Zhi had no idea what had happened after he had black out. When he came back to his senses, he woke up with his head in a soft lap. When he looked up, he discovered the maiden on whose lap his head was. He saw that the person was very familiar but when he realized who it was, his eyes turned as wide as carriage wheels. Soon, he just closed his eyes and sighed, “So I have died...” He remembered that before he black out, he was ready to face off against that Long Shaofer. When he was dodging around in the middle of those Humans, he was simultaneously laying down a Formation Array to help him fight it but then he suddenly blacked out.

A person who could even make Zhi threatened would never let such a good opportunity to pass. So waking up in his mother’s lap, his first thought was that he had died. His mother just smiled to hearing the murmur and said in a sweet tone, “I am sorry but you are not dead just yet.” Hearing this Zhi’s eyes abruptly opened as he sat up and looked at his mother, “But you died all those years ago. I know, I had to bury your corpse back then.”

Zhi’s mother just smiled as she said, “Yes I died but I infused a part of my soul into the Cultivation Art to guide you but never in my wildest dreams would I had imagined that you would stumble upon the Fruit of Yin-Yang and have the Cultivation Art completely overwritten and erased.” Towards the end, she crossed her hands on her chest as she pouted a bit. She then sighed as she said, “I was lucky enough to not have my soul fragment also erased. However, I have no idea, whether your luck is good or bad my little son.”

Hearing this, Zhi understood parts but he couldn’t understand the end. He asked suspiciously, “You can’t stay for good, can you?” She just smiled bitterly as she said, “No, I can only stay for a day more. Since I detached my soul fragment from you, I can’t reattach it any more. Also, I am not strong enough to sustain myself with only a fragment of my soul.” Hearing this Zhi felt sad, although he had known it was probably something like this, it was still hard to deal with.

Zhi sat opposite of his mother and asked, “Why did you detach yourself from me then?” Hearing this, she just smiled as she scratched her head, “The same reason as you got irritated. The Pride of a Dragon isn’t anything simple. Seeing a Human use the last name of the Primadorial Dragon Clan like that and then also wearing an armour made from a dragon ticked me off. It doesn’t matter that the dragon was most probably the weakest unintelligent one, he was still one of the Bloodline.” Zhi understood what she meant.

No matter what, the dragon was still family and to have someone wear his skin with such an arrogant demeanour was something that ticked off every dragon. She looked towards Zhi again as she said, “Now then, since I don’t have a lot of time left, it is time to talk about everything. So ask away.” Hearing this, Zhi pondered for a second before he asked, “What is the Primadorial Dragon Clan?” Zhi’s mother wanted to hit him but she stayed her hand when she thought back to when Zhi had been thrown to the Ancient Battlefield.

She calmed herself as she said, “The Primadorial Dragon Clan is the Clan you are from. Your father was the most dazzling star of his generation and was thought of highly by all of the Elders. The position of the next Patriarch was practically his but now I don’t know.” She took a breath before continuing, “The woman who cast the both of us there was his arranged concubine.” Hearing this, Zhi tilted his head indicating that he had no idea what she was talking about.

Seeing this, his mother didn’t blame him as she said, “Usually, a man from a big clan has a Wife and Concubines. There can be only one wife but as for the concubines, that depends on the man. Some have hundreds or thousand, some have only one or two.” Her eyes turned cold as she said, “I was your Fathers Wife, meaning that any child born from me would be of the primary bloodline and unless something happened to him, the children of concubines would not have any benefits at all. Your father and I tried for centuries before you were finally born. However, since it took so long, the Elder’s of the Clan actually started turning frantic and arranged a concubine for your Father.”

Her eyes turned a bit soft for a second as if remembering something, “Your Father fought against it with all his might. However, in the end he could do nothing but agree to the arranged concubine.” Her tone turned sorrowful for a while as she continued, “Only a few months after “trying” the concubine got pregnant. This actually brought a lot of pressure on me and everyone started viewing the concubine as more of a Wife than me. However, your Father still stood tall before me and when the voices of turning me into the concubine and her into the wife started coming out, he finally exploded.” There was slight smile on her face as she said so.

She chuckled as she continued, “Your father beat nearly all of the Elders and all who talked about switching the positions senseless. After that incident, not a single person dared to order him around any more.” Zhi had been listening until now and hearing the little pause just now, he finally asked, “Why did he just not leave the Clan the moment they started pressuring him with the concubine?” This was something Zhi truly didn’t understand.

