171: Chapter 171 New Dad

"This person is named Fang Zhuo."

"With a little over a year left until the Civilization Assessment, his combat power has the potential to soar further. What do you think about changing the assessment content to two Flying Martial Artists and one Cosmic Martial Artist?"

Director Lan Feng suggested, offering his strategy.

Having just tasted the sweetness of success, he had now made up his mind to cooperate with Marquis Wuxiang with all his might, ensuring the Blue Moon Federation civilization would be downgraded.

This would allow Marquis Wuxiang to smoothly purchase seven life planets from the Blue Moon Federation!

When the time came, Marquis Wuxiang might even give him another vial of trait extraction fluid!

"No rush."

Ling Nuo said indifferently: "First, tell me more about this Fang Zhuo. Recently, my two servants died during a space exploration."

"If his talent is sufficient, I might consider taking him as a servant and bestowing an Opportunity for cultivation upon him."

"Yes."

Director Lan Feng nodded with a smile and pulled up Fang Zhuo's detailed information: "Fang Zhuo, 22 years old this year, a Level 49 Transcendent Martial Artist, with a combat power multiplier of 139.2 times."

"But a little over a year ago, his Life Level was merely a Level 15 unranked Martial Artist."

"Over this past year, he must have awakened some kind of Superior Martial Aspect that is extremely adept at cultivation. Perhaps its ranking among the myriad Martial Aspects of the Universe could be in the top three hundred, or even two hundred?"

Director Lan Feng said this, sounding somewhat uncertain: "He has never used his Martial Aspect in combat before others, so I cannot make a further assessment."

Ling Nuo did not respond.

His hand rested casually on the tabletop, his fingertips tapping against the desk from time to time, making a crisp 'da da' sound.

After a while, Ling Nuo said: "One and a half years, growing from unranked to a Level 49 Transcendent Martial Artist with a combat power multiplier of 139.2 times—this speed can be called that of a Genius."

"And he is a Genius with the outstanding Martial Aspect talent that I like."

Ling Nuo said this with a playful smile on his lips.

"Very well. Once the Blue Moon Federation is acquired, I can grant him an Opportunity for cultivation."

Director Lan Feng immediately smiled and said: "Being able to become Marquis Wuxiang's personal servant is his good fortune."

"Tell me about the geniuses at the Flying Martial Artist level of the Blue Moon Federation."

Ling Nuo waved his hand indifferently.

"Yes!"

Director Lan Feng's fingers slid across the screen, immediately bringing up the information for Jiang Chen, Takeuchi Reina, and Wang Jinhua.

"Marquis Wuxiang, currently, these three are the strongest geniuses at the Flying Martial Artist level in the Blue Moon Federation."

Ling Nuo looked at the screen, his gaze sweeping over the three individuals' information, looking somewhat surprised: "The highest combat power multiplier is only 355.2 times?"

"Correct. Only this one named Jiang Chen barely qualifies as a Genius of a Level 2 civilization."

Director Lan Feng smiled as he looked at Ling Nuo, explaining: "A hundred years after martial arts rose in the Blue Moon Federation, when they were first graded according to the Universal Convention, they relied entirely on that first generation of Cosmic Martial Artists to carry the banner, barely passing the grading assessment to become a Level 2 civilization."

"Over these years, the potential of their geniuses has actually never been quite enough."

Ling Nuo smiled and made the decision: "That's fine. For this Civilization Assessment for the Blue Moon Federation, change it to an assessment system of two Flying Martial Artists and one Cosmic Martial Artist."

Although in his view, even with a system of one Transcendent, one Flying, and one Cosmic Martial Artist, the Blue Moon Federation would likely lose the last two matches anyway.

Even if the Transcendent Genius named Fang Zhuo won one match, it would not affect the outcome.

But since there is a safer plan, why not use it?

Remove the Transcendent battle, avoid Fang Zhuo, and let the Blue Moon Federation's most hopeful match disappear directly from the assessment rules.

In a double Flying Martial Artist battle, the opponent doesn't even have a Genius with a combat power multiplier over 400 times, so what would they use to win?

Ling Nuo could already imagine how desperate the high-level officials of the Blue Moon Federation, those Cosmic Martial Artists, would be upon hearing about the changes to the assessment content.

How truly cruel...!

"Very well, I will arrange for people to go through the process of changing it and re-announce the assessment content for the Blue Moon Federation to the public."

