28 Chapter 27. (1/2)

(POV Patriarch of the Good Fortune sect)

What the hell? What kind of dog shit did I step in for this to happen?

I couldn't help but look at the ground at the brown residue beneath my feet. Really? I really stepped on some mighty fine dog shit this time. Look at that texture. Isn't it quite impressive? The smush you get from planting your foot firmly on top of it.

No that's not right! Darn it all! This isn't the time to be admiring the crap I stepped on!

What is with these stupid purple clouds as far as the eye can see? Why are there are no clouds only above my sect?

This is absurd!

I thought I faced all my trials and tribulations when I was made a eunuch. Why can't I live the easy life now?

Did I go wrong somewhere?

Was taking in that child a mistake after all?

This couldn't be related to him, right?

He's just a twelve year old child at the moment. There is no way he could have anything to do with this world shaking phenomenon.

But why is it he's the first thing that comes to mind when I see this?

Maybe I really should have listened to elder Hitu when we first found the child.

One day we were making our way back from the capital city of the strongest empire, the Celestial Empire, after we had finished making our tributes. We saw quite an interesting scene on our journey back to the sect.

A child fell out of a rift from the sky. I shit you not. My luck wasn't good enough for it to be a beautiful babe. Instead it was a little five year old boy.

Who am I kidding? Wishing for a beautiful babe to fall from the sky when I'm a eunuch, it would have been a sucker punch to the face if it really happened.

Anyways, I got into an argument with elder Hitu about taking the child into our sect. I took it as a good omen for the child to suddenly appear in front of me when I could no longer have children.

Elder Hitu was not so optimistic thinking it was to suspicious for a child to fall out of a rift from the sky for no apparent reason.

I admit he had a point, but I still insisted on taking the child in while stating I would take full responsibility if he truly had any ill intent. He was only five years old though, how could such an innocent child possibly hold such motives?

He was really cute you know. Absolutely adorable. I doted on him alot and I believe I raised him well if I do say so myself. He would get into trouble every now and then and elder Hitu would also make trouble for him while trying to probe to see if he was really loyal to the sect.

I bet that little girl Chu Yue really thought she was successfully manipulating him to move as she intended, but in reality elder Hitu and I have always been in cahoots.

I allow elder Hitu to do as he pleases as a form or tempering for the child, while I get to be the good doting parent on his side. It's like playing good cultivator, bad cultivator. Although elder Hitu has his own headaches to deal with. His child is like that after all. Shooting for the wrong team is putting it nicely..

When he found out about it from that little girl, Chu Yue, he was of course furious towards his idiot son. He beat him for days trying to get him to look Chu Yue's way. He even had his son take part in fighting against little Han to take the position of junior patriarch. He did everything to try to knock some sense into his child by turning the two into enemies, but it was all wasted effort in the end.

I still get chills whenever I think about it. How did it even happen? Why did it even happen?

No matter how I think about it, I still feel pitiful towards elder Hitu's plight. Cursed to never have grandchildren due to his son's preferences.

Well thinking about that lass Chu Yue, she is a bit too good for that idiot though. She is a beauty and quite the talent. She recently broke through to become an 8th realm mortal. She would be much better suited to my adopted child. If your son doesn't want her, do you mind if I snatch her away for mine?

Alas, their relationship is far too complicated. That lass has only ever had eyes for elder Hitu's son since they were young. They grew up closely together after all. She was picked up by elder Hitu from a small village when she was born.

Now that I think about it... when she was born, there were strange rumours going around. What was it again? I dismissed it as being nothing at the time thinking the villagers were crazy.

Right! That's it! When she was born, there was a purple mist that emitted from her body that floated up into the skies above the village. They formed a small purple cloud that stuck around for a while before dispersing into nothing like they never existed.

Wait. Purple mist? Purple clouds? Is it actually her and not my adoptive child's fault?

Ugh. Is this actually an auspicious sign of a genius being born?

Once I reached this train of thought I anxiously headed over to where Chu Yue's assigned residence was.

When I reached outside of her cave I could see her standing on a rock in the middle of the river outside her cave. She was looking up towards the sky with a vacant gaze while her aura was fluctuating wildly. To my shock the girl who was only a day before an 8th realm mortal was now a 10th realm mortal.

A tear slid down from her cheek and she closed her eyes. She looked very lonely and pained standing there by herself.

While I was watching her silently without uttering a single word elder Hitu eventually made an appearance by my side asking what the situation was.

I pointed towards her and elder Hitu quickly looked over. He also came to the shocking realization that she was now a 10th realm mortal.

What kind of crazy shit did you do in a single day little girl? Did you meet some almighty cultivator and dual cultivate? You're still a virgin, right? Right? My little Han may have his heart completely broken if you aren't you know!

These rude thoughts were of course left unspoken. As the patriarch I must maintain my composure at all times so I let out a ”not bad” instead.

Elder Hitu glared at me like he wanted to say something.

I knew him so well. His thoughts were definitely, ”I was about to say that you old fart!”

Hahaha, you cannot out pose me young grasshopper.