Zhou Sheng watched until he couldn’t see Lin Yijun any longer.
“I have made your lives at the Sect harder,” Zhou Sheng said somberly without turning around.
“Huh? I doubt it,” Wen Zhihao said. If Lin Yijun did make his life harder—well, that was a problem for Future!Wen Zhihao. As for right now… “We should carry the children to a more suitable place.”
“You two do that,” Zhou Sheng said. “I’ll track down the other scum.”
“Don’t forget to eat some iron-rich vegetables or meat to replenish your blood.”
Zhou Sheng’s lips twitched slightly as a small warmth grew in his chest. “Understood.”
Cr-clunk, cr-clunk.
A wooden cart rolled onto the clifftop above them. A mortal walked down the footpath down the cliffside to the cave.
“Pst! We’re here, let’s go! The auction will begin soon—”
The mortal froze when he saw the three cultivators.
Zhou Sheng’s eyes darkened as he smiled. “First scum.”
“They have a cart, too,” Sun Fuyu said. “We can have the children ride in that.”
“Then what about those men—” Wen Zhihao started.
Zhou Sheng flexed his Nascent Soul abilities by transforming the ultra-thin blood ropes into a huge net that surrounded this particular group of enslavers and dragged the entire group behind him. The new mortal was thrown into the net with the others.
“I’ll leave the cart for you,” Zhou Sheng said. His eyes softened towards Wen Zhihao. “I won’t kill them. Yet.”
Wen Zhihao’s lips twitched. This kid!
With that, the black-and-red robed cultivator with his hanging net of criminals flew off into the dark night. There was the faint sound of screams as he captured the other mortals waiting at the clifftop.
Wen Zhihao turned to Sun Fuyu. “Xiao Yu, it seems that we’ll have to delay our date and buy more food.”
Sun Fuyu rubbed his shoulder against Wen-ge’s. “I like helping Wen-ge.”
Wen Zhihao smiled warmly. “Thank you, Xiao Yu. Let’s go wake them up.”
But for some reason, Wen Zhihao’s wake-up calls didn’t work. “Are they really that tired?” he muttered.
Sun Fuyu giggled. Wen-ge was so funny! “What are you talking about, Wen-ge? Isn’t your qi making them sleepy?”
Wen Zhihao: Hah??? My qi? Makes them sleepy?
But he wasn’t doing anything special with his qi and he didn’t have any calming stones out! Maybe the spatial rings weren’t able to fully contain the calming aura from the stones? And these children were very young, after all, being calm was a tiny step away from falling asleep.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Yxjs, ilrafc ab Wljb Te,” Qfc Itltjb rjlv.
Vec Mese’r fsfr megnfv. “Zc!”
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Wen Zhihao didn’t want to split the children up into the different bedrooms, thinking that they would be afraid upon waking up in an unfamiliar place on their own. In the end, he moved the dozen or so children into the largest room in the house and laid down all his bedding and the house’s bedding.
Finally, Wen Zhihao was able to lie down with Sun Fuyu. Around them, small children slept.
“Xiao Yu is so smart for finding this place,” Wen Zhihao said quietly.
“This is one of the houses owned by the Golden Sun Sect, it makes it easier when we have to go out for long missions,” Sun Fuyu admitted.
Wen Zhihao rubbed Sun Fuyu’s head. “Xiao Yu is so diligent in completing missions.”
“Mn.” Sun Fuyu snuggled into Wen-ge’s chest. “I won’t let Senior Lin do anything bad to you.”
Wen Zhihao patted Sun Fuyu’s back. “Relying on Xiao Yu then,” he said warmly. Hugging Sun Fuyu in his arms, it didn’t take long for him to fall asleep.
Sun Fuyu took a little longer to sleep. Wen-ge said he was relying on him, so Sun Fuyu had to think about what to do if Senior Lin reported them to the Elders. Shifu Liu Zhongmin liked him, and Elder Liu Ru should be on their side. With them, even Senior Lin would have to bow in defeat! And in the worst case…in the worst case, they’ll become such amazing rogue cultivators together that the Golden Sun Sect could only regret!
While Wen Zhihao, Sun Fuyu, and the children were peacefully sleeping, the main square in the town was far from peaceful.
Don’t know when exactly, but some time when the business in the square was starting to calm down, a blood-lattice cage appeared. Inside that cage were many people, all tied up. Some of them wore rough clothing, some of them had tattoos of the criminal underworld, some of them were dressed up in opulent robes, some of them were scented with makeup and perfume, and some of them wore government robes. There was even one dark-robed cultivator in the cage, cursing someone named ‘Zhou Sheng’.
