Invincible Dad-Chapter 740 Dual-Colored Golden Pill_1

Haitang Court.

In the courtyard, the table was set with a sumptuous dinner prepared by Xu Lai, featuring eight dishes and one soup. The bright moon rose into the sky, casting a pure white glow that shimmered like scales upon the sea.

"We'll eat the mooncakes last." Seeing Xu Lai about to cut a mooncake, Ruan Tang quickly stopped him.

"Alright."

Xu Lai poured a full glass of wine for his wife and a glass of juice for Yiyi. "Let's toast, the three of us."

"Raising my cup, I invite the bright moon; facing my shadow, we become three."

Under the moonlight, Xu Yiyi blinked and said, "There are three of us right now, too."

"Yiyi, that poem is actually about just one person." Ruan Tang smiled. "Li Bai, frustrated in his official career and unable to realize his political ideals, wrote this poem in his loneliness and sorrow to remind himself to enjoy life's pleasures while he could."

"Mommy, I get it!"

"What do you get?" Xu Lai asked with a smile.

"That you have to enjoy life's pleasures while you can!"

"...Just drink your grape juice."

"Okay."

The Mid-Autumn Festival arrived, albeit late. Xu Lai made up for their first missed Mid-Autumn Festival, and the family of three shared four pieces of mooncake.

The reason there were four pieces was because one belonged to the fourth member of the family in Ruan Tang's belly.

"Mommy will eat this for you for now, okay?" Ruan Tang said gently as she caressed her stomach.

"Daddy, is it going to be a little brother or a little sister?" Xu Yiyi asked, looking on expectantly.

"Let Daddy take a look."

Xu Lai extended his Divine Sense, but his brow soon furrowed deeply. Ruan Tang's Five-Colored Golden Core was actually blocking his Divine Sense, protecting the fetus in her womb.

He couldn't see through it!

"What's wrong?" Ruan Tang asked softly.

"It's nothing," Xu Lai said helplessly. "Our child is quite good at hiding, using your Golden Core to block my Divine Sense."

"It can do that?" Ruan Tang said in surprise.

"Indeed."

Xu Lai couldn't bear to forcefully breach the protection of the Five-Colored Golden Core, as it would harm Ruan Tang, even though he could quickly heal his wife.

"Such a naughty one." Xu Yiyi placed her ear against Ruan Tang's belly and said in a soft, sweet voice, "You have to be as well-behaved as your big sister, or I'll spank your little bottom when you come out."

Her threatening tone was so endearingly childish it made both Ruan Tang and Xu Lai chuckle.

"Look at the moon!"

Xu Lai sat in the backyard with Ruan Tang and Yiyi in his arms, gazing at the bright, clear moon in the sky, and found himself lost in thought.

In the Immortal Domain, every star system had festivals for family reunions, but they weren't called the Mid-Autumn Festival. In most star domains, it was called Yearly Day. It was particularly widespread among mortals, or ordinary people.

Legend had it that Yearly Day was the day the heavens and the earth were first created. On this day, the mortal dynasties would worship heaven and earth, praying for the dynasty's fortune to last for ten thousand generations. It later evolved into an annual day of reunion for common people. Eventually, spread by cultivators, Yearly Day became known in nearly every corner of the Immortal Domain.

Counting the days, it seemed that Yearly Day in the Immortal Domain was only a few days away.

He still remembered, one hundred thousand years ago, when he first joined the Heavenly Court, he had a very hard time adapting. On Yearly Day, his Senior Sister had secretly taken her three junior brothers down the mountain, where they bought four skewers of candied hawthorn. It was the first time the four of them had set foot in the mortal world.

Unsurprisingly, the four of them, still naive to the ways of the world, were swindled out of all their silver by a conman. That was three hundred taels of silver his Senior Sister had gotten by pawning a hairpin at a pawnshop. She had cherished that hairpin and rarely wore it, always keeping it hidden in her vanity case. But her three junior brothers wanted candied hawthorn even more.

"Even though the hairpin and the silver are gone, we still got to buy candied hawthorns, right?" his Senior Sister had said, consoling them. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Later, when they returned to the Sect Gate, their Master flew into a rare rage, punishing his Senior Sister by making her kneel in the ancestral hall for three days and three nights. Only then did Xu Lai and his two senior brothers learn that the hairpin was one of the few relics left behind by their Master's wife.

