Chapter 3098 — Gu Pengzhan's Past, Part One: Wei Zhao Nodded. It Seemed the Young Miss Truly Did Not Know Either, Otherwise She Could Never Have Been Fooled by Zhong Yongliang Back Then.
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"What!?" Gu Mengyao had guessed that her mother's departure back then might have had something to do with the Dark Night Palace, but she had never in her wildest dreams imagined that her mother was the Palace Mistress of the Dark Night Palace. This... how could that be?
Wasn't the Dark Night Palace Wei Zhao's enemy? How could her mother have sent people to oppose Wei Zhao? And if that were so, then could the Grand Elder have been sent by her mother?
Gu Mengyao could hardly be blamed for letting her thoughts run wild. In her understanding, within any sect, the Palace Mistress was the highest authority of all. Wasn't that how it was in the Ice Palace she knew? There, Bingtang was the strongest existence, and her every word was law!
Even in the Snow Valley, where a Grand Elder existed, great respect was still paid to Xueli's opinions, and Xueli too took part in managing the affairs of the valley.
So Gu Mengyao could not help feeling that since her mother was the Palace Mistress of the Dark Night Palace, everything must have been orchestrated by her. But... did her mother no longer care for her? How could she move against her own daughter?
At that thought, a wave of sorrow welled up in Gu Mengyao's heart. "Mother... doesn't want us anymore?"
"Yaoyao, it looks like you may have gotten the wrong idea!" Gu Pengzhan gave a bitter smile and shook his head. "Your mother didn't abandon us—she was forced to leave. And although your mother is the Palace Mistress of the Dark Night Palace, she holds no real power at all. Everyone in the Dark Night Palace, high and low, answers to that Grand Elder!"
"Forced to leave... the Grand Elder calls the shots?" Gu Mengyao was startled, and then something clicked. "Could it be that Mother is an inheritor too? Was she also seized and taken to the Dark Night Palace by the Grand Elder?"
"Exactly!" Gu Pengzhan nodded. "This is a long story! I'll have to tell you both in detail..."
In those years, Ye Rou'er had been the Young Palace Mistress of the Dark Night Palace. Only, her Dark Phoenix bloodline, having passed through several generations, was no longer particularly pure, and a bloodline like that would have great difficulty accepting the inheritance and becoming an inheritor.
And according to the calculations of the Five Luminaries Sect—that is, that place—for the opening of the Cloud-Tier Island Project, there were still at least twenty years to go. So the Dark Night Palace decided to marry Ye Rou'er to the young sect master of the Mystic Elixir Sect at the time, Tianji Xing, who was also the father of the Silkworm Transformation.
The Mystic Elixir Sect possessed a secret art—actually a secret art of the Five Luminaries Sect—that could, by certain means, concentrate the entire Dark Phoenix bloodline within Ye Rou'er's body into the fetus. In this way, the fetus would possess a complete Dark Phoenix bloodline while still in the womb.
Thus, although Ye Rou'er's own Dark Phoenix bloodline was impure, her child would possess an exceedingly pure Dark Phoenix bloodline. It might not be as pure as the ancestors', but at the very least, there would be no problem whatsoever when it came to accepting the inheritance!
The Dark Night Palace, like the Loess Plateau Sect, produced inheritors through bloodline inheritance, unlike the inheritors of fire, water, mist, ice, and wood, who needed only a pure physique of the corresponding attribute.
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