Li Ye stood aghast. “My mother and father?”

Looking blankly at his master, he asked, “Didn’t you say I was an orphan?”

Li Muyang’s eyes grew red as he said in a slightly choked voice, “You are not! And you never were! Conflicts break out between the Yang Sect and the Yin Sect all the time. The enmity our seniors held against each other was too deep to be reconciled, so...”

He glanced at Xing Huanyue. “So in order not to enrage our seniors, your mother and I chose to hide our relationship.

“In fact, when your mother and I were young, as chosen ones from the Yin Sect and the Yang Sect, we actually fought a lot. But as time passed, we gradually grew to have feelings for each other...

“However, fierce battles still kept breaking out between our sects. Even after we both became sectmasters, the grudge our sects held against each other was still unforgivable. We didn’t dare to defy our sects’ opinions, so we could only secretly put you in Master Zhen’s hands.”

Xing...