Invincible Dad-Chapter 689: The Child of Destiny_1

A metaphor. Do you understand what a metaphor is?

Sikong Jiu wanted to speak but stopped himself, eventually choosing to remain silent with a headache.

He was starting to miss The Supreme Emperor. Communicating with Divine General Taotie was simply too difficult, too difficult, too difficult!

"How did Jing Ke hook up with Emperor Wanyun?" Taotie suddenly realized something.

"What do you mean ’hook up’? They were mutually in... uh."

Sikong Jiu subconsciously retorted, but he then realized he was standing before the foremost brute of the Immortal Domain, a fervent warmonger. He quickly changed his tune to match the other’s.

"Indeed, they hooked up! It’s a rather long story. Divine General Taotie, allow me to explain in detail. This matter began one day, three thousand years ago."

"That day, I was just minding my own business, but I inexplicably woke up as the Heavenly Dao. I was completely baffled."

"Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?"

"I was confused for a long time before I embarked on a journey to find my roots. I had to figure out who I was."

"..."

"Get to the point," Taotie interrupted impatiently.

"Oh, oh, oh."

The Heavenly Dao said carefully, "While searching for my origins, I accidentally came across the diary of a certain Great Emperor."

Taotie furrowed his brow deeply. "Emperors keep diaries?"

"I didn’t believe it at first either, but after sensing it dozens of times, I confirmed it was indeed the diary of a Great Emperor. It even had her seal on it."

The Heavenly Dao then asked, "Does The Supreme Emperor keep a diary?"

"The Supreme Emperor does not."

"Right. Who would write their innermost thoughts in a diary, anyway?" 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Sikong Jiu looked expectantly at Divine General Taotie, but the latter didn’t take the bait, merely staring straight at him.

Alright. The big guy was getting impatient.

Left with no choice, the Heavenly Dao Sikong Jiu continued, "The owner of this diary is Emperor Wanyun. In it, she wrote about meeting and getting to know Jing Ke. And... about him helping her enter the Nine Kings’ Palace."

"Go into detail!"

Taotie stared at the Heavenly Dao with a fiery gaze. Sikong Jiu awkwardly scratched the little belly hidden by his red halter top. "Divine General Taotie, um... the diary isn’t complete. There were only a few sentences. That’s all I know."

"..."

Taotie might be simple, but he wasn’t a fool. He knew the youth before him was definitely hiding something.

"You accidentally obtained the notes of the Chaos Purple Lotus Demon Emperor and just happened to stumble upon the diary of Emperor Wanyun."

A weary voice cut in, "Tell me in detail, what other fortunes from Great Emperors have you come across?"

As the voice faded, Xu Lai appeared before Taotie and Sikong Jiu, his billowing white clothes stained with blood.

"The Supreme Emperor, you’re injured!" Taotie exclaimed in alarm.

"She lost an arm too," Xu Lai said lightly, completely disregarding his injuries.

Although it was said that the higher one’s boundary, the slower injuries healed, it would take a day or two at most for him to fully recover. Of course, Emperor Wanyun in the coffin, whose arm he had severed, would also recover, but that would take about four or five days.

"What a pity she got away!" Sikong Jiu sounded genuinely regretful. It would have been great if that crazy woman who was always threatening to blow up Earth could have been stopped.

But he also knew that was unrealistic. At the Emperor Realm, once a battle was joined, it was exceedingly difficult to determine a victor or decide matters of life and death.

"She didn’t escape. I let her go," Xu Lai stated calmly.

"Why!" The Heavenly Dao was stunned.

"Are you questioning me?"

Xu Lai looked at Sikong Jiu, who shuddered and hurriedly said, "I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare."

"You still haven’t answered The Supreme Emperor’s question," Taotie said threateningly.

"Besides the notes of the Chaos Purple Lotus Demon Emperor and the diary of Emperor Wanyun, I also picked up the sword of Great Emperor Youming, the armor of the Corpse Emperor..." the Heavenly Dao said weakly. "But I’ve lost all of those items."

