NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 538: Did I Agree to You Catching My Wife?
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Swish!
As the middle-aged men gestured, a group of youths clad in white robes swiftly appeared, enclosing the small courtyard!
The leading middle-aged man coldly snapped, "Leave? Ye Jianfeng, where do you think you're going? Hmph! You've deceived the Palace Master for twenty years. Had it not been for Yu Linglong's battle in Penglai Canyon, where we accidentally noticed and paid attention to her, we would still be in the dark... The bloodline of the Palace Master, do you think it could just slip away?"
Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Ye Jianfeng closed his eyes in despair, letting out a helpless sigh, and turned to look at Yu Linglong.
It has been exposed after all!
I always said, don't let this girl learn the martial arts. She insisted on entering the Martial Arts, and now look what's happened!
"Palace Master? Bloodline?" Yu Linglong listened to these words, her face full of confusion as she looked at Ye Jianfeng, "Father, what on earth is going on?"
Ye Jianfeng, looking at the middle-aged man in front of him, as well as the youths surrounding the place, gave a bitter smile, "Linglong, we've finally come to this step, huh! I've wronged you, Linglong!"
As he spoke, Ye Jianfeng opened his arms and warmly embraced Yu Linglong.
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The sudden embrace left Yu Linglong feeling somewhat at a loss.
Such an embrace, it had been thirteen years!
You see, when Yu Linglong was younger, Ye Jianfeng cherished her, holding her in the palm of his hand. He wished he could hug her eight hundred times a day.
But ever since Yu Linglong started to practice the Cultivation System Martial Dao, Ye Jianfeng's attitude changed drastically. He even tried to destroy Yu Linglong's dantian. If it weren't for Gu Feng arriving just in time and taking Yu Linglong away, who knows what would have happened.
"Actually, these years, Dad has always been by your side... On your sixteenth birthday, when you fought alone against the top ten assassins from Dongying at the Southeastern Border, I was in the shadows... When you were eighteen, sneaking into a royal family compound in Europa, I was there with you, and you even stole the princess's cake... Even in Penglai Canyon's battle, I was lurking in the shadows..."
Ye Jianfeng glanced at Ye Fan, "If it weren't for this brat stepping in, I would have definitely risked my life to protect you completely!"
Ye Jianfeng recounted one by one the various hardships and battles Yu Linglong had faced over the years.
Yu Linglong listened with shock. Thinking back on many of those battles, Yu Linglong and everyone else couldn't understand how she could emerge victorious from such dire situations, as if aided by divine intervention.
Now, Yu Linglong finally understood!
So her father had always been silently helping from the shadows? The main reason she could become the number one Valkyrie candidate in the Xuanwu Region was that her father was protecting her!
Indeed, her father's love had always been there!
It was just that she hadn't realized it.
"Dad!" Tears streamed down Yu Linglong's face as she tightly embraced Ye Jianfeng, "Dad! Why didn't you tell me? I thought you truly didn't want me anymore... sob sob..."
Ye Jianfeng caressed Yu Linglong's hair, his face full of affection, "Silly girl, how could Dad not want you? You are the daughter Dad cherishes the most... When you decided to practice martial arts that year, although Dad was yelling at you and wanted to tie you up, the pain was on you, but it hurt Dad's heart... "
"But if Dad hadn't done that, these people would have quickly discovered you and then would have forcefully taken you away! This is something your mother didn't want to see. We only hoped you would be a normal, ordinary person, not involved in those disputes! But now..."
From her father's somber words, Yu Linglong roughly understood.
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The experts who had arrived must be associated with my mother.
"Who on earth are they? Why are they forcefully taking me away?" Yu Linglong frowned as she glanced at the group.
The young men in white robes surrounding them all possessed strength at the Grandmaster Realm. As for the four middle-aged men in the center, the weakest were at Martial Emperor Level, with two of them even at the Martial Saint Realm.
"They are your grandmother's people! Your mother... she doesn't belong to our Secular World. Back in the day, she snuck out, met me, we fell in love, and then you were born!" Yu Jianfeng's face was filled with tenderness as he mentioned Yu Linglong's mother, seemingly lost in beautiful memories.
"And my mother? All these years, why have I never seen her?" Yu Linglong had already guessed the outline of events -- that her mother must have been taken away by her grandmother's people -- but she still needed confirmation.
"Alas! Your mother was... was forcibly taken away when you were two years old! Thankfully at that time, you were next door with Auntie Wang, so they did not discover you, and you were left behind..."
As Yu Jianfeng spoke, everything became clear.
Yu Jianfeng's reason for preventing Yu Linglong from entering the Martial Arts was solely to avoid her being noticed and discovered by her grandmother's people.
While Yu Linglong was carrying out her tasks, Yu Jianfeng, as a powerful being at the Martial Venerable Realm, always acted as a supreme bodyguard for her.
"Dad..." After listening to Yu Jianfeng's words, Yu Linglong hugged him again, her eyes brimming with sympathy.
One could imagine the pain her father had endured over the years!
On one hand was the sorrow of longing for his wife who had been taken away!
On the other hand, he feared for Yu Linglong's safety while she was out on missions!
Moreover, he had to hide his relationship with Yu Linglong. Although they were father and daughter, he dared not openly acknowledge it, fearing that Yu Linglong would be abducted again!
All misunderstandings were cleared, and the scene was filled with warmth!
The leading middle-aged fat man interrupted the harmonious moment, "Enough! Yu Jianfeng, stop displaying this father-daughter affection... You know the rules! In consideration of the young lady, we won't kill you, but we must take Yu Linglong away! The Palace Master's bloodline absolutely must not remain in the Secular World, and besides, Miss Yu has other important arrangements to attend to once she returns..."
As the middle-aged fat man scolded, he reached out to grab Yu Linglong's arm, intending to take her away by force.
"You scoundrels! Have you no humanity? Twenty years ago, you took away my wife, and now you also want to take my daughter? Who dares to try me? I'll fight you to the death!"
At that moment, Yu Jianfeng was like a frenzied hen, spreading his wings to shield Yu Linglong behind him, glaring furiously at the middle-aged fat man!
The middle-aged fat man smiled faintly, not taking Yu Jianfeng seriously at all, "Yu Jianfeng, stop showing off! Although you were indeed a genius back then and had reached the Martial Emperor, twenty years ago your Root Bone was damaged, and you have no chance to step into the Martial Emperor Level again, let alone break through to the Martial Saint Realm. You can't stop us!"
"With your current strength, you could live well in the Secular World. Let go!"
The middle-aged fat man flicked his wrist, and in an instant, he had firmly restrained Yu Jianfeng, who was rendered completely immobile, and could only watch as the fat man reached for Yu Linglong's arm.
Just as the middle-aged man's arm was about to grab Yu Linglong's shoulder, a deep voice rang out beside Yu Linglong, "Did I agree to let you take my wife away?"
Ye Fan lightly flipped his wrist and seized the middle-aged fat man's wrist!
It seemed effortless, but in that moment, it was as if thunder roared and waves surged...