Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
By the green lake, figures immediately flickered into view. Li Qing'an and the other seven half-grown boys emerged one after another—some stepping through the air, some riding the wind, some simply escaping from the lake itself.
"Greetings, Father!"
"Daddy, do you have anything tasty or fun for us again?"
"Dad, next time you take another concubine, could you discuss it with us first? Consider the feelings of our young hearts?"
"Hehe, when I grow up, I want to be like Father too—wives and concubines in droves, beauties like clouds..."
Li Qing'an, Li Qingshi, and the other eight boys, now already built like teenagers, flashed over to Li Qingyun's side, laughing and fooling around without the slightest decorum.
Since they possessed the bearing of great immortals, they naturally learned everything with extraordinary speed. Other than the deeper secrets of cultivation, Li Qingyun and Cheng Tangyin truly had little left to teach these eight sons.
As a result, Li Qing'an and the other eight had begun to idle their days away.
The eldest, Li Qing'an, was still so young, yet he had already learned to sneak off to pleasure houses to listen to music, even dragging his second and third brothers along.
The fourth, Li Qingye, was diligent about attending school. Though he clearly understood everything, he insisted on pestering the family into sending him to the city's largest private academy, where he played the role of a top student while striking up conversations with pretty young girls.
After the fifth, Li Qingji, was taken by Quanzhu to the underground immortal cultivation world once, he became obsessed with "achieving Dao and becoming Immortal." He had even blindly figured out a water-escape method. Whenever someone suddenly popped out of the green lake at home, it was surely this brat.
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