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Feng Yuan might not have noticed it himself, but Feng Qi could clearly sense that the flow of time in the World of Mountains and Seas was accelerating, as if someone had pressed the fast-forward button.
Everything here was speeding up.
Unlike the previous Feng Qi and Li Sheng, Feng Yuan hadn’t forgotten the world outside the mirror.
After spending the day playing with the little cubs, he would always return home and chatter about Eggy, Rong Rong, and Qin Xun.
Without his care, he wondered if Eggy was doing well.
With the cold weather outside, was Rong Rong still waiting for him?
Qin Xun must be very worried about him.
After expressing his concerns for the little ones, Feng Yuan’s eyes would shift, and he’d remember his kindergarten.
He thought his kindergarten should have started by now.
And since he wasn’t going back, he could skip a few days of school.
Feng Yuan was quite pleased with this idea.
Feng Qi didn’t know his little scheme, but he also remembered the kindergarten.
Feng Qi was thinking about the winter vacation homework assigned by the kindergarten.
Little Sun Kindergarten placed great emphasis on education, covering moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic development comprehensively.
Given the long winter break, it was only natural that the kindergarten wouldn’t let the children spend all their time playing at home.
They had assigned homework.
The assignments weren’t excessive, but they included a review component.
The things the children had learned in kindergarten shouldn’t be completely forgotten over the winter break.
So, the children needed to review at home.
From the start of the vacation until now, Feng Yuan had tried to lose his little backpack several times but never succeeded.
Getting him to do homework was like pulling teeth.
He had procrastinated until now and hadn’t completed a single assignment.
“Yuan Yuan.”
Just thinking about his son’s homework made Feng Qi realize they couldn’t stay here for long.
He picked up his son, who had just returned home after a day of playing, and gave him a new task.
“Tomorrow, when you go out to play, go find Grandpa Ancient Vine.”
“He is very knowledgeable. You should learn from him.”
Feng Yuan agreed readily. But whether he would actually go was another matter.
The next day, to ensure the little guy would actually go and study, Feng Qi personally carried him and delivered him to Grandpa Ancient Vine.
“Yuan Yuan, you stay here and study with Grandpa. Dad is leaving now.”
The situation here has been very unstable lately.
Feng Qi knew it was just a replay of the past, but he couldn’t help getting involved.
He wanted to use his power to prevent the inevitable war between gods and demons.
As soon as Feng Qi left, Feng Yuan climbed onto Grandpa Ancient Vine, hugging his vines and acting coquettishly.
He wanted to go out and play, but also wanted Grandpa Ancient Vine to cover for him.
Grandpa Ancient Vine coughed twice and changed the subject, asking, “Yuan Yuan, your dad said you’ve started school.”
Grandpa Ancient Vine wanted to have a heart-to-heart with him, hoping to convince him to stay put. “How much pressure do you feel from school?”
Feng Yuan thought for a moment, then shook his head honestly. “Not much.”
Grandpa Ancient Vine was taken aback and asked again, “Then, are you doing well in your studies?”
Feng Yuan shook his head again and replied, “Not really.”
Grandpa Ancient Vine: “…”
Understood. This was a happy little underachiever.
Entrusted by the phoenix, Grandpa Ancient Vine didn’t let the little phoenix go out to play.
He began teaching him ancient scriptures and poetry.
Feng Yuan grew drowsy as he listened.
Before long, a young companion came looking for Feng Yuan but, seeing him in class, turned around and left.
Grandpa Ancient Vine, with his swift vine reflexes, immediately tied up all the little fledglings who came over with his vines and placed them right in front of him, making them sit properly.
The little fledglings sat in a neat row, forced to listen to the lesson together.
After a few days of listening, under Feng Yuan’s leadership, the little fledglings rose in rebellion.
Feng Yuan first planned several escape attempts right under Grandpa Ancient Vine’s nose, but all of them failed.
Grandpa Ancient Vine even tattled on them.
After causing trouble during the day, Feng Yuan didn’t even need to wait for his dad to scold him when he got home.
He would just lie face down on a chair and tell his dad to hurry up with the spanking.
He was a busy little one.
After the spanking, he still had to go catch fireflies.
Feng Qi, watching his child who had grown resilient from daily spankings, was utterly exasperated.
After his escape plans failed, Feng Yuan thought of a new idea and took a different approach.
He and the little fledglings secretly found some sleep-inducing powder and stealthily sprinkled it into Grandpa Ancient Vine’s drink.
But even after drinking the sleep-inducing herb, Grandpa Ancient Vine still didn’t fall asleep.
The little fledglings scratched their heads in frustration and finally resorted to using magic.
