ATG: My genius is almost frightening!

"Yun Che, it's been a while." Yun Wuji moved to the side, dodging the hug from the excited Yun Che. This kid was still somewhat childish despite being a family man now.

"Master, you really haven't changed..." Yun Che stopped in his tracks and looked at his master, shaking his head helplessly. "I missed you and wanted to give you a brotherly hug. That's rude, you know?"

"Of course. There is nothing that can make me, I, Yun Wuji, change. I am the perfect version of myself," Yun Wuji said narcissistically as he dropped from the air, landing on the ground. "I only hug beautiful women, and you, my dear disciple, are neither a woman nor beautiful."

With his hands behind his back, Yun Wuji gave the scene before him a quick glance before walking ahead. The Yun Family's estate had undergone many changes, and it seemed that after Yun Che became the new clan head, he had altered many things.

"I am indeed not a woman, but how could you say that I am not beautiful?" Yun Che hurried after Yun Wuji and complained. He admitted his master was better looking than him, but he still felt that aside from his master, he was the most handsome man in the world.

"Beautiful? Did you start swinging that way?" Yun Wuji gave him a side glance and spoke with half a smile.

"Fuck! I mean, handsome! H-A-N-dsome! I am as straight as can be! I only like women!" Black lines appeared on Yun Che's face as he shouted loudly.

"Right, right, I know, I know. But if you ever change your orientation, I know some good men. They will certainly like you," Yun Wuji said with a laugh.

"I won't! If you think they are good, why don't you have them for yourself?!" Yun Che felt creeped out by the thought and shook his head quickly.

Bang!

"Little Che, how dare you talk to your master like that!?" Yun Wuji's face darkened as he smacked a fist onto Yun Che's head. "Do you have no respect for your elders!?"

"Ouch!" Yun Che yelped, rubbing his head with a pained look. "That's unfair! You were the one who brought it up!"

"That's the privilege of being a master," Yun Wuji said with a smug shrug.

"Anyways, I heard you are going to be a father soon." He stopped walking and patted Yun Che's shoulder. "They say nothing makes a man mature faster than the responsibility of fatherhood. Are you ready for that?"

Xiao Lingxi had told him about Yun Che's wife's pregnancy, and it seemed she became pregnant around the same time as Chu Yuechan.

Apparently, Yun Che had also married two more wives from the other Guardian Families.

Another interesting thing was that his first wife, Situ Xuan, the girl betrothed to him when they were kids, who once conspired with Xiao Yulong to poison him, had her profound veins crippled and was banished to a cold palace after plotting to kill Yun Che's unborn child.

She had secretly tried to poison the mother, but was fortunately exposed by Xiao Lingxi, who happened to be visiting her nephew's wife at the time.

Yun Che was so furious that he nearly killed Situ Xuan on the spot. If not for his grandfather Xiao Lie's intervention, she and her entire clan would have been wiped out.

When Yun Wuji heard about this, he was not surprised. Situ Xuan was just a useless bitch with great ambition but no ability to match it. Back then, Yun Wuji had not stopped Yun Che from being with her because he wanted him to gain some experience from dealing with her.

"Yes, if everything went smoothly, Yue'er would give birth in two months." Yun Che could not hide the wide smile on his face when he spoke about his child. He then congratulated his master as well. "I also heard that you are going to be the father of two children."

"Hmm, I never expected to be a father at such a young age," Yun Wuji said, nodding his head. He was still very young, barely in his early twenties. Being a father had always seemed far away, especially with his Dragon God bloodline. He had thought it would take hundreds of years before he could finally father children.

"Indeed, it feels weird, but it's also exciting, right?" Yun Che agreed. He was even younger than Yun Wuji, so he shared the same feelings.

As they walked, Yun Che suddenly said, "By the way, Master, if my child is a boy and yours is a girl, what if we arranged a marriage between them?" He rubbed his hands together, his voice tinged with excitement.

"Absolutely not!" Yun Wuji's expression darkened instantly. "I won't force my daughter to marry someone she doesn't even know, especially not your son!" He wanted to spoil his daughter, give her the finest things in the world, and let her grow as she pleased. How could he shackle her to an arranged marriage before she was even born? And with Yun Che's son, of all people?

"Why?" Yun Che became offended. "What's wrong with my son? He would grow up just like his father and become a great man!"

"That's exactly the problem! I'd never let my daughter marry a man like you," Yun Wuji snapped, delivering a sharp slap to the back of Yun Che's neck. His voice full of disgust, "However... your suggestion does have some merit. How about this, if my child is a boy and yours is a girl, we'll arrange the marriage instead."

