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Su Qinghan stayed at the Jiang family villa for three days.

For the past three days, she has been getting up at five o'clock every morning and practicing a set of very slow and light boxing in the yard.

The boxing style looked like Tai Chi, but even more fragmented, with each step placed in an extremely small space, like morning mist swirling around an old tree.

Jiang Ruoxi got up early twice and leaned against the second-floor window to watch for a while, becoming quite engrossed in the view.

After finishing her business, Su Qinghan would go to the kitchen to boil a pot of water, brew herself some tea, and then sit on the veranda to slowly drink it.

When Ye Chen and the others got up, there was only half a cup of weak tea left in the pot.

Su Qinghan's attitude towards Jiang Ruoxi was neither warm nor distant.

During meals, she would invite Jiang Ruoxi to sit next to her and occasionally offer pointers on how to control the heat when cooking soup.

Jiang Ruoxi was very clever, so she immediately seized the opportunity and brought out the pastries she had made to ask for his advice.

Su Qinghan didn't stand on ceremony; if she was satisfied with the food, she would nod, and if she wasn't, she would put it down.

Ye Chen saw this and secretly rejoiced.

He originally thought his master would be aloof, but he didn't expect him to get along with Jiang Ruoxi so well.

He Jianping told him privately, "You're really lucky, kid. These two women are both formidable. You're going to get what's coming to you."

Ye Chen patted his shoulder and grinned mischievously: "What do you know? This is called good fortune."

On the third night, Su Qinghan called Ye Chen to the osmanthus tree at the back of the courtyard.

Su Qinghan sat on a stone bench with a pot of freshly brewed tea beside her, and an empty seat opposite her.

Ye Chen knew his master had something to say, so he sat down properly.

"You've always had a question in your mind: why did the Dragon Heart Bronze Lamp recognize you as its master? Your uncle Su Youdao went to Dragon Hidden Mountain three times, but why couldn't he take it with him?"

Ye Chen nodded.

He had kept this question in his heart for a long time, but he just didn't dare to ask it.

Su Qinghan picked up her tea and took a sip, gazing at the distant mountain shadows. Her voice seemed to come from a great distance: "This story begins before you were even born. Your father was also from Medicine King Valley. He didn't study medicine, only martial arts. He was extremely talented, reaching the threshold of Transformation Realm in his early twenties. My master said he was a martial arts prodigy, one in a hundred years in Medicine King Valley. His comprehension was higher than yours and your uncle's. Your uncle grew up with him, and the two were closer than brothers. Later, your father went down the mountain to gain experience and met your mother. Your mother was an ordinary village woman who couldn't read many words, but for her sake, your father was willing to settle down in the secular world and no longer concern himself with the martial arts world. You were born after that."

Ye Chen was taken aback.

He was raised by Su Qinghan from a young age and has almost no memory of his parents.

Su Qinghan rarely mentioned them. When she did, she would only say, "Your father is a fool, and your mother is an idiot."

Ye Chen had no idea that his father was actually a martial artist from Medicine King Valley, and that he was as close as brothers with Su Youdao.

"The year you were born, your uncle hadn't come down the mountain yet. He often went to the small town outside the mountain to visit your family. On the day you turned one month old, your father held you and talked to your uncle all night. He said that he had a son, and from now on there would be nothing in this world more important than you and your mother. Your uncle later told me that the way your father looked at you that night was like an eagle that had found its nest."

Su Qinghan lowered her voice considerably as she spoke.

"And then?" Ye Chen asked, his voice slightly hoarse.

"Later, your mother fell ill, a very serious illness. To save her, your father disregarded the rules of the valley and secretly went down the mountain to find the whereabouts of the Heavenly Physician's Creation Manual. He somehow learned about the ancient tomb in Dragon Hidden Mountain and ventured in alone. That time, he didn't come back. No one knows what happened in the Dragon Heart Cave. Your uncle went into the mountain several times afterward, not only to find rubbings, but also to find traces left by your father. The last time he went, he locked himself in his room and didn't go out for three days. Later, he entrusted you to me and went to the provincial capital."

Ye Chen had no idea that Su Youdao went to Longyin Mountain not only to find the rubbings and the ancient tomb, but also to find his father.

What exactly did that man, whom we've never met before, the martial artist who bravely ventured into the ancient tomb for his wife, leave behind in the Dragon Heart Cave?

"The reason why the Dragon Heart Copper Lamp recognizes you is not because you, Ye Chen, are particularly special, nor because you have any innate bloodline."

Su Qinghan turned her head and looked directly into his eyes: "It is an object that your father refined with all his strength before he died. Knowing that he could not get out, your father poured all his remaining breath into the bronze lamp, leaving a wisp of spirituality for you. Twenty years later, when you stepped into that ancient cave, that lamp had been waiting for you for twenty years. Your uncle could not take it away because it was not waiting for Su Youdao, it was waiting for you, starting from the day you were a month old."

Ye Chen didn't speak.

He lowered his head, recalling the feeling of the warm current flowing into his body when the bronze lamp recognized its master in the Dragon Heart Cave, as if someone from a very far place reached out and patted his head.

He didn't understand then, but now he understands everything.

That was the last bit of tenderness his father, whom he had never met, left for the world.

"So, Master, what's my dad's name?"

"Ye Changfeng," Su Qinghan said, her voice soft yet heavy as a mountain.

"Among the previous disciples of Medicine King Valley, the one with the highest talent is also the senior brother I respect most in my life."

Ye Chen rolled those three words on the tip of his tongue, as if he were holding a grain of scalding cinnabar in his mouth.

Ye Changfeng, his father's name is Ye Changfeng.

Ye Chen suppressed his surging emotions and asked, "What about Blackwater? Blackwater keeps pursuing the Heavenly Physician's Creation Technique and the Dragon Heart Ancient Cave. Is it related to my father's death back then?"

"Yes," Su Qinghan said, her eyes turning extremely cold, as if she were uncovering a scar buried for twenty years.

"The illness your mother had back then was a trap set by the Blackwater. They used an extremely cold and slow-acting poison to slowly weaken your mother's body, and then spread the word that only the Heavenly Physician's Creation Technique could save her. Your father was so desperate to save his wife that he walked right into their trap. Dragon Heart Ancient Cave, Wei Qing, and the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce were all part of that net. Ironically, they didn't get what they wanted in the end, and they lost your father's life for nothing. Your uncle later found out about this, which is why he refused to back down, entrusted you to me, and went to the provincial capital to fight Wei Qing to the death."

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen suddenly stood up.

He was trembling all over, as if he had been whipped, but the fire burning in his eyes was brighter than ever before.

Su Qinghan looked at him, neither urging him to sit down nor telling him to calm down.

"It's better that you know now. You've already gotten involved, and you were bound to find out sooner or later. I'd rather you learn the truth from me, your master, than have you piece it together from various sources and end up with an unresolved knot in your heart. If you want to avenge your father and seek justice for your uncle, then go for it. But remember, revenge isn't meant to drive you mad. Your father died saving your mother, and your uncle died protecting you. If they have spirits in heaven, they only wish for you to live a good life."

Ye Chen slowly closed his eyes and said in his heart, "Blackwater owes my Ye family three lives. I'll remember that."