Father & Son

Ye Xiang was startled when he heard this voice. He was feeling very guilty as he hasn't seen this son of his for the past six years, so when he heard Ye Ji call him Patriarch instead of Father, so he can understand how much hate Ye Ji has for him.

"Come son have a seat" Ye Xiang getting rid of his thoughts told Ye Ji to have a seat opposite him.

"Yes Patriarch" Yama replied, he clearly heard Ye Xiang calling him son, but he currently wasn't Ye Ji so how can the Lord of Hell call this human his father, even if it's just for acting he still won't call him father as he clearly didn't take this guy as a father figure because of all that torment Ye Ji went through. The son of the Patriarch being bullied and abused, which father would not want to protect his son?...but the person who is standing in front of him did not even care about Ye Ji in the slightest, so Yama will obviously not show him the respect he thinks he deserves.

Ye Xiang can feel the hatred in Ye Ji, he sighed inside his heart and carried on talking.

"What did you do in the burial tomb? Why did the whole tomb end up being destroyed?"

"What destroyed? it was all fine when I was there" replied Yama.

'Are you being serious!? did the Judgement Book cause all that mess' clearly Yama had no idea what happened as he was sent flying and was lying unconscious, but when he thought to himself of how the place looked when he arrived there, he couldn't help but accept the fact that it should have crumbled.

"Then Patriarch how about the ancestor's coffin? " Yama asked thinking that something might have happened to the coffin.

"The coffin is fine, just a few servants have died from looking at the coffins eye," said Ye Xiang regretfully.

"WHAT!!! was that eye that powerful that all the servants have died? why didn't it seem to affect me?"

"Is because you have no aptitude for cultivation, the eye on the coffin only reacts to people who have an aptitude for cultivation. It drives them mad and makes them kill themselves or others who are affected by it," said Ye Xiang looking at his son who was shocked.

'What do you mean I have no aptitude for cultivating! I have the bloody inheritance of Ye Yong, and my meridians have been fixed. To top that I am the Lord of Hell if I don't have an aptitude for cultivating then how can you humans have it?!'

Yama thought as he did not want to voice this out as this might cause him to face a life and death crisis if he said he had an aptitude for cultivation then he will have to answer why he was not affected by the eye and how in the world his meridians got fixed!. He definitely can't say he is the lord of hell currently residing in his son's body and his son has died long ago.

Seeing Yama dazed for a while Ye Xiang quickly vanished from his position and held onto both of Yama's shoulders sending energy to his body.

"Patriarch what are you doing?" Yama was startled by this and quickly moved away.

"Nothing, I was just checking if you injured yourself" Ye Xiang replied hurriedly.

"I am ok, Thank you Patriarch" Yama replied but he certainly did not believe him as Yama felt the energy travelling through his body as if it was searching for something.

'It looks like Ye Xiang wanted to check my meridians. Thank god the Judgement book allows me to hide the fact that my meridians have been fixed and also hide that I have an aptitude for cultivation otherwise I will be stuck here explaining a lot of things' Just as Yama thought he escaped calamity to him, all of a sudden he can sense some changes in his Judgement Book.

He summoned it quickly to see what it was and he can see Ye Xiang's details displayed before him.

[ Name: Ye Xiang

Age: 88 Years old and 10 Months

Cultivation Rank: 10th Stage of Emporer Realm

Warrior Rank: 4th Stage of Sword Emperor ]

'The Judgement Book must have picked up his details when he touched me; it also looks like Ye Xiang is close to breaking through to the Tyrant Realm.'

After seeing through Ye Yon's life story before he knows there are nine realms each having ten stages. Elementary Realm, Spirit Realm, Nascent Realm, Emperor Realm, Tyrant Realm, Sovereign Realm, Extinction Realm, Divine Extinction Realm and the highest Heaven Extinction Realm, but even though these are the realms he saw from Ye Yong's life story he can tell for sure that there are realms higher than this.

'Wait let me see through his life story, I want to know what exactly made him hate his son Ye Ji' Yama thought and straight away touched Ye Xiang name on the book. He was taken to an illusion which showed Ye Xiang's life story from the beginning. Initially Ye Xiang was living a happy life with his wife and was awaiting his son's birth, after the birth of his son, every elder checked the newborn's meridians and his aptitude, it was dubbed that he will be an upcoming genius and will take this kingdom by storm.

Just after few months Ye Xiang wife went missing but Ye Xiang did nothing about it and not even send someone to search for his wife. He had to take on the responsibilities to look after his son Ye Ji. Suddenly the illusion changed and Yama could see Ye Xiang kowtowing and begging someone while Ye Ji was lying on the bed.

"Please don't kill him I beg you! I will do anything please don't kill him, I will not tell about his ancestor or his story. He is only a little child please don't kill him he is a poor little child"

The illusion displayed Ye Xiang begging the person continuously not to kill the Ye Ji. The person was holding a knife, and he was standing right near Ye Ji, from the clothes the person was wearing Yama can tell right away he is a person from the Chen clan, as he saw similar outfit when Ye Yong was murdered.

Suddenly the scene changed when Ye Xiang shouted "NOOOOOOOOO."

This was when the person broke Ye Ji's meridians and his aptitude for cultivation. "Do not ever make him cultivate with any means at all otherwise I will make sure your clan is flooded with blood. You should treat him as you don't even know him and like his not your son! Don't think we won't know because the eye on the coffin will always watch everything that is happening around here!"

The scene then moved to a few people who looked like monks building a burial tomb for the coffin while chanting continuously then after the building was finished.

"Amitabha! Daoist! The eye will not affect surroundings anymore and is now fully concealed by this tomb if anything happens then please use this dark sutra talisman."

The scene then moved to where Ye Xiang was watching Ye Ji being beaten up and Ye Xiang was clenching his fist! One can see from the emotions of Ye Xiang that he was powerless and couldn't act as if something was holding him back. The illusion also showed scenes of him always looking up to the sky at night and muttering " Wife? Where are you?. Do you know how powerless I am? My heart is burning all the time when our son gets beaten up by these servants, yet I am still powerless! I feel like I am being watched. You left him when he was a newborn! I know your safe and I know you have your reason I should have let you take him when you said you would have to leave. It is all my fault now that our son is like this!"

"YE JI!!... YE JI!! SON! what is wrong with you?" Ye Xiang shouted anxiously shaking Ye Ji as he looked at Ye Ji who seemed to be frozen.

"Ah. Nothing Patriarch I am fine" Yama dispersed the Judgement book when he heard Ye Xiang shouting. Ye Xiang cannot see what Yama was doing as the book is not visible any more to anyone so it will look like Yama is in a daze while Yama has a look through the life story of a person.

'It looks like he was facing more hardships than Ye Ji, is too bad that Ye Ji has passed away before he got to know the truth. This man is someone that I Lord of Hell approve, for all the sacrifices he has done for his son. He is truly worth to be called a father.' Yama obviously understood from seeing Ye Xiang's life story that he was very helpless with everything that has happened so far and there was only one enemy that the Ye clan is currently facing and that was the powerful Chen clan.

When Yama was thinking about the Chen clan, his killing intent rose. Yama's eyes where starting to turn blood red, his pupil turned very dark black and it looked like something was going to grow out from his back but just then Yama heard a shout from someone.

"YE JI! What is wrong with your eye!"