Zhi himself would all told them to go somewhere where the sun doesn’t shine and just walked away. His mother just smiled as she shook her head, “It is not that simple. They are from the same Bloodline and also the Clan had raised him from small. He is a man that deeply remembers his debts and he would have never forgotten the Clans kindness over something like this. When you go back to the Clan in the future, you already have an arranged marriage waiting for you. So your situation is going to be the same.”

Hearing this Zhi just smiled as well as he said, “I do not owe that Clan anything. I do not give a damn about anything those guys want from me.” Hearing this, her expression flickered but before she could say anything Zhi said in a cold tone, “You wouldn’t have died and I wouldn’t have been in that Hell for so long if they had just minded their own business and not stuck their noses where it doesn’t belong.” Zhi’s mother could not say anything to that, all she could do was close her mouth. Zhi wasn’t wrong by any means, if the Clan Elders hadn’t pressured Zhi’s Father into marrying the concubine she would not have been plotted against by her and none of that would have ever happened.

A silence consumed the surroundings and finally she sighed as she changed the subject, “I honestly betted on the fact that the Ancestor of the Clan would come and bring you out of there.” Zhi tilted his head but before he could ask she continued, “When you were born, you actually cause quite an upheaval that even brought the Ancestor, who no one had seen for over a thousand years, out from his secluded meditation.” Zhi was surprised by this as he asked, “What did I do?”

Zhi’s mother just smiled as she said, “You see, when children of the Dragon Bloodline are born, before the Empyrean Tribulation, they are actually in their true Beast Form. They can not take their Human Form but when you were born, you were born in your Human Form. Everyone actually started scorning me for cheating on your Father and that you were a bastard son.” Hearing this, Zhi had no idea what expression he should put on.

Seeing Zhi’s funny face, his mother just chuckled as she continued, “All of their faces got slapped quite hard when the Ancestor came out of the secluded meditation and checked your Bloodline. When he said that you weren’t born as a regular dragon but born with the Primadorial Chaos Dragon body, no one could say anything.”

Zhi asked, “Why is that? They should have found something to nag on?” She just smiled sinisterly as she said, “The Founder of the Clan had the same Primadorial Chaos Dragon body that you did. To find a fault with you would be the same as calling themselves bastards. After that no one could say anything and all of the people who supported that bitch and tried to have our statuses reversed, were thoroughly suppressed.” Zhi just sighed.

He felt like Clans and such were just a big pain in the ass with all their internal power struggles. Why can’t they just calm down and stop ruining everyone else’s lives. He felt that behind the concubine stood someone quite high up in the clan otherwise it would have never succeeded. Zhi tried not to think about it and asked, “Why did you think the Ancestor would come and save?” His mother’s expression turned grim as she said, “The Ancestor placed a special Tracking Formation inside you. It was put there just in case something happened to you, so that the Ancestor could come to your rescue. You were the Ancestor’s hope of finding a standing within the Main Clan.”

Zhi looked puzzled as he asked, “The Main Clan?” His mother just nodded her head seriously, “Yes, the Main Clan. Our entire Primadorial Dragon Clan originates from the Ascended Plane. The highest level Plane, our Clan is nothing more than a branch of the Main Clan. Someone with a Primadorial Chaos Dragon body is someone who could get very high up even in the Main Clan.” Zhi was even more confused now as he couldn’t make heads or tails of the situation any more.

Hao had told him that no one knew what stood above the Deity Plane. However, it seems like either he didn’t know or he just told him so because this information was quite tightly sealed. Suddenly, he remembered something that Hao had said: “No one in the KNOWN history had passed the third Tribulation.” This meant that there have been some who have managed to pass the Tribulation but only the Ancient Clans or some powers with extremely deep roots know of these things.

Zhi just thought about it and felt it wouldn’t be too far fetched for Ancient Clans and such to shush matters like these. The more he thought about it, the more he felt like this was one of these cases where only a handful of people know about it.

Zhi asked suspiciously, “Why didn’t the Ancestor come to help then?” His mother just sighed as she said, “That bitch somehow managed to tamper with the Tracking Formation. Since I have always been with you, this is the only reason I find plausible.” Zhi just sighed as well. That woman definitely wanted them both dead, so she would take all precautions to make sure it happened. Even the most optimistic person couldn’t imagine that a 5 year old would actually be able to survive for 10 years in a place where even people who have passed the 2nd Tribulation wouldn’t dare to lower their guard.

Zhi’s mother just smiled and said, “You don’t have to worry, when you pass your Empyrean Tribulation, you will already have nothing to fear. You have the Fruit of Yin-Yang after all.” Zhi finally asked the question that had been eating at him from the time he first heard the term “Fruit of Yin-Yang”, “Just what is this Fruit of Yin-Yang?”

