flowed down for no reason. He did not notice it himself, as if there was a heart-wrenching pain in his heart that came very suddenly. In his dream, the young and ignorant youth finally walked out of the secret room, leaving behind the half-grown child and lured away all the rioters alone.

There was a determined gaze on his young and tender face. He knew that if he did not appear, this place would be exposed sooner or later. At that time, the child hiding under the bed would not be able to escape death.

"Damn it!" Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his head. Ye Qiu cursed. He tried his best to recall all the scenes in his dream, but something seemed to block his vision. When he wanted to remember again, he had already forgotten everything.

"Master, what's wrong?" Yaya was a little worried. She had never seen her master do such abnormal things. She was very afraid and worried. She kept tugging at Ye Qiu's clothes, while Bai Junlin and Ye Wuhen silently watched all of this.

After a long time, Ye Qiu finally recovered. The scene in his mind seemed to have been completely forgotten, as if nothing had happened.

"I'm fine." Ye Qiu frowned. He couldn't remember anything about what had just happened. Then, he said, "Why are we here?"

"Big Brother, have you forgotten that you brought us here?"

"I brought you here?

"How is that possible?" Ye Qiu looked at him suspiciously, "Are you making fun of me? How could I bring you to such a place?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was speechless. Ye Wuhen saw some clues. He had always felt that something was wrong, and now, it confirmed his guess.

Ye Qiu had never been to the Ye Clan, but he knew the situation inside like the back of his hand. This matter was too strange.

"Could it be that this kid is really my son?" Ye Wuhen couldn't help but guess. Unfortunately, he didn't have any evidence. If he rashly acknowledged him, he would only make Ye Qiu think that he was crazy and distance himself.

Therefore, he didn't act rashly. He silently recalled Meng Tianzheng's words when he met Ye Qiu at Star Picking Pavilion.

"He owes you this!"

Back then, Ye Wuhen found Meng Tianzheng's sudden words strange, but he didn't think too much about it. But now that he thought about it, he suddenly felt that there must be a secret behind these words.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. With Meng Tianzheng's cultivation and mentality, it was impossible for him to say such a thing for no reason.

How could he owe Ye Qiu when he and Ye Qiu didn't meet in the first place?

"No, this is definitely strange!" Ye Wuhen, who was already suspicious, began to suspect Meng Tianzheng. Could this be a trap he had deliberately set up? Could it be that his son, who should have died in that chaos back then, was not dead?

Instead, he was taken away by Meng Tianzheng! Sent to the lower realm and sealed his memories?

It was absolutely impossible for an ordinary person to do this in front of so many people. However, Meng Tianzheng could definitely do it. It was too easy for him to do this with his strength at that time. Moreover, he happened to be present when the Ye Clan rioted and personally witnessed all of this.

The more he thought about it, the more reliable this guess became, but Ye Wuhen had no evidence.

Unless Meng Tianzheng was willing to admit it himself!

However, if he really wanted to say that he should have said it back on the divine mountain, yet he did not say it. He only said a bunch of inexplicable things.