"Are you two fighting?" Luo Chu asked with a teasing smile.

"No," Ruan Tang shook her head.

She certainly couldn't admit that she had embarrassed herself while drunk last night and Xu Lai had filmed it; that would be too humiliating. She was constantly trying to figure out how she could possibly get Xu Lai to delete the video.

After breakfast, Ruan Tang drove her two best friends to the hospital for a prenatal checkup before heading to the office.

Today was Sunday. Xu Lai had planned to stay home and play with building blocks with Yiyi and Qian Xiao, but Qian Xiao started screaming his lungs out, wanting to ride on a cloud and go for a trip. Seeing the same expectant look in his daughter's eyes, Xu Lai naturally couldn't refuse.

Kid Qian lay contentedly on the edge of the cloud, watching Haitang Court shrink to a tiny dot below. "Uncle Xu, riding on a cloud is so comfortable!" he said excitedly.

Yiyi was equally thrilled. "Dad, you're so awesome!"

Although it wasn't the first time his daughter had praised him, Xu Lai felt light as air every single time. It made him even happier than when he had broken through from the Quasi-Emperor Realm to the Emperor Realm.

"Where to next?" Xu Lai spread his arms wide. "You guys decide!"

"Uncle Xu, can we fly to the South Sea? I heard they built a few new islands and reefs there. I want to go see them."

"Sure."

With a wave of his hand, Xu Lai directed the cloud straight toward the South Sea. For the rest of the day, Xu Lai let Qian Xiao and Yiyi do as they pleased. After all, with him around, they could go anywhere in the vast world. He even took them on a trip to Changbai Mountain, all because Yiyi had heard from her classmate Mao Dou that there were dragons in Heavenly Pool.

But the little ones were disappointed. There were no dragons in Heavenly Pool, only a Three-Headed Jiao.

Because it tried to eat the three of them on the cloud, the Three-Headed Jiao was thrashed by Xu Lai until it was black and blue, left floating unconscious on the water's surface. Tourists who happened to be visiting that day spotted it and, in their shock, hurriedly snapped pictures. In an instant, public opinion and social media exploded as trending topics about the "Heavenly Pool water monster" appeared one after another.

Meanwhile, the instigator of it all was happily flying all over the skies of Hua Country with his daughter.

「Three o'clock in the afternoon.」

Tired from playing, Yiyi and Qian Xiao simply lay down on the cloud and fell asleep. Xu Lai looked down at the bustling traffic of the mortal world, calculating that he had been on Earth for three months now. Time had passed at a steady pace, yet it was the happiest period Xu Lai had experienced since he began his Cultivation journey.

Gently stroking his daughter's hair, Xu Lai looked at her with tender eyes and murmured, "Tomorrow is your fifth birthday."

As he whispered, the cloud slowly drifted back toward Haitang Court. After settling the two little ones in their room, Xu Lai began preparing for his daughter's birthday party the next day.

When Ruan Tang came home that evening, she incessantly demanded that Xu Lai delete the drunken video from his phone, offering all sorts of bribes. However, Xu Lai was completely unmoved. Not only did he refuse to delete it, but he also deliberately played it five or six times with the volume on maximum, infuriating Ruan Tang so much that she almost grabbed her pillow to go sleep with Yiyi.

But when she peeked through the crack in the door, she saw her daughter, dressed in pink pajamas, excitedly calling her classmates to invite them to her birthday party the next evening. Ruan Tang couldn't bear to disturb her. Carrying her pillow, she went back to her own room and continued her verbal sparring with Xu Lai.

That night, Xu Yiyi fell asleep especially early.

Meanwhile, the Martial Dao World of East Sea City was in a complete uproar. The Martial Dao Association had taken advantage of the night to announce the location of the impending Spirit Vein—Mount Fu!

Jiangnan was mostly plains, making Mount Fu the highest peak in East Sea City at nearly two thousand meters tall. Placing the Spirit Gathering Great Array there was one of the best possible arrangements. In the future, this place would be a Spirit Vein.

Even though it was only a Pseudo-Spiritual Vein, the Martial Artists of East Sea City and the other twelve cities of Jiangnan were still incredibly excited. If one could live here long-term, wouldn't their cultivation progress be twice as fast with half the effort?

Many Martial Artists, their eyes burning with excitement, were already being led by real estate agents to buy houses. Of course, after several days of speculation, the property prices had skyrocketed a staggering fivefold, becoming comparable to prime real estate in the city center.

In fact, ever since Mount Haitang had become a Spirit Vein, its surrounding property values had also begun to soar. But with prices increasing from an already high base of fifty million, only the Wealthy Families could still afford to buy in.

「The night, dark as ink, passed quietly.」

When the sun broke at dawn, Yiyi woke up and went downstairs to the sound of two familiar voices.

"Yiyi, happy birthday."

"Darling, happy birthday!"

"Thank you, Daddy! Thank you, Mommy!" the little girl giggled. "Daddy, remember to pick me and my classmates up this afternoon, okay?"

"Don't worry," Xu Lai smiled and nodded.

"Do you need me to have the driver come?" Ruan Tang asked Xu Lai in a low voice. The company had a luxury business van that could seat eight or nine people, usually used for shuttling clients.

"No need."

"Okay." Ruan Tang didn't press further, figuring Xu Lai had other arrangements.

After breakfast, he took the children to school. Then, he drove Ruan Tang to her company and left the car in the building's underground garage. After that, he teleported directly to Dongli University.

In the school medical office, Zhou Feng was at his desk, looking at something on his computer, while Liu Nanwei sat beside him, equally engrossed.

Xu Lai pushed open the door and walked in.

Upon seeing him, Liu Nanwei exclaimed excitedly, "Director Xu, you have to see this!"

"See what?"

Xu Lai walked over and found Liu and Zhou looking at an anonymous post on the campus forum. His face gradually darkened—someone was on the school's internal network confessing their feelings for him! The words were so cheesy they could give a person goosebumps.

"Reading gossip instead of working?" Xu Lai scolded. "I'm docking half a month's salary from each of you!"

Liu Nanwei knew Xu Lai wasn't really angry, so she wasn't scared. She remarked with admiration, "Director Xu, your charm is just too powerful."

"Study more medicine and read less gossip," Xu Lai said.

"Did you hear that, Dr. Zhou?" Liu Nanwei immediately passed the buck. "Don't call me over to look at this garbage next time."

Zhou Feng was utterly baffled. It was Liu whose computer had broken down, and she was the one who had insisted on crowding around his desk to read the gossip.

"By the way, Director Xu, what is a Spirit Vein?" Liu Nanwei suddenly asked with a frown. "Li Mi has been acting weird for the past two days, mumbling about Jiangnan getting a Spirit Vein on Mount Fu. He couldn't be talking about the Mount Fu right behind our school, could he?"

Coincidentally, Li Sanbai and his master, the Faceless Demon, had given up on Sea Temple Island and chosen Mount Fu instead. It was hard to say if this was a coincidence or intentional, but both locations were connected to Xu Lai. The former involved his interests, while the latter was simply very close by. Mount Fu was only about five kilometers from Dongli University, a distance students often ran back and forth during their morning and evening exercises.

In response to her question, Xu Lai briefly explained what a Spirit Vein was, which left ordinary people like Liu Nanwei and Zhou Feng thoroughly confused.

Liu Nanwei said, her head starting to ache, "…So, in short, if Mount Fu becomes a Spirit Vein, it'll only be good for us, not bad, right?"

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