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Title: The Lone Tear

Did that really come out of me?—He thought the second Ja Sun looked at the small individual. Not to be overly sentimental, but the sight of a young black-haired infant in a small bed, sleeping—oh so peacefully—did wonders for him. The boy had Ja Sun’s good looks and Ah-Yin’s complexion. It was as if the father-son duo’s very interaction made others curious beyond belief as the group stared at him from the sidelines.

“Is this necessary?” Ja Sun controls his urges and turns around with a scowl. “Give me some privacy, damnit! Or next time, I’ll be the one delivering your babies, saying—hot damn, Xie Xan and Oscar can’t fit no more!”

His words make others seethe, especially Lana and Jun’er, who scoff under their breath while Ah-Yin smiles beside him, gingerly placing her hand on his as she whispers, “What do you think?”

“I-”

Ja Sun goes silent again, paying no heed to the eager group, easily hearing Xie Xan whisper to Oscar. “I think he’ll do it.”

“Grandmaster said he did the same thing when his son was born,” Oscar nods, staring intently while other women practically stare with scorching gazes on his back. But Ja Sun only stares between Yin and his son. The more he looks between her gentle and caring smile to his son’s innocent expression, the more he feels his emotions challenging his Law of Control.

But what is Power if it impedes the expression of one’s being?

Ja Sun takes a deep breath, but eventually, he breaks a wry grin, his eyes turning watery slightly as he grumbles. “Damn, I should have been here from the very beginning.” He licks his dry lips as he turns to face Ah-Yin, a lone tear sliding down his cheek as he grins widely. “I owe you a debt of life for our son. Thank you.”

Ah-Yin brightens visibly, leaning forward not to kiss him but to hug him with her arms sliding past his pits and hugging his back.

“You owe me nothing, dear—” she coos gently.

“Look, he is crying—” Hu Lana and the rest disappear from his house, warped outside as the interior falls silent, allowing Yin to finish, “—he is your son as much he is mine. And now, you have to remember who waits for you whenever you try to do something stupid.”

Ja Sun chuckles, hugging Ah-Yin deeply. “I have to set a correct example for him. Hmm. I want to poke his cheeks.”

“Let him sleep,” Ah-Yin looks up with a placated smile.

Ja Sun fondly smiles before Ah-Yin disappears—warped away like the rest.

“I’m going to poke his cheeks.” Ja Sun laughs, happy to crouch beside his son and poke the munchkin’s cheek. “Dad’s home,” he whispers. “And thank god, well, me—you aren’t some interdimensional freak like Hao’s son and me.”

The boy stretches his tiny limbs, pressing his lips with a cute frown as he wakes up slowly. An irritated sound escapes his developing throat as he opens his deep blue eyes—just like his mother’s eyes.

“Hey,” Ja Sun grins widely as the boy’s eyes widen before watering as he starts crying loudly.

‘Well, I need tits to calm the fellow,’ Ja Sun narrows his eyes thoughtfully, snapping his fingers to create an aura of calm control around him. “Your mother was right. I should have waited. Don’t tell her, though. Hey,” he laughs as he gently picks up Ja Liang, “You’re starting to smell, too. Good thing your mother’s practiced for it!”

Ja Sun opens the door to face a narrow-eyed Ah-Yin and grins, “He—”

“You’re cleaning him,” she states. “And when he is clean, you will play with him until he stops crying.”

“But I thought we could spend some time together,” Ja Sun mutters. “I also have the house to build outside.”

“Send your clone for it,” Ah-Yin sighs and leans forward. “Oh, and darling,” she coos. “As long as you get Liang to sleep, we can spend as much time together as we want—all night long.”

He blinks as the woman pats his cheeks with a grin, “I told you not to poke his cheeks.”

“What if he needs to feed?” Ja Sun blinks.

“I’m more nutritious, or rather, most Spirit Masters are. He doesn’t feed often but surely expels like one.”

Ja Sun looks between his son and his wife, speaking with an unexpected grin. “Great, I won’t feel bad about my feeding time~!”

He chuckles again, leaving with Ja Liang.

Oh, as for his diaper?

There aren’t many things a Spatial Grandmaster cannot displace.

“Aaggghhhhhhhh!” A high-pitched shriek fills the nearby space as Ah-Yin blinks in surprise. Why is Bing Bing screaming?

“It stinks! You Bastard!”

Ja Sun’s snickers travel Ah-Yin, who shrugs and moves her arms slightly. “I’m going to sleep and then cultivate~!”

She is more than happy about Ja Sun’s return.

