"Mother, Mother?"
Li Xuan froze for a moment.
And while he stood there in a daze,
the little child had already rushed up to him, grabbed the edge of a petal on the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform, and climbed aboard.
His tender, pale arms wrapped around Li Xuan as he giggled and cried, "Mother!"
"Uh..."
Li Xuan was at a loss for words.
There was a saying about winged creatures.
The first living being they saw when they opened their eyes after birth
would subtly come to be regarded as their mother.
He hadn't expected that this was actually true.
He'd always thought it was just a rumor!
As he watched the exquisitely adorable little fellow cling to his waist and squirm,
Li Xuan could only sigh helplessly and pick him up.
"Mother!"
The little fellow didn't get upset when Li Xuan lifted him. He just giggled.
His big, dark eyes gazed at Li Xuan as he called in a babyish voice, "Hug!"
"Hug my foot... I'm a man..."
Li Xuan rolled his eyes, but couldn't bring himself to say anything more.
He could only sigh again and set the little fellow on his crossed legs.
Looking down at him, he said seriously, "Listen carefully. You're not allowed to call me Mother."
"Father!?"
The little fellow was quick-witted. His eyes darted about,
and he giggled as he called out.
In his inherited memories,
the meanings of "mother" and "father" were probably about the same.
Li Xuan was still speechless—and now even more so...
"I'd love to spend a night with Divine Phoenix and become your father..."
Thinking of the peerless beauty he'd seen that day on Phoenix Mountain, Li Xuan's mouth curled into a grin as he muttered to himself.
Then he put on a stern face and looked at the little fellow. "I'm not your father, either. Don't call me that."
The little fellow froze.
He looked at Li Xuan, his dark eyes quickly filling with tears.
Sobbing, he asked, "Father, you don't want me anymore?"
"Uh..."
Speechless. Utterly speechless...
"Father! You don't want me anymore!?"
When Li Xuan didn't answer, he cried out again.
The little fellow's tears immediately began streaming down his face.
Li Xuan felt as though he were committing some terrible crime.
"Who said I didn't want you?"
Helpless, Li Xuan wiped away his tears and sighed. "Fine, I'll be your father. You've already made up your mind, and there's nothing I can say to change it. But once you're grown up, you should understand everything."
"Father!"
The little fellow was overjoyed.
He didn't understand what Li Xuan meant yet.
He'd only heard that Li Xuan wouldn't abandon him.
And that Li Xuan had admitted to being his father!
With a cheer, the little fellow jumped up and wrapped his arms around Li Xuan's waist, utterly delighted.
"Ah..."
Li Xuan sighed deeply and stroked the little fellow's hair.
Then, after thinking it over, he said, "From now on, you'll be called Li... Ah, what am I doing, changing your name for no reason? From now on, you'll be called Kong Xuan!"
"Kong Xuan? My name is Kong Xuan?"
Little Kong Xuan looked up at Li Xuan, his face full of joy. "I have a name now! My name is Kong Xuan!"
"Mm."
Li Xuan smiled too and ruffled his hair. "All right. You've only just taken human form, and your body is still unstable. Go cultivate. I won't teach you any techniques; the cultivation method you inherited from Divine Phoenix is enough."
Kong Xuan was still young and didn't understand much.
Hearing Li Xuan's words, he obediently let go and sat down beside him.
The Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform was quite large and could change size at will.
So there was no problem with one more little fellow sitting on it.
As the direct offspring of Yuanfeng and Divine Phoenix,
he carried both their inheritances in his blood.
This was true of most Primordial Beings.
So Kong Xuan only sat down to meditate for a little while
before finding the cultivation method his parents had left in his bloodline.
Before long, he closed his eyes and entered meditation.
His small figure began to radiate a faint, five-colored light.
The Five Elements Great Dao and Innate Divine Ability hidden deep within his flesh and blood
would surely be gradually awakened by him in the future.
