You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

He was startled when he saw Lin Yue and then scrutinized him carefully. There seemed to be an indescribable light in his eyes before he recognized the prince's usual attire on Lin Yue. He was taken aback once again before saying, "So it is the prince who graces us with his presence. Could you be the Seventeenth Prince who was born the year before last?"

Lin Yue simply stood there, quietly observing Si Yangqi.

At this time, the Divine Thought Mark given to him by the Human Ancestor was at its strongest perception.

——The remnant soul of the Human Ancestor, resides within this man.

"I have heard of the great name of Si Yangqi."

Lin Yue spoke, "I happen to be here in the Record Room to look up someone, so I decided to stop by."

"I presume the Seventeenth Prince is quite young?" the elder chuckled softly, "Si Yangqi fell from the clouds when Your Highness had not yet been born, right?"

"I just heard about it recently," Lin Yue shook his head.

The elder laughed wryly and asked, "May I know who the Seventeenth Prince wishes to look up?"

Lin Yue always felt that the elder's gaze was warmer when looking at him than when speaking with Ji Dongyuan.

He didn't think much of it and said, "I want to look up a former member of the Dawn Platform from more than twenty years ago. Her name is Lin Jianlu, a woman..."

Before he could finish, Lin Yue suddenly noticed that at this moment, the elder's expression changed.

His originally cloudy and dim eyes suddenly lit up with shock, staring intently at Lin Yue as if he had realized something and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know her?"

Lin Yue was taken aback.

Could this person also know his mother?

"Lin Jianlu is my mother," Lin Yue stated indifferently.

During the risky plan executed while passing through Qingdu, he and Xia Lie had switched identities. Xia Lie became the prince to attract attention, while he became the genuinely hidden prince.

The plan was also based on the fact that even if someone tried to discover who his father was, they could say it was fabricated in advance for the sake of the plan.

After all, with both parents deceased, there was no way to confirm whether his words were false.

Moreover...

The Crown Prince, the Second Prince, the Fifth Prince, the Main Hall Master... so many had already known he was a fake prince; no one cared about whether it was true or false!

Therefore, he naturally didn't need to hide anything.

"What? Lu'er... is your mother?"

The elder was stunned, looking at Lin Yue in disbelief and murmuring, "How could this be..."

Baili Fengzhi knew all of Lin Yue's plans, so naturally, he was not surprised.

Ji Dongyuan, who was standing beside him, was taken aback.

The Seventeenth Prince's birth mother, who was also a Concubine of the Divine Emperor... was once a member of the Dawn Platform?

What was her name?

Lin Jianlu?

Ji Dongyuan noted this name secretly, wondering if those above were aware.

"Do you know my mother?" Lin Yue looked at Si Yangqi.

The elder gazed at him in a daze, silent, as tears began to well up in his murky eyes, muttering continuously, "Lu'er... no wonder he looks so much like her... no wonder... eyes, nose, mouth, all resemble... only the eyebrows are paler, and the forehead is so full, not right... how could he resemble him, it shouldn't be..."

Murmuring to himself, he subconsciously reached out as if wanting to touch Lin Yue's face.

"Whoosh!"

A figure suddenly dashed in between Lin Yue and Si Yangqi.

It was Baili Fengzhi.

With an expressionless face, she single-handedly grasped Si Yangqi's wrist, coldly stating, "Si Wenshu, please do not approach His Highness."

Once one of the peak figures among the Great Cultivators, Si Yangqi, even with his weakened aura, may still have considerable Cultivation. She would not allow such a potentially threatening stranger to approach.

"...Sorry."

The elder seemed to snap out of it, trembling as he retracted his hand but still couldn't help looking at Lin Yue and said, "Is the Seventeenth Prince truly Lin Jianlu's child?"

"Do I have any reason to lie to you?" Lin Yue countered.

He could tell that this elder must have been quite familiar with his mother in the past, perhaps even knew something?

For instance... his real father?

"...Okay."

The elder took a deep breath and said, "Since Your Highness wants to look into your mother's news, of course, there's no problem... However..."

"However?" Lin Yue looked at him.

"About Lin Jianlu's matter, merely relying on the Record Room's notes, I'm afraid Your Highness won't understand anything," the elder stared at him and said, "Would Your Highness be willing to have a private chat with this old man?"

