Chapter 3099 — Gu Pengzhan's Past, Part Two: Of course, a pure metal-attribute physique or earth-attribute physique might well accept the inheritance too, but within the Dark Night Palace and the Loess High Sect that was impossible—those two sects could only produce single-bloodline inheritors.
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"Then it seems certain that my mother failed the inheritance, and that is why they have come looking for me?" Gu Mengyao nodded. She was no fool, and grasped the Dark Night Palace's intent at once.
"That should be it. But what puzzles me is that in your bloodline there is no Dark Phoenix blood at all—only a tiny, tiny trace, almost negligible. The Grand Elder did once turn her designs on you, but she gave up after examining you. So why has she come looking for you now?" Gu Pengzhan said, somewhat perplexed.
"Oh? Is that so?" Gu Mengyao was puzzled as well. If that was the case, then what had the Grand Elder come all this way for?
"Oh, Arrow-Brand Brother, do you think maybe Sister Yaoyao's bloodline mutated because she ate a black phoenix?" Shen Yushu suddenly thought of something important. Once, on an outing, Wei Zhao had bought a black pheasant, but the man selling it had insisted it was a black phoenix. Could that have been a Dark Phoenix?
"Me? When did I ever eat a black phoenix?" Gu Mengyao was startled for a moment, but then her expression changed. "You mean that dream? And I actually ate a Dark Phoenix in reality too?!"
"It must be!" Wei Zhao nodded and said, "Thinking back now, you told us that in your dream, the person in it did not seem to be you but someone else—a crowd calling you Palace Master, handing you a Dark Phoenix to eat... My guess is that this was a memory inheritance that came about by a stroke of fate!"
"Memory inheritance?" Gu Mengyao did not quite understand what Wei Zhao meant.
"The place where you ate the Dark Phoenix must have been very close to the Dark Night Palace, and by my guess, the Dark Night Palace's first Dark Phoenix bloodline arose precisely because someone devoured a Dark Phoenix—and that person may well have been your ancestor, Yaoyao!" Wei Zhao said. "We happened to have a Dark Phoenix in our hands, and you are blood-related to your ancestor. I suspect that under the urging and prompting of some mysterious force, you were made to consume that Dark Phoenix! And the memory of your ancestor consuming a Dark Phoenix back then was inherited into your mind as well."
"Good grief, Arrow-Brand Brother, you're about to catch up with Detective Shu—so impressive!" Shen Yushu said in admiration.
"In that case, it is quite likely!" Gu Mengyao nodded. "That would also explain why the Grand Elder paid me no mind back then, and yet comes looking for me now..."
"It must be so!" Wei Zhao nodded and said, "And that means your bloodline is now the same as your ancestor's. For a bloodline like that, accepting the inheritance would be simplicity itself."
"Then there is one thing I still don't understand: if my mother is an inheritor, why has she not come to see me all these years, not even a phone call? From the Grand Elder's attitude toward me, she does not wish to fall out with me either, so my mother ought to hold some standing in the Dark Night Palace! Xiaoxiao can even call us from the Ice Palace!" Gu Mengyao asked, somewhat perplexed.
"Your mother's **personality..." At this point Gu Pengzhan could not help but smile bitterly.RS