"Papa~! Found you!"
A clear, delicate voice rang out ahead. A small girl came running, her tiny feet moving quickly, her short legs stretching as she reached forward with her arms. Her long, inky black hair bounced with every step, framing a sweet, innocent face with chubby cheeks. Her starry black eyes sparkled with mischief beneath a bright, teasing smile. She wore a simple white dress paired with matching white shoes, completing the picture of pure, lively charm.
"Ruo'er!" Yun Wuji knelt and spread his arms, waiting for the small girl. When she reached him, he picked her up and held her close, then asked, "How did you find me?"
Around a year had passed since Li Suo helped Ling Xian recover her youthful body. At the time, she was already in the late stage of pregnancy. A month and a half later, she gave birth to their daughter, Yun Ruo.
Yun Ruo inherited the talent of both her parents, Yun Wuji and a Creation Goddess. Even though she was less than a year old, she was frighteningly smart, able to run around, and speak clearly.
"I followed your smell, hehehe~!" Yun Ruo hugged her father tightly as she replied, a wide, happy smile on her face, her nose wrinkling playfully.
"Ruo'er!" From behind them, the graceful figure of Ling Xian walked over. "Wuji, she wanted to see you so badly and refused to cultivate."
"Is that true?" Yun Wuji lightly squeezed her chubby cheeks, his voice stern but clearly amused.
"Cultivation is so boring! I want to play with Papa!" Yun Ruo showed not the slightest fear toward her father's stern tone. She stuck out her tongue playfully as she answered, reaching out with her tiny hand to hold his, then launched her special attack, puppy eyes. "Papa, won't you play with Ruo'er?"
Thanks to her astonishingly high talent and unparalleled heritage, even though she was less than a year old, she already possessed fully developed profound veins and could cultivate. When Yun Wuji and Li Suo were busy, the responsibility of training her usually fell to Ling Xian, who volunteered to become her teacher.
"Egh!" Yun Wuji suffered a critical hit. He tossed his daughter into the air and caught her again, making her laugh cheerfully. He kissed her cheeks and said, "Of course I want to play with my cute Ruo'er! Cultivation isn't important anyway. You have daddy backing you up!"
"Yaay! Papa is the best!" Yun Ruo turned her head cutely and stuck her tongue out at Ling Xian. This woman was always so stern with her, forcing her to sit her ass on the ground and meditate for hours. Didn't she know kids couldn't sit in one place for more than ten minutes unless you handed them an iPad?
"..." Ling Xian rolled her eyes at the naughty child, then smiled at Yun Wuji. "You shouldn't spoil her too much. It would be a waste of her talent if she grows up lazy and careless."
"With me around, even if she never trains, she'll never suffer from anything," Yun Wuji said confidently as he ruffled Yun Ruo's hair, turning her silky black strands into a bird's nest. "Besides, Ruo'er isn't lazy. She's a child and likes to play, right Ruo'er?"
"Hmm! I want to play with Papa! I'll train later!" Yun Ruo nodded her small head three times before adding, "Papa always says we need to mix practice with enjoyment, but Aunt Xian only knows how to make me train. That's unfair!"
Ling Xian paused, then reached out and lifted her from Yun Wuji's arms, holding her up while smiling at the girl. That smile instantly scared Yun Ruo. "Can you repeat what you just said, little Ruo'er?"
"Emm! Papa!" Yun Ruo blinked rapidly. It seemed she had messed up this time. She turned toward Yun Wuji for help, only to find him looking away with one hand in his pocket. The father who moments ago claimed he would always protect her was now doing his best to look invisible. Seeing her unreliable papa ignore her, she forced a bright smile. "I said Aunt Xian is the most beautiful aunt! Tehe~!"
"Don't tehe me!" Ling Xian's lips twitched. This girl had inherited her father's shamelessness completely. She pulled the child into her arms, burying her between her large mounds while gently caressing her head. "You need to respect your elders. Don't be like your dad."
'What's wrong with me? I never disrespected my elders!' Yun Wuji blinked, feeling the splash damage hit him square in the face. The man who slept with his mother-in-law, tortured and planted a slave imprint on his father-in-law, now stood there feeling deeply wronged.
"Ruo'er, do you want to go see your sisters?" Feeling Li Suo's aura drawing closer, Yun Wuji picked Yun Ruo up from Ling Xian's arms and asked.
"Elder sisters? Can I really see them?" She had heard about her older sisters many times, but her father always told her she needed to wait before meeting them.
