Yama Reborn-Chapter 390 - 387: Where to Reason?

Chapter 387: Where Can I Even Complain?

Chen Nuo stayed by Lu Xixi’s bedside for a while longer, gazing at the sleeping Star Sky Empress, at her young face still showing a hint of childishness, and sighed inwardly.

It was a twist of fate that he had actually seen Lu Xixi in her youth.

His fingers gently traced Lu Xixi’s face. He then smoothed her hair before getting up and walking over to the crib in the room.

Only then did Chen Nuo truly begin to carefully observe the little one in the crib.

A baby only a few months old, with sparse hair on her head, yet so pink and tender.

Even now, the baby seemed to be sound asleep, her eyes squinted shut. After Chen Nuo gently pinched her cheek, the child opened her eyes. Appearing somewhat groggy, she blinked her eyelids and then pouted.

Chen Nuo, despite his two lifetimes of experience, had never cared for an infant. He was immediately at a loss. Looking at this tiny human, he didn’t know what to do, only awkwardly patting the child gently. "Don’t cry, don’t cry. Did I... did I wake her up?"

The latter half of the sentence was actually addressed to Yu Naitang, as he turned his head to her.

Little Candy glanced at Chen Nuo helplessly. "Of course, you woke her up! Oh, but it doesn’t matter; she’s probably hungry by now. A baby this age needs to be fed roughly every three hours."

With that, Yu Naitang took out a baby bottle and ran out of the room. A moment later, she returned with the bottle filled with milk and stood by the crib. After some thought, she handed the bottle to Chen Nuo. "Do you want to try feeding her?" 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"Uh..." Chen Nuo hesitated.

Of course, he wanted to! But he was afraid.

This tiny person was so soft and delicate that Chen Nuo was even afraid to hold her, fearing that the slightest extra force might hurt his daughter.

Yu Naitang smirked, thrust the baby bottle into Chen Nuo’s hand without further ado, and then began to demonstrate how to hold the child.

Chen Nuo watched intently.

"Look. Slide your hands under the baby’s armpits and lift her like this. Hold her close to your chest, letting her head rest on your shoulder. Use one hand to support her bottom and the other to support the back of her neck and head. Babies’ necks are very soft, and their bones aren’t fully developed, so they lack support. You need to support their head a little to prevent them from twisting their neck..."

After demonstrating, Yu Naitang lifted the child and handed her to Chen Nuo.

Poor Chen Yanluo. He had never been this nervous, not even during the great war against the Seed.

His spiritual power was practically at its peak, his control power and senses operating at full capacity.

As he took the child, the fingers of this formidable, top-tier expert actually trembled.

Indeed, Chen Nuo even discreetly released several Spiritual Force Tentacles, forming an ethereal cradle in the air around the baby.

Finally, as the tiny body rested against his chest, her head nestled on his shoulder, Chen Nuo felt an indescribable sensation well up in his heart.

To put it somewhat crudely: holding this little thing felt like holding the entire world.

And then, a strange thought inexplicably surfaced: If anyone in this world dared to harm this little one in his arms, they would have to step over his dead body first!

Then, following Yu Naitang’s demonstration, he attempted to feed the baby.

He watched the little one latch onto the bottle’s nipple, suckling vigorously, eyes blissfully squinted...

Chen Nuo’s fingers trembled from the effort of being gentle; the force he actually applied was incredibly light.

Seeing the baby eating contentedly, Chen Nuo breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "...Has she been named yet?"

"Um..." Yu Naitang thought for a moment. "When we found out it was a girl during the pregnancy, Teacher gave her a nickname."

"What’s the nickname?"

"...It’s Braised Pork."

Chen Nuo’s eyes bulged.

Braised Pork? My daughter’s nickname is Braised Pork?

"Absolutely not!" Chen Nuo stated firmly. "Change it."

Yu Naitang shrugged. "You’re the child’s father; you have the final say."

Chen Nuo thought for a moment. "Let’s call her Yiyi."

