"Ah?"

"Ah?"

Two exclamations in a row came from Chu Mo and Zi Dao's mouths.

Then, the two of them exchanged glances, both wearing expressions of being at a loss for words. After that, they turned their gazes back to Liu Yunfeng.

Liu Yunfeng scratched his head: "Was my suggestion a bit too rushed?"

"Mmhm!" Chu Mo and Zi Dao both nodded vigorously, thinking to themselves: Isn't this just not only rushed, but also too childish!

"But, but in that instant, that was my most genuine thought!" Liu Yunfeng earnestly said, "I just feel that, among people of our age at this realm and level, unless they are from allied families, it's really rare to be able to chat together calmly and peacefully. Of course, I might be aiming a bit high..."

Before he could finish, Zi Dao interrupted him. Zi Dao said earnestly, "What's this about aiming high? Let's not talk about that anymore. Brother Yunfeng, did you just say that was your most genuine thought at that moment?"

Liu Yunfeng nodded vigorously.

"The heart of a child..." Zi Dao muttered, before asking, "And what about now?"

"Now... it's still the same," Liu Yunfeng said.

"Then let's become sworn brothers!" Zi Dao slapped his hand and then looked at Chu Mo: "What do you think?"

Chu Mo wore an incredulous expression: "Speaking of aiming high... it should be me..."

Before he could finish, Liu Yunfeng and Zi Dao both interrupted him in unison.

"Aiming high my ass, who in this world is born noble?" Zi Dao scoffed coldly.

"I don't feel like I'm aiming high because my background is probably the most tragic among the three of us!" Liu Yunfeng said.

Then, Zi Dao and Liu Yunfeng looked at each other, and surprisingly said in unison, "Could you have had it worse than me?"

After speaking, both of them froze, then after a long while, they couldn't help but burst into hearty laughter. Then they both turned their faces towards Chu Mo: "Brother, you're not tragic too, are you?"

Chu Mo rolled his eyes: "I'm not tragic at all; on my journey, it's been smooth sailing. Not to brag, but that qi movement on me..."

"Go away..." Both of them gave Chu Mo a big roll of their eyes.

After a moment, the three sat in a lavish and grand wooden house, with Chu Mo personally brewing tea for the two of them.

"Wow, this house is luxurious, eh? I say Lin Hei, you're a bit too indulgent, aren't you?" Zi Dao commented enviously as he looked around at the room's decorations.

"There have even been women living in this house, it's basically a moving palace!" Liu Yunfeng also envied, then added, "I should also get a house like this in the future, wherever I go, I can just take it out and place it there!"

Zi Dao was inspecting some of the house's decorations, frowning as he analyzed, "I've never seen these things before. Which major region do they come from?"

Liu Yunfeng came over: "Don't know, but some stuff here definitely doesn't exist in the Tian Gang region."

Chu Mo smiled as he brewed the tea and said nothing.

At this moment, Zi Dao looked at Liu Yunfeng: "Brother, come on, you wanted to compare our tragic stories, didn't you? You speak of your background first. Since we've decided to become sworn brothers, let's not hide anything from each other, and reveal our true stories. 'In one's life, to have a brother or two, no one should play it false!'"

Chu Mo, who was brewing tea beside them, couldn't help but roll his eyes again; he suddenly realized that compared to his own experiences, these peerless Heavenly Geniuses from all the major regions seemed too naive.

Nevertheless, Chu Mo couldn't help but say: "I didn't agree to become sworn brothers with you two..."

These two didn't pay him any attention at all, Liu Yunfeng said indifferently: "Brother, you want to compare your tragic story with mine? Do you know the place where I was born?"

"Where?" Zi Dao asked indifferently.

"A garbage star!" Liu Yunfeng sighed lightly, looking out the window, reminiscing: "I don't know who my parents are, nor do I know if I was abandoned or if my parents encountered some accident. Anyway, right up until today, even though I can now mobilize vast resources, I still can't find any clues about them. All I know is that my childhood, every single day, was lived in fear. My greatest luxury was wondering when I could eat a decent meal. Wondering when I didn't have to watch the faces of those bigger kids, to be able to completely avoid their fists and kicks..."

Zi Dao looked at Liu Yunfeng and nodded lightly: "That childhood, quite tragic, go on."

"The star we inhabit is the garbage dump of Haoyue Sect..."

With Liu Yunfeng's narrative, a tragic childhood of a pitiful orphan, like a painted scroll, unveiled in front of Chu Mo and Zi Dao.

After Liu Yunfeng finished speaking, both of them were silent for a while before they both sighed in unison, with Zi Dao shaking his head: "Your childhood was quite bleak. However, you're still okay."

"I'm still okay?" Liu Yunfeng wore an incredulous expression, looking at Zi Dao: "You call this okay?"

Zi Dao chuckled: "Of course, it's okay. What else did you expect? You were merely bullied for seven or eight years during childhood, endured hardships for seven or eight years, and then you came to a renowned sect like Haoyue Sect. Once your talent revealed itself, your Master cared greatly for you and treated you with kindness, and though there were people in your sect who disliked you, surely there was no one who wanted to kill you every single day, right?"

