Jiang Che was speechless. "..."
He had imagined many scenarios. He thought he might receive a warm welcome from the Jiang family upon entering the Nine Heavens, allowing him to harvest them like leeks to his heart's content.
But he never anticipated this!
He had barely set foot in the Nine Heavens, and this group of old fogies actually wanted to drag him off to get married?
This was absolute madness!
And the partner in question... was the Jiang family's favored daughter, a prodigy with the Five Elements Immortal Spiritual Root who had been kept hidden away for a hundred thousand years?
"Hold on... let me think for a moment," Jiang Che interrupted the immortals.
His mind began frantically searching through certain mysterious archives, almost as if he were reciting the multiplication table.
[Jiang Yueye: Daughter of an Immortal from the Nine Heavens Jiang family. Born with the Five Elements Immortal Spiritual Root. Formerly ranked third on the Prodigy List. Current cultivation: Tenth Heaven of the Creation Realm. The number one beauty of the Azure Heaven Domain, ranked ninth on the List of Peerless Beauties...]
Jiang Yueye's appearance surfaced in Jiang Che's mind. Just from her features, he could roughly guess her personality; she was likely the aloof, ice-queen type of fairy.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Logically speaking, this kind of aloof fairy should be quite resistant to arranged marriages. He could even predict the ensuing plot: he would go to marry her, but right at the ceremony, this Jiang Yueye would throw a fit and pull a public annulment...
Exactly! It was such a classic trope!
Or perhaps she would go through with the ceremony with extreme reluctance...
However, all of that was trivial to Jiang Che, because he was actually quite looking forward to it!
It wasn't just that he coveted Jiang Yueye's beauty—though, of course, that was part of it. The other reason was... he had never experienced this kind of storyline before. Simply being direct was becoming a bit outdated; a traditional wedding drama... that actually got him excited.
"Sure! When is the ceremony? Do I need to do anything?" Jiang Che nodded in immediate agreement.
The Seventh Ancestor froze for a moment, then nodded excitedly.
It's in the bag! It's secured! Everything is set!
They knew that with Jiang Che's personality, there was absolutely no reason for him to refuse such a peerlessly beautiful woman.
Especially the Seventh Ancestor; the corners of his mouth were harder to suppress than the recoil of an AK-47. He had hit the jackpot this time, hadn't he?
If his daughter really became Jiang Che's woman, a little pillow talk from her later on would bring all the good stuff rolling in, wouldn't it?
He felt that the greatest achievement of his life wasn't knocking on the gates of immortality, but fathering his precious daughter, Yue'er.
"Hehe, my virtuous son-in-law, have no worries. Our Jiang family has already started the preparations. Yue'er is already dressed in her phoenix crown and bridal robes, waiting for you!"
Jiang Che: "..."
Was this old geezer really marrying off his daughter? Why did it feel like he was the one getting married?
"Rest assured, son-in-law. From now on, we'll dispense with the hierarchy. I'll call you son-in-law, and you can just call me Old Seven." The Seventh Ancestor's skin was incredibly thick, making the other Jiang family ancestors want to tear his mouth apart.
If they had known earlier, they would have had more children. As top-tier Immortals, if they really wanted to take a wife and have children, what kind of fairy couldn't they find?
But now that they had become Immortals, their life forms had entered the realm of immortality, making it almost impossible to conceive offspring. The Seventh Ancestor's daughter was a pure accident, a probability lower than winning the lottery.
"Hmm... I'll get ready, then I'll go with you to the Jiang family to complete the wedding. By the way... you didn't invite anyone else, did you?" Jiang Che asked with a frown.
The Seventh Ancestor wore a fawning smile. "Rest assured, son-in-law. Aside from the direct line of the Jiang family... no one knows about this marriage."
As he said this, the Seventh Ancestor silently apologized to his daughter in his heart.
She was the daughter of an Immortal, an incredibly proud and favored daughter of heaven. Her wedding should have invited the myriad races and received blessings from numerous Immortals and Great Emperors. But now... they could only hold a banquet in secret, solely out of fear that Jiang Che's other female companions would get jealous.
He had truly wronged his daughter.
"Good!" Jiang Che nodded. As expected of an Immortal Ancestor... he knew how to handle things discreetly.
Jiang Che took a Longevity Immortal Peach from his spatial ring and handed it to the Seventh Ancestor. "Thank you for your trouble, Seventh Ancestor."
The Seventh Ancestor's face lit up with joy; that was another ten thousand years of life.
"Um... son-in-law?" The Seventh Ancestor shamelessly leaned his old face close to Jiang Che again.
"What is it?" For some reason, Jiang Che felt this old guy was up to no good.
"I only have this one daughter, so the family line of my branch has effectively ended..."
"Seventh Ancestor!" Jiang Che straightened his expression. "Don't blame me for lecturing you, but getting pregnant depends entirely on luck, okay? I have so many women around me, yet only two are currently pregnant... Besides, Yueyue and I haven't even done anything yet."
The Seventh Ancestor's old face twitched. Haven't done anything yet... and he was already calling her Yueyue?
Although he had actively facilitated this marriage, the thought of the daughter he had raised for a hundred thousand years getting married still brought a touch of sadness to his heart. Ahem... even if 99.9% of those years she had been sealed within an Immortal Source.
"Then... please put in more effort, son-in-law."
The Seventh Ancestor's words made the jaws of the other Immortals drop. Was this the Old Seven they knew?
'Please put in more effort, son-in-law?'
Was that something a human being would say?
When it came to being shameless, you really took the cake, Old Seven!
...
After the Immortals left.
Jiang Che went to visit Dong'er. This white-haired little girl still seemed to be in a daze, nestled in the sofa staring into space. Her tiny figure had sunk into the soft cushions, and she was hugging a white teddy bear—a gift Jiang Che had once given her.
Dong'er had fair skin and exquisite features. She didn't even blink, creating the illusion that she, like the bear in her arms, was a porcelain doll.
"Master." Upon seeing Jiang Che, a glimmer of light burst into Dong'er's eyes.
"Mhm!" Jiang Che kissed Dong'er's cheek with affection.
[I got kissed... happy.]
Dong'er's mind was incredibly simple, and she didn't much care for playing with the other girls. Seeing her all alone sometimes made Jiang Che's heart ache.
"Be a good girl. Dong'er, I'm leaving this Immortal Ark in your care for now. Master needs to leave for ten days or a fortnight."
Dong'er remained silent for a long time, then looked up and asked seriously, "Is it ten days, or is it a fortnight?"
Uh...
Jiang Che scratched his head. He was sneaking off to marry Jiang Yueye; how could he have an exact timeline?
It could be ten days, it could be half a month. If he got carried away and had a honeymoon, a full month wasn't out of the question either.
"Half a month! I'll definitely be back in half a month!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
iaobai: "Councilor Dad, front me some funds. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!" [Five-Star Mission Issued: Capture the leader of the Blood Heaven Pirate Gang, who is on the run in the Radiant Star Sector. It is said the gang has over a hundred members. Proceed with caution.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, lend me the family's hundred-thousand-strong Lu Army!" [Seven-Star Mission Issued: Subdue a juvenile Void Dragon Beast.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, I'm taking your tamed Void Dragon Beast King out for a family reunion!" I said, System, don't you have any slightly more challenging missions? You're just not up to par! [Nine-Star Mission Issued: Become the Human Councilor.] Lu Xiaobai: "Dad, there's a small matter I'd like to discuss with you..."
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
