“Honey, you’re back!”
Seeing Ling Jiu’s return, Bai Ya greeted him happily. However, when she saw Wukong in Ling Jiu’s arms, she could not help but look stunned. “This is…”
“It’s a long story.”
Ling Jiu smiled bitterly. “Honey, first of all, I’d like to admit my guilt.”
“Admit your guilt?”
Bai Ya’s pretty face changed as her body trembled slightly. “He… Could he be a child you had with another woman outside?”
“Huh?”
Ling Jiu immediately said, “Honey, what were you thinking? He’s not mine. Let me explain.”
Bai Ya took a deep breath. “Every single detail.”
“All right, all right…”
Ling Jiu dared not dither and immediately explained what had happened on the infernal planet. Of course, he omitted almost everything about Wukong’s origins.
The matter regarding the Golden Saiyan Apes was grave and could not be exposed.
“I knew you would go to that planet. Sure enough, old habits die hard.”
Bai Ya glared at Ling Jiu with some detestation and added, “In other words, this kid was given to you by that great dragon?”
“Yeah!”
Ling Jiu nodded. “This little guy’s strength is even greater than mine; he’s like a total monster. How could he be my child?”
“That outrageous?”
Bai Ya was stunned.
“Of course!”
Ling Jiu affirmed it.
“How can a newborn child have such enormous strength?”
Bai Ya muttered and could not help but to look at Wukong as the latter looked back at her.
A bright smile appeared on Wukong’s chubby face. A child’s smile was almost the most moving as Bai Ya’s heart trembled a little as she could not help but to stretch out a finger to tease Wukong.
“No! Don’t!
Ling Jiu stopped her hurriedly. “The little guy’s strength is bonkers. If you stretch your finger out like that, he’ll break it!”
“Are you for real?”
Bai Ya did not believe it.
“Don’t doubt me on that.”
Ling Jiu shook his head as he took out a knife from his Dimensional Ring, and then rolled the knife into an iron ball before putting it into Wukong’s hand as a toy. As expected, Wukong squashed it the moment he took it.
“This…”
Bai Ya’s expression changed instantly.
“Be careful when you deal with him in the future. He’s dangerous.”
Ling Jiu shook his head. It was due to the same reason that he did not dare to hand Wukong over to his mom and dad. He was just too dangerous.
“Ling Jiu, are you going to raise him from now on?”
Bai Ya looked at Wukong with a complicated gaze.
“What else can I do?”
Ling Jiu sighed. “I can’t just toss him away, right? Plus, he was born with such terrifying strength, god knows how strong will he get once he grows up? Such a child with potential, of course, I need to raise him with me by his side.”
Somewhat frustrated, Bai Ya opened her mouth and said, “That means, I have become his mother before I even get married? Boy, am I pitiful.”
Ling Jiu smiled awkwardly. Wukong’s existence was indeed a little unfair to Bai Ya, or rather, there was no girlfriend that would not mind it.
After all, that was not her child.
“If you really can’t, then we’ll hand him over to someone else to raise him?” Ling Jiu sighed and thought of 9527. He could only hand Wukong to 9527.
“Forget it. Let’s raise him ourselves.”
Bai Ya was a kind woman, and after grappling with the issue for a while, she accepted Wukong. “I’ll just take it as being a mother in advance, to accumulate experience for our future children.”
“Honey, you’re the best!”
Ling Jiu was moved. For a woman to accept a child that was not hers, how much courage would that take?
“Just be nicer to me in the future.”
Bai Ya glared at Ling Jiu before she looked at Wukong with a smile on her face. “Oh right, dear, what does he eat?”
“The usual stuff. He’ll eat what we eat?” Ling Jiu smiled.
“He’s still so young, can he eat solid food?” Bai Ya was a little worried.
“He is much stronger than you think.”
Ling Jiu shook his head and smiled. In fact, the most suitable diet for a Golden Saiyan Ape was the nutrient-rich ferocious Direbeast meat, and the higher the class, the better. Only then could Wukong grow faster.
However, this was Earth, and there was nothing that was overly high-leveled, so they could only make do.
“All right. I’ll get cooking then.”
“Let me help you! Oh, by the way, I’ve bought a lot of Direbeast meat on the way back. Cook some for the kid, he may like these.”
“All right!”
A moment later, a delicious-smelling meal was served. When Bai Ya fed the stir-fried celery into Wukong’s mouth, he spat it out right away.
He then looked at the cooked Direbeast meat with his big black eyes, and his saliva flowed down like a breached dam.
“He’s a carnivore and doesn’t eat veggies.”
Ling Jiu smiled and shook his head as he put the ribs before Wukong. Wukong, with no fear of it being hot, grabbed the rib and started chomping into it.
In just ten short seconds, not only was the meat on the rib bones eaten clean but the entire rib bone was chewed up as well…
“Is this really just a child?”
Bai Ya found it incredulous, and she looked at Wukong as if she was looking at a monster.
“I told you already, don’t look at him normally.”
Ling Jiu shook his head and placed the Direbeast meat next to Wukong. Wukong sat with its bare backside on the table and started chomping on the meat in big mouthfuls.
“Let’s eat too.”
Ling Jiu picked up a few vegetable stalks and put them in Bai Ya’s bowl.
After gulping down a pot full of Direbeast meat, Wukong became a lot sharper. Not only could he walk, but he could also jump up and down as he ran about inside the airship cabin endlessly. He was totally unlike a normal child at all.
