Many descendants

"The First Emperor descended to the mortal realm this time purely to seek torture. You have no idea how horribly he was humiliated. Killing someone is just a matter of beheading them, but he suffered the ultimate torment of body, mind, and soul."

Su Yan recounted to Zi Qi what she had seen of the Ancestral Dragon in the human realm, and what Xiao Mei had learned from him...

Fan Yi, the reincarnation of the First Emperor, was the illegitimate son of the Emperor of the Immortal Dynasty. However, the Immortal Dynasty practiced monogamy and did not recognize the status of illegitimate children. Even though he was a prince, he was still treated with rotten eggs and rotten vegetables.

However, Fan Yi was kind-hearted by nature and knew that he was an illegitimate child, so he endured the insults and abuse from the common people.

Later, a missionary named Wuwen from Juedao invited him to join Juedao, but although he was interested, he did not agree.

He realized that he should enter the Buddhist order and leave everything in the world to him. But he had a mother. What would happen if he left her?

As the emperor's life was drawing to a close and he had no son to inherit the throne, he finally thought of Fan Yi, his illegitimate son.

Fan Yi was persuaded by his mother to be brought into the palace as her adopted son.

From a young age, Fan Yi's face was smeared with charcoal ash by his mother, and his true appearance was never shown to anyone. Furthermore, he possessed a top-grade spiritual root, which he also kept hidden. His mother knew that possessing such a treasure was a crime, so she could only conceal her abilities.

Once cleansed of all grime, her divine countenance, like that of a banished immortal, was revealed before the public.

Among the five beauties of the Tianjue Continent, he rose to the top with his stunning looks, top-grade spiritual root, and status as the crown prince of the Immortal Dynasty.

The emperor suddenly passed away!

The empress, who had been in seclusion for many years, emerged with a huge pregnant belly! She claimed to be the emperor's posthumous child! And soon gave birth to a son!

With the birth of his legitimate son, Fan Yi's status as an illegitimate child was exposed to the world. His mother suffered inhumane punishment and was ultimately nailed to a scaffold.

Fan Yi was also placed under house arrest in the palace.

Wuwen found Fanyi again and asked him if he wanted to enter the path of enlightenment.

Fan Yi agreed this time, shaved his head to become a monk, and had no more attachment to the world.

However, he let it go. Someone had their eye on him—a highly venomous female snake!

The empress aged rapidly after giving birth.

She set her sights on Fan Yi's exceptional spiritual root... and ordered it to be dug up. After consuming it, she miraculously regained her youth.

The empress's son ascended the throne, and the empress became the empress dowager, using the emperor to command the imperial court.

Fan Yi escaped from the palace, but was easily captured and brought back to the palace by the Empress Dowager, becoming her consort and forced to drink his blood every day.

In order to get rid of the Empress Dowager, Fan Yi asked Wu Wen for a dose of poison.

After Fan Yi took the poison, when the Empress Dowager drank his blood, she was unsurprisingly poisoned and almost died.

Although she didn't die, this poisoning incident has damaged her appearance once again.

She stopped drinking Fan Yi's blood and began to torture him... His stunning beauty was tragically destroyed by the Empress Dowager!

Wuwen was also hunted down by the Empress Dowager. Even Daoist cultivators who were related to Wuwen and Fanyi would be arrested and often disappear.

……

“It seems that the Ancestral Dragon has been undergoing arduous cultivation this time,” Ziqi sighed.

Su Yan replied, "This is not called ascetic cultivation, it is clearly grueling cultivation. I just couldn't bear to see him like that, so I took his place."

"Why don't you go take a look at the Ancestral Dragon Tomb?" Ziqi pinched her little hand.

Su Yan thought about it and realized she should go take a look. "Okay, I'll go now. How about Xiao Zhouzhou stays with you for a while? Let him play with his brothers and sisters."

“Absolutely no problem!” Ziqi’s eyes lit up instantly. “Let me see what he looks like now? Such a young child changes almost every day.”