"Fuck no!" This time, it was Yun Che's turn to refuse. He slapped Yun Wuji's hand away and roared, "My daughter won't marry anyone! She will stay with her father until I die!"

"Fucking daughter con!" Yun Wuji snorted disdainfully.

"How dare you, of all people, say that to me?!!" Yun Che shot back.

"Hmph! That's your and your daughter's loss, not marrying the son of the ruler of this universe," Yun Wuji said contemptuously, but he did not continue on the topic. "Do you want to go to the God Realm?"

"God Realm?" Yun Che looked confused.

"Indeed, the God Realm is almost completely under my rule. I need someone to help me govern it," Yun Wuji said, walking slowly and staring ahead as he spoke. "Do you want to come and help me?"

Yun Wuji had no shortage of capable subordinates, but given the choice, he preferred those closest to him. Beyond his women and the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace, Yun Che was a natural candidate.

"Going to the God Realm?" Yun Che muttered under his breath. He was silent for a long moment before saying, "No, I'll pass." His voice was calm, as if he were talking about something trivial.

He had turned down an offer that even a God Emperor would find impossible to refuse.

Yun Wuji's expression flickered with surprise, but it quickly faded. "Are you sure?"

"I'm quite content with my life as it is," Yun Che replied calmly, his expression relaxed. "Three beautiful wives, and soon a child on the way. Besides," he added with a faint smirk, "I'm still your disciple, aren't I? If I run into trouble, you'll have to clean up my mess anyway. You wouldn't want to tarnish your reputation, would you, Master?"

Yun Che was someone who valued familial bonds and cherished feelings, but he lacked ambition. The God Realm was a place he, like all profound practitioners on the Blue Pole Star, wanted to visit someday, but he did not want the burden of governing a large part of it.

He knew that accepting the offer would not only benefit him but also his children. Still, he was not concerned, because at the end of the day, his master was Yun Wuji. He only needed to pester him in the future, and he could secure the best resources and positions for his children.

That is the benefit of having an all-powerful master!

"If you go around stirring trouble, I'll skin you alive," Yun Wuji said with a grim tone as he smacked Yun Che's head.

"Hahaha! I know you would never bear to do that," Yun Che replied, laughing proudly as he dodged Yun Wuji's smack. "Who else would you even talk to if you skinned me alive?"

He did not take his master's warning seriously in the slightest.

"By the way, master, I created a gaming console. Would you like to play?" After joking around for a while, Yun Che suddenly spoke up. As someone who had thoroughly read through Yun Wuji's entire library, he had become intimately familiar with everything contained within those vast collections.

He had invested quite a considerable amount of effort into creating a gaming console similar to those found on Earth, one that operated using profound energy as its power source.

"A gaming console? Show me," Yun Wuji responded, his curiosity clearly piqued by this unexpected creation.

...

A few days later, Yun Wuji departed from the Blue Pole Realm and brought all his women along with him, including the addition of the two thousand women from the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace, as he made his way to the Snow Song Realm.

For their safety, he had them remain within the Primordial Ark to avoid any potential accidents, while he traveled alone to his destination.

Yun Wuji stealthily returned to the Divine Ice Phoenix Sect without alerting anyone to his presence and proceeded directly to the Ice Phoenix Palace's thirty-sixth chamber. There, he immediately discovered Mu Bingyun within the palace alongside Mu Xiaolan. "Bingyun, I am back."

"Wuji," Mu Bingyun's face lit up with a radiant smile upon seeing him. She was about to pull him into a warm embrace, but stopped herself abruptly upon remembering that Mu Xiaolan was here. She felt far too embarrassed to display such an intimate side of herself in front of her own disciple.

"Hmph! You stinky bastard!" Mu Xiaolan crossed her arms, her nose wrinkling in disdain. "Why'd you come back so soon?" She made no effort whatsoever to hide her obvious dislike toward Yun Wuji. After all, he was the one who had stolen her beloved master away from her!

"Hmm? Bingyun, am I the only one hearing this strange buzzing sound?" Yun Wuji acted as though he couldn't see Mu Xiaolan at all. He placed his pinky finger in his ear and asked Mu Bingyun with feigned confusion, "It sounds remarkably like an annoying fly buzzing around somewhere."

"Bastard! What do you mean by an annoying fly? You are the annoying fly! Your whole family is annoying flies!" Mu Xiaolan's chest heaved as she screamed, her face red with anger. She grabbed her master's sleeve and said, "Master, he is bullying me again!"

"..." Mu Bingyun shook her head helplessly.

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