Fortunately, he was still young, and after playing about for a while he was soon sleepy as he lay down and sleep.
“Like a total beast.”
Bai Ya put him in bed and covered him with a quilt as she could not help but smile awkwardly.
“He’s a beast.”
Ling Jiu shook his head. “Let’s go. Let’s get busy while he’s asleep. Otherwise, when he wakes up, who knows what kind of ruckus he’ll kick up.”
“Yeah!”
Time passed quickly, and soon, a week had passed.
This week was arguably the busiest week Ling Jiu had ever since he came to the matriculation camp.
Wukong was growing day by day, and in just a short week’s time, he was like a two- to three-year-old child on Earth. His appetite had greatly increased, and his strength was amazing too.
Most importantly, Ling Jiu had been able to subdue Wukong at first, but now, it was getting harder and harder. Just as 9527 said, in just a few days’ time, Wukong had become a stellar lifeform.
This was the part that gave Ling Jiu the most headaches.
He was such a young child, yet he had such terrifying strength, and he totally had no control of his powers. God only knew what kind of trouble he would cause in the future.
The only thing that gave Ling Jiu a little peace of mind was while Wukong would cause trouble, he would also spend most of the time sleeping. That part of him was similar to a baby back on Earth, and it saved him a lot of effort.
That day, Ling Jiu left Mars again. Bai Ya knew what he was going to do, and while she wanted to stop him she knew she could not.
If Ling Jiu did not go?
She could not imagine what would happen!
If she let Ling Jiu go?
She was worried that Ling Jiu would be in danger.
This contradictory feeling made her extremely flustered, but fortunately, Ling Jiu’s vow made her calm down slightly.
Then, Ling Jiu arrived on the infernal planet as promised.
“You came?”
A huge head slowly emerged from the magma lake like a small hill; it was the great dragon Redfire.
“I’m here!”
Ling Jiu nodded slightly: “I’m ready!”
“Okay!”
A look of joy flashed past Redfire’s eyes as it let out a low growl. The next moment, a series of Redfire Dragons rose from the magma lake.
There were large and small dragons, which came to a total of twenty heads. Plus, six of them were more than 100 meters long.
When their bodies exceeding 100 meters long, that meant they were stellar lifeforms.
Six stellar lifeforms!
If all of them were to charge at Earth, who knew what would happen.
“Sir Redfire, there’s something I need to tell you before we leave.”
Ling Jiu slowly said, “Firstly, although I can make wormholes, there are still some limitations.”
“So, this is bound to be a long journey, I hope you are all prepared.”
“Okay!”
Redfire nodded its big head as a trace of irrepressible joy flashed past its eyes.
Its life was coming to an end, and its greatest wish was to return home. It had been 800 years since… Could that wish finally come true?
Ling Jiu continued, “Secondly, I know nothing about your homeworld, so I need you to show the way.”
“Not a problem!” Redfire agreed readily.
“Let’s get started then.”
Before Ling Jiu could finish his words, an earth-shaking roar suddenly came from a distant void.
A rolling sound wave blasted out, forming a terrifying shock wave. Even from afar, Ling Jiu could feel the terrifying power of the dragon’s roar.
The next second, a large hole suddenly ripped open in the void above their heads, and a black dragon more than 900 meters long emerged from it.
It had a menacing head and sturdy dragon scales…
Not to mention, a powerful dragon body and razor-sharp claws.
At the same time, a terrifying aura radiated from the black dragon’s body, and wantonly suppressed the entire place.
Ling Jiu’s expression changed drastically while other Redfire Dragons looked as if they were facing a great foe as they looked at the black dragon in fear, with the smallest of them trembling in fear.
“Roar!!!”
Seeing that, Redfire growled. “Schwarzkopf, you’ve scared them.”
“Redfire, after all these years, your strength has regressed instead.”
The Dark Demonic Dragon looked at the Redfire Dragons that looked at him like a great foe and said, “It seems like your power has been split by these little ones.”
“Being alone is just too boring after all.”
Redfire slowly said, “I’m not like you who can withstand loneliness.”
“Hmph!”
The Dark Demonic Dragon looked at Ling Jiu. “Human boy, I, Schwarzkopf, am a dragon of my word. If you can send me back to my homeworld, you will have my gratitude.”
“Let’s talk about that once you are home.”
Ling Jiu shook his head. “All right, let’s cut the nonsense. Which direction is your homeworld in?”
“That direction!” Redfire and Schwarzkopf both pointed toward a general direction and spoke in unison.
“Okay!”
Ling Jiu nodded slightly, as he waved his hand, a wormhole appeared, and then he plunged into it.
The Dark Demonic Dragon and the Redfire Dragon looked at each other, as the former’s body shrank quickly into a few meters in size and hurriedly entered the wormhole.
“Children, let’s go too!”
With that, the journey of unknown time length began.
With Ling Jiu’s efforts, a wormhole starting from the infernal planet appeared, and it stretched infinitely in the direction of a distant void.
Three days later, the group had left the star system where the infernal planet was and entered vast nothingness.
That was where true darkness lay.
There was no light, no dust, and even the hydrogen atoms and helium atoms that were widely present in the universe were pitifully scarce, pretty much close to non-existent.
In this environment, Redfire’s spawn would certainly not survive.
However, this was not a challenge for Redfire as it stored all of its non-stellar lifeform children into its stomach, hiding them there to prevent them from being exposed to the cold and dark outer space.
Time passed in a blink of an eye, and half a month went by without them noticing.
