Invincible Dad-Chapter 594 I Must Have Disappointed Her_1

Xu Lai rambled on with his story.

Ruan Tang listened intently at first, but she grew increasingly drowsy and soon fell fast asleep in Xu Lai's arms.

Under the moonlight, Xu Lai gently stroked Ruan Tang's hair, his eyes brimming with love. "The peach grove has no fairy, but I have one right here by my side."

Xu Lai leaned down and kissed Ruan Tang on the forehead.

"The Supreme Emperor," a divine sense flickered. It was Divine General Taotie, who was not near Mount Haitang.

Taotie sounded somewhat uneasy. "Princess Yiyi has left Earth. Should I follow and protect her?"

"No need," Xu Lai replied calmly. "You focus on what you're doing."

Whether it was Ruan Lan, Qian Xiao, or even his and Ruan Tang's own daughter, Xu Yiyi, they all needed to be tempered by the trials of life and death. Chang'an City was a very suitable place for that, especially today's Chang'an City, which was destined to be anything but peaceful.

"The Supreme Emperor, I feel I must go." Divine General Taotie's voice lacked conviction and even carried a hint of nervousness. "Yiyi is a princess of the Heavenly Court, your only child. If she were to be injured on the Moon, the consequences would be dire!"

"She has already achieved the Golden Core and has enough power to protect herself."

"The Supreme Emperor, there are descendants of the Emperor Realm on Earth and even powerful beings at the Nine Heavens of the Quasi-Emperor lying in slumber. What if there are similar ones on the Moon?" Taotie said anxiously. "I request your permission to protect the Princess!"

Xu Lai was rendered speechless for a moment. "Do you think descendants of the Emperor Realm are as common as cabbages, with one on every star?" he transmitted via divine sense. "Your task right now is to stay with your girlfriend."

"..."

Taotie fell into a long silence.

Xu Lai found it strange. Why was the usually decisive First Divine General so hesitant today, even repeatedly talking back to him? The usual Taotie would strike wherever directed, without a second word.

A strand of divine sense probed outward, and Xu Lai's expression instantly turned peculiar.

Taotie was in the bathroom of a five-star hotel in the city center. Steam billowed around him, making the fearsome First Divine General of the Immortal Domain's face appear flushed, though it was unclear if this was due to the heat or some other reason.

"Are you... okay?" Liu Wan knocked on the bathroom door. "You've been in the shower for two hours. Is everything alright?"

"..."

Taotie did not respond, his expression growing even more tense.

Filled with embarrassment, he once again sent his divine sense to Xu Lai. "The Supreme Emperor, I feel Princess Yiyi needs me! I must go to her aid immediately!"

You think?

Xu Lai curled his lip, directly blocking Divine General Taotie's divine sense. He was utterly disappointed in him. This idiot Taotie was a true disgrace to the Heavenly Court, trying to run away like a coward when the girl was being so proactive.

After a moment's thought, Xu Lai cast an isolation formation from afar. For the next twenty hours, it would be absolutely impossible for Taotie to escape.

"There, that should do it." Xu Lai clapped his hands in satisfaction. "You can be as stubborn as steel, but after tonight, you'll be wrapped around her finger."

However, what Xu Lai didn't know was that outside the bathroom, Liu Wan's face was also flushed red. She fidgeted, her anxious gaze fixed on the bathroom door.

Could it be that he's displeased with me? she wondered. Otherwise, why would he stay in the bathroom and refuse to come out?

She had tried so hard and been so forward. Why did it feel like the distance between them had only grown since they became a couple? Even her own heart, which had been pounding just moments ago, was now slowing to a normal rhythm, and then even slower, below an average person's resting rate.

Inside the bathroom, Taotie was also nervous beyond measure. He suddenly realized he couldn't contact the Supreme Emperor; his divine sense couldn't even leave the room!

