After disappearing for ten years, the junior sister made the entire sect kneel down to welcome her.

Feeling the slight stiffness in the body of the girl holding him, Luo Huanzhen looked in the direction she was looking—

It was Elder Danhong's corpse.

Luo was so sleepy that her eyelids were drooping and her head was slowly sinking, but she still managed to speak clearly.

Master Yunyao taught her that she shouldn't use what she thought was "for your own good" to make choices for others.

No matter how cruel something is, the person involved has the right to know the truth.

"Sister Ye Rou, Elder Dan Hong... she is actually your biological mother."

Ye Rou's body trembled violently.

Luo Zhenhuan continued muttering to himself.

"She took your heart... After she found out you were her daughter, she regretted it so much. She went to Su Mingyue to get it back, but... but she couldn't get it back."

"So she... gave you her heart..."

"But this heart is badly damaged and won't last much longer..."

"Once we return to the sect, we'll go find Su Mingyue and retrieve your original heart... Whew..."

Luo was indeed asleep.

Her small body nestled softly in Ye Rou's arms, her breathing even and long, and she even began to snore softly.

Ye Rou froze on the spot.

Elder Danhong...is she her mother?

The woman who had been targeting her the entire way, who saw her and Luo Huanzhen as thorns in her side because of Su Mingyue... was actually her... biological mother?

Ye Rou's feelings were complicated.

But after a moment of silence, she stood up.

She placed Luo Huanzhen on the small stone platform to sleep, then took out her sword and began digging a hole in the ground of the reef cave.

Once the pit was large enough, she walked to Elder Danhong's corpse, and, supporting her frail body, dragged her into the deep pit to bury her.

A small mound of earth formed on the seabed.

After doing all this, Ye Rou picked up the little girl who was curled up in a ball again and left the reef cave.

Regarding Danhong.

She felt neither nostalgia nor gratitude.

Let all the grudges and entanglements be buried in this deep sea with her death.

Luo was really brave, or perhaps because she was too tired, she slept soundly and didn't launch any indiscriminate attacks on the people around her.

With her eyes closed, her curled eyelashes cast a small shadow under her eyes.

Quiet and well-behaved.

Luo actually woke up the next day.

The moment she woke up, she discovered that she had advanced to a higher level.

He skipped the entire Foundation Establishment stage and went straight to the early Golden Core stage.

[Not bad, you can advance even while sleeping. As expected of my master. You haven't disgraced me. By the way, your little lotus magic artifact has grown.]

A colorful voice echoed in his mind, and Luo Huanzhen quickly took out the lotus throne to look at it.

The lotus throne has become larger and more beautiful.

Previously, it could only seat one person, but now it seems to seat four. The spiritual energy consumption has been reduced by half compared to before, and it also has the ability to travel a thousand miles a day.

Luo was pleasantly surprised.

She loved it so much.

It will be much more convenient for her to go wherever she wants in the future.

Luo Huanzhen subconsciously wanted to call Ye Rou to look at his magic weapon, but when he turned his head, he saw Ye Rou unconscious and curled up next to a reef.

Her forehead was covered in a dense layer of sweat. In order not to disturb Luo Zhenhuan's sleep, she even bit her lip hard in her unconscious state to prevent herself from groaning in pain. Her lips bled, but she did not let go.

[Oh, that person endured their injuries to carry you away from the North Sea Secret Realm. They've been unconscious for almost three days since then, not even waking up during your major tribulation of advancement. Now… well, it seems they're about to die.]

Luo was greatly surprised.

She spent so many days saving Ye Rou's sister; she can't die.

She quickly put away the lotus throne, got up and ran to Ye Rou's side, extending her small hands to heal her.

After a burst of shimmering green light, Ye Rou finally recovered.

She slowly opened her eyes, looking apologetic.

"Junior Uncle, have I disturbed your rest again?"

He secretly blamed himself.

Luo Huanzhen shook his little head: "No, Zhenzhen woke up on her own."

"You'll be fine once you've had enough sleep."

Ye Rou helped herself to sit up and said weakly, "I wanted to come back as soon as possible to take the spirit ship back to the sect. But when I got ashore, I found that the spirit ship was gone."

"It must have been Su Mingyue who did it. She deliberately didn't wait for us and returned to the sect ahead of time."

Moreover, Ye Rou had a vague feeling that the incident in the North Sea Secret Realm was not entirely Dan Hong's fault.

Ye Rou leaned against the reef in silence, her dark eyes slightly lowered.

Luo Huan blinked, squatted down, and looked up at Ye Rou with an adorable expression.

"What is Sister Ye Rou thinking about?"

"I'm thinking about Su Mingyue."

Ye Rou reached out and patted Luo Huanzhen's head, saying softly, "Zhenzhen, you need to be careful of Su Mingyue. Although she only annoys you and hasn't done anything substantial to you, perhaps not as bad as Elder Danhong and Zhao Qing, I still feel that things aren't that simple."

Ye Rou's face showed confusion. "How can there be hatred in this world without reason? Especially since you were once the little junior sister that several senior brothers in the sect doted on. As for Elder Dan Hong's actions, they are even stranger. She is an elder, why would she dislike a junior so much and take action against her so frequently?"

She pushed herself and Luo Huanzhen into the Demon Emperor's domain and loudly proclaimed that they wanted to seize the secret realm, which disgusted the Demon Emperor's lingering resentment.

If it weren't for the little black snake.

The two of them will surely die, just like Su Mingyue, with their hearts ripped out.

Ye Rou was extremely confused, and her heart felt increasingly lost.

Luo Huanzhen blinked his clear black and white eyes and said, "Perhaps it's because he wants to extract my spiritual root and dantian to exchange for Junior Nephew Su."

Luo hadn't expected this at first.

He suddenly realized this while waiting for Ye Rou to receive the Demon Emperor's inheritance, as she rested her chin on her hand and waited for her.

Throughout her journey to the North Sea Secret Realm, Elder Dan Hong's gaze towards her was not that of someone looking at a cultivator.

Instead, they looked at the baby.

Luo was wary of her, suspecting that she coveted his treasure.

But in the end, they discovered that the spiritual root in their dantian was their greatest treasure.

"She couldn't defeat the original body, so she had the Demon Emperor kill the original body, and then she took Zhenzhen's dantian and spiritual root and gave them to Junior Nephew Su. Master Yun Yao taught the original body that this is called 'one stone, two birds'."

Luo Huanzhen spoke in a naive and relaxed tone. After describing a stone and two little birds, he felt he had done a good job and even nodded his head.

Ye Rou felt a little uncomfortable.

Despite having the mind of a child, still at an age of play and frolicking, they endure so much scheming and poison.

"Junior Uncle, you've suffered. I don't believe that Elder Dan Hong's schemes were completely unknown to Su Mingyue, the beneficiary. I want to see how Su Mingyue will report this incident after she returns to the sect."

Su Mingyue would never have imagined this.

She didn't die.

She was a witness to the incident.

After she returns to the sect, she will surely expose Su Mingyue and Elder Danhong's true colors regarding Luo Huanzhen!

She also wants to get her own heart back!