Director Lan Feng patted his chest and agreed.

After summoning his subordinates and giving orders to get things done, he smiled flatteringly at Ling Nuo: "I would like to congratulate Marquis Wuxiang in advance on purchasing seven life planets from the Blue Moon Federation and gaining a Genius servant Martial Artist!"

"It's still early."

Ling Nuo smiled, not at all repulsed by the flattery of this Civilization Administration Director.

Originally, while on a space adventure, he had accidentally encountered the Blue Moon Federation and discovered seven life planets that hadn't been developed much. If he could successfully acquire them this time, it would be a huge profit!

He hadn't expected to also get a decent Genius as a bonus!

It was perfect, and he was a blade user too. Hmm, he had recently created two sets of blade technique Secret Manuals; he could throw them to him later to test their effects.

"Marquis Wuxiang, in a year's time, shall I accompany you and the Civilization Assessment team on a trip to the Blue Moon Federation?"

Director Lan Feng saw that Ling Nuo was in a good mood and tried to get a little closer in his speech.

"Very well."

Ling Nuo nodded indifferently: "In one year, I will come to find you."

...

Seven days later.

Xinyue City, a villa next to the New Moon Group headquarters.

"Come on, good son, good baby, take another sip."

Inside the bedroom, Fang Zhuo transformed into a super dad, holding a small baby bottle in his large palm, feeding his son, Fang Zhibai.

Fang Zhuo felt a bit helpless.

The little guy was seven days old, but his little mouth was very picky. He wouldn't drink breast milk, and they had changed several types of formula before finding one he would barely drink.

Meanwhile, to the side.

Bai Shiwei was holding their daughter, Fang Yue, and feeding her breast milk: "Little Yue is such a good girl."

Fang Yue kept smacking her little lips, her two chubby little hands half-clenched, waving in the air from time to time, looking very happy.

Seeing this, a kind smile appeared on Bai Shiwei's face, but when she glanced at her husband and son beside her, her face couldn't help but fall again.

"Fang Zhuo, what do you think is going on?"

"I don't know."

Fang Zhuo spread his hands: "Maybe this kid has a stubborn personality?"

"How about I intimidate him a little?"

Bai Shiwei frowned slightly, also at a loss. Hearing her husband say this, she subconsciously felt it was a bad idea, but she hadn't figured out how to say it yet.

Fang Zhuo had already raised his hand: "Fang Zhibai, if you don't drink your milk properly, I'm going to deal with you."

"Iya~~ Wuwu~~"

Fang Zhibai lay on the crib, limbs splayed, and started crying loudly.

"What's going on?"

"Little baby, oh my, Grandma is here to hold you, don't cry, don't cry."

Li Ru rushed in first. She scooped the chubby Fang Zhibai into her arms and gently rocked him back and forth.

Xu Xue followed closely behind, looked at the hand Fang Zhuo had raised in the air, and couldn't help but laugh.

She didn't want to scold Fang Zhuo, so she just walked over to Bai Shiwei's side and glared at her daughter.

Bai Shiwei said aggrievedly: "Mom, you can't blame me for this!"

Li Ru coaxed her grandson for a while, and seeing that Fang Zhibai had stopped crying, she turned to look at Fang Zhuo: "Fang Zhuo! The child is only seven days old, how can you be fierce with him at this time?"

Li Ru felt that Fang Zhuo wasn't acting like a proper father.

"Mom... I wasn't being fierce, I just used a stricter tone."

At this moment, Fang Zhibai, lying in the crib, was drinking under Li Ru's feeding, smacking his little lips continuously, his two little hands waving about.

"See, you need to have patience when coaxing a child."

Li Ru proudly tilted her head: "You go out. I can see your heart isn't in raising the baby anyway. Go and focus on your cultivation."

Upon hearing this, Xu Xue came over to smooth things over: "Haha, Fang Zhuo and Shi Wei are still too young after all; it's normal for them to lack experience. Fang Zhuo must have a heavy burden at the Starry Sky Group, so he should prioritize his cultivation."

"Little Baibai, how about Grandma feeds you for a while?"

Exactly...! Fang Zhuo thought his mother-in-law's words were reasonable. Before leaving, he walked over to Bai Shiwei, took one look at his well-behaved daughter, and then left the room, satisfied.

Phew, raising a baby or whatever is just too agonizing! Cultivation is much more suitable for him!