Until...
he was invincible beneath the Sages!
"Tsk, the chosen one. That talent, those bones, that comprehension... I'm jealous..."
Li Xuan watched the little fellow close his eyes and enter meditation with an innocent smile. A trace of envy crossed his mind, and he muttered to himself.
How long had it taken him to reach the Mystic Immortal realm?
Two hundred and eighty thousand years!
And this young master?
He'd reached it the moment he was born!
Comparing people... No.
Comparing people and demons was enough to make anyone die of envy!
Li Xuan sighed and turned his gaze toward the other golden egg.
The egg was lacking in innate potential.
Divine Phoenix had risked her life and cut it from her own womb.
That was why it was so small.
So it would inevitably take much longer to hatch than Kong Xuan.
As for how long, that was hard to say.
After all, time in the Primordial Wilderness was hard to measure.
From the perspective of later generations, the events of the Primordial Wilderness seemed to have happened one right after the other.
But in reality, they could have been separated by tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years!
Some living beings seemed to have belonged to the same era to those who came later.
In reality, they might have lived several epochs apart.
Thinking this over,
Li Xuan slowly closed his eyes again and continued to cultivate.
If his talent was lacking, then he had to work harder!
Li Xuan, who had become a father without warning, let out a breath. All around him was quiet.
Time flowed on, who knew how long.
Li Xuan was startled awake by the sound of laughter and playful shouting.
Frowning slightly, he opened his eyes.
He made a quick calculation.
More than sixteen thousand years had passed since he'd last entered meditation.
His cultivation hadn't advanced; he was still an Eighth Level Golden Immortal.
But he should be close to reaching the next level.
Looking into the distance, a thousand li below Mount Taixuan,
he saw a child playing exuberantly with Little Purple, Little Blue, and Bright Rabbit.
Qi Ying sat cross-legged some distance away. Though envy showed in his eyes,
he stubbornly kept a proud look on his face and refused to join them, determined to stand apart.
The child was naturally Kong Xuan.
Over the past ten thousand years, Kong Xuan's cultivation had advanced straight past the Mystic Immortal realm.
And at some point, he had passed the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and entered the ranks of the Golden Immortals!
He was now an Eighth Level Golden Immortal!
It seemed that while Li Xuan was meditating, the little brat had worried about disturbing him
and sneaked outside Mount Taixuan to undergo his tribulation.
Over the past ten thousand years, Kong Xuan had grown a little.
He now looked like a boy of eleven or twelve.
The offspring of beings like Yuanfeng and Divine Phoenix
naturally had an extremely long growth period.
But there was certainly no shortage of time in the Primordial Wilderness.
Li Xuan watched them play and smiled faintly.
Little Purple, Little Blue, and Bright Rabbit had already adored the sweet little boy.
On top of that, the boy had said that the person at the mountaintop was his father!
How could they not do their best to curry favor with him?
And most importantly,
the little boy possessed an incredibly powerful bloodline.
It was an aura of superiority powerful enough to inspire genuine respect and awe in all three of them!
Qi Ying alone carried the pride of the Kirin in his bones and refused to deliberately curry favor.
Besides, his own bloodline was not suppressed very much, so he didn't join in their games.
After more than twenty thousand years, Little Purple, Little Blue, Bright Rabbit, and Qi Ying
had all absorbed the power of Qiongqi Blood Essence. Their cultivation had now reached the peak of the Golden Immortal realm.
It looked as if they would soon break through to Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
After marveling at how quickly time passed, Li Xuan closed his eyes again.
Time flowed peacefully at Mount Taixuan, like water.
But across the Primordial Wilderness, a new tribulation was beginning to take shape.
Over the past twenty thousand years,
the living beings of the Primordial Wilderness had gradually begun to multiply again.
New waves of powerful innate beings were being nurtured by heaven and earth.
At the same time, on Mount Sumeru in the West, Luohu established the Demon Cult!
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