Chapter: 5988

"Yes!" Zhou Liangyun nodded heavily. "Your parents' decision to leave Yanying for Jinling back then was a matter of no choice, just like when Zhuge Liang fled from Maicheng after his defeat. From that moment on, your family's fate went from soaring high to plummeting down. Therefore, you had been trapped in the dragon's shallow bay ever since, until Lai old master helped you break through."

Yang Chen finally understood.

He himself had misinterpreted Lai Qinghua's timeline.

Lai old master was invited to Yanying by his grandfather four or five years ago, which coincided with Yang Chen's marriage to Xiao Churan at the time.

Lai old master thought that the Yang family was just getting trapped in the dragon's shallow bay at that time. In fact, Yang Chen had already been trapped for over ten years.

He paused and suddenly remembered an important matter, asking Zhou Liangyun hastily: "Uncle Zhou, do you know what is meant by 'ascending to the dragon'? I always hear people talking about it, but I don't know what it means..."

Zhou Liangyun looked at Yang Chen seriously. "Young Master, ascending to the dragon refers to a unique fate required for ascending to the path of the dragon. According to historical records, only those with this fate can ascend to the path of the dragon."

Yang Chen became even more perplexed, asking him back: "Uncle Zhou, my father was also trapped in the dragon's shallow bay and couldn't open the 'Scripture of Nine Heavens', but I am also trapped and yet I can open it. Why is that?"

Zhou Liangyun stared at Yang Chen with a pair of tight eyes, saying every word: "Young Master, you are not a dragon's grade, but a true ascending to the dragon's grade!"

"Why?" Yang Chen asked puzzledly: "My father was far more excellent than me, and he wasn't an ascending to the dragon's grade, why am I, a young orphan of eight years old who lost my parents and once ridiculed by the whole Jinling, able to become one? I... I don't understand..."

Zhou Liangyun sighed deeply, with a hint of choked emotions: "Young Master ah... You still don't know what ascending to the dragon's grade means. Ascending to the dragon's grade is not a natural endowment from heaven, but a posthumous transformation. People say that dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes. Your father was a dragon's grade, and your fate is the highest level of being a dragon's grade. But ascending to the dragon's grade requires a double-edged fusion..."

He paused and his eyes turned red: "And you became an ascending to the dragon's grade because of your father, who took away his own fate and gave it to you!"

"Your father's dragon's grade, added to your own dragon's grade, with both dragons supporting you, that's what ascending to the dragon's grade means..."

Just then, Yang Chen looked like he was struck by lightning, with his heart turned upside down...

He didn't realize he had tears streaming down his face, unable to understand: "My... my father... why did he have to take away his own fate and give it to me?"

Zhou Liangyun sighed again: "Because your father knew that even if he was a dragon's grade, he couldn't possibly be the opponent of the Break Clear Sect or that noble lord. That noble lord will definitely kill him, my mother, and you. So your father knew he would surely die without a doubt, so he took away his own fate and gave it to you, and arranged for you to have a safe retreat, hoping that after you become an ascending to the dragon's grade, you can obtain the 'Scripture of Nine Heavens' and later have the chance to fight against that noble lord! If not, he will naturally choose to leave behind a glimmer of life for you..."

How could he not have thought that behind getting the "Scripture of Nine Heavens" and soaring to the heavens, everything would be so cruel!

Yang Chen's mood was extremely heavy, for a moment his spirit was dazed, and all the memories from years ago seemed like fleeting shadows, switching rapidly in his mind, bringing up his parents, family members, and everything related to Jinling.

At this time, Zhou Liangyun spoke gravely: "Young master, after your father took away his fate and gave it to you, he took you and your mother away from Jinling. He had already made up his mind to die with your mother; he knew that without the protection of a dragon's grade, he couldn't possibly escape being pursued by the Break Clear Sect."

"Since your parents left Jinling with you just before, you had already become an ascending-to-the-dragon-grade;"

Yang Chen thought about Lin Wan'er's words and muttered to himself: "It's no wonder that Wan'er said my father shouldn't be a dragon grade, otherwise he wouldn't have been killed by Long Sheng. It turns out it was because he took away his own fate and gave it to me……"

Zhou Liangyun said: "Taking away one's fate is a nine-death-and-one-life situation, and in that life, successfully taking away one's fate and passing it on to another is an event of a million-to-one chance; thank goodness your father was able to do so."

When he got to this point, Zhou Liangyun continued: "Initially, at the Ji Qing Pavilion, it wasn't just that your father-in-law accidentally broke the jade bottle spring vase. It's because the 'Scripture of Nine Heavens' inside the jade bottle sensed your ascending-to-the-dragon-grade and was struggling to break free."

"The day I opened the box containing the jade bottle in the Guest Hall, it had already started vibrating; I let your father-in-law take it out, and he should have been unaware that the bottle would shake, his heart racing, and then he smashed the bottle on the ground……"

"So, it wasn't just because you got lucky to obtain the 'Scripture of Nine Heavens', but rather in this entire world, only you could allow the 'Scripture of Nine Heavens' to break free! I arranged for this process to take place at Ji Qing Pavilion so that everything would seem natural and wouldn't be discovered by someone with malicious intentions." JrNovels.com