Invincible Dad-Chapter 580: Immortal Scripture?_1

The golden light wasn’t dazzling.

If one looked closely, they could see it was the light emitted by a wriggling script formed from Cloud Water Rust.

Taotie, the First Divine General, widened his eyes, trying to make sense of the inscriptions. But in the next moment, darkness filled his vision. He couldn’t see anything clearly, and a sense of endless foreboding flickered in his heart. Taotie had an inexplicable premonition that these Cloud Water Rust inscriptions foretold a great disaster.

Once a cultivator reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm, their senses became incredibly sharp. Taotie quickly closed his eyes, and the dizziness and ominous feeling in his heart slowly faded.

Xu Lai frowned.

However, unlike Taotie’s dizziness, a series of solemn and majestic sounds of the Great Dao echoed in Xu Lai’s mind. But this wasn’t just one sound; there were tens, hundreds, even thousands of them.

As Xu Lai’s gaze fell upon the Cloud Water Rust on the Demon Sword, the Dao sounds in his mind grew denser, causing his Boundary to show faint signs of collapsing.

How could this be the holy and pure sound of the Dao? This is clearly a demonic sound!

Xu Lai persisted for another moment but didn’t force himself to keep looking. Instead, he closed his eyes and gave up. The sounds in his mind immediately ceased, disappearing calmly.

Xu Lai sighed with regret.

The ancient texts recorded that Cloud Water Rust was an Immortal Scripture written by Immortals. It was so named because its form resembled script written in blood upon the clouds and the surface of the water. But in the records of the Immortal Domain’s one hundred epochs, no one had ever truly unraveled the secrets of Cloud Water Rust.

To be more precise, among the one hundred Emperors in the Immortal Domain’s history, the Great Emperors who had found Cloud Water Rust were few and far between. Even those few had, at most, found a piece no larger than a baby’s palm.

But the Cloud Water Rust that Xu Lai had found was large enough to cover the entire sword!

Are the Immortal Scriptures really just a legend? Xu Lai thought with regret.

"Xu Lai, time for dinner... Hm?" Ruan Tang came into the backyard, her attention drawn by the golden light in the sky.

"Honey, don’t look!"

Xu Lai’s pupils contracted. He swiftly moved in front of Ruan Tang to block her eyes, but she gently pushed his hand away.

Ruan Tang asked, "Xu Lai, what do those earthworm-like characters mean?"

Xu Lai was taken aback. "You can see them?"

Ruan Tang frowned. "Can’t you all see them?"

Xu Lai was stunned into silence. In the time it took for him to recover, the golden light faded away. The Demon Sword, Mojian Wuzheng, which resembled a piece of ’Scrap Iron’, fell from the sky and landed in front of him.

He didn’t look at the Demon Sword. Instead, he turned to his wife in concern. "Honey, how do you feel? Is there any discomfort? Let me check."

"I’m fine." Ruan Tang tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear and spoke softly, "Are those peculiar runes important to you?"

"Not as important as you are," Xu Lai said seriously, grabbing Ruan Tang’s hand to carefully sense her condition. After a minute, he finally let out a long sigh of relief. Her body appeared to be perfectly fine.

"Let go, everyone is watching," Ruan Tang chided.

Xu Lai glanced around and saw Taotie sneaking a peek from a few steps away, his eyes filled with admiration for his master’s wife.

Meanwhile, Ruan Lan was muttering in the living room. Do I really have to watch this public display of affection? What did a single person like me ever do to deserve this?

"Auntie, have some meat."

Ruan Lan fell silent.

"If only that light had lasted a few more minutes. I didn’t get a good look," Ruan Tang said with a hint of regret.

Xu Lai couldn’t help but smile wryly. Even he had been unable to see the script clearly, so it was remarkable that Ruan Tang, a mortal, could.

Ruan Tang pondered for a moment. She went back into the living room and quickly returned, spreading sheets of paper on the courtyard tea table. Biting the tip of her pen, she thought for a moment before her hand moved.

