Li Ye stood aghast. “My mother and father?”

Looking blankly at his master, he asked, “Didn’t you say I was an orphan?”

Li Muyang’s eyes grew red as he said in a slightly choked voice, “You are not! And you never were! Conflicts break out between the Yang Sect and the Yin Sect all the time. The enmity our seniors held against each other was too deep to be reconciled, so...”

He glanced at Xing Huanyue. “So in order not to enrage our seniors, your mother and ...