In the dimensional space.
Ximen Xueya's anger is visible through the changes of his eyes. Suddenly returning to its original silver shade meant that he was in rage. Even if there are no emotions or expression on his face, the coldness he is emitting from all over his being is enough proof to say that Xueya is definitely furious at this moment.
Despite showing his anger the man in green robes who Xueya called as Jue-ge didn't react much as if he is used to this kind of mood swing coming from Ximen Xueya. There is even a gentle and pampering smile at the corner of his lips. This man is the current ancestor of Hei Clan. He is also Hei Anjing's biological cousin, Hei Jue.
Hei Jue said, "Don't give me sins, I haven't done at all, An. Hei Wanyu being sent out isn't my order. Those annoying old men were doing it themselves. Who would have thought that they would allied themselves with those destroyers. They are even using my name spreading nonsense around. I've been in closed meditation since you last visited. Do you think I would leave your vessel around unprotected by me personally!?"
"But in the last world. You've tried to hurt A'Xia. I am not blind, if I didn't come you would kill him!"
"I would. But stopped since you came. An, if you haven't completed the Mateship Ceremony with him, I would still kill him even in this world. For me he is better off dead. You are far more important than him to me. He is a stranger but you are my family."
"You can't. I've chosen him after all. We've already completed one of the requirements for Soul Marriage."
"Yes. Which is why I am appearing here before you instead of plotting his death."
"Jue-ge!!!"
"I will stop targeting him. Instead I would protect you and Xiao Jing secretly. I will warn you now. You should inform Uncle or Milord about Xiao Jing before your enemies learn of his existence. Xiao Jing is both yours and this man's sole weakness."
"I will inform them after this world."
Hei Jue glances at the spring and his peach blossom eyes narrow as he stares indifferently at the man lying within the water.
"How long is that asleep?" Hei Jue was talking about Cao Junye. There's a clear dislike in his tone. After all this is the man who stole his carefully protected cabbage. He never expected this pig to successfully steal his cabbage that he's been tightly protecting for centuries.
Xueya ignored his brother's ugly expression and replied, "A week."
"It's better for that pig to never wake up." murmured Hei Jue.
"Ge!"
"Fine. An, be careful. There are lots of destroyers that entered this world silently. This time their target isn't your man but you, instead."
"I will go now. I will protect you in another dimension." said Hei Jue as the space behind him shifts under his command. If one is talking about controlling space then this man in front of Xueya is even stronger than him when talking about space and dimension. After all, he is the God of Space.
Ximen Xueya watched as the space rift before him disappeared. Because his memories were half unsealed, he could recognize who Hei Jue is. This is his blood related cousin from Hei Clan. The son of his father's elder brother.
Sadly, this uncle of his had died due to cultivation implications, he had let his demons destroy himself. Failing his most important tribulation and dying afterwards. Among the people from Hei Clan only this branch of family loves his father as family but only Hei Jue remains from this part of Hei. The only remaining direct bloodline of Hei Clan remains with only Hei Jue, his father and himself.
The Hei Clan is not willing to let Hei Jue go. Hei Anjing and his father had already separated themselves from that clan if not for Hei Jue, Hei Anjing and his father would no longer care about this Hei Family.
"I told you to leave that stupid clan countless of times before. Now you even have to clean up the mess they're making." murmured Xueya but none else heard him.
Suddenly he heard the sound of water moving. When he turned around he saw Cao Junye sitting up from the spring. His eyes were currently purple unlike the obsidian shade before he had fallen to sleep.
Ximen Xueya's expression remains calm but there is a hint of disappointment from within his eyes.
As if knowing what's going on his wife's mind, Cao Junye smiled at Ximen Xueya.
"Baby~ It's me." said Cao Junye. The way he is calling Xueya is like how Ye Xiajie calls his wife.
When Xueya heard a familiar way of calling him, he hurriedly went towards the spring and jumped on the man. Cao Junye opened his arms with a smile intending to catch his wife. It was supposed to be an emotional scene.
But what happened next is something the general didn't expect.
Ximen Xueya indeed jumped towards him but the former didn't let the general to properly catch him. Instead Xueya stamped on his husband's stomach kicking him back to the depths of the pool.
