Chapter 136 Hidden Crisis (3)_1
"Father." Shen Wanqing gave a salute to Shen Xingzong.
Outsiders only knew that the Divine Temple had a Saint Heir, but they didn’t know that there was also a Saintess. And although the people of the Divine Temple knew of the Saintess, they didn’t know that she was the daughter of the Divine Temple Master, and moreover, an illegitimate daughter!
"Have you returned?" Shen Xingzong looked at his daughter who had grown up to be slender and graceful, a complex light flashing in his eyes.
"Yes."
"You are becoming bolder, and during sparring, you increasingly fail to show restraint. That bamboo grove was your mother’s favorite place before she passed away, and yet you destroyed it," Shen Xingzong said sternly.
Confronted with Shen Xingzong’s criticism, Shen Wanqing simply bowed her head and remained silent. She would not tell him that she had purposely chosen to duel with Yun Jin there, just because she wanted to destroy that bamboo grove. Whatever they said about that grove being the beloved spot of the Divine Temple Master who frequented it, it was merely because it trapped a woman, a pitiful woman who gave her life for him but had never seen the outside world.
Her identity within the Divine Temple was that of a girl brought back by the Hall Master, but she had grown up in Holy Sea City since she was very young. Before she was five years old, she lived in that bamboo grove; after turning five, she was no longer allowed to set foot there. Later she found out that her mother had died, having spent her entire life confined to that bamboo grove.
Seeing that Shen Wanqing remained silent and would not speak, Shen Xingzong didn’t have the heart to scold her any further and sighed, "You’re already in your twenties; stop doing these reckless things. If you want to improve yourself, sparring with people from the temple is enough, don’t go out to the sea again. What if something dangerous happens? You’re not to go out to sea on a whim anymore, understood?"
"Understood," Shen Wanqing answered, then hesitated before saying, "The whip you gave me last time was destroyed."
"What? That was a Holy Artifact! How was it destroyed?"