Chapter 194

Taikoo City was built beside the Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts. Its walls were towering into the clouds and stretched for tens of thousands of miles. It was the largest gathering place for weapon cultivators and alchemists in the Canglan Realm, probably because it was close to the Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts, and ferocious beasts were the most in-demand materials for weapon cultivators and alchemists. Not to mention that the Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts occupied one-third of the area of ​​the Canglan Continent, and contained countless natural treasures.

That is why this place is not only a gathering place for weapon cultivators and alchemy cultivators, but also a gathering place for various independent cultivators, and it is also the location of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

As soon as you step into the ancient city, you will be overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle. Looking around, you can see cultivators dressed as sword cultivators, magic cultivators, formation cultivators, alchemy cultivators, and weapon cultivators, and there are also demon cultivators among them.

Jiaojiao, who was seeing so many people for the first time after coming into this world, was now in her father's arms. Her tender little white hands were grabbing her father's clothes on his chest, and she was looking at everything in front of her with ignorance and curiosity.

When he saw a man riding a tall fire beast passing by, his black eyes immediately widened in surprise, and his little hands tugged at his father's clothes: "Dad."

Dad, look.

Yin Zheng lowered his head to look at Jiaojiao, then looked at the flame beast, and said in a low, hoarse voice: "Want it?"

When Jiaojiao heard her father's voice, she looked up at him in confusion. The next second, her attention was attracted by other new things. She pulled his clothes and kept motioning him to look.

Seeing this, Yin Zheng was speechless. He raised his hand to stroke the back of Jiaojiao's round head, then carried Jiaojiao and walked straight towards the clothing store.

There are very few clothing stores in Taigu City that sell precious clothes suitable for children of Jiaojiao's age. After all, Taigu City is almost entirely populated by cultivators, and the proportion of ordinary mortals is too small. Among the cultivators who come here, there are very few children this young.

Yin Zheng searched several stores before he found one that sold children's clothes.

After buying all the children's clothes that fit in the store, Yin Zheng took Jiaojiao back to the inn where he was staying temporarily.

This was the first time Yin Zheng changed clothes for such a young child. He was inevitably a little hesitant as the child's arms and legs were so fragile that they seemed like they would break at the slightest touch. Fortunately, Jiaojiao was very cooperative, and although it took some time, he managed to change the clothes successfully.

Sitting on the bed, Jiaojiao looked down at her new clothes, moved her fair and tender feet that hadn't put on socks yet, reached out and held Yin Zheng's fingers, pulled Yin Zheng's hand over and placed it on her belly, looked up at him and said, "Ah."

There is no Doudou.

Yin Zheng didn't understand. After thinking for a while, he looked at the changed clothes, picked them up, and pointed at the crooked pocket on it: "Isn't this one?"

Jiaojiao nodded: "Yeah."

yes.

Yin Zheng patted Jiaojiao's head and said soothingly, "I'll order you two pieces of clothing with pockets tomorrow."

The precious robes are embroidered with runes and cannot be easily changed, otherwise the overall defensiveness will be greatly reduced.

Jiaojiao didn't understand, but he didn't pay attention to it anymore. When Yin Zheng touched his head, he rubbed his father's hand habitually, then leaned forward twice and leaned into his father's arms, arching his eyebrows and trying to get closer to his father's arms.

Yin Zheng stroked him with both hands, feeling a little at a loss for a moment.

Jiaojiao, with her hair messily sticking up, looked up at him like some kind of childish and soft animal. Her eyes, like black grapes, looked at him brightly, and her soft voice was filled with undisguised dependence: "Dad~"

Yin Zheng lowered his eyes and looked at the child in his arms, thinking hesitantly, is he... acting like a spoiled child?

"Um."

He responded softly, his eyes falling on Jiaojiao's fair and tender face. He couldn't help but think of the soft steamed buns he had eaten in the town where mortals gathered before he established his foundation. His fingers moved slightly, and he couldn't help but stretch out his index finger to poke Jiaojiao's cheek.

Well, it’s softer than steamed buns.

He withdrew his hand and thought.

Seeing that her father liked to poke her face, Jiaojiao, who was being poked, lay down and put her face in her father's hand, and pulled her father's hand to signal him: "Ah."

Poke it.

Yin Zheng didn't poke him, but instead straightened his messy hair: "Are you hungry?"

Jiaojiao, who understood, patted her belly and said crisply, "Ah!"

Jiaojiao was fed by his father, and then he played in his father's arms for a while. Then he fell asleep leaning against his father drowsily. When he woke up again, he was back in the dead zone.

Jiaojiao sat up from the seashell, holding the bottle in her arms in a daze. After a while, she shook her little head, feeling as if something was stuck in her head. She was dizzy and couldn't understand anything.

Two dads?

Jiaojiao blinked, raised two little fingers and looked at them again and again. Jiaojiao has two fathers?

