Fatherly Love and Filial Piety! Improvement!

Fatherly Love and Filial Piety! Improvement! "Good son, have you learned to call Daddy today?"

Chen Tianliang walked over with a smile and reached out to pinch Chen Zhixing's little cheek.

Smack.

Ying Shuangshuang slapped Chen Tianliang's hand away and shot him a glare. "Stop pinching the child's cheeks all day. He'll drool when he grows up. Besides, he's only three months old. How could he possibly talk?"

Chen Tianliang withdrew his hand, unconcerned. "That's other people's children. Our child is a Nine Ancient Marks Wielder. Never mind talking at three months old—even if he could talk the moment he came out of the womb, I wouldn't find it strange."

After saying that, Chen Tianliang bent down and looked at Chen Zhixing with a grin.

"Come on, good son. Call me Daddy."

Chen Zhixing gave him a sidelong look.

"Say it. Don't be so stingy. Daddy will teach you." Chen Tianliang opened his mouth and slowly said, "Repeat after me."

"D—ye—dad. Daddy."

"Eh!" Chen Zhixing nodded his little head.

"Again. D—ye—dad. Daddy~~"

"Eh!"

"Right, right, d—ye— Hm? Wait!" Chen Tianliang abruptly came to his senses, his eyes widening like bronze bells. "Wife, I think he's taking advantage of me!"

Ying Shuangshuang could not help but burst into laughter. She gently picked Chen Zhixing up and held him in her arms, speaking tenderly, "Little Zhixing, I'm Mommy. Can you call me Mommy?"

Chen Zhixing looked at Ying Shuangshuang. He had intended to take this opportunity to speak anyway, and now he had finally found the chance.

The next moment, Chen Zhixing babbled out two words, "Mommy."

In an instant.

Ying Shuangshuang's entire body trembled as if struck by lightning.

"H-He called me Mommy! Hahaha, Zhixing called me Mommy!"

Ying Shuangshuang could not help bursting into tears of joy, laughing and crying at once.

In this world, no one could truly share the delight a mother felt upon hearing her child call her Mommy for the first time.

Seeing this, Chen Tianliang hurriedly leaned in as well, forcing up a smile. "Come on, call me Daddy."

"Eh!"

"???"

Chen Tianliang was dumbfounded. He opened his mouth blankly, then simply fell silent.

Beside him, Ying Shuangshuang could not help laughing again. Then she patiently asked, "Baby, what do you want to eat? Mommy will make it for you. Or do you want to go out and play?"

Chen Zhixing spoke in a babyish voice. "I wanna learn letters an' read books."

The moment the words left his mouth, Chen Zhixing could not help feeling a little stunned.

What was going on with his speech?

Then Chen Zhixing understood. It was probably because his vocal cords had not yet fully developed.

"You want to learn letters and read books?"

Ying Shuangshuang froze for a moment before replying hesitantly, "Zhixing, do you mean you want to learn to read and look at books?"

Chen Zhixing nodded.

Ying Shuangshuang was somewhat pleasantly surprised.

He already wants to learn to read and look at books? Rumor has it that those gifted beyond measure are Born Sacred, and some are born knowing all things. Now I've seen one for myself.

Ying Shuangshuang sighed inwardly and asked, "Zhixing, what kind of books do you want to read?"

Chen Zhixing said with a serious little face, "I wanna read books about cultivation."

"Books about cultivation?"

Ying Shuangshuang was slightly taken aback. Her child was still so young, yet he already understood the word cultivation? She glanced at the dazed Chen Tianliang beside her and immediately called out, "You call yourself his father—didn't you hear him? The child wants books about cultivation."

Only then did Chen Tianliang snap back to his senses. "All right, all right, I'll go get some from the Library Pavilion right away."

A few days later.

Chen Zhixing first tried learning to read. With Heaven-Defying Comprehension, it took him only half a day to recognize every character.

Afterward, he gradually displayed it before Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang, allowing them to ease into accepting it.

Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang were astonished, but they did not find it overly bizarre.

Compared to Chen Zhaosheng's Innate King's Diagram and being Born Sacred, this little bit of extraordinariness from their child was nothing much.

This day.

Chen Zhixing sat alone in a rocking chair in his room, surrounded by piles of books.

Ding! You read Seventy-Six True Essence Methods. Under Heaven-Defying Comprehension, you directly mastered it completely!

