Heiyu’s Past

"Can I slap him?"

Heiyu was so annoying, so as soon as Chu Haoling asked, everyone looked towards Yun Che in unison, as if as long as he nodded, they would slap the shit out of Heiyu.

"Feel free to after he finishes."

Yun Che, who also wanted to hit him, squinted, and before Heiyu could object, he asked, "So what the hell is going on?"

He has tons of questions that he had been wanting to ask since they were in the Sea Palace, but he never had the chance.

"Well, I've told you about it."

Shrinking his neck in an unnatural way, Heiyu took a bite of an energy bar. After his bloodline talent was stimulated, he also had broken through the seal, and something had come back to him. If possible, he would rather keep forgetting it and his master might not want to remember it as well, otherwise, how could he remember nothing about past, about him and about the divine world? Even if it was just the reincarnation of a remnant soul, it was impossible to completely forget it like this.

"I just want to know what you have told me about. Heiyu, you don't want me to go to the bottom of the sea again to ask your father, right?"

Propping one hand on the table and resting his head on his hand, Yun Che squinted. He had no idea how powerful he used to be when he was Ming Che, but now, everything around him, including Xing Feng, was somehow related to Ming Che. He didn't like the feeling of knowing nothing. At least, he wanted to know what had happened. What if there were stronger enemies that he hadn't met? He didn't want to be targeted again one day without himself knowing.

"I've told you that he wasn't my father."

Turning back to glare at him in anger, Heiyu was depressed. Yun Cheng suddenly asked, "Wait, brother. Do you mean that the qilin beast at the bottom of the sea is Heiyu's father? Heiyu is also a qilin beast?"

But he didn't look like it!

Apart from Yun Cheng, others also repeatedly look at him. Although he had qilin's horn when he transformed into the full form, he didn't look like a qilin in any way, did he? He was more like a wolf or a dog.

"Yeah."

But Yun Che nodded to confirm that he was indeed the offspring of the qilin, "Heiyu was the offspring of a qilin and a qiongqi. The divine beast at the bottom of the sea is called Xuan Po, and he seems to be the leader of water qilin. If you want details, you have to ask Heiyu because I'm not clear about it as well."

The father and son got into a fight the moment they met each other, so he could learn little from their conversation. Well, he was just about to ask.

"Heiyu?"

Raising his eyebrows, Yun Cheng and everyone looked towards Heiyu. Heiyu, who was extremely uncomfortable being stared like this, rolled his eyes helplessly, "Why are you gossiping? Why are you so interested in other's family business? Alright, I'll tell you. Like what master just said, Xuan Po is the leader of water qilin, and there is also someone named Ling Yin, who is the junior leader of qiongqi. They are both male and don't ask me how they fell in love, because I don't know. The only thing I know is that they to give birth to me by using some secret techniques.

But bloodline was of great importance to beasts, especial divine beasts such as qilin and qiongqi. The members of these two clans had wanted them to marry female beasts with purest blood in their own clan so that they could give birth to pure bread cubs. To everyone's surprise, the two male beasts fell in love with each other and gave birth to a hybrid beast, which was a serious violation of their code of conduct. So they gave birth to me while they were on the run. However, by then, the Beast King's had sent someone to capture them so Xuan Po had no other way but to hand me to his subordinate, and then…

"Then they were sent to a different dimension. As the space-guarding beast, he must wait for the one with Big Chance o activate the space. After the space master underwent the thunder tribulation of ascension to ascend to the divine world, their task could be considered as completed and they could then return to the divine world."

Hearing his words, everyone fell silent. Though they always joked around, Heiyu was still one of the most important families they had. He didn't say how he survived when he was born, but they could guess how hard it would be for a hybrid discriminated by all beasts to survive.

"You are not a hybrid. Hybrid doesn't mean inferior and blood doesn't mean anything. To think about it another way, you are unique. Who else dare to give birth to a hybrid beast who has the purest blood from both qilin and qiongqi like Xuan Po and Ling Yin did?

Looking at him, Yun Che said in a serious voice.

Heiyu trembled and he slowly turned to look at him, his eyes reddened, "Well, I know. You have told me the same thing many years ago, and ever since then, I'm no longer ashamed of being a hybrid beast."

He didn't expect to hear the same thing after so many years. Yun Che was indeed his master. Even though he couldn't remember anything, he was still his master who loved him most and who he respected most.

"Okay. Go on."

Hearing him talking about what happened years ago, Yun Che felt weak so he leaned on Xing Feng.

"It seems that there are many things we need to know. Let's get to them one by one."

Looking back and forth at them, Yun Cheng and the others seemed to be enlightened, "In that case, your parents have done nothing, right? Why do you disown them?"

Zhan Yafei was confused. If it were her, she would not have hated them, but instead, she would find ways to help them. Xuan Po and Ling Yin's love deserved to be respected.

"Why not?"

Heiyu reflexively went angry. Then he lay down and said grumpily, "When I was three years old, those qilin found Xuan Po's subordinate, so they found me. They brought us back to where the water qilin resided. That is when I learned that I was not loved, not as an adult or a young beast. No one liked me because they believed that I was responsible for the misfortune that happened to their leader. So they bullied me squarely and call me a bastard. Luckily, Xuan Ling, the subordinate of Xuan Po, was loyal to Xuan Po. Although I could see from his eyes that he didn't like me as well, he always protected me.