"Do you have any?" Liu Yunfeng looked unbelievingly at Zi Dao: "Don't think that I don't know who you are, you're not..."

"I'm not a descendant of the Zi family, am I? Right?" Zi Dao smiled, then sat down on a beast-hide chair, picked up a cup of tea that Chu Mo had brewed for them, and gently took a sip. His eyes suddenly widened, he exclaimed: "No wonder I didn't smell the fragrance earlier, you contained all the essence back into the tea with the power of the Supreme Realm... This, this is... Enlightenment Tea? Ah... truly, I say, now I somewhat believe that you, my friend, are different from us, with astonishing qi movement... How did you even manage to get this?"

"Is this very rare?" Chu Mo asked.

Zi Dao and Liu Yunfeng exchanged glances and rolled their eyes in unison. Then Zi Dao said: "Yunfeng, I'm thinking, it's just us brothers making a pact, let's kick this kid out and plunder all the good stuff he has on him!"

"I actually think that's a good idea!" Liu Yunfeng said with a smile while sipping his tea.

"You two have had enough, Brother Zi Dao, let's have you talk about your experiences, I love listening to others' miserable encounters," said Chu Mo with a grin.

Zi Dao displayed a look of contempt, before he sighed lightly: "This name of mine, sigh, my full name is Zhao Zi Dao. The Zhao Family from the Luotian Immortal Domain, have you heard of it?"

Liu Yunfeng slightly furrowed his brows, pondered for a while, then looked at Zi Dao with some uncertainty: "That Zhao Family?"

"Yes, it's the one you're thinking of," Zi Dao said indifferently.

"Heavens, you actually... come from such a distinguished lineage, and you dare say you've had it rough?" Liu Yunfeng wore an expression of shock as he looked at Zi Dao, filled with disbelief.

Chu Mo looked on with some curiosity, thinking that even for someone like Xue Wuqing, who has a supreme being backing him, you didn't seem this surprised.

Liu Yunfeng turned to look at Chu Mo, who was completely calm, and somewhat speechlessly said: "Are you really that unflustered, or is it that you're ignorant of everything?"

"I don't know anything," Chu Mo said.

"..." Liu Yunfeng tugged at the corner of his mouth, then turned his head away: "Brother Zi Dao, please continue your story."

This time, it was Chu Mo's turn to roll his eyes, but he did not inquire further.

Zi Dao said: "Distinguished lineage, right? Seems mighty impressive, right? According to the legend, my mother is also a woman of the Zi surname, correct?"

"Isn't she?" Liu Yunfeng asked.

"Of course, she isn't!" Zi Dao sighed: "My father is the Ninth Young Master from the Zhao Family's principal line, and my mother is the Sixteenth Princess from the Zi Family's principal line..." Saying so, he looked up at the baffled Liu Yunfeng and then said with a wry smile: "Right, you probably wouldn't know about this. Indeed, how could they allow such a scandal to be widely known? Only a few select families are aware of it."

Now, Liu Yunfeng didn't dare to ask any further.

Although he was unaware of what exactly occurred between the Ninth Young Master of the Zhao Family and the Sixteenth Princess of the Zi Family, he knew that just their status as the legitimate descendants of their families was shocking enough to the world.

"The one my father was originally engaged to wasn't my mother, but a legitimate daughter of another great clan; as for my mother... her original betrothed was not my father, but a legitimate son of another great clan... ahem, as for which clans they were, I will not elaborate on that. It involves their reputations, after all. However, my father and mother ended up together... Can you imagine the uproar this caused at the time?"

"Your father and mother... truly are bold; they were so brave..." Liu Yunfeng couldn't help but say. Although he wasn't born into a noble family, the sect he belonged to, Haoyue Sect, was genuinely aristocratic. Thus, he understood how marriages within these noble households work. Once an engagement was established, it was set in stone. No one could change it!

"Isn't it? Brave, right? The brave princess of the Luotian Imperial Clan only fled her marriage to Yanhuang Domain, then married a top-tier Heavenly Genius of the Yanhuang Domain. Even that caused the whole Yanhuang Domain to get dragged into it..." Zi Dao sighed: "My parents, those two formidable figures, their actions at the time directly provoked four top-tier noble families! And each of those noble families had supreme beings backing them..."

"..." Liu Yunfeng and Chu Mo were speechless.

Especially Chu Mo, it was the first time he had heard news about his parents from the mouth of a top-tier Heavenly Genius from Luotian Immortal Domain while at the Trial Field. Yet now, he had to remain silent.

Zi Dao continued: "When word got out that they were together, the four families immediately went mad. The Zi Family banished my mother; the Zhao Family also expelled my father from the family. Although the other two families did not take any tangible action, they lost all face, how could they not harbor hatred toward my parents? Even with the consideration of the families backing my parents, no overt acts of revenge were taken. But do you understand the kind of pressure that two pariahs, once revered as Heavenly Geniuses, had to endure?"

Liu Yunfeng sighed: "I kind of understand now."

Chu Mo remained silent, not saying a word.

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