Lin Xuan spent a full hour bathing his four daughters.
Seeing the little girls looking so fresh and sweet, Lin Xuan could hardly resist giving each of them a bite.
Just then, a servant came over and said, "Princesses, it's time for bed."
Xuanzhu gazed at Lin Xuan reluctantly. "Daddy, I want you to sleep with me."
"Me too!" Xuanxi threw herself at him.
"I want Daddy to sleep with me too!" Xuanhan went over and hugged Lin Xuan's leg.
"Me too! Me too!" Xuanyou kept jumping up and down, afraid Lin Xuan might not see her.
Seeing how eager all four children were, Lin Xuan had no choice but to say:
"How about you all sleep in Daddy's room?"
Luckily, his bed was big enough. With the four little girls, there was still plenty of room.
"Okay!!"
The four little girls danced with joy.
The servant hurriedly said, "Emperor Consort, the princesses are still young. They may not be very well-behaved when they sleep. If they disturb you..."
Lin Xuan interrupted her. "It's fine. I have my own way of handling it."
If he couldn't even get the children to sleep, how could he possibly deserve the title of Perfect Dad?
The servant still feared the children might disturb Lin Xuan, but he said no more, so she didn't dare interrupt again.
Then Lin Xuan took the four little girls to his room.
One by one, he carried them onto the bed.
Before long, the four girls were lying in a row, all gazing at Lin Xuan with wide eyes.
"Daddy will tell you a lovely story, and then you'll go to sleep, okay?" Lin Xuan knew what the girls were thinking.
He had heard from the servants that Donghuang Ziyou sometimes told the children bedtime stories.
But judging by the calendar, she hadn't done so in at least half a year.
The children had actually been looking forward to hearing a story before bed.
Fortunately, the tutorial inside Lin Xuan contained countless children's stories.
Handling his four daughters was as easy as could be.
"Okay!" The little girls were both excited and eager.
"The story Daddy's going to tell is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
At Lin Xuan's words, all four little girls' eyes sparkled.
They had never heard such a novel story before.
That one sentence alone had whetted their appetites.
Seeing their reaction, Lin Xuan smiled to himself. It seemed this story really did have a special appeal for children.
"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful little girl named Snow White."
"But she had a very wicked stepmother..."
Lin Xuan began to tell them the story, unhurriedly.
With the Perfect Dad Tutorial, he knew exactly how to tell a story, keeping the children's hearts in suspense every step of the way.
Before they knew it, the four little girls were listening in rapt attention, gradually becoming absorbed in the story, and then falling asleep.
Seeing them all asleep, Lin Xuan felt incomparably happy.
Those four chubby, adorable little faces sleeping beside him—nothing could be more blissful!
"Hmm?"
Lin Xuan suddenly furrowed his brow.
With his Rakshasa Divine Sense, he could keep watch over everything around him at any time.
He sensed an indescribably strange and sinister power secretly probing the entire Crystal Palace.
"Could someone be trying to harm the children?"
The Crystal Palace was where Xuanzhu and her three sisters lived.
Lin Xuan couldn't help suspecting that the other party was after his four daughters.
"If you want to hurt my daughters, you'll have to get past me first!"
With a thought, Lin Xuan released his divine sense completely.
Whoosh—
An invisible ripple burst through the air.
The terrifying divine sense of an Ancient Titan pressed down with the weight of a hundred mountains.
The instant it came into contact with the blood-baleful power of the Bloodthirsty Devil Lord, it crashed into it like a primordial beast and shattered it to pieces.
"Hiss!"
Billions of miles away, Ye You, the Bloodthirsty Devil Lord, shuddered violently and nearly fell backward.
"What terrifying spiritual power!"
Ye You's right hand began to tremble despite himself.
He had cultivated for ten thousand years and attained the Emperor Realm.
The Wushi Devil Art he practiced was an art of the forbidden tier, too.
At the pinnacle of mastery, the blood-baleful power it unleashed was terrifyingly potent.
Although the distance prevented him from bringing that power to its full strength,
it still wasn't something that could be shattered easily!
Yet he hadn't expected the divine sense he had accidentally encountered just now to be so vast and boundless, as if it came from primordial times.
That was definitely not the divine sense of someone in the Emperor Realm. It was likely from the Sacred Realm, a realm even higher than the Emperor Realm!
"How could there be a Great Sage in Northern Profound Heaven?"
Ye You's gaze brimmed with wariness.
If there really was a Great Sage in the imperial palace of Northern Profound Heaven, his plan to return this time would be ruined completely.
A single Great Sage was worth a hundred Emperor Realm experts!
If he, Ye You, ran into a Great Sage, he would be nothing but cannon fodder!
"Zheng Song, send intelligence operatives into Northern Profound Heaven immediately. Find out who just attacked me." Ye You's expression was grave.
Zheng Song realized how serious the situation was and hurriedly replied, "Understood!"
The main hall of the Profound Ice Palace was ablaze with light.
Donghuang Ziyou was making final preparations to attack the Ten Thousand Devil Kingdom.
Ruoying emerged from the darkness and said, "Your Majesty, it's late. You should rest."
Donghuang Ziyou shook her head. "The important business isn't finished. How could I be in the mood to sleep?"
Once someone reached the Emperor Realm, they had already transcended the ordinary. Even going a whole year without sleep was no problem.
When people at this level rested, it was mostly to regulate their breathing and nourish their energy and mind.
But long hours of work without rest could still harm their vital energy and spirit.
After all, the Emperor Realm did not mean one had truly transcended life and death like an immortal.
However, for a strong-willed woman like Donghuang Ziyou, getting things done was what mattered most.
As long as the matter of the Ten Thousand Devil Kingdom remained unresolved, she would rather stay up all night.
Ruoying nodded. Donghuang Ziyou always meant what she said; no one could talk her out of it.
Setting down the glass wolf-hair brush in her hand, Donghuang Ziyou said:
"By the way, are Lin Xuan and the children doing all right?"
Donghuang Ziyou worried that even though Lin Xuan had come here, he was still a novice father who didn't know what he was doing.
Looking after four children all at once was bound to take some getting used to.
Ruoying said, "I just asked the servants at the Crystal Palace. They said the Emperor Consort and the children are getting along very well."
"The Emperor Consort made them a delicious meal, bathed them, and put them to bed."
"From the looks of it, the Emperor Consort was born to be good with children."
Donghuang Ziyou raised an eyebrow, a playful smile appearing at the corner of her mouth. "He can cook? And bathe the children?"
"Yes!" Ruoying smiled. "The servants saw it with their own eyes."
Donghuang Ziyou gave a slight nod.
It seemed that although this man was ordinary, he did have some good qualities.
It wasn't easy to become so close to all four daughters in such a short time.
"Looks like my children will soon forget all about their mother."
Donghuang Ziyou suddenly felt a twinge of jealousy.
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