A 7-Star Dou Saint's Daily Life Raising a Child...

Dou Qi Continent, Central Plains.

Within the ancestral grounds of the Gu Clan, one of the Eight Ancient Clans.

An elderly man in a blue robe stood there, his silver hair and youthful face giving him an immortal, sage-like air. A faint smile rested on his fair features.

He had originally been meditating in a mountain residence, but for some reason, he had been feeling restless. He kept sensing that something was about to happen, leaving him unable to sit still.

Unable to continue meditating, he decided to take a walk and check on the Ancient Realm while he was at it. As one of the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan, his strength was self-evident. In an instant, he arrived outside the Ancient Realm...

"Hmm... There's basically nothing wrong with the space... Am I overthinking this?"

Just as Gu Dao began doubting himself, he suddenly heard a baby crying. There was a baby crying in the forest outside the Ancient Realm! There were quite a few magical beasts in these woods. While none were especially powerful, any one of them could easily deal with an infant. The baby might not even be enough to fill its teeth...

"Why is there a baby crying?"

Gu Dao was puzzled, but as a 7-Star Dou Saint, he did not fear such a strange occurrence. He decided to investigate...

"This..."

Gu Dao found the baby in mere moments. However, the sight before him left even one of the Gu Clan's Three Immortals utterly dumbfounded...

Why? Had anyone ever seen a human baby barely two or three months old punch a Scarlet Flame Fire Wolf with the strength of a sixth-tier magical beast clean through the air with one tiny fist? And flatten several mountains in the process?

The once-dense forest had been forcibly carved into a passage dozens of meters wide, stretching so far that its end was beyond sight! And this was only the result of the baby making one careless movement...

Gu Dao wondered what would happen if that tiny fist struck the Gu Clan's barrier...

"Oh no!"

Just as Gu Dao was lost in wild thoughts, he suddenly felt a deadly threat! Without time to think, he immediately used his strongest defensive technique. Why did he not dodge?

Because that unknown tree had flown right in front of him in the blink of an eye. There was no time!

"Boom!"

A blast comparable to the explosion of one hundred tons of TNT rang through the tranquil forest.

Where Gu Dao had been standing, a crater ten meters in radius had been blown open! Had that unknown tree not already been shattered to pieces, Gu Dao would truly have suspected that the baby had thrown some Heaven-class Dou Technique at him...

Fortunately, it was not a serious problem. A 7-Star Dou Saint's strength was no joke. He had seen worse than this. So what if he had suffered internal injuries? It was nothing. Stay calm, stay calm~

Thus, Gu Dao gracefully dusted off his blue robe and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth... After tidying himself up, he was once again the handsome, immortal-looking Gu Dao!

Time slowly passed. The baby, who had been crying for more than ten minutes, seemed to have finally cried himself tired. At last, he stopped flailing and kicking his limbs. The forest that had been bursting apart in every imaginable way... Er, it should be called flat ground now, finally fell quiet.

"Whew~ This little ancestor has finally settled down..."

When nothing else came flying toward him, Gu Dao finally let out a sigh of relief. In those ten-plus minutes, who knew what he had gone through...

It was not that he had not tried approaching the baby, but the infant seemed to know whenever he drew near. Whatever the baby grabbed, he threw. Good heavens, the power was comparable to a Heaven-class Dou Technique. Gu Dao had been forced back just to evade the relentless barrage...

"I never thought such a tiny thing could possess such terrifying strength. It seems Heaven is blessing our Gu Clan this time!"

Gu Dao finally arrived beside the baby and picked the little fellow up. His plump, fair little body had curled up, and he quietly slept with his thumb in his mouth. His chubby round face was unbelievably adorable!

Although this little thing had grabbed all sorts of strange objects, his body had not been stained by a speck of filth and remained clean and tender.

There was even a faint, sweet milky scent about him! "Little one, since we are fated to meet, I'll call you Gu Xia. From today onward, little Xiaxia, you are my, Gu Dao's, own grandson!"

For some reason, once Gu Dao held the now-quiet child, he felt a strange sense of closeness. It made him want to adopt the boy. Although he did not know why little Gu Xia had appeared here, he trusted in his own strength and luck! Perhaps he had picked up a Dou Saint grandson this time?

In high spirits, Gu Dao happily carried little Gu Xia back into the Ancient Realm...

But he did not know that what he had picked up was not a Dou Saint grandson, but an existence beyond the strongest being in this world. He did not know what kind of future this decision would bring to the Gu Clan...

One year later, at the Supreme Elder's cave residence in the Ancient Realm...

"Boom!"

A tremendous sound suddenly rang out. Even this mountain, reinforced by high-level formations, trembled violently. Then, a blue figure flew out from the rightmost of the three cave residences...

"Gu Dao, what are you messing with this time? How did you make such a huge commotion? If this weren't deep within our Gu Clan, I'd suspect an enemy attack..."

From the middle cave residence emerged an elderly man in white robes, with white hair and a white beard. Looking at Gu Dao, who was sprawled at the foot of the mountain and temporarily unable to get back up, he voiced his displeasure...

"Cough, cough, it's nothing, Gu Cheng. Just a little accident while raising a child..."

After struggling briefly, Gu Dao gave up. Sometimes, lying down was not so bad...

"Huh? Raising a child? Since when did you have a grandson?"

The white-robed elder called Gu Cheng looked utterly bewildered. The Three Immortals of the Gu Clan were famous bachelor nobles! Since when had one of them betrayed the group? And skipped having a son to go straight to a grandson...

"Oh, Xia is the child I adopted a year ago. You were all in seclusion, so it's normal that you didn't know..."

After unremitting effort, Gu Dao finally managed to sit up. However, one hand clutched his abdomen, and his expression was slightly distorted...

"A year ago? Hmm, now that you mention it, I was indeed in seclusion at the time..."

Gu Cheng thought back. It seemed that Gu Dao had indeed emerged from seclusion and gone out once a year ago...

"By the way, why did you leave seclusion instead of continuing—Watch out!"

After recovering somewhat, Gu Dao had intended to ask Gu Cheng why he had emerged from seclusion this time. But the moment he looked up, he saw an empty baby bottle flying out from behind Gu Cheng. He knew little Gu Xia's strength! If Gu Cheng was struck unprepared, getting knocked unconscious would be the least of his worries!

"Hm?"

Hearing Gu Dao's warning, Gu Cheng sensed the fierce wind behind him and immediately turned around. He wanted to see what kind of monster dared to ambush a 7-Star Dou Saint like him!

However, the instant he turned around and saw what was flying at him, he was dumbfounded. Who used a baby bottle for a sneak attack these days? And it was fucking empty!

That was Gu Cheng's final thought before he lost consciousness...

With a "duang!", the 7-Star Dou Saint was struck perfectly on the head by the baby bottle and fell stiffly backward...

"Didn't I tell you to watch out? Great, now I have one more person to take care of..."

At the foot of the mountain, Gu Dao watched Gu Cheng collapse stiffly after being hit squarely by the baby bottle. He held his forehead and sighed, lamenting how useless his teammate was...