He rolled out of the seashell, sat on the ground and touched the blue whale's back: "Ahh."

Fish.

'…Um? '

Blue Whale responded slowly.

"Jiaojiao, ah, daddy."

Jiaojiao has two fathers.

The blue whale swung its tail fin and exclaimed sincerely: "It's amazing."

Jiaojiao blinked: "Ah?"

Isn’t it strange?

"Not surprising...very impressive."

Jiaojiao blinked. It seemed that the two dads were really powerful!

After figuring it out, his chest puffed out slightly, his eyes filled with amazement. Two dads! Jiaojiao has two dads!

The blue whale fished out a green hairpin from the bottom of the sea and gave it to Jiaojiao. Although he didn't know what this thing was, the blue whale could sense the powerful defensive power contained in it from the array pattern engraved on it.

Jiaojiao held the emerald green hairpin and looked at it curiously, then put it in the pocket in front of her belly, supported herself on the ground with her little hands and stuck out her butt to try to stand up.

There are many things in Jiaojiao's pocket, including various spiritual pearls and treasures. Among them is a pair of bracelets inlaid with bright red Tianlin stones. Each of them contains rich fire spiritual power. Any one of them is worth a top-grade spiritual treasure.

There were a lot of things like this in Jiaojiao's pocket, all of which were given to him by Blue Whale because he thought they were good.

The pocket was too full, so when Jiaojiao tried to stand up, the weight knocked her back to the ground.

He was stunned for a moment, and reacted slowly before looking down at the things in his pocket. After thinking for a while, he reached out and took out the things in his pocket one by one and carefully placed them on the ground.

After emptying her pockets, Jiaojiao tried to stand up again by supporting herself on the ground. Although it was a bit difficult this time, she managed to stand up shakily after two attempts.

Jiaojiao pursed her lips and took a cautious step forward.

Seeing this, the blue whale stopped breathing and focused all its attention on Jiaojiao's shaky step forward.

Unlike the body condensed by spiritual consciousness, the real Jiaojiao took just one step and fell to the ground with a thud. He fell quite hard and it hurt so much that he covered his butt with his little hands, pursed his lips, and held back his tears for a long time with red eyes.

The blue whale looked at a loss, and then used his spiritual sense to transform it into two hands, and loosely supported Jiaojiao's side when he tried to walk again.

There is no distinction between day and night in the Dead Zone, and the flow of time is different from that outside. Every time Jiaojiao feels sleepy, her consciousness will run out of the Dead Zone and appear in other places, and most of the places she appears are near Hesniemen or Yin Zheng.

Gradually, Yin Zheng also noticed the difference in Jiaojiao. Like Hesniemen, he left a spiritual imprint on Jiaojiao in an attempt to find his true body. However, like Hesniemen, he was unable to find Jiaojiao's true body based on his spiritual imprint.

Every time Jiaojiao disappeared, the spiritual power mark they imprinted on him would also disappear, so they guessed that Jiaojiao's body should be in a place that could be isolated from spiritual power and divine consciousness, and there were too many such places in Canglan Realm.

Worried and anxious, Hesniemen left Ziyang Sect and searched one by one. Yin Zheng also searched for Jiaojiao's trace in one secret realm after another.

They all did not publicize Jiaojiao's existence or issue a bounty to find her, because it is inevitable to make enemies on the path of cultivating immortals. Once others know about it, it is inevitable that some people will use Jiaojiao as their weakness and capture her to threaten and lure them.

Jiaojiao saw her father alternately every day, and Yin Zheng and Hesniemen gradually got used to seeing their child once every two years.

It was not until half a month later, which was fifteen years later in Canglan Continent, that Jiaojiao's consciousness left Hesniemen and Yin Zheng for the first time, appeared in Huofeng City, and met another person.

In the Qianyuan Dynasty, Huofeng City, Jiaojiao, who was squatting on the ground, was looking up and staring at the person squatting in front of him.

Cloveford looked at the cub in front of him, with a hint of doubt in his cold iris-purple eyes.

Why did he feel that the cub in front of him was so friendly?

"Oh?"

Jiaojiao tilted her head and looked at the person in front of her and asked a question.

Having stayed in the dead zone for a long time, no one talked to him, and Blue Whale communicated with him using his spiritual sense, which resulted in Jiaojiao still not being able to speak much after half a month.

Cloveford came back to his senses and met the puzzled look in Jiaojiao's eyes. He suddenly stretched out his index finger and pressed it against the child's soft cheek: "What's your name?"

Cloverd himself was very surprised at his own actions. He frowned subconsciously, feeling that after meeting this child, he became a little unable to control his behavior.

Although she was not very good at speaking, she had spent a lot of time with her two fathers. Jiaojiao could more or less understand their daily conversations and said seriously, "Jiaojiao, oh."

