Invincible Dad-Chapter 664 - 164 Ji Royal Order_1

"As long as you’re happy," Xu Lai curled his lips. He knew Ruan Lan couldn’t hurt a single hair on him, even if she hacked away for ten thousand years. In fact, the recoil from her first strike would have been enough to shatter Ruan Lan’s Golden Core and kill her on the spot.

Ignoring his sister-in-law’s aggrieved and resentful gaze, Xu Lai coolly cracked a phoenix egg and added a tomato nurtured with Spiritual Energy. The rich aroma of scrambled eggs with tomato wafted over, causing Ruan Lan’s knife-wielding hand to tremble. Her heart was thrown into disarray. Her blade slowed.

Ruan Lan took a deep breath and subconsciously murmured, "That smells amazing."

Suddenly, she wasn’t so keen on having sorbet anymore. A wise person once said the best way to defeat a delicious food is with an even better one. Clearly, the allure of scrambled eggs with tomato was greater than that of sorbet.

"If you want some, go wait outside. While you’re at it, help Yiyi with her homework," Xu Lai said indifferently.

"What’s there to tutor for kindergarten homework?" Ruan Lan grumbled but walked out anyway.

I’m not betraying my principles for a bite to eat. I just think my niece’s education is very important, that’s all.

However, when Xu Yiyi saw her aunt emerge from the kitchen wielding a cleaver, she cried out in alarm, "Auntie, you can have my sorbet! Please don’t do anything rash!"

Ruan Lan choked. Just like her father, this child had a talent for infuriating people. She huffed, "This is to supervise you while you do your homework. Besides, I’m planning to buy you a few hundred more workbooks online. You’re starting primary school next year, so you have to build a strong foundation."

Yiyi froze for a second, then her little mouth puckered, and tears the size of beans streamed down her cheeks. It was the very image of a Fairy weeping.

The little girl sobbed, "Auntie, I’m never going to like you again!"

Ruan Tang emerged from a lovely, relaxing hot bath. Seeing her daughter crying while her sister brandished a knife, she frowned. "Ruan Lan, why are you bullying Yiyi again?"

"When did I bully her?" Ruan Lan protested indignantly. "I can’t even dote on my niece enough as it is!"

"Mommy, I couldn’t do a single problem in the workbook Auntie bought last time, and now she’s buying more..." Xu Yiyi whimpered.

"It’s alright. That’s what you get for having such an excellent aunt, right? I’ll tutor you slowly." Ruan Lan’s smile was as radiant as a flower, but to Xu Yiyi, that beautiful face was more terrifying than the Devil himself.

"You’re always failing your own classes. Worry about yourself first," Ruan Tang said, crouching down. She held out her arms and spoke gently, "Come, let Mommy give you a hug."

Yiyi flung herself into her mother’s embrace but, due to certain indescribable factors, was bounced back a small step.

That tiny step, not even twenty centimeters, made Ruan Lan’s heart skip a beat. Her gaze locked firmly onto her older sister.

Is she really that bouncy? Ruan Lan’s eyes widened with envy, and she almost cried out loud. Why couldn’t I be Ruan Yourong? Oh, cruel heavens! How will you ever repay me for this injustice?

* * *

Night enveloped Mount Haitang. The Dragon Vein, Xiao Hai, napped among the clouds. It suddenly opened its eyes, staring intently at a villa at the foot of the mountain before slowly looking away and giving a disinterested sneeze.

The owner of the luxurious villa, worth tens of millions, was from out of town. He rarely stayed there, usually just visiting in the summer to escape the heat.

At this moment, sixteen uninvited guests had occupied the residence. Unfamiliar with electric lights, they had lit a bonfire in the courtyard. They were none other than the sixteen Supreme Elders from the Eight Great Crescent Moon Clans, led by Mou Yuan.

"Elder Mou, when do we make our move?" the Supreme Elder of the Fourth Waning Crescent Clan asked, his eyes blazing as he looked at Mou Yuan.

Although they were all at the Peak of the Golden Core Realm, Mou Yuan was undeniably the strongest among the sixteen, with one foot nearly in the Nascent Soul Realm. If this urgent matter hadn’t forced him out of seclusion, he would have certainly reached the Nascent Soul Realm within a century.

"We wait," Mou Yuan said, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, his expression utterly serene.

The others fell silent. When they arrived at the foot of Mount Haitang that morning, all sixteen had come with the resolute will to face death. Yet, Elder Mou Yuan did not launch an attack. Instead, he led them to this villa to wait. They vaguely understood that he wanted them to adjust their condition and face Xu Lai at their absolute peak, but they still felt anxious.

Time waits for no one, and the Moon Clan was running out of it. If they couldn’t resolve the problem of Xu Lai quickly, the Moon Clan would face grave danger; even total annihilation wasn’t out of the question.

What the other fifteen Supreme Elders didn’t know was that Mou Yuan was also deeply frustrated. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to act. He had spent the entire day waiting here because of a command he received via Jade Slip from the Moon King.

When the King commands his subject to wait, how could the subject dare disobey?

Mou Yuan didn’t know what the Moon King wanted them to wait for; he could only endure it patiently. And so, their wait lasted the entire day.

At nine o’clock in the evening, under a faint moon and sparse stars, the sixteen Supreme Elders looked up at the sky. It was their first time on Earth. The moon was beautiful, so beautiful it captivated their hearts.

SWOOSH.

A soft sound was heard.

Aside from Mou Yuan, whose Boundary was the highest, none of the other Supreme Elders sensed a thing.

"You’re here." Mou Yuan spun around, knowing this had to be the person sent by the Moon King.

The newcomer was shrouded in black, his face completely obscured. Only a pair of extraordinarily lucid eyes were visible. Standing approximately 1.8 meters tall, his figure was slender.

"I am here."

"You are late."

"No, I am not." The figure in black scanned the area, his voice turning cold. "Where is the Crown Prince?"

"He has disappeared."

"Where did he go?"

"I don’t know."

The courtyard fell into silence as the other fifteen Supreme Elders exchanged confused glances. They had no idea who this man in black was, but the stranger seemed to have guessed their identities, causing a flicker of vigilance in their eyes.

"He was sent by the King," Mou Yuan explained.

His words calmed them down, though their minds were still filled with questions. The Moon Clan still has operatives on Earth? But our intelligence network was completely wiped out by Hua Country’s Martial Artists a while ago. So where did this mysterious expert come from?

"I am from the Yunxiao Sect," the man in black stated indifferently. "I am a trusted confidant of the Sect Master. There is no need for you to worry."

This time, even Mou Yuan’s brow furrowed.

"Those not of our race are sure to have a different heart."

This saying was widespread not only in Hua Country but on the Moon as well. The sixteen elders discreetly began circulating the Spiritual Energy within their bodies.

The man in black seemed to let out a resigned sigh from under his hood; he had clearly anticipated this reaction. He simply took out a token.

The token was blood-red and shaped like a full moon, with a single character carved in its center: Ji.

This was the surname of the Royal Clan.

Only a select few in the Moon Clan possessed a token bearing the royal surname. Apart from the heirs of the four Moon Kings, there was only the Moon King’s wife, who had never been seen in public.

Mou Yuan’s pupils constricted. The Ji Royal Order... To see this token is to see the King himself.

He and the other fifteen Elders simultaneously dropped to one knee.