77: Chapter 77 He is my father

Shi Hao had now returned to his sixteen or seventeen-year-old appearance, and his cultivation had reached the Peak of Void Soaring.

The vortices in his eye sockets and chest were nearly solid, lacking only a tiny sliver.

Yet, that tiny sliver remained stubbornly unachieved.

Shi Hao seemed to understand his own predicament, exerting himself to break through time and again, but ending in failure every time.

“How can this be?”

Lin Bei couldn't quite figure it out; the Cultivation Technique given by the System was definitely an Advanced item, there was no reason it should fail.

“Could it be that the spiritual energy is insufficient?”

Thinking of this, Lin Bei waved his hand.

Instantly, hundreds of millions of Spirit Stones appeared, piled around Shi Hao's body.

The dense spiritual energy immediately became so thick it was almost solid.

Unfortunately, it still failed.

Lin Bei's brow furrowed even deeper.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration hit him, and he glanced at his Portable Space. “Could it be?”

His figure vanished and reappeared in the outside world, flying toward the outskirts of the city without a word.

Before long, Lin Bei entered a desolate, uninhabited mountain range.

With a thought, Shi Hao appeared before him.

“Revered Master?” He was clearly confused as to why Lin Bei had summoned him out.

“Sit down and Cultivate!” Lin Bei looked at him with a smile.

“Okay!” Shi Hao was an obedient child; he sat cross-legged and once again circulated the Supreme Regeneration Technique.

This time, the situation was markedly different under the current conditions where the shackles of heaven and earth had been lowered.

Almost visible to the naked eye, strands of Dao laws continuously entered his eyes and chest as Shi Hao cultivated.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

“Boom!” Two divine beams of light, one black and one white, shot out from Shi Hao's pupils, shearing off half of the mountain Peak in front of him.

His cultivation climbed further because of this, reaching the Early Stage of Spirit Refining.

Immediately after, a purple light radiated from his chest, transforming into a purple lightning hammer.

Shi Hao opened his eyes, his pair of double pupils soul-stirring and awe-inspiring.

He stood up, gripped the lightning hammer, and smashed it fiercely toward the mountain before him.

“Rumble...” The entire mountain collapsed instantly, turning into countless fragments of rock.

At the same time, Shi Hao's cultivation climbed once more thanks to the Rebirth of his Supreme Bone, making him a Middle Stage Spirit Refining Cultivator.

Damn! A cheater! They're all cheaters! Don't I, as the Revered Master, need some Face?

Lin Bei looked at his own Late Stage Void Soaring cultivation and wanted to cry but had no tears.

“Thud!” Shi Hao turned and knelt heavily before him.

“Thank you, Revered Master, for the grace of my recreation!”

Lin Bei was about to step forward to help him up when his entire body suddenly stiffened.

A woman in white, unknown since when, was already standing nearby watching the two of them.

“Teleportation! She definitely appeared through teleportation! This is a Saint!” Lin Bei thought to himself.

After the white-clothed woman appeared, she waved her hand, causing Shi Hao to stand up involuntarily.

Then she just stared at him, murmuring, “I'm sorry, I came late...”

“Could she be...” Lin Bei's heart stirred; he had some understanding regarding Shi Hao's cheap mother.

Shi Yunmeng had once been ranked as the top of the four great beauties by the Cultivators of the Eastern Wasteland.

For this woman, everyone who had seen her could only use two words to describe her: Dreamlike!

She was a mysterious person; no one knew her appearance, no one knew her age, and people weren't even sure if she was actually a member of the Shi Family.

But that didn't stop everyone from regarding her as a goddess.

Until more than ten years ago, when Shi Yunmeng inexplicably became pregnant...

During that time, it was like a massive earthquake in the Eastern Wasteland; every day, countless male Cultivators would run to the gates of the Shi Family to weep and wail!

Until later, when Shi Yunmeng mysteriously disappeared.

Thinking of this, Lin Bei gained a burst of courage, stepped forward to shield Shi Hao behind him, and shouted righteously, “You still have the Face to come back?! Do you have any idea how much this child has suffered?”

Now that half a day had passed, under the effect of Days Like Years, his System's cooldown had already ended, so he wasn't afraid of anyone!

Hmm?

The white-clothed woman was clearly taken aback. “You know me?”

Lin Bei's facial muscles twitched.

I've already acted like this, why haven't you quickly tried to kill me? What are you blabbering about?

“Shi Yunmeng, how could I not know you? You're Shi Hao's mother, aren't you?”

The woman gave Lin Bei a strange look and said something that almost made him want to die right then and there.

“You might have mistaken me! I am not Shi Yunmeng, and he is not my son!”

...

Lin Bei's eyes kept scanning the ground beneath his feet, hoping to find a crack to crawl into.

Could there be anything more embarrassing than this???

“Heh... haha... a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!” Fortunately, Lin Bei was thick-skinned enough to force a smile and break the awkward atmosphere.

“Then may I ask what the Fairy's relationship is with my Disciple?”

“He is my father!” the woman replied without a second thought.

...

If he weren't afraid that he couldn't get close, Lin Bei would have wanted to reach out and feel the masked woman's forehead.

It seemed like she was a bit mentally ill!

“The Fairy must be joking, right? My Disciple... he's only sixteen!”

The woman's attitude was firm. “He really is my father! Believe it or not!”

Oh?

Not only is her brain not right, but her attitude is also so arrogant!

Lin Bei wasn't going to indulge her; he had originally wanted to talk things through properly.

He waved his hand to pull Shi Hao back into his Portable Space, but Shi Hao suddenly spoke behind him.

“Mas... Revered Master, I indeed have a slightly familiar feeling...”

“Oh?” Since Shi Hao said so too, Lin Bei had no choice but to inquire further.

“This Fairy, may I ask how to address you?”

“Shi Qingxuan!” The woman did not have the high-and-mighty posture of many Saints; she spoke very calmly.

“Surnamed Shi?” Lin Bei was somewhat bewildered. “Then you say my Disciple is your father, so who is he?”

The white-clothed woman was silent for a long while before slowly uttering a sentence.

“He is my father, the Evil Emperor Shi Zhixuan!”

Lin Bei was left completely dumbfounded, seriously doubting if there were any mental hospitals in the Desolate Ancient Continent and if the young lady before him had escaped from one!

He didn't lash out, but instead calmed himself and smiled. “The Fairy's joke isn't funny at all. Everyone knows that the Evil Emperor underwent Ascension to the Immortal Realm tens of thousands of years ago...”

Shi Qingxuan glanced at him and, breaking her usual silence, began to explain for him.

“Back then, my father cultivated the Immortal Dao Seed Demon Great Method, which is why his conduct was both righteous and demonic. Before he ascended, he separated the Demon Embryo from his body and left it in the mortal world, ascending to the Immortal Realm with only his Immortal Body!”

“And he told me that the Demon Embryo would be born from the body of a member of the Shi Family when this Golden Great Era began, and asked me to come and guard it...”

“But I was delayed by matters and only came out of that place more than ten years late...”

This... sounded somewhat Xuanhuan. Lin Bei listened with a stunned expression, yet he couldn't help but believe it a little.

Because this was a Xuanhuan world to begin with.

Shi Hao behind him also had a conflicted expression, not knowing whether or not to believe this bizarre life story of his.

“I've said all that needs to be said. Please let me take my father away!” Shi Qingxuan said with a hint of politeness.

However, Lin Bei instantly stowed Shi Hao away with lightning speed!

“No! He is my Disciple!”