Ding! You read Gale Sword Path. Under Heaven-Defying Comprehension, you deduced Gale Sword Path to the level of Reaching Perfection!

Ding! You read Complete True Understanding of Arrays. Under Heaven-Defying Comprehension, you learned ten arrays!

Ding! You read Travelogue of True Person Lingmu. Under Heaven-Defying Comprehension, you became intimately familiar with the map of the Azure Profound Realm!

Ding! You read Notes from Medicine King Valley. Under Heaven-Defying Comprehension, you gained the foundations of alchemy!

One cold notification after another continuously rang out in Chen Zhixing's mind.

Chen Zhixing read at an incredible pace, finishing almost one book every half an incense stick's time.

Countless Great Dao Runes flickered and revolved within his eyes. At a glance, he seemed like a god rather than a human.

At that moment, he was like a sponge cast into an ocean of knowledge, frantically absorbing a vast quantity of it.

Sword Dao!

Alchemy Dao!

Arrays!

There was simply too much! His understanding of this world was rising at a speed so fast it was terrifying! A moment later.

Chen Zhixing put down the final book in his hands and slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

"This Azure Profound Realm is broader and more complete than the world in the game Great Cultivation."

Chen Zhixing's gaze flickered constantly.

Perhaps because, when he had played the game in his previous life, he had only completed a single main quest, he had not actually understood the game's overall background very deeply.

But after flipping through so many books just now, he had gained an entirely new understanding.

The entire Azure Profound Realm was boundless.

Above, three Immortal Dao Lineages stood alone upon the clouds, suppressing the world.

Below, all manner of ancient sacred lands and long-lived aristocratic families stood side by side, commanding the rise and fall of the realm.

Beyond that, Buddhist pure lands, great Confucian Path sects, peerless dynasties, Demonic Cults, demon paths, evil entities, and sects and schools of every size were scattered throughout the Azure Profound Realm.

This world possessed nearly everything that, in Chen Zhixing's traditional conception, a xianxia world ought to have.

As for the Chen Family, they resided upon Ziwei Mountain and had once been one of the long-lived aristocratic families.

Five thousand years ago, Chen Family Ancestor Chen Xuanfeng had entered the Great Longevity Realm. The Chen Family rose along with him, and even chickens and dogs ascended to heaven, becoming a long-lived aristocratic family.

At the time, they had ridden high on the spring breeze, their glory reaching its utmost peak.

However.

After Chen Family Ancestor Chen Xuanfeng vanished without a trace three thousand years ago, with no news to be found.

The Chen Family naturally declined alongside him.

Now, looking across the entire Chen Family, the strongest figure in the open was the Nirvana Realm Family Head, Chen Daoyan.

Never mind the Great Longevity Realm—even whether there was an Apex Realm titan within the family remained unknown.

However, Chen Zhixing, who knew the game's plot well, naturally understood that within the Chen Family's Back Mountain Forbidden Area, there was still a living grandson of Chen Xuanfeng, an expert who had entered the Apex Realm.

This man was also the stabilizing pillar of the entire Chen Family.

He clearly remembered that after the villain NPC Chen Zhixing died in the main storyline.

When the Chen Family fought to the death with the protagonist because Chen Zhixing had offended him, this Chen Family Apex Old Ancestor had emerged out of nowhere.

Yet the protagonist caught the eye of a Saintess from an Immortal Dao Lineage. That Saintess aided the protagonist and requested that an Apex Old Ancestor from the Immortal Dao Lineage intervene. In the end, they actually helped the protagonist forcibly kill the Chen Family's Ancestor on Ziwei Mountain.

The Chen Family became nothing more than a backdrop for the protagonist's rise, and from then on truly fell apart, crumbling like a mountain collapse.

"I have to hurry."

Thoughts continuously flashed through Chen Zhixing's eyes.

If he sat and waited for death, then by the time the plot reached the point where he offended the protagonist, perhaps it would already be too late.

He had to kill the protagonist while that protagonist's wings were still unformed, before he had yet connected with the Saintess of that Immortal Dao Lineage.

Only then.

Could both his own fate and his parents' fate be changed.

"In other words, I'm actually racing against that protagonist, who doesn't even know where he is right now."

A trace of realization flashed through Chen Zhixing's eyes.