“I don’t understand, h—how is this possible? I know he’s my son and all, one destined to bear many burdens, but he’s still just a child! How could he be breaking through to the Initial Immersion Tan'tien Saturation Realm already!?”

A loud bellow of surprise came from the room that housed my crib. What did I do to deserve this? Win at life? Now I can see why failing is all rage in both my old world and this one.

Huge torrents of spiritual energy came rushing in from the outside. It covered everything in a haze of energy, giving one a refreshed feeling.

‘Oops, well that was a surprise, but I guess I’m becoming a Tan'tien Saturation Expert now.’

Vrrmm!!

The spiritual energy showed no signs of stopping as it steadily rushed into Long Di’s small body, granting his body a jadelike glow.

Now don’t be surprised, so what had happened was… I disregarded the fact that I filled the 9th vessel in the Vessel Qi Gathering Stage and didn’t think I would be drawing this much attention during my first breakthrough.

My mother was in the corner with a worrisome look on her face and my father, well, he was worried too.

As for the goddess/babysitter/nanny, she was in the corner with a disinterested look. Guess she knew that in the end, everything will be fine.

Father, on the other hand, looked as if he was ready to spring into action if something happened, but what was he readying himself to do? Was he going to punch me? No, I’m sure mother would stop him.

Dum! Dum! Dum!

‘Ah! There we go, the first breakthrough into the Tan'tien Saturation realm, I should be at the initial immersion stage, so Initial Immersion Tan'tien Saturation expert then? Wow, that’s a mouthful.’

Through my spiritual sense (yeah, I have that now, I’ll explain later) I could see the flabbergasted (That’s actually a word by the way. Weird, right?) look on their faces. Their bottom jaws also obeyed gravity way too well.

“I-I can’t believe it, he is an initial immersion Tan'tien Saturation expert, m—my son!”

Try saying that five times fast.

“Dear husband, we can’t have anyone we know catching wind of this. The City Lord has been watching us with an ill eye ever since you got injured. If he catches wind of our son, I don’t put anything beyond him if it means pushing us down.”

Mom wasted no time in reminding good ol dad of something that was cause for concern I reckon, and as if struck by lightning, he jumped into action.

He quickly went outside and started shouting orders to his most trusted aide, Long Chen.

“Seal the premises and make sure no one leaves the family grounds! Anything that is coming in or that is going out must be authorised by me, and anyone that MUST leave needs to be under intense scrutiny. Go!”

Long Chen executed a swift bow and left to carry out his orders. Long Huangdi swiftly came back into my room and I’m not gonna lie, I was seeing him in a new light. Old man knew how to take charge when the moment called for it.

Soon, a pungent odour could be detected that assaulted the senses.

‘Ah, crap, did I crap myself again? I swear the downside with me being a baby is that I have to mostly converse via thought, and worse, my only companion in that aspect is the goddess, and of course who can forget, the apparent loss of control of my bladder and other bodily functions.’

‘Hey, you should be grateful that you even have me as a mind conversationalist!’

‘Hm, why are you reading my thoughts?’

‘Because you’re loud, and you didn’t crap yourself, you simply…’

“Oh my, it seems he expelled a bit of impurity in his body, it’s a small amount though. Well, he’s only been getting breast milk for the most part, so I guess this is fine.”

The father looked around once more and his eyes landed on the loli in the room, “You!”

“Me?” The goddess pointed at herself with a confused expression.

So my father was pointing at the goddess real crazy-like. He now took huge strides in her direction, so I wondered what he was planning to do. I wondered if he was going to punch her, cuz I’m not gonna lie… I would watch.

“Please continue to look after my son.” He said, executing a bow in her direction.

“Y-Yes.”

She looked nervous as she accepted my father’s bow while my mother smiled a short distance away.

“Y-You’re too polite, Lord Huangdi. I-I’ll take him up right now to get him cleaned.”

Just like that, she headed towards my crib and took me up to have me all cleaned up… not my proudest moment.

I decided to be cute as a baby and waved at my parents as Mina took me away. It was a bit funny as tears welled up in their eyes.

…

Long Nuhuang watched as he was taken away. She then looked at her husband and spoke, “Alright she took him away, now we can talk.”

“This is dangerous, his talent is too heaven-defying, at this rate it won’t be long before he breaks through to the Cauldron Forging realm. We can try to cover it up, but eventually, word will get to City Lord Weisheng Zhensheng,” said Long Huangdi in a panic.

“Isn’t that expecting too much? I don’t believe the City Lord will kill you or him. After all, the beast tide has been moving even more tyrannically lately, and even he needs all the help he can get to suppress it,” she stated, trying to calm him down.

“Yeah, I might believe you if what happened last time didn’t happen,” he said, touching his chest, where a wound that nearly crippled him lay.

“Nuhuang, you and my son are the most important things in my life. So if I see anything that puts either of you in danger, I will put my life on the line to stop it.”

“I know my dear, I know. Let’s just hope we can keep this all under control until the time comes to test his destiny. Besides, how much can he grow in that amount of time, anyway?”