29. The Incident in the Illusory Sea?
“But this time, when you meet Old Yin again, you should have figured it out, right?”
On the way back, Gong Yiling turned and looked at Xuan Lingling. “He just treats you as a tool. If you follow his wishes, he will naturally give you face. But if you don’t…”
“Mmm…” Xuan Lingling scratched her head helplessly. “Are humans all so troublesome?”
“You just haven’t had much contact with them.” Gong Yiling smiled. “The adult world is like this. What can’t they do for their own purposes?”
“The elders in my clan are not like this.” Xuan Lingling immediately retorted, “They say what they mean and never go back on their word.”
Hearing her say this, Gong Yiling suddenly became curious about something and couldn’t help but ask, “Have you seen other members of the Xuanming Phantom Dragon clan?”
“Yes.”
“From what you said before, your home should be in a certain mountain in the Heartflame Empire, but isn’t the Xuanming Phantom Dragon’s home in the Illusory Sea? How did you end up so far away?”
Gong Yiling was even thinking that the clan members she had seen before were indeed in the Illusory Sea. So what happened later? What happened to make Xuan Lingling cross thousands of miles to appear here?
“Mmm…”
This question, probably because it was too long ago, made Xuan Lingling cover her face and think for a long time.
“I remember… it seems… Dad sent me here.”
“Your father sent you here?” Gong Yiling was taken aback. “You were fine in the Illusory Sea. Why would your father send you here for no reason?”
Xuan Lingling shook her head. “I don’t know either. And it seemed quite urgent when he sent me. The night before, I was still at my aunt’s house. The next day, when I opened my eyes, I was there.”
“Then what about your father?”
For some reason, after hearing this, Gong Yiling always felt that this development was not good.
To suddenly leave home for thousands of miles, with only her father beside her, this scene was so much like the script of a father who had narrowly escaped with his daughter after his family was invaded.
“Dad, he…” Xuan Lingling mumbled, “Dad said he had something to deal with and asked me to stay on the mountain and wait for him for a while. But Dad never came back.”
“How long?”
“Just a few hundred years.”
“A few hundred years?”
Hearing this, the few girls on the side and even Gong Muzhi couldn’t help but exclaim.
To throw his own daughter in a strange place to fend for herself for hundreds of years, this was not something a biological father would do.
Unless…
He had no other choice.
“Lingling… have you ever thought…”
Gong Yiling was about to say her guess, but was interrupted by a hand on her shoulder.
“The lifespan of the dragon race is very long. A few hundred years is just a blink of an eye. Maybe your dad secretly took you out to play, and on the way, he found that he was about to advance, so he had to find a place to settle you down first, and then come back to find you?”
Gong Muzhi, who had always been unreliable, rarely thought of such a possibility to deceive a child, and Xuan Lingling was just the type to fall for it and immediately nodded.
Mmm… perhaps in a sense, this was also a meeting of the minds?
“Mmm, I thought so too. But my home was blown up. I don’t know if Dad will be able to find me when he comes back.”
And Gong Yiling on the side frowned slightly, as if she wanted to say something else. “But Mom—”
“Ling’er, come here.” Gong Muzhi immediately pulled her to the side and, after confirming that Xuan Lingling’s attention was drawn to Lu Xinyao, who was also a demon race, said, “I know what you want to say.”
“But the Illusory Sea is no ordinary place. When I was young and reckless, I wanted to go there, but I couldn’t even get in. So the possibility of something happening there is very low. If you tell her now, what will she think?”
“And even if things are really that bad, you shouldn’t tell her.” Gong Muzhi looked at Xuan Lingling and continued, “Although this child is probably old enough to be my great-great-grandmother, the minds of dragons grow slowly. She is at most like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl who has not yet seen the world. This news is a bit too much for her to accept.”
After hearing Gong Muzhi’s words, Gong Yiling understood the reasoning.
She had always been in the habit of throwing things out all at once, and then slowly letting them grow after they were broken. This method was indeed meaningful for Lu Xinyao and Leng Yuli, but people and people could not be generalized.
Besides, this girl was not even human.
Just one point.
“The Illusory Sea, Mom, you really… couldn’t even find the entrance?”
“That’s right.” Gong Muzhi mumbled, “It was about twenty years ago, before I met your dad.”
“At that time, your mother went out to sea alone. Anyway, after I don’t know how many days, I finally reached the place where I could see the East Yin Star.”
It was said that the place where one could see the East Yin Star was the end of the East Sea. Since ancient times, there had been some people who hoped to explore the mysteries of the sea, and even the Illusory Sea was discovered by them after experiencing thousands of dangers.
“But there was nothing there.” Gong Muzhi mumbled with some dissatisfaction. “It was said that there was the Illusory Sea there, but in fact, it was just a stretch of ocean with no difference. And there was still a long way to go to the east, and I couldn’t see the end. I was really bored at that time, so I came back.”
It was truly incredible that this mother dared to explore the Tai Gu Qiong Yuan alone, but what was even more incredible was—where had the Illusory Sea gone?
In her mother’s eyes, this Illusory Sea should be hidden, or only those who were destined could enter it and appreciate its mysteries.
However, that area itself could be used as a sect-protecting formation.
The power of space was mysterious and unpredictable. Just by its folded space appearance, it was basically slapping the words “no entry for strangers” on its face. Even if these dragons were tolerant, they wouldn’t completely hide the place, right? And where would they get this ability?
So the only possibility was actually…
This Illusory Sea had really disappeared in the true sense.
However, although Gong Yiling always felt that her mother’s experience seemed to confirm her own guess, she still did not say it directly, but kept these words in her stomach.
Although she had only just met this little dragon, and their relationship was not very good, but if the Illusory Sea had really suffered a disaster, then the person who did it would certainly not be these famous people in the book.
It was very likely the root of all evil—the Calamity Beast.