But she wasn’t writing. The marks she made were neither Chinese characters nor the script of any other country; it was more like she was drawing.

Glancing over, Taotie felt his scalp prickle in shock. Could it be the Immortal Scripture?

Xu Lai was also stunned. He sent a Divine Sense transmission to Taotie, "Silence." Then, he focused his full attention on the paper.

Ruan Tang drew for a full four hours, late into the night, yet there were only thirty-six symbols on the paper when she finished.

"These are all of them," Ruan Tang said apologetically. "I didn’t have much time to look, so my drawing was a bit slow."

"Thirty-six symbols!"

Xu Lai’s pupils contracted. He had never expected that his wife could remember all the symbols after seeing them for only a few seconds.

Ruan Tang stretched. She looked at the time and gasped, "It’s half past eleven at night..."

She subconsciously touched her rumbling stomach and looked at Xu Lai, her gaze tender, her meaning clear without words.

"Alright, you go take a shower. I’ll make you a late-night snack."

"Thank you, honey."

Ruan Tang stood on her tiptoes and kissed Xu Lai on the cheek.

Taotie very sensibly shifted his gaze away. Only after Ruan Tang had departed with graceful steps did he carefully ask, "The Supreme Emperor, our Mistress... she really has no Boundary?"

It was no wonder Taotie asked this.

A Quasi-Emperor at the Fifth Heaven would feel an ominous premonition after just a glance. An expert in the Emperor Realm would nearly suffer a drop in their Boundary. Yet Ruan Tang, who refused to cultivate, had managed to write down the script from the Cloud Water Rust after only a momentary glimpse.

Faced with the First Divine General’s question, Xu Lai remained silent.

By all common sense, an ordinary person could never bear an offspring with the blood of an Emperor Realm expert flowing in their veins. An ordinary person could not possibly resonate with the Emperor Qingfeng Scripture on their first attempt as naturally as breathing. Even his own daughter, Xu Yiyi, had stumbled a little while cultivating the Emperor Qingfeng Scripture.

All these impossibilities had become possible with Ruan Tang.

Perhaps this is destiny, Xu Lai thought, then said calmly, "She and I are a fated couple."

Taotie seemed to want to speak but stopped himself.

Xu Lai prompted him, "If you have something to say, feel free to say it."

Bracing himself, Taotie said, "I seem to recall you saying the same thing about Fairy Qing Yuan..."

Xu Lai extended his foot.

A moment later, Taotie turned into a streak of light and shot into the distance, his aggrieved shout faintly echoing back, "The Supreme Emperor, you told me to speak!!!"

Brainless brute, Xu Lai thought irritably. Doesn’t that big fool know what should and shouldn’t be said?

Xu Lai made a copy of the script on the tea table and stored it in his Storage Space before entering the kitchen to make a late-night snack for Ruan Tang.

「Half an hour later.」

Ruan Lan and Yiyi had long since fallen asleep.

Xu Lai had no appetite. He simply sat and watched Ruan Tang, making her feel quite uncomfortable under his gaze.

Ruan Tang put down her chopsticks and said helplessly, "Xu Lai, why are you watching me like that?"

"Am I?"

"Yes." Ruan Tang nodded. Being quick-witted, she said with resignation, "I understand. You want to know why I could see the script in the golden light."

Xu Lai began guiltily, "Honey, I..."

"You don’t need to apologize," Ruan Tang said seriously. "I don’t know why I could see them clearly either. I just wanted to call you for dinner. By the way, can you figure out what those symbols mean? I’m a bit curious."

"I’ll do my best." Xu Lai rubbed the spot between his eyebrows. The Cloud Water Rust was the Immortal Scripture, after all. No one in the Emperor Realm had ever studied it before, let alone deciphered it.

"Mhm, okay." Ruan Tang picked up her chopsticks, offered a piece of pork rib to Xu Lai, and said gently, "There shouldn’t be suspicion or secrecy between a husband and wife. Next time you have something on your mind, just ask me directly. It’s creepy the way you keep staring at me."

"Actually, there is one more thing I want to ask you now."