On all four sides of the cage, the blood was curved into words, SCUM WHO STEAL YOUR FAMILY’S CHILDREN.
In this time and place, slavery wasn’t technically illegal. Some ‘types’ of people could be legally enslaved without their consent, and some people sold themselves into slavery during desperate times. But stealing a family’s beloved child?
Those who could read immediately told those who didn’t. More than one person was disgusted, throwing rotten vegetables left at the end of the day at the cage, though the cage, despite its holes, blocked any items thrown. Those who attempted to break the cage failed, receiving burns for their troubles.
Wen Zhihao might have forbidden him from killing these people, but that made Zhou Sheng even more ruthless in who he uprooted and threw into the cage. From government officials accepting bribes to allow this to happen, to the famous rich men and infamous pimps who bought stolen children, all of them were thrown in. When he had found a cultivator from his own Blood Sect using enslaved people to harvest their blood to cultivate with, he had thrown him into the cage too. Heh, public humiliation and destroyed reputation were the least of their troubles…
The next morning, Sun Fuyu woke up early as usual. He didn’t need nearly as much sleep as Wen-ge. When he returned, the sun had started to rise, staining the sky yellow.
“En, Uncle will help you look for your family, okay? Wash your face, then we can all have breakfast.” Wen Zhihao was crouched down, a pot of warm water next to him as he gently wiped the faces of the children.
“I’m hungry…” a milky little voice said.
“Me too…”
“Just wait, okay?” Wen Zhihao activated a small butterfly talisman. The children’s eyes widened. Some of their hands opened and closed cutely as they tried to reach out for the butterflies, but their arms were too short.
“Pretty!”
“Uncle, uncle…” Little fingers tugged at Wen Zhihao’s sleeve.
“Hm?” Wen Zhihao turned to the small child.
The child just shook her head and said nothing. Wen Zhihao smiled faintly and rubbed her head.
Sun Fuyu’s heart skipped a beat. Wen-ge would make a great father if they ever had children…
Wen Zhihao looked up and met Sun Fuyu’s gaze. His eyes brightened. “Xiao Yu, you’re back! Children, say good morning to Uncle Sun.”
“Good morning, Uncle Sun,” they chorused unevenly.
Sun Fuyu exhaled to calm his heart and walked over. “Good morning. I bought some breakfast.” From his spatial ring, he took out a big pot of soy milk and various other pots of porridge and baozi. The children immediately flocked around him.
“Little ones, which do you want?”
“B-bao-baozi…” said the bravest child.
Sun Fuyu took out a steamed bun. “Here you go. And you?”
While Sun Fuyu distributed the food, Wen Zhihao brought some bowls and spoons and cups for the soy milk and porridge.
Halfway through, someone knocked on the front gate.
Wen Zhihao frowned, but Sun Fuyu stood up first, hand on his sword. “I’ll go see, Wen-ge.”
So Wen Zhihao took over food distribution while Sun Fuyu strode out to the front gate. Upon opening, he saw that Blood Sect cultivator, Zhou Sheng, and a group of people behind him. Some of them were children, some of them were teenagers, and some of them were adults. The only commonality was how dazed they all looked.
“Cultivator Sun, troubling you to take care of these people. They had been previously enslaved. I’ll bring more later,” Zhou Sheng said.
Sun Fuyu nodded. “Understood. Cultivator Zhou, will you come inside too? We are having breakfast now.”
Zhou Sheng laughed shortly. “Are you going to hand-feed me if I refuse?” At Sun Fuyu’s confused look, Zhou Sheng added, “Wen Zhihao asked me if I wanted to be hand-fed.”
“!!!” Sun Fuyu’s eyes narrowed. “Won’t hand feed you! You’re a senior!”
Zhou Sheng smiled faintly. “En, thought so.”
Zhou Sheng stayed as long as it took to bring all the people into the courtyard and then left. While he liked Wen Zhihao and thought Sun Fuyu was interesting, seeing them together made his chest ache. Sun Fuyu got to have such a great shixiong, while Zhou Sheng’s own memories with Lin Yijun were tainted with bitter nostalgia.
Wen Zhihao looked at the people being escorted into the courtyard whilst absently patting the heads of the anxious children.
With power comes responsibility. It was the mature thing to be responsible for these people. But he and Sun Fuyu couldn’t do this alone.
