"Stop calling for me. I'm the Heavenly Emperor, not the Child-Rearing God. You want me to help raise your child, and for several years in heaven at that? Aren't you putting me in a difficult spot? I don't even have enough time to sleep. Haaah..." Gungun told Soaring Serpent, utterly speechless.
"You've already slept for over two hundred days. Isn't that enough?" Soaring Serpent asked Gungun.
"No."
"You..."
"Look, if you want to stay with Bai Xi while she recuperates, you can leave your daughter with the Child-Rearing God after she's born. She's a god who specializes in looking after children. She has experience," Gungun suggested to Soaring Serpent.
"Hmph! The Child-Rearing God is just a minor seventh-rank deity, with only Golden Immortal cultivation. If I let her raise my daughter, she might well ruin her!"
"Then use an incarnation yourself... wait. You don't want to stay with Bai Xi. You just don't know how to look after a child, so you're trying to find someone else to do it for you, aren't you?" Something suddenly occurred to Gungun, and he questioned Soaring Serpent.
At those words, Soaring Serpent's expression changed immediately. "Wh-what nonsense are you talking about? What kind of god do you think I, Divine Lord Soaring Serpent, am? Is there anything in this world I can't do? I just... I really don't have the time... how about this, Fat Bear? Help me out this once, and if you ever have a child and need my help, I'll definitely help you too!"
Soaring Serpent offered Gungun a bargain, but Gungun really had no interest in it.
"Haaah..." He raised a bear paw and yawned.
Seeing this, Soaring Serpent grew anxious. His child was about to be born, and he... he genuinely had no idea how to be a