The middle-aged woman’s voice sounded very soft,ing from the pitch-ck heights above, giving a feeling of ethereality.


    The tone of the middle-aged woman’s voice also seemed to not contain the slightest emotional fluctuation.


    It could not be described as arrogant.


    Yet, it also could not be described as gentle.


    In short, it was as if she was speaking to a familiar person, uttering a sentence that to her, seemed perfectly ordinary.


    But to Jun Chester’s ears, and to Marietta Stewart’s ears, this sentence was like thunder, shaking them to their core!


    Especially Marietta Stewart.


    Upon hearing the middle-aged woman’s voice, her facial expression became astonished, as if by conditioned reflex.


    Because this voice was both familiar yet strange to Marietta Stewart.


    It was familiar because thirty years ago when she served as a maid to Jun Chester’s mother, she would hear this voice almost every day.


    Yet it was strange because it had been thirty long years since shest heard this voice.


    Cecelia Garner!


    Jun Chester’s birth mother, Cecelia Garner!


    Thirty years!


    She had vanished without a trace for thirty years!


    She wasn’t dead after all?


    Marietta Stewart had told Thelma Hale earlier.


    She was half a disciple to Cecelia Garner.


    At fifteen, she had followed Cecelia Garner’s side, only returning to the Stewart house at twenty.


    Five years!


    A full five years!


    To Marietta Stewart, those were the most important five years of her life!


    It could be said that without Cecelia Garner, Marietta Stewart could not have attained such high mastery in her cultivation path.


    Without Cecelia Garner, even if Marietta Stewart had “coincidentally encountered” Jun Chester eight years ago on the West Coast, she would not have qualified toprehend that restraint.


    Without Cecelia Garner, Marietta Stewart would have been just an inconspicuous Cindere in the Stewart house.


    At this moment, memories surged like tidal waves through Marietta Stewart’s mind, shing before her eyes like scenes from a movie.


    She was twelve. Still just a little kitchen maid lighting fires in the Stewart house.


    Because she had secretly eaten a piece of meat, she was chased out of the house by the Stewart family members. She knelt outside the Stewart house doors for three days and three nights. Snow fluttered down in thick sheets.


    But just as she was about to freeze or starve to death,


    An exceptionally beautiful woman draped a ck cloak over her.


    She also gave her a piece of dry rations.


    From that day forth, Marietta Stewart swore an oath to serve Cecelia Garner for life, no matter what happened.


    “Thirty years…”


    Marietta Stewart gazed up at the woman standing at the cave mouth above the abyss, myriad emotions swirling through her heart, yet all she uttered was these few words.


    At the mouth of the cave above the abyss, the woman in ck robes, her face veiled in ck gauze, looked like a ghost.


    She looked down condescendingly at Marietta Stewart below, who was kneeling straight-backed and gazing up at her.


    A hint of a smile shed through the woman’s narrow eyes.


    She replied:


    “Yes, girl, thirty years.”


    This single word “girl” nearly brought tears to Marietta Stewart’s eyes.


    Like the reunion of those closest.


    But the agitated Marietta Stewart could no longer speak another word.


    Marietta Stewart looked to Jun Chester.


    She wanted to say something but hesitated.


    At this time, Jun Chester was naturally also looking up at the woman in ck robes standing at the cave mouth.


    But he did not rush up likest time, demanding to ask something.


    On the contrary, Jun Chester’s face was tranquil like an ancient well, not revealing the slightest abnormal emotion.


    Just then, the woman in ck at the cave mouth above leapt down,


    Landing not far in front of Jun Chester.


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    Jun Chester stared fixedly at the woman in ck.


    The woman in ck looked at Jun Chester, eyes filled withughter.


    “Don’t you have anything you want to ask?”


    Finally, the woman in ck spoke softly.


    Jun Chester did not speak.


    The woman in ck hesitated, then flicked her sleeve.


    A bracelet of unknown material fell into her palm.


    She stepped forward and handed it to Jun Chester.


    The woman in ck spoke slowly:


    “I’ve seen Lyvia already. Very well, most importantly, as long as you like it. This is a gift I prepared for her.”


    Jun Chester still had an expressionless look.


    He spoke lightly:


    “What is the meaning of this? A gift is no sin?”


    The woman in ck chuckled.


    “In your eyes, am I so sinful?”


    Jun Chester asked back:


    “Are you not?”


    The woman in ck looked at Jun Chester for a while, then suddenlyughed out loud.


    “Naughty brat!”


    As she spoke, the woman in ck casually flicked her wrist, tossing the bracelet into Jun Chester’s pocket.


    Then the woman in ck turned and walked away, leaving behind a sentence:


    “I still have matters to attend to, I’ll take my leave first.”


    Only at this moment did Jun Chester suddenly vanish from the spot, reappearing behind the woman in ck.


    He was just about to reach out and tear off her veil.


    But unexpectedly, the woman in ck’s speed suddenly quickened as she pointed at a damaged stone statue up ahead.


    Boom!


    A terrifying pulse of energy directly shattered the statue from afar.


    Behind the statue was surprisingly a three meter wide, two meter tall mine shaft.


    As the woman in ck shed into this shaft, Jun Chester’s outstretched hand grasping at her veil naturally missed.


    The next moment,


    The woman in ck sped forward at an inconceivable velocity, leaving just a ck blur at the mouth of the shaft.


    From within, her voice carried out again:


    “We’ll talk when you catch up to me!”


    Upon her words, Jun Chester vanished from the spot again, chasing after the woman in ck.


    His speed was so fast it was like a beam of light shooting forth.


    This time, he did not lose her as quickly asst time.


    On the contrary, Jun Chester caught up to the woman in ck after just three breaths.