“Xiao Yu, since this is a Golden Sun Sect safe house, is there any way to send a message back to the Sect?” Wen Zhihao asked.
Sun Fuyu nodded. “Yes! In the study room, there is a communication mirror.”
Wen Zhihao inwardly sighed with relief. “En, then bothering Xiao Yu to contact these people to help us…”
(alternative chapter title: Daddy Material? 🤭🤭🤭)
Sun Fuyu: Wen-ge would be a great father if we had children.
Wen Zhihao: Oh, we already have children. There’s Zhang Wu, Wang Li Wei, Zhou Sheng…
Wang Li Wei: (╯°Д°)╯ ┻━┻ I’m not calling you father!
Wen Zhihao: Mn, then you can call me grandfather instead ┐( ˘_˘ )┌
Sun Fuyu: *aggrieved, mumbles* But they’re such big (grand)children!
Wang Li Wei: (╯ಠ_ಠ）╯︵ ┳━┳ I said, you’re not my fathers!
Sun Fuyu: *dismissive tone* If Wen-ge says he’s your father, then he’s your father.
Wang Li Wei: (┛ಠДಠ)┛彡┻━┻
Wen Zhihao: Calm down, son…
ALSO look at this fanart from LinXueLian!!!
LinXueLian has a collection of cute short cultivation stories, which you can find on AO3 and Scribble Hub~
Ufufu, how cute 🌸
B-but Zhou Sheng… Pity Zhou Sheng, your wife so stupid…
Oh, I’m sorry… Your ex-wife… I wander what happen next with you, Zhou Sheng)))
*wonder
Hoping Zhou Sheng gets a better wife soon 🙏
🙈🙈🙈🙈 poor Zhou Sheng!
Wahh..Unexpected release but I was kinda expecting it cuz I saw you commenting earlier..Shouldn’t Sun Fuyu be called brother? After all, he is only 19 right?
with great power comes great responsibility – Wen Zhihao trying to unlock his inner spiderman.
Thanks for the chapter!!
Was it really that unexpected? 🤭 YES, Sun Fuyu really should be called brother. However….Wen Zhihao is an old man at heart, so he called himself uncle (lucky he didn’t call himself old man or grandfather!), and since Sun Fuyu is his boyfriend, that makes Sun Fuyu ‘uncle’ too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
More like Wen Zhihao psyching himself to do Work 🤣
Thanks for the chapter (≧▽≦)
Thanks for reading!!
Hmmm I think someone is getting better pregnant in the future…
I mean, just saying 👀
No wait why did this better pop out there?? Ughh srly…
hahahah, there won’t be any pregnancies in the main story for the main couple 🤣🤣🤣 But you can imagine it if you want 🤣🤣🤣
More rare situation (hehe, I think it would be better…) : Find a child in cabbage/field/at stork? Hmhmh That’s where kids really come from!
Wen Zhihao can find kids everywhere, I think, both old kids and young kids 🤣🤣🤣
It would be cute if they can have children
Thanks for the chapter❤️
as the little theatre at the end shows, they already have children! 🤣🤣
But yes, it would be cute to have actual little children! Thanks for reading!
if wen-ge says he’s your father you shall refer to him as such 😂😂
thank you for the chapter 💖
I’m glad you liked that line 🤣🤣
Thanks for reading!
this small theater waste so much tables
thanks for the chapter~
HAHAHAHAHA. Now I can imagine Wen Zhihao having a Talk with Wang Li Wei for wasting some crafter’s hardwork in making those tables 🤣
Great chapter! The fanart is so pretty! 😍
I hope that our boys get supported by the sect. I dislike misunderstandings…
😤
Thanks for reading! Hopefully~
Oh such lovely fanart!
Thank you for the lovely chapter
Thanks for reading!
If Xiao Yu could have gotten pregnant right there with his Wen-ge’s babies right there, he would have.
And again, back to the idea that Wen Zhihao has no idea how powerful he is, nor does he care. No resentments, make sure everyone’s needs are met and help people be happy. Love how Xiao Yu doesn’t educate his Wen-ge about the strength of his qi, in case Wen-ge might feel the need to regulate his qi, which Xiao Yu doesn’t want. Xiao Yu just wants to bathe in his Wen-ge’s qi for as long as he can, as often as he can.
I would not be surprised if Wen Zhihao hasn’t leveled up again, since he spent all this time nurturing multiple people and nudging folks closer to the Dao.