Lin Yue pondered for a moment and then said, "Okay."

Immediately, he turned his head towards Ji Dongyuan and said, "Centurion Ji, please wait outside for me."

Ji Dongyuan glanced at Si Yangqi, and said, "Yes, Your Highness, as you wish."

After Ji Dongyuan left the Record Room, Lin Yue took out the Blood Lotus Lamp, released a barrier, and then turned toward Si Yangqi, saying, "Please speak."

"Your Highness, she..." the elder looked towards Baili Fengzhi.

"There's no need to worry, she's my trusted aide, no one is more trustworthy than her," Lin Yue stated indifferently.

Si Yangqi did not say much more, just gestured toward the table and chairs, "Please take a seat, Your Highness."

After Lin Yue sat down, the elder took a file from a nearby bookshelf, handed it to Lin Yue, and said, "Your Highness, this is the file on Lin Jianlu."

Lin Yue received it and started reading.

The file was clear and straightforward—

Lin Jianlu, female, born on the fifth day of the ninth month of the Emperor's Inspection seventeenth year, originating from the Shenxiao Sect in Jingzhou, her father Tianyunzi was the Shenxiao Sect's once-in-a-millennium genius, her mother Lin Qiuyue, also a true disciple of the Shenxiao Sect.

In the autumn of the Emperor's Inspection thirty-fifth year, Lin Jianlu passed the Dawn Platform's military trial with the Divine Firmament Thunder Skill, becoming a member of the Dawn Platform's Path Extinguishing Camp.

In the winter of the Emperor's Inspection thirty-sixth year, Lin Jianlu entered Tianxia Building, passed the path trial, and became a squad leader of the Path Extinguishing Camp.

In the winter of the Emperor's Inspection forty-fifth year, Lin Jianlu broke into the third layer of Tianxia Building and achieved five consecutive victories, thereafter becoming the centurion of the Path Extinguishing Camp.

In the ninth month of the Emperor's Inspection forty-sixth year, Lin Jianlu followed the Dawn Army from the Northwest Pass out of Great Yong, entered Eternal Night, and following the Demon Clan's attack on the Dawn Army, Lin Jianlu and several camps of soldiers went missing, their fate unknown.

In the twelfth month of the Emperor's Inspection forty-seventh year, without a trace found, she was deemed dead.

Thus, the summary of the file concluded.

The rest of the file contained some details about Lin Jianlu after her entry into the Dawn Platform.

"Dead?"

Lin Yue slightly raised his eyebrows, knowing naturally that this file was incorrect.

Because he was born on the thirtieth day of the tenth month of the Emperor's Inspection forty-seventh year, and now in the seventeenth year of the Celebratory Yuan, was exactly nineteen years old, about the same age as Xia Lie.

And his mother entered Eternal Night in the ninth month of the forty-sixth year, got separated after the Dawn Army was attacked, and became pregnant with him, but only a few months later she returned to Great Yong, then stole a treasured artifact from the Twelfth Prince, and went to see her father.

Later, his mother, carrying him, went to Qingdu in Liangzhou, probably to search for the Sixteenth Prince's previous life—the insatiable Cave Mansion, was the target the Blood Jade of Myriad Spirits?

In his childhood memories, his mother was clearly very frail, yet she often left home quietly.

Now thinking about it, it must have been to search for the Blood Jade of Myriad Spirits.

It was also quite coincidental.

The Fifth Prince also said that the God Emperor also entered Eternal Night in the twelfth month of the forty-sixth year, which coincided precisely with the time his mother was pregnant.

This point could well lead to some speculation.

Of course, in reality, he was born much earlier, not like the princes whose birth took three years and six months, nor did he have any special bloodline; he only assimilated Xia Lie's Prince Bloodline.

Lin Yue always felt that these events seemed messy, yet there seemed to be intricate connections.

But...

His grandfather had not been able to find out, whereas he had now found a clue.

—The man before him named Si Yangqi, someone from the past.

"With such tone, you still believe I am Lin Jianlu's child, you must know that my mother is not dead, right?"

Lin Yue looked at the old man in the twilight of his years and asked softly.

The elder remained silent for a long time before he slowly said, "In the forty-sixth year of the Emperor's Inspection, on the day of the Demon Clan attack in Eternal Night, I initially thought it was I who had died, not her..."