Volume 4: Phoenix Crying in the Ninth Heaven
**Section 1: Diaper Tai Chi and Dad’s Epiphany**
Business at the "Pacifier Gold Shop" was booming, and "Peace Bonds" became hard currency in the four kingdoms. Even the northern Di nomads began exchanging their wool for bonds, hoping for year-end dividends to buy salt and iron from the Central Plains and limited-edition parenting guides. Ashina Jinlang's "Peace Recitations" became increasingly expressive, and he reportedly even composed his own "Peace Fu." His recitation scores steadily improved, and he was close to escaping the "mental pollution fee." Meanwhile, Su Li's family's life, guaranteed by the promise of "favorable weather, abundant harvests, and the absence of epidemics," flourished.
The only thing Su Li found unsatisfactory was that a newly minted "Shattered Void Level" expert—the child's father, Comrade Xiao Jue—seemed to be caught in some kind of... "expert loneliness"—a sage's time. Since his breakthrough, his temperament had become increasingly gentle, his aura more harmonious, and everything he saw carried a profound sense of "the beauty of heaven and earth remains unspoken." Even when changing the diaper of his second child, Su Heng, his movements were fluid and rhythmic, as if he wasn't handling excrement but performing some sacred ritual.
"Old Xiao," Su Li said as she braided the fourth child, Su Qi, while glancing sideways at Xiao Jue, who was changing the diaper of the squirming and uncooperative second child, "Your realm has improved, but it feels like you're about to 'shatter the void' of all this child-rearing. Look at your slow pace, someone who doesn't know you would think you were practicing Tai Chi!"
Xiao Jue fastened the last button of Hengbao's diaper with gentle yet precise movements, smoothing out the wrinkles on his clothes. His movements were truly pleasing to the eye. He smiled faintly, a smile that seemed to encompass everything. "Madam, you are wrong. Tao follows nature; all things can be influenced by it. Changing Hengbao's clothes is also a way of observing the flow of life and harmonizing yin and yang (wet and dry). Isn't this also a form of spiritual practice?"
"Practice?" Su Li rolled her eyes in annoyance and stuffed the braided Sibao into his arms. "Then why don't you hold Qibao and practice with her for me? She just ate three pieces of maltose and is very excited!"
Sure enough, as soon as Su Qi, the fourth child, landed in his father's arms, he immediately transformed into a perpetual motion machine! His little arms and legs kicked like crazy, his strawberry birthmark glowed with excitement, and he kept yelling, "Gee! Gee! Daddy is the horse! Run!", trying to use his real father like a rocking horse.
Xiao Jue held his daughter firmly, his posture as immovable as a mountain. No matter how the little cannonball in his arms rammed against him, he remained unmoved, not even a wrinkle in his robes. An invisible, harmonious aura seemed to surround him, quietly dissolving, channeling, and ultimately calming Sibao's "primordial power." Sibao flailed a few times, then realized her father was as steady as a mountain. Far from being discouraged, she giggled, finding this "tumbler father" even more amusing!
Dabao Su Chen (the remnant of a cultivator) sat cross-legged on a small cushion nearby, watching his parents interact, then glancing at his sister, soothed by his father's "harmonious aura," with a thoughtful look in his eyes. With a wave of his hand, the phantom of the yellow pear wood abacus of cause and effect emerged, its beads moving on their own, as if calculating something.
[Ding! Host's spouse has been detected entering 'Higher Dimensional Sage' mode!] The venomous system's voice echoed in Su Li's consciousness, with a hint of ridicule. [This state is commonly known as 'enlightenment sequelae,' manifesting as seeing mountains as not mountains, seeing water as not water, and seeing children...all as walking masses of chaotic energy. Solution: A more intense 'fireworks' impact is required to help them truly integrate the 'shattered void' realm into the 'bottle and diaper' world. It is recommended that the host activate the 'baby-raising hell difficulty dungeon!']
Su Li's eyes rolled as a plan came to mind. Clearing her throat, she announced to her three sons (the second son had just had his diaper changed and was dazedly clutching his pacifier): "Hey, babies! With such beautiful weather today and Daddy so free, let's have a 'Super Unbeatable Parenting Challenge'! Goal: Let Daddy use his 'Taichi Dao' to simultaneously handle all four of you little bastards for an hour! Rules: Free to move and do whatever you want, but Daddy can only use 'melioration' and not force! If you succeed, Mommy will make you candied sweet potatoes tonight!"
"Great! Candied sweet potato!" Sanbao Su Yu (dragon horn sensing) was the first to respond, and his dragon horn flashed with colorful light excitedly.
"Free time! Trouble daddy!" The second baby Su Heng threw away the pacifier in an instant, his little eyes shining.
"Qiqi wants to ride a big horse! Run faster!" Sibao Su Qi twisted even more happily in his father's arms.
Even the usually steady Dabao Su Chen put away his abacus phantom, a hint of anticipation on his face: "This is a good opportunity to test Dad's combination of 'Dao Realm' and 'Practice'. Chen, I am willing to be one of the 'Chaos Variables'."
Xiao Jue: "..." Looking at the excited Sibao in his arms, the two eagerly rubbing their hands on the ground, and the Dabao with a look of "academic inquiry", he felt that the sage time... might really be over. Shattering the void? First, let's shatter this "fourfold chaotic tribulation" before us!
**Section 2: The Four Symbols Chaos Formation and Dad’s Harmony**
The challenge begins!
The open space in front of the commander's tent instantly became a "chaotic playground" for the cute babies and a "Tai Chi dojo" for their father!
**Eastern Palace Azure Dragon, Great Treasure Su Chen**: He didn't charge directly. Instead, he sat cross-legged in the east of the field, forming hand seals and muttering a simplified version of a Taoist scripture. A faint azure aura emanated from his body, stirring a gentle breeze. His "chaos" aimed to create "aura interference," attempting to disrupt his father's harmonious Tai Chi rhythm, like dropping meticulously calculated "logic stones" into a calm lake, stirring invisible ripples. Meanwhile, the shadowy image of his causal abacus loomed, providing his younger siblings with data supporting his predictions of his father's defensive weaknesses!
**Nangong Zhuque·Sibao Su Qi**: Strawberry Birthmark on full blast! She transforms into a "perpetually motion, spoiled little cannonball" with a clear goal: ride Daddy's horse! With her short legs, she takes an erratic zigzag path, sometimes accelerating to sprint, sometimes stopping suddenly and changing direction, all the while shouting, "Daddy! Catch Qi Qi!" and "Gee! Horse, run!" Her "chaos" lies in her extreme "emotional kinetic energy" and "irregular movement." Like a flaming, leaping fireball, she constantly attacks Daddy's defensive circle.
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