Great Emperor Youming and the Corpse Emperor were, in fact, the same person. For his corpse to become an emperor again after his death was truly astonishing. Xu Lai had once entered the World of Obsession of the hundred-thousand-zhang-tall giant Gu Yan and witnessed the battle between Great Emperor Youming and two giants. And the heart of Great Emperor Youming was still in his Storage Space. He had intended to refine it into an elixir to extend his senior sister’s life, but Yu Guiwan had firmly refused.

"Would The Supreme Emperor covet your shabby little things?" Taotie curled his lip, thinking the Heavenly Dao was just reluctant to bring out the treasures from these Emperor Realm experts.

Lost them? Only a fool would believe that.

"You really won’t snatch them away?" The Heavenly Dao’s voice rose.

Xu Lai remained noncommittal.

"Alright then, I’ll start talking!"

The Heavenly Dao held up his hand and began to count on his fingers. "Three thousand years ago, I got a finger from Ghost Emperor Yuan Ying."

"Two thousand nine hundred years ago, a piece of skin from the Blood Demon Emperor."

"Two thousand eight hundred years ago, a star refined by Great Emperor Xingyuan."

"Two thousand seven hundred years ago, a branch from Emperor Guimu..."

"Two thousand six hundred years ago..."

"Two thousand five hundred years ago..."

"..."

Sikong Jiu went on and on.

At first, Taotie paid him no mind, but as the list grew, his expression turned solemn. He slowly began to realize the gravity of the situation.

Over the last three thousand years, the Heavenly Dao had managed to acquire a Magic Artifact or a body part from an Ancient Great Emperor roughly every hundred years. The Immortal Domain had one hundred epochs and one hundred emperors, yet the Heavenly Dao Sikong Jiu possessed items from thirty-one of them.

"Could you be the son of a Great Emperor?" Taotie’s expression was strange.

The First Divine General glanced at Xu Lai, then at Sikong Jiu. He wondered if this kid, the Heavenly Dao, also had something from The Supreme Emperor. If so, that would make it thirty-two Emperor Realm individuals. How had the Earth Heavenly Dao, in this incredibly remote star system, managed to obtain items from over thirty Emperor Realm powerhouses?

"I don’t know why either." Seeming to sense Divine General Taotie’s confusion, Sikong Jiu scratched his head in embarrassment. "Maybe I’m just a child of destiny."

"..."

Taotie was at a loss for words. He, who had looked down on everyone his entire life, felt a fleeting sense of envy for the very first time.

Xu Lai waved his hand. "Take them out."

"???"

The Heavenly Dao looked stunned. "The Supreme Emperor, didn’t you say you didn’t want them...?"

"When did I say that?" Xu Lai asked lightly. "Taotie, did I say that just now?"

"...No."

"Damn it!" the Heavenly Dao muttered indignantly.

Then, Taotie grabbed him, flipped him upside down, and began to shake him vigorously. A vast amount of treasure, glinting with brilliant light, tumbled out and scattered across the starry sky.

Piles of various Magic Artifacts and Spirit Plants covered the ground. Most of these heavenly materials and earthly treasures were considered extremely rare even in the Immortal Domain. There were also a dozen Spirit Plants so precious that not even the Heavenly Court’s treasury possessed them; they were Supreme Spirit Plants that were only supposed to exist in legends.

Of course, what caught Xu Lai’s attention the most was a messy pile that looked like a heap of junk.

There were tattered books, a blood-red fingertip, a withered branch that no one would bother picking up off the street, half of a broken sword... and so on and so forth!

Every single one of these items radiated a terrifying aura, making Taotie shudder in terror as he gasped, "These are all relics of Emperor Realm powerhouses! There aren’t just thirty items—there are a full forty-five!"

"My treasures! You can’t just snatch my treasures like this! They’re innocent! Let me go..." the Heavenly Dao, still held upside down, wailed heartbreakingly.