Martial arts have become extinct worldwide, yet I am forced to have a large family.

Nanhai City, dusk.

Jiang Mengyun, supporting her increasingly protruding belly, walked slowly side by side with Bai Chuyi.

A gentle breeze stirred her long, black hair that reached her waist.

"Sister Jiang, your belly seems to have gotten a little bigger!"

Bai Chuyi turned her head to the side, her clear eyes filled with curiosity and envy, her voice soft and sweet.

She stretched out her finger, cautiously, as if she wanted to touch it but dared not.

"Xiaobai also wants to have a baby with Dayang!"

"It definitely will." Jiang Mengyun smiled gently, took Bai Chuyi's hand, and gently placed it on her abdomen.

"Next time I see him, I absolutely have to make him have your baby!"

"If he dares to disagree, we'll lock him up and forbid him from going anywhere!"

"Yes!" Bai Chuyi nodded vigorously, her clear eyes sparkling with longing. "Little Bai wants to have lots and lots of babies!"

Jiang Mengyun stopped in her tracks, then, remembering something, asked softly, "By the way, Xiaobai, has Yang Xian... said anything to you lately?"

"Yes!" Bai Chuyi answered without hesitation. "Da Yang said he misses all of us very much, and he told me to find a chance to ask the teachers to go to Star City to bring him back!"

"Bring him back?" Jiang Mengyun paused slightly, then sighed with a hint of disappointment, "What a pity, my grandfather won't let him come back..."

If it weren't for my pregnancy...

She really wanted to sneak off to Star City to find Yang Xian.

In the shadows not far away, two figures heard their conversation clearly.

Jiang Hong, the head of the Jiang family, frowned and lowered his voice to speak to Principal Huang Meng beside him.

"Principal Huang, is your student... perhaps he really has a mental illness?"

"Yang Xian has already sacrificed himself, how could she still hear him speaking? She must be hallucinating!"

"I feel that as a teacher, you should strengthen your psychological counseling for her."

"Alas! This is my dereliction of duty as a teacher!" Principal Huang Meng sighed deeply, his face full of self-blame and helplessness.

Bai Chuyi possesses an SS-level martial arts talent that is rare even in a century, and is the most likely hope to challenge the Martial God in the future.

A true Nine Realms!

If her longing for Yang Xian causes her mental state to deteriorate and leads to any setbacks in her cultivation, it would be a tremendous loss that the Chinese martial arts world cannot afford.

"However... Yang Xian's two contracted beasts have not shown any abnormalities so far."

Jiang Hong looked up, gazing in the direction of the recent battle: "Could he still be alive?"

"Impossible," Huang Meng categorically denied.

"The price to pay for forcibly breaking through to the ninth realm is unimaginable!"

"Even if he really did have incredible luck and survived by sheer chance, why didn't he come back? Instead, he went off alone to the distant Star City. That doesn't make sense."

He paused, his tone heavy.

"Old Jiang, although we all find it hard to accept Yang Xian's death, the fact is the fact! Let's stop hoping for the best!"

The two fell silent again.

After a while, Jiang Hong spoke again, his voice filled with deep worry:

"As the reconstruction of Southsea City comes to an end, the communication base station will soon be repaired, and then we will be able to contact the outside world again."

"Can we still keep this from them?"

This is the most difficult problem.

Once the signal is restored, Jiang Mengyun and Bai Chuyi will definitely send messages or make phone calls to Yang Xian immediately.

When all the messages went unanswered and received no response, they would eventually guess the cruel truth.

"It's not a big problem to hide it for a day or two, but if it goes on for too long, the lie will eventually come out!" Jiang Hong said with a worried expression.

"At worst..." Huang Meng gritted his teeth, "at worst, we'll just pretend to be Yang Xian and chat with them on our phones..."

"That way, they won't have to overthink things every day..."

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On the other side, at Star Academy.

"It's getting late, I have to go back."

On the bench, Yang Xian stretched and said to Lin Ai beside him.

"Go back?" Lin Ai tilted her head, looking at him with some confusion.

"Don't you live in the school dormitory? I remember the college assigned a single room to every student."

"I want to too..." Yang Xian's lips twitched, and a smile that looked more like a grimace appeared on his face. "But someone won't let me stay..."

The thought of that aloof and mature woman gave him a headache.

Yang Xian arrived at the place he had arranged with Liu Qin beforehand, a secluded, shady path.

Not long after, Liu Qin's figure appeared in their field of vision, and a crisp and rhythmic sound of high heels came from afar.

"Wow~" Lin Ai's eyes lit up, and she exclaimed softly:

"I never imagined that Chief Liu was your guardian!"

"I remember now, a few days ago outside the research institute, she was the one who brought you to Star City!"

As the most outstanding genius in the history of Star Academy, Liu Qin entered the seventh realm before the age of forty, and also had a wealth of knowledge about "Mechanical Martial Arts".

Almost everyone in Star City knows her.

"Guardian? What guardian?!"

Yang Xian pursed his lips.

She's a "snack" killer who's got my heart set on!

Yang Xian inwardly complained, but forced a polite smile: "Hello, Sister Liu!"

"Yang Xian..." Liu Qin walked up to him in her high heels, adjusted her glasses, and asked, "How was your first day at the academy?"

"It's...it's alright."

Yang Xian gave a vague reply, not daring to meet Liu Qin's gaze.

He dared not say that he fell asleep in the first class.

It's not only difficult to learn, but also incredibly boring!

Advanced mathematics, please come back soon, I love you to death!

"Oh? It's not just 'okay'." Liu Qin's lips curled into a meaningful smile. "I heard from Teacher Zhong that you did very well in class! He praised you to the skies."

Yang Xian: "???"

What's so good about it?

Furthermore, they started asking about my class schedule on their very first day at the college?

This damn controlling nature!

"Let's go! To celebrate your brilliant performance on your first day of school, I'm going to reward you properly tonight!"

Liu Qin took a step forward, instantly closing the distance between herself and Yang Xian.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Yang Xian instinctively took a half step back. "Do you really think I'm a three-year-old? A reward?"

"hehe……"

Liu Qin let out a soft laugh, her beautiful eyes sparkling with a unique light behind her glasses.

Instead of backing away, she pressed forward again.

A cool yet soft arm gently embraced Yang Xian's neck.

Warm breath, accompanied by a faint fragrance, brushed against Yang Xian's ear.

A whisper filled with endless allure entered his ears.

"I haven't treated you like a child... so I'm going to reward you properly!"