In the Immortal Capital, because of the grand gift-bearing procession formed for the Human Emperor's new child, all sorts of rumors were spreading everywhere.
Some said that the Celestial Emperor was a disciple of the Fire Virtue Ancestral God, while Ji Shui was the Fire Virtue Saint's grand-disciple.
Others claimed that Ji Shui was actually the illegitimate son of the Fire Virtue Ancestral God. That was the only explanation for how he had managed to take the position of Human Emperor and attract so many people to curry favor with him.
Several other versions were circulating in secret throughout the Immortal Capital, but without exception, all these rumors indicated that the current Human Emperor had an unusually close relationship with Hua Tian Peak.
That was why such a large-scale gift-giving and congratulatory event had been sparked.
The rumors outside continued without end and could not be suppressed, leaving Ji Shui in the Imperial City quite troubled.
If this keeps spreading, who knows? These rumors might even keep raising my seniority!
But he could not exactly take the initiative to clarify that he was only his grand-disciple, could he?
He could not decide this matter himself. He still had to see what his teacher, the Celestial Emperor Qingfeng, intended.
The rumors could be ignored. They only circulated among low-level cultivators; the higher-ranking cultivators already knew the truth.
Otherwise, the birth of a single child to him and Empress Feng Yu would not have attracted so many congratulatory processions.
Ji Shui's original intention had been to celebrate only within the Human Race.
He had invited only the Phoenix Clan, Hua Tian Peak, and several relatively close orthodox forces within the Human Race.
Now, however, it had expanded into a grand event spanning the entire Primordial Wilderness.
Most importantly, those who had come