As he spoke, he looked around with his little head, as if looking for something. When he didn't find it, he looked at the person in front of him: "Where's Daddy?"

dad?

Cloveford withdrew his hand, but after a while he couldn't help but reach out and touch Jiaojiao's head, which looked so tactile. His voice was low and gritty, "What is Daddy?"

"Dad, ah... ah, ah..." Jiaojiao frowned in thought, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and said crisply: "Dad... ah, it's Daddy."

Daddy?

Cloveford's iris-purple eyes lowered slightly, meeting the child's pure and clean black eyes. A thought flashed through his eyes, and his gaze fell on the child's hideous clothes. He paused and said, "Were you abandoned?"

"No." Jiaojiao shook her little head: "Jiaojiao, be good, no."

As he spoke, he moved forward and squatted beside Cloveford, poking his head out to ask tentatively: "Jiaojiao...Is it okay...Ah, are you there?"

Can Jiaojiao squat?

Cloveford looked down at him and easily understood what he meant.

The sunlight fell on his tall nose bridge, and his iris-purple eyes, which were blocked by the light, were bright and no emotion could be seen.

After a long while, he finally said, "Okay."

Jiaojiao squatted beside him, put his little hands on his knees obediently, without making any noise or noise, waiting for his father to come and find him.

This area is the most prosperous place in Huofeng City. It not only has one of the largest auction houses in Canglan Continent, but also thousands of shops selling elixirs and magic tools. It also has a battle arena dedicated to resolving the grudges of cultivators. Therefore, the flow of people here is very large. In such a prosperous and lively place, the two people, one big and one small, squatting on the street really attract attention.

The cultivators coming and going could not help but cast their eyes over, probably because the older of the two, the one big and the one small, was the young master of the Tianyi clan.

As for why they were sure that the big one was the young master of the Tianyi clan, in addition to the fact that he was wearing the attire of the young master of the Tianyi clan, he also had a pair of extremely rare iris purple eyes.

Apart from the demon clan, only the young master of the Tian clan in the entire Canglan Continent possesses such eyes. It is said that because of these eyes, he does not need any physical contact, but only a trace of spiritual power or a glance to see through a person's future and past.

In addition, he is a Dao fetus that is rarely seen in a thousand years. Now he has reached the Nascent Soul stage at the age of only twenty, and has always been ranked first on the Heavenly Ladder List. His talent is truly astonishing.

Such a big shot was now squatting on the roadside with a child, doing nothing. Not only did his image of being high and mighty and out of reach appear a little cracked, but it also made the passing monks feel pressured for no reason.

Jiaojiao didn't notice these strange looks. After squatting for a while, his legs felt a little numb, so he supported himself on Cloveford's arm and stood up. He shook his short legs to the other side, and when he didn't feel the numbness anymore, he squatted down next to Cloveford again.

The afternoon sun made people drowsy. As Jiaojiao squatted, her eyelids became heavier and heavier. Her little head nodded down like a chicken pecking at rice. When she was almost too sleepy to fall forward, she shook her little head and turned to look at Cloveford beside her. After thinking for a while, she took a step to the side and rested her little head on his arm.

Cloveford noticed it and turned his head to look, and met the child's sleepy eyes with tears in them.

Jiaojiao lowered her head and rubbed his arm, then said in a soft voice, "Give it to me."

Sleepy, give me

Cloveford understood what he meant but said nothing, but he didn't object either.

The sun set from the sky, slanting down and avoiding the shadow as it fell onto the street. The sounds of monks talking to each other, the bargaining sounds from the vendors, and the explosions from the fight between two fire root monks on the distant battle stage mixed together into an extremely noisy cacophony that kept coming into his ears. Cloverford turned his head to look at the child who had fallen asleep in his arms, with a hint of doubt in his violet eyes.

In such a noisy situation, can you fall asleep while squatting?

From his angle, he could see the child's long, curled eyelashes, straight nose, and chubby little mouth that occasionally smacked its lips as it slept soundly.

So small!

He sighed again, looked down, saw the child's ugly clothes, and then reaffirmed his thoughts.

This child must have been abandoned by his father!

Thinking of this, he began to feel a little worried. This child was so small, only slightly taller than a person's knee. He looked like a soft ball without any attack power. He didn't know how he would survive after being abandoned.

Thinking of this, Cloveford glanced at the covetous eyes cast by those monks, frowned and thought for a while, then reached out and awkwardly picked up the sleeping Jiaojiao in his arms and stood up.

Jiaojiao, awakened by his actions, opened her eyes dazedly and looked at him blankly.

Cloverd, holding him in his arms, turned and walked towards the Tianyi Clan's base in Fire Phoenix City. He lowered his head and met his gaze. Since he was picked up by him, it was not impossible to adopt him as his son.

Then he said with great certainty: "I am your father!"

Jiaojiao, who was originally still sleepy, glared: "??!"