Swallowing the Stars: Heart of the Martial God

Chapter 117 Reunion, Becoming an Uncle

The onlookers were already too frightened to move far away, not daring to even breathe, their eyes filled with awe and fear as they watched Ling Xuan and the others leave.

They knew that from this day forward, the landscape of the Qinggu Secret Realm would be completely altered, and the destruction of Tianyuan Mountain was destined to cause a great upheaval.

Ling Xuan paid no attention to these things. He led Ling Shuang and the other two towards the base of the Qianwu Secret Realm.

After half a day's flight, the base of the Qianwu Secret Realm finally came into view.

It was a massive fortress, made of a special alloy, with defensive formations engraved on it, emitting a faint glow.

As soon as they approached the encampment, the disciples of the Qianwu Secret Realm guarding the city recognized Ling Shuang and her two companions and immediately bowed respectfully: "Greetings, Your Highness Ling Shuang, Your Highness Ling Feng, and Your Highness Ling Yu."

As an old acquaintance of Ling Xuan, the ruler of Qianwu Kingdom naturally took great care of Ling Xuan's child.

They were directly accepted as personal disciples, which is why they chose to join the Qianwu Secret Realm instead of the forces of their mother's clan.

The teacher's own forces are, after all, closer to the forces belonging to the mother's family than to the teacher's own family.

When the guards saw Ling Xuan, a hint of doubt flashed in their eyes, but seeing that Ling Shuang and the other two were very respectful to him, they did not dare to ask any more questions.

Upon entering the encampment, Ling Xuan headed directly towards the encampment of the Candle Dragon Clan.

From afar, he saw a familiar figure cultivating; it was his father, Ling Tianhe.

With the support of Ling Xuan's resources, Ling Tianhe has made considerable progress over the years, reaching the peak of the cosmic level much earlier than a thousand years ago. He is now ambitiously preparing to participate in the upcoming battle of the cosmic-level peak powerhouses.

He felt that with the experience from the last genius battle, he would definitely shine this time.

At this moment, Ling Tianhe was cultivating under the guidance of the chieftain of the Mangu tribe. His figure moved quickly, and each punch brought up a scorching wave of air.

It's clear that Old Ling has made rapid progress over the past thousand years, and his combat strength is indeed extraordinary; he already shows the makings of a genius martial artist.

Eight layers of flame domains could be seen between his fists and feet, the flames leaping as if they were alive, and there was also a faint but pure fluctuation of the flame law.

However, it's impossible for someone of this caliber to achieve a ranking in the Strongest Battle, but there is hope of breaking through from the World Zone.

Hearing footsteps, Ling Tianhe stopped cultivating, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at Ling Xuan who was walking towards him with a smug smile on his face: "Isn't this my great genius son? Come and see how your dad's training is going?"

"Father's divine might is invincible." Ling Xuan could only smile and praise his father when he saw him like this.

"Hahaha, you little rascal, you've got a sweet tongue." Ling Tianhe laughed heartily, walked over and patted Ling Xuan on the shoulder, "What brings you here?"

"I heard someone was disrespectful to you, so I came over immediately to vent your anger," Ling Xuan said with a smile, his eyes full of relief.

"Clan Chief." Ling Xuan greeted the clan chief politely.

The old patriarch nodded to Ling Xuan. He had already learned from the Third Elder that Ling Xuan had come in. Ling Shuang and the others must have gone out to pick up Ling Xuan.

"Good lad, that's a good man!" Ling Tianhe was overjoyed and pulled Ling Xuan outside. "Let's go, let's let those bastards know how powerful my son is."

His son is the realm master of the Giant Axe Secret Realm, the number one in the Genius Battle, taking on Tianyuan Mountain is a piece of cake for him.

"Grandpa, Dad has leveled the entire Tianyuan Mountain." Ling Feng ran over from behind and showed Ling Tianhe a video.

In the video, Ling Xuan struck down with his palm, instantly flattening the entire Tianyuan Mountain base, leaving only a bottomless palm print, and everything around him vanished.

"This..." The old patriarch was astonished and murmured, "Is this the kind of destruction a realm lord could cause?"