"Yes. Do you want to go right now?" Yun Wuji asked with a warm smile.
"Hmm! I want to see them! They must be as cute as Ruo'er, right?!" Yun Ruo nodded her head vigorously. Even though she was less than a year old, she spoke and acted like a child several years older. That was just how smart she was.
Back in the Primal Chaos, Yun Gu, who was playing with his toys, suddenly felt that he was being forgotten again.
"Yep, they are very cute. After all, they are my children," Yun Wuji answered. A white light suddenly shot into his brow before fading. It was Li Suo returning. She had been away discussing something with Meng Xuanjue, something he did not know about.
Yun Wuji opened the world of his profound veins and placed Yun Ruo inside, where Li Suo was waiting along with Hei Xiaolian.
"Mama!" Yun Ruo showed no surprise at being transported into another space. She was already familiar with this place. She ran toward her beautiful mother and hugged her tightly. "I am going to see my elder siblings!"
"Good," Li Suo said as she held her daughter and gently stroked her back.
"Oh! Aunt Xiaolian! You look happy. Did something good happen?" Yun Ruo did not forget to peek at her Aunt Xiaolian.
"Yeah," Hei Xiaolian's smile was so wide that it looked downright creepy. It seemed their plans were going perfectly. 'Hehehe, once Wuji falls for it, we can finally try my new roleplay idea! I am such a genius!'
"You are going back to the Primal Chaos?" Ling Xian spoke in a serious tone. A year had passed, enough time for her to learn many things. Her original goal of searching for the person targeting the Divine Regents had long been forgotten. Now she had a far grander goal, to secure her own happy ending.
Yun Wuji never really tried to hide his identity because he never found a reason to. Nothing could threaten him in the Abyss, after all, so it was not difficult for Ling Xian to learn the truth.
"Not in a literal sense. I am not going back, just switching places," Yun Wuji replied with a light smile. He reached out and held her chin, then asked, "Why? Could it be that you could not bear to separate from me?"
"Perhaps," Ling Xian replied calmly as she met his gaze. Thanks to Su Shang's hard work, Ling Xian had become much more accepting and open toward her feelings, no longer as ashamed of their age difference or the matter of seniority.
...
After teasing and flirting with Ling Xian for a while, Yun Wuji returned to his cultivation room. He cleared his thoughts and sat down in a meditation pose.
At the same time, in the Primal Chaos, he did the same with his Devil Body.
To switch positions between his two bodies, Yun Wuji needed a cultivation level high enough to transcend the space separating the two worlds. In the past, he could not do it. Now, he was clearly strong enough.
Silently activating Invictus, the familiar intense silver light enveloped him. A vast, grand pillar of light shot straight out of his cultivation room, piercing through the dark gray clouds above.
Yun Wuji's cultivation leaped from the Divine Extinction Realm to the True God Realm!
This was the first time he had used Invictus since arriving in the Abyss. The last time had been when he traveled from the Primal Chaos to the Abyss. Now, he was using it again to return from the Abyss to the Primal Chaos.
At his current level of power, even if he faced Mo E at his peak, Yun Wuji could bitch slap him in a single move.
Concentrating his senses, Yun Wuji slowly began the process of switching positions between his Devil Body and his Main Body. With the Devil Body acting as an anchor in the Primal Chaos, reaching it became effortless.
Half an hour passed. Suddenly, the space around Yun Wuji shuddered, like a stone thrown into the surface of a lake, sending ripples in every direction. In the next instant, his figure flashed, and his Main Body was replaced by another identical one. This body was not bathed in deep, dense silver light, but in dark, devilish shadow.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
"I am back!" Taking a deep breath and smelling the pure, fresh scent of nature in the Forbidden Land of Samsara, Yun Wuji muttered. He did not even get time to relax when the space around him began to shake and tremble violently.
"Crap!" He immediately deactivated Invictus and suppressed his aura to the limit. He had only stepped into the Primal Chaos for less than a second, but the world itself seemed on the verge of collapse from his mere existence.
"Wuji? Wait! That's not your fake body! It's your real body! You came back!" Alarmed by the disturbance, Luo Guxie rushed over. With a single glance, she instantly recognized his main body instead of his Devil Body. Overcome with excitement, she threw herself into his arms like a lovestruck teenage girl, hugging him tightly with enough force to crush a star.
"Wuji! Hubby, my darling! I missed holding you like this! Sniff! Sniff! Your scent is so good! So sweet! So addictive!"
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