"Bastard! You dare call this lord a criminal!? You won't listen to my explanation? You won't trust me!?"
Choke! Cough!
"B-Baby! Gurgles~ cough! T-That... Wasn't me!"
Cao Junye is currently drowning while feeling his wife's whole weight on him. He couldn't leave the spring because his wife would kick him whenever he tries to leave.
"It wasn't you? Who are you fooling? That's your soul fragment!"
Choke! "Baby... Let me... Cough explain... First~"
"Anyway... This lord is not listening!" said Xueya as he kicked his husband one more back to the spring before teleporting himself in the mansion.
He left the newly merged soul of his husband within the spring. After a while Cao Junye stood up from the spring. Once he was out of water he used his qi to dry himself and took some clothes from his space ring. It only took a few minutes for him to get dressed.
But unlike with the jolly expressions he exchanged with his wife just now, his face right now is completely cold. He snapped his fingers and suddenly the time within the dimensional space including everyone's time who are inside the space had stopped including Xueya and Chino's.
PUNCHED!
After stopping the time he suddenly punched through the space on his side, making the space beside him break into fragments and grab someone inside. After awhile a man in green robes was pulled out of that destroyed space. It was Hei Jue.
Hei Jue was coughing as he was held by his collar. He glares at Cao Junye who is staring at him indifferently yet absolutely cold.
"You bastard! What is wrong with you!?" complains Hei Jue.
Cao Junye spoke, "Stop wasting my time. Tell me what you meant with the words you told me in the last world."
Hei Jue nonchalantly replied, "Oh you mean that? I meant it literally. If you want to know the answer then completely merge all your soul fragments though by that time it might already be too late."
Cao Junye's eyes reddened for a bit as his eyes turned pitch black completely darkened by anger.
"Don't make me hit you! I will beat you up even if your Jing'er's relative!"
"Impossible. I've made a vow not to tell anyone. Why do you think I'm telling it with indirect words instead. For your information, It was An who forced me to make that vow. I am forbidden to tell you anything until that day comes I would be free from my oath."
"USELESS! You go fuck off then."
"Your temper has always been short except towards An like in the past. Seeing this reaction of yours, means you've halfway merged your soul fragments."
"..."
"Then I will give you a heads up like An. In this world there are three destroyers and their target is your wife. They were all from that person's side. Once he learns you're awake he would definitely make his move. Anyway I'm leaving. Hmp!"
Hei Jue didn't want to continue talking with this brute who destroyed space despite not having the talent of controlling the space attributes. This only shows how much his strength is different from the rest.
He was re-entering the fragmented space Cao Junye forcefully broke just now. Ignoring the latter who had fallen within his deep thoughts. Cao Junye could more or less understand the meaning of his words and also knew who that person was.
"Why did he know about Jing'er's whereabouts?" murmured Cao Junye.
Hei Jue no longer entertained this rude brute and closed the space behind him before he left. Cao Junye's time stopping spell had been taken back by him.
Meanwhile at the mansion, Ximen Xueya is currently enjoying the tea Uncle Wu had served him. In the living room Ximen Chino, who was watching a movie just now, had a bewildered expression on his face as if something had gone wrong.
"Daddy~ did time stop just now?" asked Chino.
Xueya was startled with this sudden question from his son. Unlike him who had no compatibility with Time Attribute, there is no way he would notice if something changes to things related to time but his son is different because he has Ye Xiajie's blood on him.
Everyone in the Nether System knows that the Lord God could manipulate time and that his affinity with it is top notch and was born with this talent. It wouldn't be surprising if his son inherited this talent as well.
What left Xueya astonished is that why would his husband control time and control even his time. Normally he wouldn't let him or Chino be affected. But just now he didn't notice a thing but Chino did.
Xueya whispered, "What is that bastard doing again?"
Uncle Wu asked, "Master Xueya, is there something wrong with tea?"
"No. It's fine, Uncle Wu." replied Xueya.
Suddenly the door entrance of the mansion was pushed open with a bam.
BAM! Cao Junye obviously used too much strength.