    But the woman in ck thought Jun Chester had not caught up. She did not even turn her head, simply switching direction into another tunnel within this mine shaft.


    Where she passed, her footsteps were soundless.


    Then the woman in ck slowed her pace.


    Unbeknownst to her, Jun Chester was following about ten meters behind.


    While trailing the woman in ck, Jun Chester sized up her back view.


    Resemnce! She really resembled Iris Garner in her youth!


    Could this woman really be his birth mother?


    If so, why did she leave him to be raised by Iris Garner back then?


    Also, what was her rtionship with Iris Garner?


    All kinds of questions swirled through Jun Chester’s mind.


    Just then, the woman in ck’s footsteps quickened again.


    Jun Chester still chose to follow silently.


    After trailing her for about twenty minutes, a bright light and the sound of water suddenly came from up ahead.


    At the end of this tunnel converted from a mine shaft was a waterfall, it seemed!


    How far were they now from that martial arts training hall from before?


    That was a problem.


    But this problem was already outside Jun Chester’s considerations.


    What he wanted to know most right now


    Was this ck-robed woman’s exact identity.


    And her specific rtionship to him.


    Just then, as expected, a waterfall appeared at the end of the tunnel.


    The woman in ck shed through it.


    Jun Chester naturally followed swiftly as well.


    But after passing through the waterfall, Jun Chester suddenly felt lightness beneath his feet.


    ncing down,


    Even Jun Chester, who had seen much of the world, could not help but widen his eyes at this moment.


    Beneath his feet… was actually ava field!


    And above thisva field was astonishingly the crater of a volcano!


    At this time, the woman in ck plunging towards the magma… astonishingly donned the hat previously hanging on her back midair. At the same time, a mask appeared in her hand and she put it on her face.


    Then, just like that, she fell into theva as if diving into water.


    At the same time, Jun Chester had already stabbed the golden longsword he had taken from Marietta Stewart into the stone wall behind him.


    ng! Jun Chester hung suspended in midair.


    He looked down at the scene below with shock written all over his face.


    His mood… took a long time to settle down.


    Just then, outside the crater above,


    Dark clouds swiftly gathered.


    Thunder and lightning as thick as buildings rumbled through the clouds.


    The muffled thunder,


    Like the brewing might of heaven seeking a target.


    The thunder shook heaven and earth!


    Hearing this thunder, Jun Chester’s face astonishly revealed a hint of fear for the first time. With a tug of his hand, he decisively retreated back into the tunnel behind the waterfall!


    Right after, Jun Chester forcefully used the Avatom Sutra to seal off a portion of his inner energy.


    In that moment, the veins on Jun Chester’s face bulged violently, as if suffering the pain of torn meridians.


    Jun Chester… had cultivated the Yellow Core over a thousand times, the Luminescence Core a hundred times, the Ground Core three times, and the Ethereal Core half a time! His strength… had already reached the level intolerable to the Heavenly Dao three years ago!


    It was just that up till now, no one knew!


    Of course, Jun Chester had previously told one person.


    That person was Hugh Garner.


    The pity was that Hugh Garner did not understand what Jun Chester’s words back then actually meant!


    Those words were:


    “I’ve always been using secret arts to suppress my power. If those needles within me scatter, I’m afraid heaven and earth could not tolerate me!”


    When everything calmed down again, Jun Chester parted the waterfall once more and leapt down.


    Where hended was a giganticva boulder a thousand feet below the waterfall.


    He looked intently at theva before him, pondering deeply but unable to make sense of it.


    What kind of material could a robe be made of to enterva unharmed?


    Could there be another tunnel under thisva?


    Just what was the background of this woman in ck?


    As he thought this, Jun Chester suddenly recalled a ce.


    That temple in Mycintia!


    Outside the volcano, although there were thick clouds and earth-shattering lightning between them earlier, they had already dispersed.


    Torrential rain poured down.


    This city, this modern metropolis spanning hundreds of miles, was immersed in a cleansing shower.


    Countless citizens of the city were puzzling over a problem.


    In just an hour, there was first shaking like aftershocks, then torrential rain falling from the sky.


    What was going on?


    Half an hourter, Jun Chester’s figure reappeared in the ruined martial arts training hall where Marietta Stewart was.


    “Did you catch up to her?”


    Seeing Jun Chester, Marietta Stewart’s first words were this question.


    But Jun Chester asked back:


    “What is that woman in ck called?”


    Marietta Stewart answered:


    “Cecelia Garner.”


    Jun Chester asked again:


    “Where is she from?”


    Marietta Stewart replied:


    “Mycintia.”


    Jun Chester pondered briefly, then asked again:


    “You said earlier your arrangements all these years were just to attack Mycintia. Why?”


    Marietta Stewart did not answer. But suddenly shed her yellow robe, and said:


    “Indulge me once, and I’ll tell you.”


    Jun Chester’s brows furrowed.


    Just then, from above the abyss came a ray of light.


    Looking closely, it turned out to be Lyvia, holding up a phone with the shlight on, floating down.


    Before Lyvianded, she saw:


    On the ground was a woman with a purple gold crown on her head and just a few scraps of cloth on her body, in front of her man…


    Flirting!


    Apanying Lyvia here were also Melina Hale and her daughter Thelma Hale.


    There was no choice.


    After the mother and daughter pair left the abyssal training hall, when they returned to the main venue of the Medical Conference and did not see Jun Chester,


    They assumed Jun Chester must still be inside the abyssal hall.


    And looking now… he really was!


    Not only that, he seemed to be getting intimate with Marietta Stewart!


    As Lyvia, Thelma Hale, and Melina Halended on the ground one by one,


    Six eyes from the three women…


    All looked towards the scantily d Marietta Stewart.


    At this moment, in this scene, the atmosphere instantly became extremely awkward.