Xiao Lin's latest "retreat" naturally reached the ears of the entire Xiao Household in the very first moment.
However, unlike before, everyone in the Xiao Household now knew that their patriarch was a cultivation maniac who would start a closed-door session lasting several years at the drop of a hat.
Therefore, everyone had basically gotten used to it.
Even the outside world no longer circulated rumors about Xiao Lin kicking the bucket and the like.
With the first or second time, people might still have doubted and worried.
Yet as the frequency increased, everyone grew very calm.
Consequently, after "emerging from seclusion," Xiao Lin directly dismissed the senior members of the Xiao Household who had surrounded him.
As for Nalan Jie, Mu Chen, and others who prepared to visit him, Xiao Lin informed them that he would visit them another day!
Just like that, in the end Xiao Lin only kept his own family.
"Dad, you've gone through another long 'retreat' again; you didn't even make it in time for Yan'er's birth."
A trace of grievance laced Xiao Zhan's tone.
Because only Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue, along with Yun Shan of the Misty Cloud Sect, knew that Xiao Lin's closed-door cultivation was a fake and his trip to the Central Plains Continent was the real deal, Xiao Zhan naturally spoke very cryptically at this moment.
"Can't be helped, I had to break through."
Saying this, Xiao Lin displayed his Seven-Star Battle King cultivation.
Mn, at the end of every seclusion, Xiao Lin's surface cultivation would always rise by a single star.
After finishing, Xiao Lin turned his gaze to the three children beside Yang Xiyue.
The three children—one looked already seven or eight years old, one four or five, and another visually no more than two!
Yet that mere