I've been sealed by a formation…

Taotie tried to calm his racing heart, but it was no use. It only beat faster. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Although Divine General Taotie was naive in matters of the heart, he wasn't a fool. He had been puzzled at first when Liu Wan booked the five-star hotel room. But after she finished her own shower and pushed him into the bathroom, he finally understood her intentions.

But in the Taotie Clan, couples were forbidden from consummating their relationship unless they were properly married.

This was a clan rule, the dying wish of an ancestor who had reached the Nine Heavens of the Quasi-Emperor. He had led a dashing life filled with countless beautiful women, but when his time came to break through to the Emperor Realm, he couldn't sever these worldly attachments and perished with regret.

Anyone who violated this rule had to kneel before the ancestral shrine and face a wall for one hundred years.

To the other races of the Immortal Domain, this clan rule was utterly ridiculous, but every member of the Taotie Clan treated it as a sacred decree. Not a single one had ever defied it. This was also why, in the hundred recorded epochs of the Immortal Domain's history, not a single romantic scandal had ever emerged from the Taotie Clan—because there were none to be had.

If his clan members ever found out about today, a century of confinement was the least he could expect. Taotie didn't want to hurt Liu Wan. So he had wanted to find an excuse to flee. A hundred years was but the blink of an eye to him, but for the current Liu Wan, it was an entire lifetime.

Inside the bathroom.

Outside the bathroom.

The man and woman stood on opposite sides of the door. Taotie could only see the mist-covered frosted glass, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh. Liu Wan, on the other hand, saw nothing, as the light in the bathroom was off. All she could hear was the hiss of the running shower.

Liu Wan lay back on the soft bed, covering her downcast eyes with her arm.

I must have disappointed him.

I must have disappointed her.

...

...

「Meanwhile, in Chang'an City on the Moon.」

Ruan Lan stepped into the ancient city that had stood for centuries, with Yiyi and Qian Xiao in tow. They immediately attracted surprised glances from numerous Martial Artists.

Of course, there were also a few who recognized them.

The watchmen, Zhang Henshui and Zhang Suzi, were there. Zhang Henshui of the noon watch and Zhang Suzi of the afternoon watch stood outside the Teleportation Array to personally welcome the trio.

"Fairy Sister, you're finally here!" Zhang Suzi said happily.

"See that!" Ruan Lan pointed at Qian Xiao, exasperated. "Look at Su Zi. She's pretty, highly accomplished, and still tells the truth."

Qian Xiao turned his head away, ignoring Ruan Lan and muttering, "It's just blatant mutual flattery."

"What did you say?" Ruan Lan and Zhang Suzi narrowed their eyes at the same time.

"..."

Qian Xiao hid behind Xu Yiyi, trembling. He was starting to feel homesick.

"Welcome, fellow Daoists, to Chang'an." Though Zhang Henshui was blind, his heart was bright. He laughed heartily and said, "With Fellow Daoist Ruan Lan's Defensive Array, no one below the Golden Core Boundary can trespass within a ten-mile radius of Chang'an!"

"Senior Zhang, this young woman can set up formations?"

"Sect Master Shen Xun of the Formation Sect is Hua Country's number one Array Master, and even the Great Array he laid couldn't do this."

"..."

The surrounding Martial Artists voiced their skepticism.

Ruan Lan didn't get angry. She just hummed and said, "What Sect Master of the Formation Sect? I am the Hierarch of the Star Origin Sect!"

Dozens of Eighth and Ninth Grade Martial Artists looked at one another, puzzled. In Hua Country, aside from the one school, three sects, and nine pavilions, they had never heard of a Star Origin Sect.

"Never heard of it?" Ruan Lan asked with a smile.

The Martial Artists nodded honestly. "No, we haven't."

"That's alright," Ruan Lan declared with flair. "From now on, for the next ten thousand years, you will all remember the name of the Star Origin Sect!"

No one took Ruan Lan's boast seriously, as the people in this city had never imagined they could live for ten thousand years.