"It's true, he can run and jump now." Su Yan moved Xiao Zhouzhou out of the system space. The little guy was holding a milk bottle and eating.

Ziqi saw his handsome little face and thought, "He looks a bit like the 24th."

"It seems so." Su Yan didn't seem to care. "Come here, little Zhou Zhou, learn to call me Father Emperor like your mother!"

"Father~" Her sweet, childlike voice was incredibly alluring.

Ziqi was incredibly soft-hearted. "Sigh." She took out two small storage bags from her spatial ring and hung them around Xiao Zhouzhou's neck.

Little Zhouzhou's eyes sparkled as she threw herself into Ziqi's arms, saying, "Thank you, Father."

Ziqi smiled and said, "You're welcome."

Then, looking at Su Yan, he said, "You should go there now; the sooner the better."

"..." Clearly, she wanted to build a relationship with her new son. "Then I'll go over there. If you need anything, just let me know."

"Go ahead, go ahead." Ziqi hugged Xiao Zhouzhou and kissed his chubby little face. "Do you want to go to the Divine Beast University? There are lots of older brothers and sisters there."

"Yes!" Little Zhou Zhou nestled in his arms, showing no shyness whatsoever.

Su Yan: "..." Okay, she's the redundant one!

……

A sea of ​​lava.

The Ancestral Dragon Tomb has been sealed again, so Su Yan can only enter from here.

"Xiaomei, go downstairs."

【Good host. 】

Entering the Ancestral Dragon Tomb from the Lava Sea was a familiar route for Su Yan, and she soon arrived at the bottom of the Lava Sea.

The tomb of the First Emperor is right before our eyes.

But suddenly I hesitated, unsure of what to say when I saw him.

"Host, the Ancestral Dragon is right in front of the World Tree," Xiao Mei said to Su Yan.

Su Yan: 【…Okay, let's go directly there.】

Yi is no longer a boy. After the calamity in the human realm, he has completely returned to his original appearance.

He wasn't surprised to see Su Yan. "You're here."

"Um..." Su Yan raised her hand to touch her earlobe and found that her earring was gone. She didn't know where she lost it.

"I came here to apologize to you."

“Don’t worry about it.” Yi looked at her. “You haven’t seen the spring at the Ancestral Dragon Tomb, have you? I’ll take you to see it.”

"Okay." Su Yan was feeling a bit awkward, so this was a good opportunity to ease the tension.

Su Yan followed him, looking at his profile, mature and steady yet exquisitely sculpted, "You've changed back, but you're better this way."

"I'm glad you like it." A hint of relief appeared in Yi's eyes.

Su Yan followed Yi to the summit of what used to be the Ancestral Dragon Tomb.

The boundless valley is shrouded in colorful clouds and mist, and the rare flowers and plants are vying for beauty. The divine aura in the air is so rich that it forms golden rain clouds, as if a divine rain is about to fall at any moment.

Su Yan sighed at the beautiful scenery before her, a naive and pure smile spreading across her face. She really should have brought the children along.

However, if they come, they will definitely loot all these divine flowers and herbs...

"So beautiful!" Su Yan took out her camera and captured the beautiful scenery before her.

A pair of spring-colored earrings appeared in Yi's hand. "These are for you."

"Thank you." Su Yan took one earring from his hand and put it on her earlobe, which was not adorned with an earring. She then took off the other earring and replaced it with a spring-colored one.

"Does it look good?"

"Ah."

"Hehe~" Su Yan clasped her hands behind her back, "Um... did my presence in the mortal realm affect your entry into the tribulation?"

“No, it just ended.” Yi replied, “The Heavenly Dao values ​​cause and effect, and the Enlightenment Dao is also about cultivating cause and effect, so the Heavenly Dao wants to know the difference between the two causes and effects.”

"One cultivates for this life, the other for the next."

"Hmm. Yan Yan, do you want this life or the next?"

“It must be this life.” Su Yan looked up into his eyes. “This life’s cause, this life’s effect, next life’s cause, next life’s effect. I don’t ask for the next life, I only ask for this life.”

Yi's silent heart felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer...