Starting From A Son In Law To Build An Long Lasting Family Chapter 2053: 544: Inheritance, Calamity Without Cause! (part 2)

"This..."

Aunt Wang glanced at the elder next to her.

"No problem."

The elder drew a deep breath, nodded firmly, and stepped outside to summon help for Granny Li’s funeral.

Yet, owing to the widespread dread of Little Que’er among the villagers, scarcely anyone attended, rendering the funeral starkly simple and swift.

Onlookers witnessing the solitary girl’s desolate appearance stared with eyes brimming in awe, terror, and sympathy.

Though one villager had earlier voiced intent to adopt Little Que’er, the village majority rejected it, leaving matters unresolved.

Ultimately, with the old lady laid to rest, the girl kowtowed profoundly at Granny’s grave, slung her bag over her shoulder, and departed the village.

After mere steps, she wheeled around to face the lingering villagers, knelt, kowtowed, and declared, "Thank you all for your care."

"Alas."

The villagers sighed heavily.

Truth be told, beyond her immaturity and the frightful prowess against demon beasts, the little girl remained utterly lovable in every other moment.

Leaving the village behind, bewilderment clouded the girl’s gaze; she dipped her head and seized the wooden plaque suspended around her neck.

Granny had explained it as a keepsake from her parents, the very source of her name.

Snapped alert by Granny’s tragic demise, she recalled the moment a massive tiger bit her—this plaque had annihilated the beast.

Suddenly then, the plaque quivered subtly, releasing a scarlet glow that seeped into her forehead.

"Que’er, seeing this message means you’ve grown up and realized you’re different."

"And if by this time your mother hasn’t returned to take you, it means I’m still in danger. The road ahead is one you must continue to walk, whether in hate or love, your mother hopes you stay strong, like your name, transforming from Que to Divine Phoenix, soaring nine heavens!"

Inside the sea of consciousness at her brow, a towering luminous figure with a blurred face, evoking a regal phoenix, addressed her directly.

As the voice concluded, the woman’s silhouette faded away.

Her mind now held countless hazy snippets of knowledge—cultivation techniques.

"Mother...danger..."

Little Que’er shuddered violently at the message’s revelation.

Despite Granny’s adoption and her own facade of indifference, watching age-mates with parents had stirred deep envy within her.

This message revealed parents who hadn’t willfully deserted her but fallen into peril...

"So, my parents are immortals, I’m not a demon..."

Little Que’er pursed her lips tightly, an odd relief blooming in her chest.

Her difference from others arose not from her own defects, but from her parents being immortals!

"But, where are my parents..."

She bit her lip, gazed about in bewilderment, and resolved at last to journey first to the county for tidings on her brother.

Immortals had spirited her brother away young for cultivation, and he never returned. Granny gone now, she yearned to locate him and relay the news.

No sooner had Little Que’er vanished than the remote mountain village settled back into quietude.

That very day, the hillside behind rumbled abruptly.

The straw-mat-shrouded old woman’s corpse, shrunken and withered, split open suddenly.

A misty, elegant silhouette burst forth, scanned the surroundings, mulled over the scene at length, and murmured, "How long have I been asleep..."

The voice carried a delightful timbre.

Its melody alone betrayed a woman at the peak of her allure.

...

Starry Sky Sea.

Before they knew it, Lu Changsheng, Second Palace Master Shen Baishuang, and their group had hunted the Kunpeng Egg across Black Reef Island for over half a year.

With hordes of Core Formation cultivators, Nascent Soul True Lords, and Transformed Demon Kings probing every inch, the region around Black Reef Island lay utterly ransacked.

Lacking any clues to the Kunpeng Egg, Nascent Soul True Lords from rival factions brimmed with shock and confusion.

Given exhaustive computations, sweeps, and deductions pinpointing this zone for the Kunpeng Egg’s teleportation, its absence baffled them utterly.

Straightaway, select Nascent Soul True Lords allied with Divination Grandmasters to cast divinations.

"Hmm? What’s happening, this heavenly secret, is not the previous one from the Kunpeng Egg!"

"Where does this heavenly secret resistance come from!"

"Is it external force or naturally formed heavenly secret resistance!"

Armed with relics from the Kunpeng Nest Secret Realm, these Nascent Soul True Lords and diviners recognized the Kunpeng Egg’s heavenly secret as turbid, veiled, fiercely obstructive, and profoundly elusive.

Yet this divination unveiled a shift in the Kunpeng Egg’s heavenly secret resistance, distinct from earlier probes.

Though misty as smoke, nebulous as fog, intangible and recalcitrant, one vital detail emerged obliquely.

The Kunpeng Egg’s circumstances had altered dramatically!

One possibility: the Kunpeng Egg wielded novel arts to sever heavenly secrets and vanish tracelessly.

Another: some entity had covertly claimed the Kunpeng Egg.

Either scenario defied logic profoundly.

Should the Kunpeng Egg possess such safeguards, it wouldn’t have lingered passively but activated them upon teleportation array ignition, dodging their Qi mechanism detection.

Regarding covert acquisition of the Kunpeng Egg...

Beyond Nascent Soul True Lords, who else could manage it?

These Nascent Soul cultivators had vigilantly watched one another throughout.

For Core Formation cultivators, even clutching the Kunpeng Egg solo posed an insurmountable feat, to say nothing of spiriting it off undetected while cloaking heavenly secrets!

A single power seizing the Kunpeng Egg? That they could stomach.

After all, amid throngs battling over one Kunpeng Egg, just one claimant triumphs.

Still, with legions of people and powers pouring vast labors into pursuing the Kunpeng Egg, surrender came not easily.

Should the Kunpeng Egg resurface in a lone Nascent Soul cultivator’s grasp or a premier Nascent Soul force’s vault, wouldn’t the acquirer still owe a steep toll to claim it outright?