They made little figures out of leaves to act as their substitutes.
This was a spell known to the fledglings of the Nine-Colored Deer family.
The group of little ones spent their days studying how to skip school.
Before they could figure it out, with the acceleration of time, the divine-demonic war that Feng Qi had hoped to prevent ultimately erupted.
The demons’ greed was too strong. Their hatred for the gods ran too deep.
Meanwhile, the gods also sought to exterminate the demons completely.
Neither side was willing to change their stance. The war between them was absolutely unavoidable.
When the divine-demonic war broke out, Feng Qi, seeing Li Sheng appear on the battlefield, suddenly remembered—
Li Sheng had a hand in instigating this divine-demonic war.
Because of Li Sheng’s involvement, the demons held the initial advantage in the war.
Without hesitation, Feng Qi stood opposite Li Sheng.
He could not allow the demons to annihilate the gods.
Nor could he let the demons rule this world.
Even in his second life, Feng Qi chose the same stance as before.
He would exterminate all demons!
As the divine-demonic war raged on, gods and demons died on the battlefield every day.
When the war broke out, Feng Yuan and the group of little fledglings were hidden away by Grandpa Ancient Vine.
Grandpa Ancient Vine hid them and told them to wait there for their parents to pick them up.
In the place where Grandpa Ancient Vine hid them, there was also a small vine.
At the top of this small vine, a dewdrop bloomed.
Inside the crystal-clear dewdrop was a small, blurry white embryo.
Grandpa Ancient Vine said that this was a newly born god, still just a divine fledgling.
He told them not to be mischievous and not to disturb this newly born little one.
Feng Yuan adored fledglings.
He cupped his face and stared for a long time at the divine fledgling whose features were still unclear.
“Can you hear me?”
Feng Yuan even started chatting with the divine fledgling: “I’m Yuan Yuan, a little phoenix.”
After introducing himself, Feng Yuan unilaterally declared them friends.
“I think you’re a good little one. When you wake up, you can come play with me.”
“I know lots of fun games.”
Feng Yuan didn’t chat with the divine fledgling for too long.
He heard mournful cries from outside.
It was his dad’s voice!
Just as the demons were about to achieve total victory, Feng Qi activated a self-destruction mode.
He intended to use his own destruction to annihilate the demons along with himself.
And Li Sheng, seeing that he couldn’t stop him, chose the same method as before.
He sacrificed himself.
Between victory and Phoenix, his final choice would always be Phoenix.
Between Phoenix’s death and his own, he unhesitatingly chose to die himself.
Li Sheng, with his own power, sealed away both gods and demons.
The little fledglings by Feng Yuan’s side all vanished the moment the sealing power erupted.
Feng Yuan, his chubby face bewildered, ignored Grandpa Ancient Vine’s attempts to stop him and stubbornly ran out.
Once outside, he immediately spotted his two dads in the sky.
His big dad seemed to have died.
His dad was covered in wounds, wailing in sorrow.
Feng Yuan was terrified by the sight.
He wanted to go to his dads, but neither of them noticed him.
His short, stubby wings couldn’t carry him high enough.
Unable to return to his dads’ side, the little guy plopped down on the ground, tilting his head back and crying.
He wept with all his heart.
For some reason, Grandpa Ancient Vine had not been sealed away.
Grandpa Ancient Vine used a vine to wipe the little guy’s face. “Why is our Little Boss Yuan Yuan crying?”
“Don’t cry, don’t cry. Grandpa won’t let you become an orphan.”
“You’re such a mischievous little guy. I’m afraid no one but your fathers can raise you properly.”
As Grandpa Ancient Vine gently wiped Feng Yuan’s face, he comforted him softly.
“Grandpa will reunite you with your fathers now.”
As Ancient Vine’s words faded, his form began to gradually turn transparent.
Countless essences of plants and trees radiated from his body.
These specks of light scattered onto both Phoenix and the deceased Li Sheng.
Grandpa Ancient Vine’s aged voice suddenly became profoundly solemn.
He punished Li Sheng.
Yet, at the same time, he also granted Li Sheng a chance at rebirth.
Watching Grandpa Ancient Vine slowly disappear, Feng Yuan suddenly seemed to realize something.
He scrambled up from the ground and rushed straight toward Grandpa Ancient Vine.
“Grandpa, Grandpa, don’t go!”
“Yuan Yuan will never skip lessons again. Please don’t leave!”
“Waaah, don’t go!”
Feng Yuan tried to hug Grandpa Ancient Vine, but his transparent form slipped through the little guy’s embrace.
Just as Feng Yuan was wailing, an even brighter white light surged toward him.