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Ja Sun had many people to visit. But he decides to postpone his divine booty calls now that he has his boy in his arms as he appears in the outside world on the coast beach. What’s the best way to christen a new home?

*Uwwaaaaaa*

Ja Liang cries out a loud cheer as the fresh wind hits his face, his irritation practically gone with a fresh diaper covering his ass. He’s truly like his father in this regard. Ja Sun remembers his excitement when he stopped shitting since his body digests everything!

“Yep, that’s how you christen a new house,” Ja Sun smiles, eagerly pecking his son’s forehead before dampening his hearing with air manipulation, adding, “With sex!”

Ah! The relief coursing through his veins now that he is out of his slime-like body is amazing.

But Ja Sun does have a new trick up his sleeves.

A thick layer of gooey purplish slime extends from his feet to cover a wide stretch of land, reaching past the beautiful trees on the edge of becoming spirit beasts, but—

Ja Sun starts bisecting the region using corrosive venom as accurately as a knife. He didn’t need the Law of Control for this. He didn’t train enough to make variations out of his spirit ring skills as early as Spirit Elder without monstrous control. Like every hypocrite in the world, Ja Sun loves plain exteriors hiding the most amazing things. So the Log Cabin looked as basic as they come, but with a few touches of runes connected into Arrays and a Spatial Law here and there, will not only expand the space inside, but Ja Sun even has hope of creating a time-distorted room or the like to let his family train quicker than the enemy.

“Although,” Ja Sun mutters under his breath, “Anyone with half the brain would realize that battles between anyone under a God are useless. It puts the rest in a certain level of safety—everyone but Bibi Dong and me. But Qian Xunji had Hao and the rest working to better themselves. The Blood Hoe is right in that manner. Just because their use in battles falls short doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand their use. He sent a team to scout this Island, and he also has other talents to acquire from the continent he has chosen to hide himself in.”

Ja Sun knew of one other continent—Sun and Moon Continent—the Evileye Tyrant originated from. Of course, Ja Sun scoured the beast’s memory before using him as a Spirit Soul. But there should be two other continents, according to the beast. Ja Sun isn’t keen on wasting his time searching for Xunji as much as he wants to spend time with his son, the rest, AND take a look at the Divine Tablet and Xunji’s Divine Artifact!

Law of Blood can be a great tool in countering the bastard, and Ja Sun will do his best to advance his mastery of the Law. He doesn’t have any notable Spirit Bone to consume. But that’s the beauty of the Law of Blood—he can devour blood itself to learn more about the Law. After all, it wasn’t a Spirit Bone itself that was needed but the ‘element’ of the Spirit Bone.

“There is also Faith,” Ja Sun narrows his eyes. If he can build Faith, he can boost his understanding of the various Laws by a notch. He cannot easily shake the Douluo Continent’s faith in Xunji. The Blood God had been planting seeds even before he entered into the mess with Redstar during the first competition.

But Ja Sun earned the Island’s faith during his tribulation, and the greedy Beast Sage would never let precious things escape his grasp!

“Hnnchh!”

A cute sneeze breaks Ja Sun out of his thoughts as he looks at his sniveling child with a proud smile. “Close. You’ll practically sneeze your first words in a few days~!”

Others would roll their eyes hard if they listened to Ja Sun. But nobody is around him as he warms the surroundings enough to make Ja Liang comfortable before setting down to create the sturdiest house of his life all the while scanning his son more carefully to try and boost the bugger’s quality of existence.

Hey! He already worked hard, so providing a good life for his children isn’t hard. He just has to make sure they don’t grow complacent and witless like the spirit masters he verbally abused—not for his children’s good, but it would simply look bad on his true legend of Face Slapping!

Meanwhile, aside from the usual luxuries of his house, Ja Sun makes sure to add an extensive and somewhat challenging playroom for Ja Liang. This project became harder because Ja Sun wanted to create something he and Ja Liang would both enjoy together. Needless to say, he wasn’t about to become the Father in search of the Legendary Bottle of Milk since Ah-Yin’s are nutritious enough!—the thought of which makes Ja Sun luridly smile as he can hardly wait for the night.

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“Hoh?” Hu Lana smirks as she looks at the nervously shifting and perpetually scowling green-haired girl in the front.

“Wipe that smug smirk off your face before I do it for you!” Bing Bing snarls, feeling fresh and annoyed after a shower—since she is the one who received Ja Liang’s ‘package.’ But after her outburst, the girl falls silent again under Hu Lana’s amused gaze.

“So, instead of consulting your Sister Snow, or others for that matter, you come running to me only to complain about what Ja Sun did? Was that all?”

