Dad, this lotus leaf is for your cushion!

The door, which had been kicked open countless times, was once again blasted open.

"Daddy! I'm home!"

Xiruan's clear, childish voice echoed through the vast palace.

Hongjun's prohibition was broken, and the palace returned to its original state.

Master Tongtian didn't even lift an eyelid, merely murmuring a faint "Mm."

He had already prepared himself mentally.

She probably just stole some broken junk again, right?

Was it the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, or Jieyin's treasure banner?

Whatever, the Zixiao Palace was big enough. She could just toss it in any corner.

However, his already smoothed Dao heart twitched violently once more.

Xiruan ran up to him and pulled out a golden, glittering lotus leaf with teeth marks on it...

"Daddy! Look!"

She shoved the lotus leaf under Master Tongtian's backside.

( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ...

"This is a new cushion I got you from that biggest golden house!"

"Try sitting on it! Isn't it much more comfortable than this hard, broken meditation cushion?"

Master Tongtian: "..."

He looked down at his own backside, contemplating what to say.

For example: Daughter, this thing isn't a cushion. If you put it under your butt, that old geezer Jieyin will go mad.

Or perhaps: Daughter, this thing isn't a cookie either. Can you stop putting everything in your mouth next time?

But the words got stuck in his throat, and he swallowed them back.

Forget it.

He was tired.

Whatever happens, happens.

He silently adjusted his posture, feeling the gentle, soft power emanating from beneath him. Strangely, he found it quite comfortable.

Mm...

You know what?

It really was quite comfortable.

Seeing her father happily accept her gift, Xiruan was overjoyed.

She felt her mission this time was a complete success!

Not only did she teach the bad guy a lesson and avenge the older auntie, but she also brought Daddy such a comfortable new cushion!

She was simply the most filial daughter in the Primal Wilderness!

"Daddy, you sit here first. I'm going to see that older auntie."

Xiruan said as she ran to the palace entrance.

Wudang Holy Mother was still kneeling outside the door, afraid to come in.

The Zixiao Palace was a place of cultivation for a senior. Without an invitation, she would never dare to enter.

"Older auntie, why are you still kneeling? Come in quickly!" Xiruan waved at her.

"Disciple... Disciple dares not..."

"Oh, what's there to dare not! Come in quickly!" Xiruan, without further ado, pulled Wudang Holy Mother into the palace.

Wudang Holy Mother was half-pushed, half-pulled into the Dao Ancestor's dojo.

As soon as she entered, her gaze fell upon the Daoist in the green robe sitting cross-legged.

Upon seeing that familiar yet weathered face, Wudang Holy Mother's tears began to flow.

"Master... Master!"

She knelt on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably before Master Tongtian.

"Disciple Wudang... pays respects to Master! May Master be well!"

"Master?"

Xiruan looked at the older auntie crying with a snotty nose and tears streaming down her face, a question mark slowly forming in her little head.

Why is this older auntie calling my daddy Master?

Could it be...

She's my daddy's disciple?

Xiruan's eyes lit up. An apprentice was basically an employee.

So, this old auntie was also an employee of our family?

Great!

Our family finally had more than just Father, the one-man army!

Master Tongtian stared at Wudang Holy Mother, who was kneeling before him, stunned.

"You... you are... Wudang?"

His voice was uncertain.

"It is your disciple! Master! It is your disciple Wudang!"

Wudang Holy Mother raised her head, tears streaming down her face, her voice choked with emotion.

"Disciple... Disciple has finally seen you again!"

Ever since the Battle of the Gods, when the Myriad Immortals Array was broken, she had led some disciples to retreat under her master's orders and had never seen her master again.

Ten thousand years had passed, and she thought she would never see him again in this lifetime.

But she never expected to see his divine countenance in Zixiao Palace today!

In that moment, endless grievances, longing, excitement, and ecstasy... all sorts of emotions intertwined, causing her, a quasi-saint powerful being who had already severed her three corpses, to weep like a child.