The light was so intense that Feng Yuan couldn’t keep his eyes open.
When he opened them again and could see clearly, Grandpa Ancient Vine was gone from before him.
His two dads, who had been unconscious, gradually woke up one after another.
Chì Shui had also emerged.
Chì Shui, who had been abruptly pulled out by Feng Qí, still looked somewhat dazed.
Everyone was safe and sound.
Only Feng Yuan was crying loudly, calling out for Grandpa Ancient Vine and the names of the little fledglings.
The kingdom he had just established in the World of Mountains and Seas, and the followers he had gathered. All of it was gone.
“Yuan Yuan, your dad is awake. We can go home now.”
Bai Ze picked up the wailing little guy and handed him back to Feng Qí.
Seeing his son crying uncontrollably, Feng Qí knew the child had been forced to endure a painful separation.
He didn’t have time to say much to Li Sheng.
He picked up the little guy, patted his back gently, and patiently soothed him.
“Yuan Yuan, don’t cry. We’ll meet again someday.”
“Be good. No more crying.”
As for the gods and demons in the great battle, some faced death, others immortality.
Some were indeed dead beyond revival.
But there were other gods and divine beasts, especially the young fledglings, who were merely sealed away in the Endless World.
There, they could still live their lives.
They just could never return to the human world.
The ones who truly perished were the demons.
In the moment of his self-destruction, Li Sheng remembered his wife and son.
He knew his son still had many new friends.
So, he betrayed the demon, destroyed the demon, and left a glimmer of hope for the divine side…
He left a trace of life.
Feng Qi coaxed his son until his arms grew sore, barely managing to calm the child down.
It wasn’t that he had completely soothed his son. Rather, the little guy had cried himself to exhaustion and fallen asleep.
“Alright, let’s head back now.”
With all their memories restored, Feng Qi and Li Sheng had too many things to sort through.
During this process of recovering their memories, they had discovered many anomalies.
These were matters they needed to carefully reconsider.
But for now, the most important thing was to return home as soon as possible.
The snow outside had yet to stop.
Feng Yuan, Rong Rong, and Qin Xun were still out there. They were young and couldn’t be left in the cold.
On the way back, Feng Qi handed Feng Yuan over to Li Sheng.
“Here. Do you want to hold him?”
Li Sheng: “…”
Li Sheng thought about how he had never been fond of holding Feng Yuan while in the mirror.
A chill ran down his spine.
He felt like he was headed straight for disaster.
“Feng Qi.”
Li Sheng swallowed, then took the chubby little child willingly this time.
After carefully cradling his son, he shifted his gaze from the boy’s small face to Feng Qi’s and asked, “Do you think Yuan Yuan will forgive me?”
Feng Qi glanced at him and retorted, “What do you think?”
Li Sheng was left speechless.
He lowered his head and looked again at his son’s beautiful little face.
At this moment, he was filled with regret—
Why had he shown no paternal affection when he was the demon in the mirror?
Back then, his mind had been filled only with Feng Qi, with no room for his son.
Now that he was out, his son was surely going to hold him accountable.
Just thinking about how he had wronged his son in the mirror made Li Sheng’s head ache.
“Feng Qi, help me.”
Li Sheng whispered to Feng Qi, “Help me coax him.”
Feng Qi ignored him.
This time, Li Sheng had more than just his son to win over.
It was only after returning that Feng Qi realized how much Li Sheng had deceived him.
Feng Qi closed his eyes, looking as though he couldn’t be bothered with Li Sheng.
Li Sheng glanced at the older one, then at the younger one, and began to regret recovering his memories.
Now he had two people to appease.
Li Sheng fidgeted restlessly in the car.
In the other car, Rong Rong was sitting on his big dad’s lap.
Before his big dad disappeared, Rong Rong’s relationship with him hadn’t fully mended.
Rong Rong had been hurt by his big dad before, so the little guy had remained somewhat distant.
It was only after realizing his big dad had vanished that Rong Rong truly forgave him.
He had cried several times outside, unable to find his big dad.
Now reunited, Rong Rong sat obediently on his big dad’s lap and even took the initiative to nuzzle his cheek against his big dad’s face.
Chi Shui, feeling his son’s long-lost affectionate gesture, couldn’t resist kissing the boy’s soft cheek.
Perhaps because Rong Rong hadn’t been drinking several cups of milk a day like Feng Yuan at the Yu family, his cheeks hadn’t grown as chubby.
Chi Shui kissed his soft little face and held him tightly, unwilling to let go.
As father and son snuggled closely, Bo Han chimed in from the side.
“Weren’t you supposed to go in and fix the mirror? Why didn’t you come out for so long?”
