Chapter 258: The Mystery of Lian Ye's Origin

"Where is the Senju Chef?"

In the Senju Clan Land, Heijue's figure weaves through the various residences.

It is mealtime now, every household is preparing dinner, which leaves Heijue for a moment unsure who is the chef that Hashirama and Madara Uchiha mentioned.

The only option is the most foolish method—searching house by house.

Whichever household's dishes smell the best is the Senju Chef!

Heijue sneaks into each kitchen, covertly observing the Senju People cooking.

"This house's scent is off; it can't be the chef."

As it speaks, it already slips underground again toward another house.

"This house smells good; let's see if any other home smells even better."

Since it concerns the mother's post‑rescue meals, Heijue naturally cannot be careless.

Regardless, it must find the Ninja World's best chef!

For this Great Filial Son, his mother deserves all the world's finest things.

Heijue rushes through the underground and suddenly catches a strange aroma.

"So fragrant..."

Although it does not need to eat, its sense of smell works fine.

Even this cooking scent is fragrant to it, surely the chef that Hashirama and Madara mentioned!

Following the drifting fragrance, Heijue arrives before the Qianshou Feijian Residence.

The scent is emanating from here...

"Only this level of skill deserves to be mother's chef!" Heijue inhales the lingering aroma, then hides and sneaks into the kitchen.

It wants to see what this cooking chef looks like.

Then it can rescue the chef from Infinite Moon Reading's control.

If Madara Uchiha's plan proceeds smoothly and Infinite Moon Reading is successfully activated, everyone in the Ninja World will be enveloped by the Divine Tree and have their chakra absorbed.

When a person's chakra is completely drained, they become Bai Jue.

Heijue must first learn the chef's appearance before it can later rescue the chef from the Divine Tree.

Otherwise a useful chef would turn into a useless Bai Jue—a huge loss.

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In the kitchen, Zilaoye is washing vegetables while Orochimaru is chopping them.

Their clear division of labor saves Lian Ye some time.

He only needs to stir‑fry; everything else can be left to the two of them.

This time he intends to make a bit more, so that the old kid Feijian won't end up with nothing to eat as before.

"Lord Lian Ye, your dishes smell wonderful..." Zilaoye looks at the plated food, his mouth watering.

"Idiot." Orochimaru gives him a contemptuous glance.

He thought Zilaoye had come to steal techniques like himself, but it was just a simple craving.

A crane's tail is still a crane's tail; even when opportunity is in front, he can't seize it.

While chopping, Orochimaru covertly watches Lian Ye's cooking steps.

Such fluid, cloud‑like movements—no wonder he can produce delicious food.

Lian Ye notices Orochimaru's subtle motions, but he doesn't care at all.

Putting aside whether Orochimaru can master it, even if he does, it would be a good thing for Lian Ye.

That way, Gangshou that brat won't keep pestering him to cook for her.

He could have Orochimaru cook in his place entirely.

Lian Ye slows his movements so Orochimaru can see more clearly.

Orochimaru's eyes light up, staring fixedly at Lian Ye's cooking steps.

Zilaoye lowers his head to wash vegetables, swallowing saliva from time to time.

The three pay no heed as a pitch‑black mass silently materializes on the wall behind them.

Is this the cooking chef?!

When Heijue sees Lian Ye's silhouette, he recalls the little brat who once stayed by Senju Hashirama years ago!

So that brat was the Senju Chef mentioned by Hashirama and Madara!

Wait, wasn't that brat a member of the Uchiha Clan?

Back then it clearly remembered that Lian Ye's clothing bore the Uchiha Clan Emblem, and that Lian Ye was an orphan adopted by Feijian from the Uchiha Clan.

How did he suddenly become a Senju Person?

Heijue stares intently at Lian Ye's back, and as time passes its expression grows increasingly odd.

Hold on, this kid might actually have Senju Bloodline?!

Heijue is startled by its own discovery, what a joke!

Wasn't this kid a Uchiha Clan member before?

Only a few years passed, how did he become a Senju Person again?!

In that instant, it feels its worldview beginning to collapse...

Heijue has lived for millennia, yet this is the first time encountering such an absurd situation.

Someone actually possesses both Asura and Indra bloodlines!

Even Madara Uchiha, who merged Hashirama's cells, has less Senju Bloodline than this kid.

Could this guy be the illegitimate child of Da Tongmu Yuyi?

Wrong, wrong!

There must be some hidden secrets that no one knows!

Heijue tried hard to calm himself; this kid could never be the bastard of the Feathered Robe…

It fell into contemplation and began recalling the details of the whole incident.

Qianshou Feijian adopted Lian Ye, and then Lian Ye possessed the bloodlines of the Uchiha Clan and Qianshou…

As time passed, Heijue finally learned the reason.

There is only one truth!

That is, Lian Ye is actually the bastard child of Qianshou Feijian!

Qianshou Feijian, for some reason—

Whether driven by lust or drunken misbehavior, he then defiled a woman of the Uchiha Clan, causing her to become pregnant.

But because Qianshou and the Uchiha Clan are mortal enemies, Qianshou Feijian refused to take responsibility, so that Uchiha Woman could only give birth to the child alone.

And that child is Uchiha Lianye!

The Uchiha Woman secretly gave birth, and to prevent the premarital pregnancy from being discovered, she could only send Lian Ye to the Orphanage…

By the time Qianshou Feijian learned the truth, Lian Ye had already been raised to adulthood.

That explains why that kid ended up being an orphan.

Qianshou Feijian may have acted out of guilt, so he went to the Uchiha Clan to adopt Lian Ye.

On the surface, Lian Ye is only his adopted son, but in reality he is his bastard child!

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"Hmph, you think this little trick can fool me?" Heijue sneered.

It has lived for millennia; what explosive events hasn't it witnessed?

Qianshou Feijian's behavior is nothing among the explosive events it has witnessed…

But I didn't expect Qianshou Feijian to be this kind of person; truly, you can know someone's appearance but not their heart.

The truth of the matter can be told to Lian Ye in the future, as a reward for him becoming Chu Zi's mother.

I really look forward to the day this kid learns the truth!

When the adoptive father becomes the biological father, I wonder what Chu Zi will feel.

Hahaha, it will definitely be interesting!

When the time comes, be sure to share this amusing incident with mother, so that the old lady can also enjoy it.

Heijue feels that he has inadvertently uncovered the mystery of Lian Ye's origins.

Lian Ye, whose wok spatula is about to spark smoke, has no idea that something is orchestrating his lineage behind the scenes…

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ps: As long as I set a flag the day before, the next day various inexplicable things will appear to hinder my writing plan; perhaps this is what they call "things become secret"? Ying ying ying……