Return of the Immortal Emperor Daddy

The following week was calm and uneventful. The Chief Minister of Fusang had not informed the Emperor of Fusang about his plan; he was waiting for the public storm to pass. A week later, the fervor over the battle between the Martial Emperor of Dragon Country and the Sword Saint of Fusang had finally subsided.

The Chief Minister was ready to act. Aside from the Dragon Country citizens of Fusang descent under his command, he also had operatives from the United States of America. He had not forgotten the year the US dropped an atomic bomb on Light Island. This time, he planned to deploy some of the Americans. That way, when Wu Tian and the Dragon Country authorities discovered anything, most of the blame could be pushed onto the United States. The Chief Minister had run the plan through a computer simulation, ensuring it was foolproof. The probability of success was ninety-one percent.

「On this day, a Sunday.」

The little one was resting at home, occasionally teasing Little Kirin and Little Phoenix. As for the evil fish? She no longer cared about it, deciding to give it the cold shoulder for a few days to see if it would behave.

"Are you free?" Xia Qian called.

"I am," Wu Tian responded, watching a battle royale livestream on the LCD TV.

"I’d like to have the little one come shoot the commercial this afternoon. You haven’t forgotten, have you? I’m talking about the children’s skincare endorsement."

"I remember, I remember," Wu Tian said, glancing at the little one, who was feeding the evil fish nearby.

"Is she willing to go?" Xia Qian asked.

Wu Tian nodded. "Don’t worry, I asked her. She’s willing."

"That’s great! I won’t keep you then. See you this afternoon!"

Xia Qian’s voice was charming, sweet, youthful, and honeyed; it was exceptionally pleasant to the ear. Of course, to Wu Tian, it was nothing special. After all, the most beautiful voice in all the heavens belonged to the Empress. But so what? I... I already have a wife.

Wu Tian put down his phone. Qin Yuhan guessed, "Was that Director Xia?"

Wu Tian nodded. "Yeah. Didn’t I tell you? She wants to use my elixir to create a children’s skincare line. They’re shooting the commercial this afternoon and asked me to bring the little one over."

"I’m going too," Qin Yuhan said coolly.

In that instant, Wu Tian felt his wife’s aura soar to an infinite magnitude.

"Do you agree?" Qin Yuhan asked calmly.

Could I say no? Wu Tian smiled. He suddenly found this feeling quite marvelous.

It made him think of something: the realm above Immortal Emperor. Was there another realm beyond it? Some said there wasn’t, that not even the Creation Martial Emperor had succeeded in reaching it. But Wu Tian felt there should be. Why hadn’t the past Immortal Emperors succeeded? Was it because they cared only for power and forgot about their families? Could the warmth of a family be the key?

Wu Tian considered it for a moment before dropping the issue. He was still on Earth. Why worry about matters of the Immortal Emperor realm?

"Of course you can go," Wu Tian said with a smile.

Qin Yuhan let out a sigh of relief. She had been nervous, too. If Wu Tian had refused, what could she have done? She had never been so anxious before. Fortunately, Wu Tian’s reply delighted her.

"I’ll go make lunch," Qin Yuhan said, noticing Wu Tian staring intently at her, his gaze unwavering. Her face flushed, and she hurried into the kitchen. She couldn’t stand that look. She was also afraid Wu Tian wouldn’t be able to restrain himself and would "administer family discipline" again. If that happened, she would be unconscious for three days and three nights.

After Qin Yuhan went to the kitchen, Wu Tian stood up from the couch to see how the little one was feeding the creature. He saw her take out a small piece of food and toss it in; it wasn’t nearly enough to satisfy the evil fish.

The little one playfully teased it, "Be good. Call me ’big sister’ and I’ll give you more."

"Big sister!" The evil fish had been thoroughly trained over the past week. It understood that it would suffer if it didn’t do as the little one said. Embracing the profound wisdom of "a wise person submits to circumstances," it felt no shame. It would do whatever the little one said, because it was a great mind of its time.

The little one took out another piece of food. "Call me ’Boss,’ and I’ll let you eat."

"Boss!" the evil fish immediately complied.

"Good!" The little one rewarded it with another morsel of fish food.

Little Kirin and Little Phoenix watched from the side, overjoyed. Happiness truly comes from comparison. The two of them felt incredibly fortunate and blissful with their lives. Seeing the evil fish’s miserable existence made them deeply content with their current situation.

"Alright, stop teasing it. After all, it’s a Kunpeng," Wu Tian remarked with a sigh.

Indeed, the evil fish was a Kunpeng! The great Peng bird rises with the wind in a single day, soaring ninety thousand li! Who would have thought the evil fish’s identity was so extraordinary?

The ancient Daoist text *Zhuangzi: Free and Easy Wandering* once recorded, "In the Northern Gloom there is a fish, his name is Kun. The Kun is so huge I know not how many thousand li he is. He changes into a bird, his name is Peng. The back of the Peng is so huge I know not how many thousand li he is. When he rises and flies, his wings are like clouds hanging from the sky."

In the sea, it is the Kun; in the air, it is the Peng. It was said to be unbelievably formidable. Yet right now, it was just a fledgling. It could transform between a fish and a bird, but while in the water, it couldn’t leap out and become a bird without help.

In short, the current Kunpeng was pathetically weak. Only its potential was worth looking forward to.

「The United States of America also had companies and business dealings in Dragon Country.」

At this moment, a dozen Americans from a very famous advertising team had entered the herbal medicine company. They had come hoping that the company would let them handle the advertisement shoot for the new children’s skincare product.

Xia Qian was hesitant because she had already reached an agreement with another team.

One of the Americans said in a very gentlemanly tone, "How about this? Let both our teams shoot at the same time. You can choose the better of the two to work with you. How does that sound?"

Xia Qian looked toward the other team she had already hired—an advertising team from Korea.

Jin Haoxuan nodded and said, "Alright, it’s a deal. Our Korean advertisements are in no way inferior to yours. In this year’s World Cup, we Koreans even defeated the German Iron Wolf team! This is a lucky year for us. You Americans can just wait to lose."

"Fine," Xia Qian stated coolly. "It’s decided. I will choose to collaborate with the stronger of your two teams."

As Xia Qian and the Korean advertising team left to make their preparations, the expressions of the Americans turned cold and fierce.

Grinding his teeth, one of them, Fuman, said, "The target... is a four-year-old child! Let me tell you all first, any operation has a chance of failure. If we fail this time and get caught, remember: before you kill yourselves, you are to say that the United States of America ordered us to do it. Understood?"

"Yes, Chief!" the team members behind him nodded in unison. They didn’t think for a second that an operation to capture a small child could possibly fail.