The two sit in Hu Lana’s cozy living room, decorated with furs similar to her and Xie Xan’s birthplace up north. Bing Bing fidgets as if a child caught red-handed. The inherently seductive mother of two chuckles and leans forward with interest, “Why not learn from Sister Bei and Xiao Wu?”

“Them?” Bing Bing’s distaste grows at the thought of the rabbit mother-daughter pair who turned to humanity. But there is another petty reason for her distaste.

“Hmm.” Hu Lana nods. “That’s why you’re here, right? Or maybe I’m wrong?” A hint of mischief blooms in Lana’s eyes as she backtracks, playing with icy fire again, “I shouldn’t misunderstand things. So, can you speak clearly about why you’re here?”

Bing Bing’s honeyed pupils sear upon the fox as she reclines with ease. The mother deals with two children and has experienced Bibi Dong’s irrational and Ja Sun’s rational killing intent—Bing Bing’s scorching gaze barely stops Hu Lana from yawning.

The girl clenches her small fist as the room’s temperature drops several times, but Hu Lana retrieves a blanket from her spatial ring and covers herself.

“Fine,” Bing Bing hisses with indignation. “Why won’t he mate with me directly instead of doing stupid things and joking around!”

The mischief in Lana’s eyes thickens.

How utterly innocent—Cute.

Now if Bing Bing were her daughter, Hu Lana would have chosen to say things like—That guy isn’t worth your time—in futility. Words alone cannot sway emotions.

But Bing Bing ain’t her daughter, and Hu Lana is the last person in the world who wouldn’t enjoy such dramatic beasts!

“Hmm,” Hu Lana cups her cheeks. “You’re a real piece of work, huh.”

“What?” Bing Bing grumbles and looks away. Ja Sun can have her at any moment! She’s dropped sufficient ‘scent’ for that to the point she feels humiliated by the curious gazes of other beasts! But he still tosses shit in her direction!—As perfectly wrapped in a diaper as it may be!

“So, before Ja Sun can even soothe his wives and lovers, you’re ready to pounce on him. What a cruel scorpion,” Hu Lana licks her lips and tosses a wink in her direction as Bing Bing gasps, “No! It isn’t—”

“I like it. Did you think Sister Bei and the rest didn’t pester him enough?” Hu Lana recalls the days when Xiao Wu acted like a clueless girl (still does), initiating wardrobe malfunctions around Ja Sun and whatnot. “You see,” the fox huffs, “As much as it pains me to admit it, Ja Sun has become the prize. And he knows it. So he is happy to act like an annoyingly pretty woman who drops meager hints and expects the world to follow them—I can’t say I blame him. I do the same with Xan sometimes~.”

The dreamy look on Hu Lana’s face irks Bing Bing as she grumbles, “So, I must initiate the mating?”

“If you want his popsicle, yeah,” Hu Lana shrugs. “Honestly, you girls with ice and snow powers are all the same. No wonder beasts like Ja Yin and Zi Ji got the first bite.”

“Girls with ice and snow powers?” Bing Bing’s brows twitch. “Did someone else approach you?”

“Oops~” Hu Lana smiles coyly, knowing exactly what she had done, “Nobody came to me. It’s not as if our group knows I’m the gal you talk this stuff to, right?”

A hint of anxiousness appears in Bing Bing’s heart as she quickly gets up from the sofa, leaving a thin layer of crystal ice on the surface as she leaves Hu Lana’s temporary abode.

‘Heh~ To easy. I guess beasts and humans have different strengths, after all.’

Hu Lana stretches her arms with a cute groan before walking out of the room with trembling steps.

It was too cold.

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Alternate Title: Father Moment; Not Even the Law of Control Trumps the Law of Daddy; Ja Sun’s Certified Proud Daddy Moment; The Debt of Life is not Owed Amongst Parents; Ja Sun’s Gonna Poke Some Cheeks (SFW); Ja Sun Will Later Poke Some Cheeks (NSFW); Sneezing into Vocabulary?; One True Home; Possible Hyperbolic Time Chamber?; Xiao Bei and Xiao Wu Are Gonna Enter Into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber For Dem Beast Cheeks; Impeccable Control; Ah Yin’s Promise of Fun Night!; Offending Jun’er and Lana; He’s Gonna Cry; Conspiracy Against The Godly Ass; Ja Sun’s the Prize—And He Knows It; A Great Reversal in Harem Paradigm!; Ja Sun is a Kind Soul, He Fucks All Comers; Take One Step and Ja Sun Will Bang- Ehm, Take Care of the Rest; No One is Safe from Ja Liang’s Package Under the Spatial Grandmaster!