Giving Birth to Five Children with a Clear Conscience

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, shining like diamonds.

Inside Room Tian-Two of the Star City Inn, Ye Shu and Danxia embraced each other quietly, neither saying a word.

"Um... well..."

After a long time, Danxia carefully raised her head. Looking at Ye Shu's lean and muscular body beneath her, a rare blush crept up her face.

Now that she had calmed down, she suddenly realized just how... ambiguous their posture was.

Although she did have a bit of affection for Shu'er...

Alright, a lot of affection, actually.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be so worried about gains and losses, so terrified of losing him. After fifteen years of being together day and night, even eating and bathing together, Shu'er might be able to let go, but she simply couldn't.

But that was all purely the bond between master and disciple.

Pure, friendly, and absolutely, unequivocally devoid of any romantic feelings.

She and Shu'er had been completely innocent from start to finish.

A romance between master and disciple would get them drowned in pig cages!

Danxia frantically brainwashed herself in her mind, but her flushed red face betrayed her.

Sitting by the window, Xiaobai couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Even though the system invaded, the male and female leads still naturally attract each other." However, looking at the two on the bed, she suddenly felt a sour twinge of jealousy in her heart.

She didn't know what was wrong with her.

According to her original plan, Ye Shu was supposed to be betrayed by everyone, with only her quietly staying by his side, never abandoning him, and in the end... in the end...

"Pah, pah, pah! What are you thinking?!"

Xiaobai muttered under her breath, tossing those messy thoughts to the back of her mind, yet her heart still felt sour.

Watching Danxia's blushing face, Ye Shu couldn't help but break into a grin.

A long-lost sense of relaxation made his whole body feel light.

Even his smile came genuinely from the bottom of his heart.

"I was just a bit emotional, don't overthink it. We are perfectly innocent, completely innocent." Danxia reluctantly released the arms she had wrapped around his neck, still chattering on with her explanations.

Ye Shu couldn't hold back his amusement, but he nodded repeatedly.

"I know, I know. Innocent enough to have five kids together."

"Who... who's going to have five kids with you?! What on earth is going on in that head of yours, you bad disciple!" Danxia scolded him huffily, urging, "Weren't you going to take a bath? Hurry up and go!"

"As my master commands!"

Ye Shu stood up with a grin, gave Danxia a mock salute, and then walked over to the bathtub that had already been prepared in the room. He filled it with hot water and comfortably soaked himself inside.

"So comfortable!"

"Walking out of that damn Magical Beast Mountain Range and taking a nice, hot bath before heading home... what a beautiful thing." Ye Shu leaned against the tub, squinting his eyes and letting out a long breath.

The tension, exhaustion, and scheming of the past month all slowly washed away with the soak.

Ye Shu's expression relaxed, and his furrowed brows gradually smoothed out.

He closed his eyes, tilted his head, and actually fell asleep right there in the tub.

Danxia stood by the tub, gazing at his peaceful sleeping face and listening to his even breathing, her expression complex.

She suddenly took two steps forward.

With her illusory palm, she gently caressed Ye Shu's cheek. Although she couldn't physically touch him, she felt as if she could sense the warmth of his skin and the tranquility of his deep sleep.

The moonlight spilled over Ye Shu's handsome, refined face.

Only then did Danxia suddenly realize.

This child before her was not even twenty years old, yet he had already shouldered so much.

Fallen from a genius to a piece of trash, having his engagement broken, and being hunted down.

Being doubted by the master he trusted the most.

It turned out that everything she had experienced and suffered in her previous life, Ye Shu had already gone through.

And much, much more than her...

But how old was she?

And how old was Ye Shu?

"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry..."

Danxia suddenly burst into tears, merely repeating it over and over, murmuring to herself as she gently stroked his face with her phantom hand.

If only she could touch him, how wonderful that would be.

The moon set and the sun rose.

The next day, the sun was already high in the sky.

When Ye Shu woke up, he realized he wasn't sleeping in the bathtub, but rather on a soft bed, completely tucked in with the blankets securely covering him.

"I thought I fell asleep in the tub?"

Ye Shu scratched his head, a bit confused.

"Of course it was your master who fished you out," Danxia materialized from the ring, her red bell swaying gently. "Otherwise, wouldn't you have soaked until you swelled up? Like a soggy white steamed bun?"

"Arigato, Master."

"Stop being glib. What do you plan to do next?"

"Return to the Ye family?"

Danxia's eyes flickered. She remembered that Lin Qingxue had been reborn, Feng Mengli had been reborn, so that little girl who was childhood friends with Shu'er in the Ye family might also...

"Shu'er, you need to be careful of your childhood friend."

Danxia warned him very seriously, "Her identity... is not simple. She is definitely not just a member of your Ye family or your simple childhood friend. When you go back this time, you must handle her carefully. You absolutely cannot treat her with your usual attitude."

"I understand."

Ye Shu nodded, indicating he understood.

What his master could think of, he naturally could too, but without meeting her, no one could say for sure.

Besides... even if that person had been reborn, he wasn't afraid.

"We won't go home today just yet." Ye Shu pulled a pill swirling with purple mist from his clothes. "Let's find an auction house to sell this pill first and get some spirit stones to spend."

Although the chapters following the Universal Starry Sky had not yet been created.

But—

One thing was already certain: every step of cultivation and breakthrough required a massive amount of spiritual energy, at least three hundred times that of an ordinary person.

Therefore, spirit stones were a necessity.

"An auction house?"

At this moment, Xiaobai suddenly poked her head out from the side. "You're not thinking of going to the Moon City Auction House, are you? Let me tell you..."

Before she could finish, she heard Danxia speak in a faint tone:

"Shu'er, you're not thinking of going to the Moon City Auction House, are you? The chief auctioneer there, Fairy Qingyue, has very likely been reborn as well. According to my guess, a profit-driven person like her won't show you any mercy. If you dare to go."

"She would dare to send eight hundred axemen to take us down."

"When the time comes, you'll likely be tied up with ropes, with a burly man standing by with a whip, lashing you every day to make you refine pills tirelessly like a donkey."

"After all, even though I am but a remnant soul, my alchemy experience remains."

"When did I ever say I was going to the Moon City Auction House?" Ye Shu smiled slightly, looking out the window. "I didn't come to Star City just to take a bath. There's an auction house here too, and I can also conveniently... meet an old friend."

"An old friend?"

Danxia paused, not understanding his meaning.

Meanwhile, Xiaobai stood frozen for a long time before pointing at Danxia's nose and complaining pitifully, "Everything she said were my lines!"

It was rare for her not to be confused for once.

In the end, Danxia wasn't turned against him, and she even had the past life memories of the villain faction. Now she had lost her only function of providing intelligence. What else could she do?

Be a mascot?

Just as she fell into deep self-doubt...

Ye Shu seemed to notice that Xiaobai was feeling down. He gently pulled her into his arms and comforted her telepathically, "Can't you still substitute rewards? That is your most important ability. Without you, even if I knew all this information, it would be completely useless."

"You are my true trump card."

Xiaobai sniffled, lifting her head to look at him with teary eyes. "R-really?"

"Of course it is true."

Ye Shu affectionately tapped her little nose. "Our Xiaobai is the most important. All of them combined are not as important as you."

Hearing this, Xiaobai happily threw her arms around his neck.

"Mhm! I am the most useful!"

Meanwhile, Danxia sighed and shook her head.

Shu'er is playing with his imaginary friend again. It seems I will have to give him much, much more love from now on.