Zhi’s mother put on a serious expression as she said, “It is something that is outside the norms of logic. No one knows, where it came from but one this is for certain: It is something that isn’t from our Realm.” Zhi blanked out hearing that but before he could ask anything, his mother continued, “It is something that is exceedingly mysterious and it doesn’t grow naturally or artificially either. It only appears after a person possessing it dies. The Scythe and the Clothes are Equipment condensed from the Fruit itself. The person who manages to ingest the Fruit will have full control of the equipment but the requirements for ingesting the Fruit are actually very vague.”

She just lightly shook her head as she continued, “All is known about the Fruit is that after a person successfully ingests it, they will be able control the Flame of Life and Flame of Death. However, the records say nothing about the tattoos you have. Also no records mention anything about the Wings. It just means that either no one had previously seen anyone pushed to a corner where they had to use the Wings or they weren’t as compatible as you with the Fruit.” Zhi listened seriously as his mother narrated her knowledge on the Fruit. Now at least Zhi understood what this thing was.

His train of thought was cut short by his mothers chuckle, “I am quite interested in what kind of an abnormal monster that bitch gave birth to.” Zhi frowned to hearing his mother call him an “Abnormal Monster” before he could express his dissatisfaction, she explained to him, “You are someone who has the strongest Dragon Bloodline, the Primadorial Chaos Dragon body and then you have ingested the most mysterious and strongest special Fruit in the Realm. To top it all off, you have a very solid foundation coupled with extensive life and death experiences. With only an Early Stage Nascent Soul level, you managed to kill over 70 Empyrean Immortals and nearly 200 Nascent Soul Experts alone in about half an hour. If I hadn’t seen it happen myself, I would think the person, who told me something like this happened, had gone completely insane and delusional.” Zhi could only bitterly smile to her explanation, he himself wouldn’t believe something like this if he hadn’t seen it happen himself. He truly was an “abnormal monster” in other peoples eyes. Just as Zhi wanted to refute something, his mother looked up and smiled.

Seeing this Zhi was puzzled and spread out his Qi sense in the direction she was looking at but he couldn’t find anything. This made him frown but what she said next baffled him. She smiled as she said, “It seems like your Father is finally here.” Zhi stood up as he looked in the direction and he just saw a flash of light in the distance as he suddenly felt an extremely oppressive aura spread out. In a flash, a dragon that was at least a kilometer long appeared in his vision. When the dragon saw Zhi’s mother, it’s eyes flashed as it turned into a middle aged man in tattered robes. His long black hair was extremely messy and he had a hobo’s beard.

He looked like a homeless man through and through but the moment he fully turned into a human, he dashed forward and took Zhi’s mother into his arms as he hugged her crying, “Xiaomei, I have finally found you. Ten years have passed since you disappeared. When your Life Slip shattered and the Ancestor couldn’t find Little Zhifang with his Tracking Formation, I left the Clan to search for you two.” He let go Xiaomei and grabbed her shoulder’s, looking her deep in the eyes as he said, “When I suddenly felt your Soul Ripples, I just knew that it was you.”

He sized her up and down and suddenly realized, that she was only a Soul Fragment. When he had first seen her, his mind threw everything else out and he was just too happy to have finally found her. He said, “This is-” However, his sentence was cut short by Xiaomei who put a finger on his lips. She turned her head towards the stunned Zhi and said, “You started ranting like that but haven’t even glanced at your son.”

Hearing this Fanghong, turned his sight towards Zhi as he asked in a hoarse voice, “You are Little Zhizhi?” Hearing this, Zhi snapped back to reality as he weakly nodded. He hadn’t heard that name in years, so hearing it again now brought back a lot of memories he had forgotten. Seeing the nod, Fanghong just weakly stumbled towards Zhi and embraced him tightly. He didn’t let go for a long time because his search had finally ended. For ten years he had relentlessly searched for Zhi and he had finally found him. When he finally let go of Zhi, he asked Xiaomei what had happened, why they disappeared and such.

Xiaomei narrated everything that had happened to Fanghong and both he and Zhi just sat there quietly listening, neither interrupted her once. When she finally told him that Zhi only escaped the Battlefield thanks to the help of the Phoenix Clan, Fanghong’s killing intent lessened a bit. He was grateful to the Phoenix Clan but felt deep hatred towards the woman who had snaked her way into his life and even went as far as far as to cripple the only woman he had ever loved.

If it were just that, he would just slap the woman senseless but she even went as far as to throw his crippled wife and 5 year old son into the Ancient Battlefield, now that was completely unforgivable.

The only reason he didn’t go and kill the woman right now was because Xiaomei had said that she could only sustain the Soul Fragment only for about an hour more.