Each faction's base must be reinforced with various high-strength alloys, otherwise, if someone were to cultivate inside for even a short time, the base would be almost completely destroyed.

However, considering Ling Xuan's talent, he didn't find it surprising anymore.

"What a pity, I didn't get to see those bastards' miserable state." Ling Tianhe clicked his tongue and said with some regret. "Here it is!" Ling Feng fawned over Ling Tianhe and showed him another video he had secretly filmed, which showed the Tianyuan Mountain people looking disheveled, desperate, and tragically dead.

"What good stuff is it? Let me see it too!" A voice as melodious as a nightingale's song rang out, clear and pleasant.

Ling Xuan looked up and saw a girl standing not far away. Her features were almost identical to his eldest sister, Ling Yue. He smiled and said, "Sister, you're here too?"

"You've mistaken me for someone else." But the girl frowned, her tone distant. "I don't have a younger brother."

"Sis, it can't be that bad, can it?" Ling Xuan said with a bitter face, thinking that his older sister was still blaming him for not coming home for a long time and asking her to help take care of the children. "I'm back now, aren't I?"

"Wow, you can even mistake your own sister? All that love you and your son for nothing." At this moment, the second sister, Ling Xue, walked out from behind the girl and couldn't help but complain.

Seeing this, Ling Shuang quickly ran over, patted the girl's shoulder and introduced her, "Cousin Weiwei, this is my father, Ling Xuan. You have to call him uncle."

Weiwei then looked Ling Xuan up and down, and suddenly realized, "Oh, so you're my uncle! Mom often mentions you."

Ling Xuan then realized what was happening and smiled awkwardly, "Oh, it's Weiwei. You've grown so much. You look just like your mother when she was young. I mistook you for her at first glance."

This was the first time he had ever seen his niece. He had never even been back when she was born, only seen her in the virtual universe, and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

"Uncle, you're finally back!" Weiwei was very lively and immediately became friendly.

Seeing this, Ling Xuan took out some cultivation resources and treasures from his storage space and handed them to Weiwei: "This is a gift from your uncle. It should be helpful for your current cultivation."

"Dad, you're being unfair! We three brothers are your own flesh and blood!" Ling Feng protested.

In fact, as Ling Xuan's family, how could they lack cultivation resources?

Not to mention that the Candle Dragon Clan treasured the three children with seven times the genetic potential, investing even more resources than Ling Xuan had done initially, Ling Xuan's own ability to earn resources was faster than that of an average Universe Venerable.

Otherwise, even a child with truly ordinary talent like Vivi wouldn't have been able to cultivate to the peak of the cosmic level so quickly.

Seeing that Ling Feng was constantly acting silly, Ling Shuang and Ling Yu had no choice but to take action to suppress him and take him away.

At this moment, the eldest sister, Ling Yue, also came out with her mother.

Ling Xuan never expected that his family would reunite in the Qinggu Secret Realm of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance; it was truly a strange occurrence.

If Ling Xuan's family didn't have any power or background, they would probably all be wiped out.

"Mom, what brings you here?" Ling Xuan greeted his mother first before asking.

In his memory, his mother shouldn't have been so fond of adventure.

"I'm here to keep an eye on your dad, aren't I? That old man is such a worry, he never knows how to cause the children any trouble." Ling's mother looked at Ling Tianhe with dissatisfaction.

In her opinion, Lao Ling has absolutely no talent; he should just stay at home and enjoy his retirement instead of running around and causing trouble for the children.

If something goes wrong and he loses his life, what will happen to the children?
Save or not?
Ling Tianhe glared angrily at his mother's rebuke, "What old hag? I'm not even 2000 years old yet, I'm in the prime of my life!"

Ling Xuan smiled and took the initiative to explain to Old Deng, "Mom, don't worry, Dad knows what he's doing."

Ling Xuan knew his father very well. He was indeed very confident. He had come to participate in the cosmic mercenary assessment. With his strength of comprehending a trace of the fire law at the eighth level of the domain, the mercenary assessment was a piece of cake for him.

Most importantly, he also has three powerful grandsons as bodyguards.

The appearance of those ruins was entirely accidental.

(End of this chapter)