The other relic was the Purple Jade Bracelet. Their Master would often gaze at the memento, lost in memories of his wife. That object... was the Purple Jade Bracelet.

Perhaps it was because of his Senior Sister's "dark history" that Yu Shouzong only passed the Purple Jade Bracelet to Yu Guiwan on his deathbed. Later, Yu Guiwan gifted the Purple Jade Bracelet to Ruan Tang.

His Senior Sister would never have imagined that after Xu Lai avenged their Sect and left the Eastern Desolate Domain, he had spent thirty years to finally recover that Spiritual Hairpin.

"In a few days, let's return to the Heavenly Court," Xu Lai said softly. "I have something that I must deliver to my Senior Sister in person."

"What is it, Daddy?" Yiyi asked curiously.

"A hairpin."

"Auntie gave Yiyi a hairpin too, and it's super pretty!" Yiyi excitedly found it and put it on.

Under the moonlight, the white Jade Hairpin made Xu Yiyi look even more ethereal, like a little fairy untouched by the mortal world.

"My daughter is the cutest in the universe," Xu Lai laughed heartily.

"Then what about Mommy?" Yiyi blinked. "Isn't Mommy the most beautiful in the universe?"

Xu Lai's face turned serious. "Of course. That doesn't even need to be asked."

Ruan Tang looked at him with a smile that wasn't quite a smile. "Really?"

"Of course it's true. If I'm lying in the slightest, may I be struck by lightning for all eternity."

"..."

Somewhere in the clouds, a certain three-year-old child sleeping in a red bellyband was inexplicably startled awake from a nightmare.

Sikong Jiu had a dream. He dreamed that he was calling down Heavenly Thunder to strike the Supreme Emperor, but was instead immediately suppressed by the man himself. It wasn't until five million years later that a cultivator with the surname Sun passed by, broke the seal, and inexplicably started calling him Master.

"How terrifying..."

The Heavenly Dao, Sikong Jiu, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, then diligently scanned the skies near East Sea City. Only after confirming there were no thunderclouds did he contentedly go back to sleep.

…

After enjoying the moon, Xu Lai and Ruan Tang returned to their room. As for Yiyi, she had been about to go to sleep when she was caught by the just-returned Ruan Lan and whisked away for extra lessons. The little girl immediately pouted. Though sullen, she still "happily" immersed herself in the ocean of knowledge.

In the room, the lights were off. Ruan Tang lay in Xu Lai's arms, whispering softly, "Xu Lai, when you have time, spend more time with your Senior Sister. She's all alone... and very lonely."

"Mhm."

"Also, don't always be sending Taotie to run your errands. He and Liu Wan have a life together, you know."

"Alright."

"Oh, and business at the company has been especially good recently. Revenue is up fifty percent from last quarter..."

The couple continued to talk, though it was mostly Ruan Tang speaking and Xu Lai listening.

After listening for a while, Xu Lai finally asked, "So, does our company have any new products? The kind for young couples or married ones. You could try something on, and I'll help you pick."

"..."

Ruan Tang scoffed softly. You call that wanting to help me pick?

Xu Lai laughed. "Alright, no more joking. Let's go to sleep, honey."

"Mhm."

The night was as cool as water. Xu Lai held Ruan Tang close as they drifted into dreamland.

Around three or four in the morning, Mount Haitang was engulfed in darkness.

Xu Lai's eyes opened in the dark. He sensed that Taotie had returned to Earth.

He's back so soon?

Xu Lai sent a Divine Sense transmission. "What of the Snowflower leaf?"

"Reporting to the Supreme Emperor, it was delivered safely!" Taotie's voice was deep and solid.

"Mhm." Xu Lai nodded. "Get some rest."

"There is just one thing I don't understand," Taotie said gravely. "On my way to the Heavenly Court, I overheard Divine General Shan and Divine General Bai discussing the one-hundred-thousand-zhang giants you brought back, claiming that all of them possess Dual-Colored Golden Pills."

"How could such an absurd thing possibly exist in this world!"