My gaze narrowed slightly, and the Zhenmo Bei (Demon Suppressing Tablet) suddenly burst open with fine cracks. Scarlet blood trickled from the fissures, soaking the ancient painting on the stone tablet in the blink of an eye.

As the torn painting paper fell from the stone tablet, a woman without limbs, Lumo Ding (Demon Slaughtering Nails) hammered into her chest, slowly floated up from the blood pooled on the Zhenmo Bei.

While I was staring at the woman, Lin Zhao exclaimed, "Look at her appearance, she seems like Li Po..."

Lin Zhao stopped himself, covering his mouth.

I immediately felt a chill run down my spine—my appearance didn't bear much resemblance to my father's. My father also said that I looked more like my mother.

The woman in front of me...

The woman opened her mouth and said, "Xia Chuan, let me bring you a message."

"I've brought you the person you wanted. Don't participate in the Banxianzhuang (Half Immortal Village) matter anymore."

The woman paused and said, "I am your birth mother!"

As soon as those words left her mouth, everyone present was stunned.

Ye Yang's first reaction was to raise his hand and hold me in place. I said, word by word, "What makes you think you're my birth mother?"

The woman chuckled, "What's there to gain from deceiving you about this?"

"Only you humans are so hung up on your origins. We demons and monsters never care who our parents are, who our children are."

"When needed, anyone can be called food."

"Only living and accumulating greater strength is what we care about."

"Family affection? How laughable!"

I gritted my teeth and asked, "How can you prove that you are my birth mother?"

The woman chuckled, "Since you want to know so much, then I'll tell you."

"Back then, Li Chunfeng and Xia Yuting were trapped in the forest of steles for several days. During that time, they were in the area I controlled."

"I wanted to control Li Chunfeng to help me open the restriction, but he mistook me for Xia Yuting. And then, well! That's how you came to be."

"Do you need me to explain it in more detail?"

Ye Yang said coldly, "Unless you're asked, you better not say more."

Ye Yang couldn't take it anymore. Regardless of whether this matter was true or false, just speaking of the scandalous affairs of one's elders in front of everyone was enough to make it difficult to accept.

Wang Butcher stepped forward and pressed his hand against my back, "Control your emotions, be careful of the other party taking advantage!"

The woman suddenly sneered, "Aren't you humans the most particular about filial piety? Now is the time to test your filial piety."

"I've already attached my limbs to those women. If you cut off their hands and feet and connect them to my body with the blood paintings, I can be reborn with a body."

"As a son, you have to be filial! Hahaha..."

My hands, hanging by my sides, had already begun to tremble slightly. Wang Butcher's zhenqi (true energy) instantly surged into my body, "Calm down, stay calm."

Wang Butcher looked coldly at the woman, "You keep claiming to be Li Po's mother. I hope you can provide evidence."

"If you can prove that you are Li Po's birth mother, everything will be easy to discuss."

"If you dare to play tricks on Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall), I'll let you know how serious the consequences will be."

The woman chuckled, "Isn't it easy to verify whether I'm her birth mother or not?"

"As long as you all die, I recover my physical body, and then I can have Li Po do a blood kinship test with me, right?"

"Is it so hard for you to understand such a simple thing?"

The woman saw my gloomy face and then said, "Of course, you can also not kill them."

"You can kill other women, as long as it's a woman, it can help me restore my physical body."

"It's just that eating the flesh of warlocks will allow me to recover faster."

"My son, why don't you hurry up and kill someone to show filial piety to your mother? Hahaha..."

I slowly pushed away Ye Yang's hand and reached for the curved saber behind my back with one hand.

The woman, however, revealed a sinister smile at this moment, "You're not listening to your mother? Naughty children need to be spanked."

"Mother is going to spank you!"

As soon as the woman's voice fell, she spat out a golden character, "Xiao" (filial piety).

As soon as the golden character came out of the other party's mouth, I felt a wave of righteous energy sweeping over me.

I took the other party's heavy blow almost completely unprepared.

Ye Yang and I were like cars colliding head-on, our feet simultaneously leaving the ground and flying backwards, hitting the wall of the secret passage solidly. As the wall crumbled behind us, Ye Yang and I also slid down the wall.

I forcibly suppressed a mouthful of blood and stared at the woman with my eyes fixed.

Wang Butcher waved his hand to stop Wang Xiaohuan and Lin Zhao, who wanted to come up to rescue us, "Don't move, let Li Po decide for himself. Ye Yang, don't you move either!"

Ye Yang was slightly startled, then nodded silently, and slowly retreated while holding the wall.

Ye Yang and I had similar cultivation levels. Although we were unprepared just now, we released our protective gang qi (inner energy) at the last moment. Although the collision didn't break our bones, it almost injured our internal organs.

I know Ye Yang's personality!

He had murderous intentions from the moment he landed.

If it weren't for me, he would have probably already started killing people.