🤭🤭🤭🤭 Wen Zhihao sure hand-feeds a lot of people and creatures after all 🤭🤭🤭
LOL they haven’t even gone further than kissing let along pregnancy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
YES Sun Fuyu wants Wen Zhihao’s qi 24/7, so he’s never going to tell Wen Zhihao to curb it!
👀👀👀 Let me think about it XD
After watching Daddy Wen with the kiddoes, Xiao Yu wants his Wen-ge so bad that he’d probably ascend if Wen-ge touched him with intent.
I just love how Wen Zhihao just wanders around basking in the sunshine gaining qi.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Xiao Yu needs a plan to make Wen-ge ~touch~ him 🤭🤭🤭
Wen Zhihao is a plant, confirmed! 🤣 If people didn’t know better, they’ll think he’s a plant that has cultivated sentience! 🤣
I really hope the Golden Sun Sect backs them up, I can’t bear to loose the fluff
It should be good? There shouldn’t be too much angst, right? says the author
Daddy material… in our current era that’d be too(?) ambiguous, but I might instead like the ambiguity better than the stability that father material gives…
the ambiguity is what I’m going for 🤣 but this story is not explicit enough to get to that particular kink….🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the chapter! I suspect things are going to get interesting for our heroes… but this was so satisfying!
I’m glad you found it satisfying, thank you!
Xiao Yu is just having all those thoughts in the head (don’t worry, it’s very cute). At least his Wen-ge won’t need to think anymore. He’s the thinker in this relationship xD. And don’t worry, he has the protagonist halo!
I really pity Zhou Sheng. Your Shixiong is really stupid even in regression, huh? I wonder how his brain works….
Thanks for the chapter ♡
If Wen Zhihao knew, he’ll think Xiao Yu is cute too~ hahaha you’re right, Sun Fuyu is the thinker!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
En, poor Zhou Sheng….
Author’s little theater is a story by itself 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for this chapter author-sama
Glad you like the little theatre!! 🤭
Wen Zhihao: adopts everyone
Wen Zhihao: Why do I have so many troublesome kids?
I love our main leads’ priorities here! Sun Fuyu and Wen Zhihao’s relationship is super sweet and adorable, too – I like how easily Wen Zhihao relies on Sun Fuyu for things and how much Sun Fuyu likes him and wants to help him in return ♥️
……🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you!! I’m glad you liked that~
OMG, don’t be so hard on fishy! He hates work and this is huge amount of tedious work!
Zhou Sheng, I revoke yours “3d favourite” title since you bully fishy!
Little theater:
Zhou Sheng: Wen Zhihao said he’ll hand-feed me.
Sun Fuyu: !!!!!!!!!!!! Wen-ge can’t hand-feed anyone but me! burning with jealousy
Zhou Sheng: He-he mission “be the evil devil sect cultivator and bring pain to righteous one” achieved!
Wen Zhihao: Xiao Yu, don’t bully my favourite son.
Sun Fuyu: brightens Oh! Son! I won’t, husband!
Zhou Sheng: (┛ಠДಠ)┛彡┻━┻
+1 but maybe fishy don’t mind the kids since they can be cute if they are obedient. The little theater is cute as well, they have such a big guy as their son 🤭
hehehe, indeed, the humour is in how the “kids” are sometimes older than the “parents” 🤣
It is a lot of work, hence he wants to call others to help, aka “delegating work” 🤣🤣🤣
HAHAHAHA when Zhou Sheng finds out he has two fathers younger than him…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pfff such an interesting gathering they had as children! Kkkkkkk omg this seems so troublesome to take care of those people, i would have ran away already, delegate reaponsabilities to someone else!
Thanks for the chapter!!
luckily these are big kids so most of the time they’re busy doing things and don’t bother Wen Zhihao tooooo much 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the Chapter~~*
Yes, it indeed has some flaws 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I mean, if Wen Zhihao pulled his qi aura back and hid it, it would be fine. But since he doesn’t even know how to track his own cultivation level, he’s not going to know how to restrain his qi 🤣🤣🤣
Hm, children would be pretty cute….though it would mean less time spent with Sun Fuyu….🤔🤔🤔🤔 🤣
yes, Zhou Sheng has the awkward feeling of being single while Wen Zhihao isn’t…. poor guy….
i’ll be expecting some future children then
thanks for the chapter!!
🙈🙈🙈🙈 no promises…!
Thanks for reading!
There is nothing better than reading a salted fish chapter after a long day~ thank you author-sama! It was so lovely haha Zhou Sheng was feeding vinegar to little Sun Sun with the hand feeding comment 😂
🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 I hope you got a good rest after a long day!
