Chapter 385 (2/2)

While he was hard to read if he counted in this world's morals, he was somewhat predictable if he accounted for his emotional outbursts. He was still a person from another world but he acted similar to the other young masters from this world. If this was some side effect of the system or his original personality was not something he knew though.

”M-master is that you?”

While going through the tunnels that were made without any shortcuts in mind, they came upon a familiar face.

”Liu, it has been a while, you look well.”

Zhang Dong smiled while nodding his head at his disciple. The handsome youth didn't age that much due to his high core formation cultivation realm but his eyes did look somewhat sharper.

”Master, it's really you!”

”Who else could it be!”

The one to reply was Feng Nuana that popped out from behind Zhang Dong. She quickly shrunk back though as Liu gave her quite the death glare. This made Zhang Dong remember how she knocked his disciple out cold to go 'save' her older sister.

”What, are you mad? It all worked out well… help big brother, Zhang Liu is bullying me!”

Liu continued to glare at Nuana who quickly ducked behind Zhang Dong. Luckily for him, his wife was close and delivered a nice blow to her younger sister's head.

”Stop that behavior!”

”Ow… why would you hit me, big sis?”

Zhang Liena moved between Nuana and Zhang Dong. At first, he thought she was just helping him out with the silly situation but then his wife started hugging his arm while yanking him to the side. It looked like she was mad about the way her younger sister was clinging to him while hiding from Zhang Liu.

While this would normally cause him to rub his eyebrows in indignation. This time around it caused him to laugh out loud. He placed his hand on Nuana's head and ruffled up her hair, then he moved over to Liu to give him a firm smack on the shoulder.

”Hah, never change you two.”

The two looked at Zhang Dong with big eyes as he wasn't acting too much as a Patriarch. While he had mellowed down when interacting with his wife he mostly kept his more laid-back character in the bedroom. When he interacted with the cultivators outside he still tried to act like a proper leader.

”Is Xue together with…”

He looked to Liu who moved himself a step behind Zhang Liena as they continued down the path. Xue, his other disciple, still remained with his children. The way these walls blocked spiritual energy was even making it hard for his enhanced senses but he could somewhat feel that his kids were near.

”Yes master, she is together with little Jun and little Xue.”

”Is that so…”

While he wanted to do nothing more than to see his kids, there was a certain something that was making him slow down his pace. It had been five years since they last saw him. For him, it was only about half a year which wasn't all that much.

For his children, on the other hand, they have lived for more than they ever saw their father. Deep inside he was worried that they would not recognize him nor accept him as their father as he was gone out of their life for far too long.

The more that he walked the heavier his legs became. It was as if someone was placing shackles on his feet the closer he got to the escape pod in which his family members were waiting for him.

Then he finally saw it, the large door behind where his children would be. It was circular in shape and was really thick. Behind it was a large straight tunnel through which the people in the pod would be shot out.

While at first it might have looked like a simple high-speed escape tunnel, there was more to it. After it went through a certain range it would accelerate and then be teleported to another location which left a dummy pod behind. The idea was to make the enemies chase after this high-speed decoy while the actual pod was transported to another location entirely.

”It's okay, I'm with you.”

Zhang Dong spaced out for a moment and it was noticed by his wife. Liena hugged him tightly while pulling him over towards the entrance. Without resisting he nodded at his wife, while he was concerned about how his children saw him, it was more important that they were safe.

He was still their father and he would always be that. Even if they didn't accept him at first, that didn't mean that he didn't love them. His task was not to be their friend but to be their father and this was something that he intended to do.

Thus with a wave of his hand, the entrance was opened up and there he saw them. Two little munchkins hugging his second disciple...