Master Tongtian looked at his only remaining direct disciple, and an indescribable bitterness and guilt surged in his heart.

It was his fault for not protecting his disciples.

It was his fault for shaming the Intercepting Sect and leaving his disciples displaced.

"Good... good child, get up quickly."

He sighed, his voice hoarse, and said, "It was your master... who was incompetent."

"No! Master is not incompetent!" Wudang Holy Mother looked up at Tongtian with burning eyes, filled with immense fervor and reverence.

"Master was far-sighted and his plans were flawless! Although you were imprisoned, you had already laid down an earth-shattering contingency plan!"

As she spoke, she excitedly pointed at Xiruan.

"Look! This senior... she... she single-handedly turned the Three Realms upside down, defeating several Saints, and brought immense honor back to our Intercepting Sect!"

"With her here, why should our Intercepting Sect not be revived? Why should we not recreate the grand scene of ten thousand immortals paying homage?!"

Master Tongtian: "..."

Xiruan was holding her milk bottle and Mi Mi, with a face that said, "What are you guys talking about? I don't understand?"

Tongtian's mouth twitched uncontrollably.

Contingency plan?

Earth-shattering contingency plan?

Daughter, listen, listen to how people are praising you.

But why does it make me, your father, feel so uneasy?

"Cough cough." Master Tongtian coughed twice, deciding to change the subject quickly.

"How have you been all these years? What about the other disciples? Are they all well?"

Upon hearing this question, the excitement on Wudang Holy Mother's face instantly faded, and her eyes became sad and dim.

She lowered her head, her voice filled with grief, "Reporting to Master, this disciple is incompetent and failed to protect my fellow disciples."

"The disciples who retreated back then, under years of hiding and the pursuit of the Western Religious Sect, have... have become very few."

"And even more fellow disciples, their true spirits are trapped on the Investiture of the Gods, unable to control themselves, enslaved by the Heavenly Court day and night, with no hope of release."

"Even more, they didn't even qualify to be on the Investiture of the Gods. After their souls were scattered, their remaining true spirits were cast into the Nine Netherworld, trapped in the cycle of reincarnation, unable to be reborn, and suffering the torment of boundless karmic fire day and night!"

With each word she spoke, Master Tongtian's heart sank a little further.

"The underworld..."

He muttered to himself, a cold killing intent flashing in his eyes.

Xiruan, who had been eavesdropping with her ears perked up, tried to process this information with her little head.

Investiture of the Gods? Didn't understand.

Enslaved by the Heavenly Court? She understood this! Wasn't it just being captured by that bad village bully Haotian to work as a laborer!

Nine Netherworld? She understood this too! It was the place people went after they died!

Trapped in the cycle of reincarnation, unable to be reborn?

Xiruan remembered!

Old Uncle Li from the village had said: people die and are supposed to reincarnate and become human again!

Now, after these employees of Father died, they weren't allowed to reincarnate?!

And they were being held in that place called the underworld to continue working?!

And it's being burned by fire day and night?!

This... this is even crueler than Zhou Bapi!

This is simply unbearable labor exploitation! Inhuman illegal detention!

"What?!"

Xiruan jumped up with a "swish," her little face flushed red with anger.

"Dead and still being held back to work? Not even allowed to reincarnate?"

"Is that place called the Underworld also here to collect debts from our family?!"

"Why are they holding our family members and not letting them go?!"

"Even the Underworld owes my dad money?!"

From the Dao Ancestor in the heavens, to the village bullies of the Heavenly Court, to the baldies in the West, and now even the Underworld beneath the earth is bullying her honest and hardworking father!

This is simply unbearable!

"No way!"

"We have to go get this straightened out!" She didn't even want her milk anymore, slinging her milk bottle over her shoulder and leaving.

"Let's go! Auntie! We're going to check out this so-called Underworld right now!"

"I want to see which blind fool dares to hold my dad's people and not let them go!"

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