"Don't destroy my door!" scolded Xueya.
Everyone was excited seeing the man's arrival.
"Father! ~"
"Master you're back."
"General! Salute!"
Ximen Chino excitedly jumped towards his father. Cao Junye caught the naughty little bun preventing him from falling. There's a pampering smile on Cao Junye's face as he looks at his son.
"Our baby had gotten heavier~"
"Chi-chan isn't heavy! Only growing~ father is a bully~"
"Yes. Yes. Our little bun isn't heavy. Not heavy. Not chubby. It's just baby fats.~"
"Who are you calling fat? Don't call my son fat!" said Xueya.
Seeing that the couple is about to quarrel, Uncle Wu took his young master from his master's arms. He pushes the back of the youth named Zhi Yue towards the second floor intending to bring them to the study room or something. It's bad for children to see their parents fight.
Uncle Wu said to the children, "Okay. Play with Grandpa in the study room okay?"
"Okay~" replied Chino.
Zhi Yue followed without question but he let his mind connect with his host. They could speak to each other through their minds.
Xueya glared at his husband and said, "My son is not fat. You are just blind!"
Seeing that his wife was in a bad mood, Cao Junye had to coax him. Ximen Xueya had been truly angered by the original Cao Junye.
"Yes it was I who was blind. Our Chino isn't fat. Baby~ don't be angry anymore. Everything is my fault. Anger is bad for the body."
Xueya isn't willing to forgive him easily.
"What do you mean 'Our'!? Chino is 'My' son!?"
This reaction of Xueya made Cao Junye smirked. He knew that his wife didn't know that Ximen Chino of this world is the original Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya's biological son.
He went behind Xueya and massaged his shoulders like a virtuous husband.
"Baby~ it's bad to lie. You can't monopolize our Chino like that. It's unfair for me as his other father. Have you forgotten you've stolen my sperm to create Chino?"
Hearing the words his husband had spouted just now rendered Xueya speechless.
Xueya's thoughts at the moment: 'Other father? Sperm? Stolen? What is this bastard playing right now?'
Meanwhile, System Yue, who could hear his host's thoughts, explained the reason for his Lord God's words. The world plot didn't give details on how the original Ximen Chino was born but as a system, Yue knows. He had thoroughly checked his nephew's vessel's background just in case.
[Host. He isn't lying. The original Ximen Xueya had taken General Cao Junye's essence without permission from the institute bank for artificial insemination. But instead of stealing it the original Ximen Xueya had bought it for a few billions.
But since it's illegal to get someone else's essence without permission of the other, the original bought the general's essence for exactly three billion dollars.
The original Cao Junye of this world is definitely Ximen Chino's another father.]
Ximen Xueya who heard his system's explanation was embarrassed with what he heard. He couldn't believe such a coincidence would happen in this world. Who would have thought that their son is still their son after entering this world.
With a slight blush on his cheeks Xueya stood up as he glared at his smiling husband. Based on his expression this bastard must have learned about this through his vessel's memory after the souls have been merged as one.
"Who the fuck stole your sperm!? This lord had bought it for 3 billion dollars!" exclaimed Xueya.
Other's thoughts:
'3 Billion Dollars!? Fuck!!'
'It's that expensive.'
'General your so amazing! That cost billions of dollars~'
Everyone who heard Xueya's yell gasped in shock. Who would have thought that it was really true. Though their general and old general sun had said that young master Chino is Cao Junye's son. They were still half doubtful about it. But now hearing it from the legal father itself. It seems that what their general had said is indeed true.
Ximen Chino is the son of Master Ximen and their General.
"I'm in a bad mood. You are sleeping in the living room tonight!" said Xueya.
Cao Junye panicked when he heard that he was getting kicked out of bed.
"Wi-Wife~"
Xueya brought thick blankets and a few pillows from his space and passed it to Cao Junye with a smile.
"My dear~ it's your punishment. Sleep. On. The. Couch. Hmp!"
Xueya walked back to the study room to take his son and do their routine before bed. Then choose to sleep properly in bed this time. He had ignored the stunned standing husband of his, behind him.
The punished general could only sleep in the living room tonight.