Yeah, Zhou Sheng giving a little payback after seeing the dog food/pink bubbles around Sun Fuyu and Wen Zhihao 🤣
Thank you author-sama I so love your story 💕 & yeah Zhou Sheng was feed too much dog food that he may have gained a pound after spending time with those love birds 🤭
Thank you so much! Luckily Zhou Sheng is now going to busy to work off that dog food weight 🤣🤣🤣
Zhou Sheng: I am lonely
Magic Hotspring: Come to me baby I am lonely too
Magic Rock: hold me and I will make you feel great
Lin Jin: Get away from my man cough I mean my enemy. throws magic rock away and tries to destroy hot spring
Lost Children: What is the scary man doing?
MC and ML: Don’t watch his stupidity might be catching hands out breakfast and leads children away
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA TOO GOOD!!!
I so love the little theater! And zs lowkey teasing xaio yu cause he’s envious of how sfy’s ge dotes on him, if only his ge would grow a pair of ears 😤😕
I’m glad you like the little theatre! En, if Zhou Sheng keeps teasing Sun Fuyu, Sun Fuyu might just throw Zhou Sheng at Lin Yijun and tie them together or something 🤣🤣🤣
sun fuyu is almost like an old man protecting his beloved cabbage lolol poor zhou sheng…
HAHAHAHAHA
and yeah, poor Zhou Sheng….. This author has been pretty mean to him…
Daddy material 😳
Ahhhh, those two just warmed this old heart of mine! I have just imagined they taking care of the younger disciples while they cutely called they uncle! So cute!!!!!!!!!
They will be such wholesome parents!! Even younger disciples will be so lucky to have them!!
I hope the elders will believe Sun Fuyu and Wen Zhihao over Lin Yijun’s claims. Even if they would be awesome rogue cultivators, it would be so unfair 😣
By the way, Wen Zhihao is really courageous! When I leave things for future broccoli she just curses me 😅
Author-san, thanks for the chapter 💕
🤭🤭🤭 Daddy material~
Hmm, all the younger disciples would really like them~
Depends on what Sun Fuyu and Wen Zhihao and Lin Yijun tell the elders~
Such beautiful robes! I’m sure Fuyu would love to see his Wen-ge in that get-up, really compliments his calming aura.
And don’t worry, Zhou Sheng, you’re part of this found family, be a good child and bask in the love and food (and cuddly cats) provided by our salted fish. It’ll be okay.
Let’s be real, Sun Fuyu likes his Wen-ge in anything! 🤭
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
😂😂😂😂title is spoiler
I hope it was a good title/spoiler then 😆
.
Thanks for reading!
SZ es todo un antiheroe, no anda con medias tintas jeje… y llevó el lote a donde papá Wen, mientras los otros hijos rebeldes (nietos) no aceptan a su padre (abuelo) jajaja
I mean, I’m sure Zhou Sheng would go along with it for fun hahaha 😂
Me: imagining what if this novel was an mpreg novel
Also me: confused 😵 who will bear the child? is it Fu Yu? Zhihao? or both the heck am I thinking ?🤦♀
btw The fanart is beautiful 💞
🤣🤣🤣 I’m sure there’s some kind of magical technique that allows couples that wouldn’t otherwise have biological children, to have actual biological children 🤔🤔
So many big tsundere sons XD
Thanks for the chapter!
…you’re right, they’re all sons 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That little theatre 😅. Wang Li Wei the master of flipping table lol.
flipping tables is good practice! for…something?…. 🤣
I love your little post-chapter theatres 😂😂😂
Thanks! It’s great when I think up a good one 😆
I really love it that our bafflinghaze posts fan art and links to other good things to read.
Thanks bafflinghaze!!!
My goal while posting was to actually give readers something else to read while they waited for me to post next 😂
It’s a generous-minded thing to do.
I really, really like DSF – plowed through most of it in 2 days and will probably finish it tomorrow. It’s a rare story that is as compelling as it is entertaining. The charm of the characters and the idea of letting go of the struggle for dominance – I wish it would happen in real life. In the meantime, it has been really fun to read.
🥺🥺🥺🥺 thank you for the lovely comment!!!!
How wonderful to see LinXueLian’s artwork! This story soothes my soul.
Her artwork is so cute! And thank you 😊
Thank you for the chapter!
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That little theater took my breathe away hahahahaha
Thanks for the update 😀
😆😆😆😆 I’m glad you liked the little theatre!!