“Just like the others, once I entered, I forgot everything about the outside world.”
Chi Shui had nearly not made it back this time.
Bo Han didn’t know what had happened with the mirror. But judging by Chi Shui’s words, it seemed he had been in real danger this time.
His Rong Rong had almost lost his other dad again.
“Be more careful next time.”
Bo Han rarely gave Chi Shui a few words of advice: “Don’t take risks when doing things, be more thorough.”
“If something really happened to you, what would Rong Rong do?”
“Mm, I understand.”
The family of three chatted and played with their little one, the atmosphere indescribably warm.
After who knows how long.
Everyone had returned home. The dragons follow along and then leave.
They had wanted to hold the baby but didn’t get the chance.
Although the dragons didn’t get to hold the baby, they saw with their own eyes that the baby was safe and sound.
For them, this was enough to feel completely satisfied.
As they were about to leave, Chi Rong lingered, reluctant to go.
“Hey, do you all want to go have some fun while we’re at it? How about we go take a look at the sea! It’s been so long since we’ve been back.”
Chi Rong wanted to rest outside for a while before returning.
But the other dragons didn’t agree.
“If you want to play, go play by yourself. I want to go back,” the green dragon said bluntly. “If we go back, maybe we can hold the baby.”
“And Eggy. I want to see Eggy.”
The baby and the Eggy were both on the dragons’ minds.
They wanted to see more of the baby and Eggy.
Chi Rong’s suggestion was rejected. He hung his head dejectedly, following the group back.
But before they had flown more than a few steps, Yin Shuang lifted a claw and patted him.
“Didn’t you want to go back to the sea? Come on, I’ll go with you,” Yin Shuang said. “It just so happens I have something to pick up from the seabed.”
Yin Shuang gallantly accompanied Chi Rong back to the sea.
The other dragons didn’t try to stop them at all as they left.
Especially Bai Chen. He flew off at top speed.
During the days waiting outside for the baby, he hadn’t played on his phone or computer.
There wasn’t much signal outside. Besides, he wasn’t in the mood.
So, he hadn’t completed a single gaming order all these days.
Now that everyone was safe and sound, he couldn’t wait to get back to gaming.
Bai Chen, a severe internet addict, was the first to fly back.
As soon as he returned, he saw Eggy throwing things.
Eggy was throwing a tantrum.
Yu Yi picked up the toys he had thrown and lightly tapped his little hand.
“Daddy told you, you can’t throw things around. It’s a bad habit.”
Yu Yi didn’t want the little guy to develop the habit of throwing things.
Eggy had a lot of strength. When he threw things, the impact was more like smashing.
Everything he threw ended up damaged.
Yu Yi wasn’t upset about the objects. He was trying to teach his son a lesson.
After having his hand tapped, Eggy didn’t immediately back down like Feng Yuan would with his dad.
Tears welled in his eyes as he threw another toy.
Yu Yi: “…”
Yu Yi tapped the back of his hand again.
Eggy still wasn’t afraid.
He felt the pain, but he just wasn’t scared.
A child’s skin is tender. The back of Eggy’s hand turned red from the tapping. He didn’t cry out and refused to give in.
Yu Yi was nearly driven mad by him.
Just as the little troublemaker stubbornly defied his father, Feng Yuan, Rong Rong, and Qin Xun returned.
The little troublemaker, in the midst of his tantrum, saw his brother and immediately pouted, his red-rimmed eyes fixed unblinkingly on him.
When Feng Yuan came running over, rubbing his eyes, Eggy even held up his reddened little hand.
“Ah!”
The little rascal was tattling first.
Feng Yuan had just woken up when his dad carried him to the Yu family.
Before he could fully gather his senses, he saw Eggy’s reddened hand from being hit.
This immediately made Brother Yuan Yuan’s heart ache.
“Eggy, who hit you?”
Feng Yuan held his little hand and gently blew on it.
The little rascal, tears welling in his eyes, pointed at his father with his other hand.
Yu Yi, the one being pointed at, had a dark expression on his face.
Putting on an expression of having suffered a great injustice, the little rascal, after having his hand blown on by his brother, raised his little hand again and held it out in front of Rong Rong.
Seeing him offer his hand, Rong Rong quickly imitated Feng Yuan’s earlier gesture and blew on it as well.
But the little rascal wasn’t satisfied with just having his hand blown on.
He pushed his little hand forward a bit more, urging Rong Rong to kiss it.
Rong Rong glanced at Feng Yuan. He hesitated for a moment with a small pout, but eventually lowered her head and kissed it.
Moonlit: Yu Yi, your son is a little white lotus HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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