"The the beast competition came when I was ten. The beast competition was held once every ten years, and all young beasts who just turned into an adult must participate. I was not yet an adult by then, but I went there because I was curious. I didn't know I should be considered lucky or unlucky as I ran into the head of the qionqi clan and its direct descendants in the venue. They also believed I was somehow responsible for what happened to their junior leader.

"I didn't remember how exactly things turned out. I only remember I was repeatedly taunted by the two clans, and when it finished, I was thrown into the Beast Mountains and I've been living there alone ever since."

Everyone felt sad when talking about these stories, so did Heiyu. However, he suddenly changed his mode and said in a brisk tone, "But the qilin and qiongqi would never imagine that I came across my master in the Beast Mountains. His name was Ming Che, one of the seven Great Gods in the divine world. He told me I was not a hybrid beast and named me Ming Yu. Then he helped me to become a divine beast as a hybrid beast, and finally I became the Beast King.

"After I became the Beast King, I was finally able to study the things I wanted to know and that was when I learned what happened to Xuan Po and Ling Yin and that they had been sent to the Parallel Space. I used to hate them, but after I learned about what happened, I no longer hated them. I desperately wanted to find them and rescue them, and I did it with the help from my master. I opened the gate to each Parallel Space, but…

"That damned Xuan Po. He just did everything against me and never answered one single question I asked. And that bastard Ling Yin. He asked me whether Xuan Po had returned and how he was doing the moment he saw me. And I told him everything. Then he just turned a blind eye to me. What kind of fathers are they? They are just awful to their kid. And every time I saw them after that, their reaction was the same, until…"

Heiyu stopped to sniff, his eyes filled with sadness, "Every once in a while, I would go visit them alone or with my master, until those Immortal Kings noticed it. Those in the divine world felt that the master was too good to me and it violated the precepts of heaven, but those so-called Immortal Kings dare not say anything in front of my master, so they pit the other Great Gods against him behind his back. My master was the most unruly and easy-going one among the seven Great Gods. In other words, he didn't even look like one. He would even have drinks and chat with an ordinary man if he was in the mood. Those Great Gods, who were so much worse than him, didn't like how he behaved, so they made a fuss over this and colluded with each other to kill my master. My master fought the four alone, and the whole heave battleground collapsed, and he fell."

Heiyu didn't shed any tears but he sounded that he was crying. Even beast kings like him were unqualified to participate in the battle of the Great Gods. He could do nothing but watch his master fall.

"Then what happened?"

When everyone was in silence, Yun Che continued to ask. The crowd unconsciously looked over. The languor on his face disappeared, which was replaced by coldness. Though he didn't remember any of that, he was still furious.

Everyone turned their attention to Yun Che, but no one noticed that Xing Feng's face also became ugly, even uglier than Yun Che's.

"And…humph, how can those fools compare to my master? My master had made plans long ago and secretly prepared a space that is exactly the same as the Parallel Space. When he fell, the Parallel Space came into being. It was different from other spaces, the most special feature being the divine spring in it, which can allow people to reconstruct his body and purify their filth. That was brought out from the chaotic world when the master became a great god. Originally, this space did not belong to any Immortal King or Beast King, and there was no guarding beast. But I used the master's broken Sky Blade to enter the space and became the space-guarding beast of my own accord, at the expense of exhausting all my cultivation. Then I buried the broken Sky Blade in the divine spring, sealed all my memories, and slept in the space, waiting for the master's remnant soul to reincarnate."

He did remember exactly how many years he had waited. Fortunately, his wait was worthwhile. Though he had made lots of jokes because he sealed his own memories, he still recognized him subconsciously. Even without memories, he voluntarily entered into the contract with him. No matter how other beasts were ashamed of being bound by the contract, he was proud of it, because he had the best master in the whole world.

"So, my brother is the Great God Ming Che that you are talking about, and he is the reincarnation of your master's remnant soul?"

No one spoke again. After a long while, Yun Cheng stared at Heiyu. Although he asked a question, he already knew the answer. But he wanted to hear it from Heiyu.

"Yeah. I will only have one master."

Looking at Yun Che with radiant eyes, Heiyu nodded firmly. He would never mistake his master.

"Let me see the evidence."

As the previous seriousness on his face disappeared, Yun Che became lethargic again. Obviously, he was teasing Heiyu, but Heiyu replied in a serious tone, "The best proof is that I still recognize you as my master even without my memory. And your Parallel Space is different from other spaces. Other parallel spaces can be opened by anyone who has Big Chance, but this one can only be opened by you, the reincarnation of the remnant soul. And there's more. You can use the Sky Blade that is soaked in the divine spring. Let me think of something else…"

"Alright. You can quit thinking now. I believe you."

Seeing that Heiyu did list evidence, Yun Che reached out his hand him. So it turned out that the one Heiyu had been waiting for tens of millions of years was indeed him. Yun Che didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.