The old man was surprised to be asked this, but then he said with a smile, “Just release your energy and feel the energy of the skeleton. Once the resonance happens, the essence of the Overlord Black Turtle Physique will enter your body and you’ll absorb it.”
Huang Xie couldn’t help raising a brow as he looked at the old man.
The old man just said with a smile, “In the end, it’s all about instincts. Just follow your instincts and you’ll be fine.”
There was a bitter smile that appeared on Huang Xie’s face when he heard this.
But since there was nothing else that he could do right now, he had no choice but to follow the instructions of the old man.
Huang Xie closed his eyes and there was a green glow that appeared around him.
When that happened, there was a green glow that appeared around the skeleton as well. It was faint at first, but it slowly became brighter until it was a proper layer of green light that was around the skeleton.
Then all of a sudden, that layer of green light started to move towards Huang Xie.
It didn’t take long for that layer of green light to become several strands of green light that connected the skeleton and Huang Xie.
This was the flow of energy from the skeleton into Huang Xie.
It seemed like this would take some time, so Xiao Ming took this time to ask the old man a few questions.
“This place? I already told you that it’s a special crypt that was created by me.”
The old man floated over to the wall of the cave and tapped it before it started to move.
Yes, the rock of the cave started to move after the old man tapped it.
It moved around as if there was something crawling under the rock.
Eventually, the wall calmed down and the old man said, “It’s a special artifact that can be controlled. I can make it open up and close at will, but I wasn’t controlling it when you fell in.”
He turned to look at Huang Xie who was still sitting there absorbing the essence from his bones and said, “It was made to open up when it detected signs of the Overlord Black Turtle Physique.”
Xiao Ming slowly gave a nod of understanding when she heard this.
So it turned out that they were still under the cliff, it was just that they had fallen into this artifact because of Huang Xie.
It had detected Huang Xie when he released his physique to protect them and it had opened up when it felt Huang Xie.
Then Xiao Ming went over to the pool and asked, “What about this pool then? Why did it hurt when we tried to go into it?”
The old man floated back over and said with a smile, “Well, this pool has contained my corpse for many years. The spiritual energy from my body naturally released into the pool and eventually turned the pool into a pool filled with intense spiritual energy. This made it too strong for you to enter, unless you had a special physique.”
Then as if he had guessed what she wanted to say next, the old man said, “At the same time, this created a blocking force that prevented you from seeing my skeleton at the bottom of the pool, which is why you didn’t see anything. It was only because he had a similar physique that he was able to see my corpse through the energy that it contained.”
Xiao Ming just fell silent after hearing this.
This did answer all of the questions that she had, but she felt strange at how easily the old man answered them.
It was almost as if he could read her mind…
But before she could think more about this, Huang Xie suddenly stirred.
He opened his eyes and suddenly stood up.
As he stood up, the green layer of light around him became even stronger.
It was clear that something had changed about him after he had absorbed the green light from the skeleton.
Seeing this, the old man turned to look at Xiao Ming and Yu Huang to say, “You should probably stand back.”
Xiao Ming and Yu Huang both glared at the old man when they heard this, but they didn’t have the time to waste to be angry at him. So instead, they started moving back until they were on the opposite side of the cave, right up against the wall.
But this really didn’t provide much cover for them.
After taking a moment to stand there, as if he was adjusting himself, Huang Xie suddenly gave a deep snort before releasing a wave of energy around him. This wave of energy was so intense that it forced Xiao Ming and Yu Huang back a step even though they were on the opposite side of the cave.
If it wasn’t for the fact that they were up against the wall, they might have been pushed back even further.
After taking a moment to adjust again, Huang Xie took a deep breath and released the green light that was around him. When he released that green light, the pressure that he was releasing was no longer being released around him.
Xiao Ming and Yu Huang carefully looked at Huang Xie for a bit before coming over to see if he was alright.
Huang Xie looked at the two of them and said, “I’m fine, don’t worry about it.”
The two of them raised a brow in doubt at first, but they slowly nodded to show that they trusted him.
Huang Xie turned to the old man floating there and cupped his hands to him as he said, “Thank you for your inheritance, ancestor.”
The old man waved his hand and said, “You don’t need to call me that.” After an awkward pause, he said, “If you want, you can even call me grandfather. Though I know that we’re separated by several generations…”
Huang Xie didn’t hesitate to say, “Thank you, grandfather.”
The old man gave a nod with a smile before saying, “Good child. You are the proud successor of our family, take this inheritance and live your life the way you want to.”
Huang Xie slightly knitted his brows in response to this before saying, “Actually, grandfather, there is something that I have to show you.”
The old man was surprised to hear this, but he didn’t stop Huang Xie from taking out this letter.
Huang Xie didn’t say anything at first as he held this letter in his hand, but then he said, “Grandfather, this letter was left to me by my mother when she died, but I could never bring myself to read it. I hope that you can read this letter with me.”
The old man was surprised to hear this, but he slowly gave a nod before floating down beside Huang Xie.
Huang Xie had to take a deep breath first before he could bring himself to open the letter.
The letter…explained more than he thought.
The letter turned out to be a confession of their family secret.
It wasn’t the Huang Family secret, but rather the family secret of Huang Xie’s mother.
Even though she had a different surname, she admitted that she was one of the few surviving members of the Hei Family. That was because her mother had married into a different family and her surname changed.
But she never forgot her identity as someone from the Hei Family.
It turned out that the Hei Family had been destroyed after their ancestor Hei Gui failed to pass his tribulation.
While reading this part, the old man said, “That’s me.”
He was referring to the part where Hei Gui was called the ancestor of the Hei Family.
So it turned out that only Huang Xie was related to the old man and the Huang Family…weren’t.
But what the old man cared more about was what Huang Xie’s mother had written about the destruction of the Hei Family.
It turned out that it was the fault of the five vassal families to the Hei Family.
When Hei Gui read this part, there was a very ugly look that appeared on his face.
“Those five…I treated them like brothers and this is how they repay me?” The old man said to himself.
Huang Xie could understand how he felt since the people that should have been his family had also betrayed him like this. They had even gone as far as trying to kill him because he was an illegitimate child.
At the end of the letter, Huang Xie’s mother asked him to take care of himself and to live well. She didn’t ask him to take revenge for the Hei Family or even mention the Hei Family, she just wanted him to live a good and long life.
When they finished reading the letter, Hei Gui said, “Child, it seems that you’ve really lived a hard life. You are the only known descendant of mine, so it is also my hope that you live a long and healthy life. You shouldn’t think about taking revenge for our family.”
But Hei Gui said with a sigh, “But I know that you won’t be able to let it go. I can see it in your eyes, you are someone that will not let things like this go that easily. The only advice that I can give you is that before reaching the Soul Formation Realm, you shouldn’t even think about trying to get revenge.”
Huang Xie slowly gave a nod in response to this.
Though he did want revenge, he knew that Hei Gui must have a reason for saying this.
So at the very least, he would listen to Hei Gui on this matter.
But for the Huang Family…he would still take his revenge.
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