"Yiyi? Like ’willow branches swaying gently’? That’s nice."

"No, it’s Yi. The number one, Yi." Chen Nuo asked again, "So your teacher only thought of a nickname, but no formal name?"

"Hmm, she actually considered a few alternatives but just hasn’t settled on one," Yu Naitang said with a wry smile.

"What are the alternatives?" Chen Nuo frowned. "And don’t mention anything like ’Braised Pork’."

"Well, Teacher thought of Lu Wudi, Lu Wuji, and, oh, another one was Lu Wushuang."

Chen Nuo rolled his eyes immediately.

That woman really needs to read fewer wuxia novels! What on earth! Invincible, Unparalleled... Does she expect my daughter to be strong enough to uproot mountains and dominate the world? Or does she hope my daughter will grow up to uproot weeping willows with brute force? And Wuji... Does she want our daughter to learn the Nine Yang Divine Art or the Heaven and Earth Great Shift? ’Let him be strong as he may, a gentle breeze o’er the mountain peak stray’? Pah!

"Absolutely not! My daughter will naturally have the surname Chen."

Chen Nuo resolutely dismissed the suggestions and, after some thought, added, "From now on, let’s call her Chen Yi."

"What was that?" Yu Naitang was stunned. "Which Yi?"

"Yi. The formal character for the number one."

As he spoke, Chen Nuo smiled freely. "All the luck in the world can be divided into ten parts! Three parts for literary talent, seven parts for martial prowess! The remaining one part shall determine the fate of the world! From now on, she will be called Chen Yi!"

This time it was Yu Naitang’s turn to roll her eyes.

"Chen Nuo, you probably failed math, didn’t you? Ten parts of luck, three for literary talent, seven for martial prowess... So where the heck does that ’remaining one part that shall determine the fate of the world’ come from?"

Then, Little Candy’s eyes suddenly lit up. "You’re not just being lazy, are you? Naming your first child Chen Yi (One)? Are you trying to be lazy? Will your second child be Chen Er (Two)? And then Chen San (Three), Chen Si (Four)?"

Chen Nuo laughed without saying anything, but his eyes darted away.

He just looked down at the daughter in his arms and found the little girl staring right back at him with her big, bright, glossy eyes.

Then... she gurgled, making some vague, unintelligible sounds.

Chen Nuo sighed, gently wiping the drool from the corner of his daughter’s mouth.

The baby squirmed a few times, then suddenly opened her mouth.

BLECH! A mouthful of milk came spitting out, right onto Chen Nuo’s neck.

「·」

The serum from a Self-Healing Ability User was indeed remarkably effective.

The next morning, after a night’s rest, Old Jiang woke up on the sofa. He felt the injured side of his body was much looser. After circulating his Inner Breath, he found it flowed much more smoothly.

When he sat up, although he still couldn’t exert his full strength, simple movements were no longer a major issue.

Chen Nuo had been on watch all night. Seeing Old Jiang awaken, he approached with a smile, offering a glass of water. "Old Jiang, care for some water?"

Glancing at this troublesome disciple of his, Old Jiang sighed.

Every single one of these disciples he’d taken on was no ordinary person; they were a whole nest of freaks. And the root of it all was this little rascal right in front of him.

At this moment, what didn’t Old Jiang understand?

Chen Nuo just smiled, his gaze evasive. He could naturally guess Old Jiang’s current mood and thoughts. But well... Old Jiang, don’t be so hasty. Right now, you probably just want to smack me. If you knew my ID on the Octopus Monster website, you definitely wouldn’t just want to smack me... You’d want to kill me.

Old Jiang slowly drank half a glass of water, then put the glass down and glanced at Chen Nuo.

Chen Nuo sidled up with a grin. "So, Old Jiang, your injury?"

"Much better," Old Jiang replied with a stern face, his eyes sweeping the room.

On the other side of the living room, the original owners of the house, the young couple, were curled up in a sleeping bag in a corner by the kitchen and dining area, still asleep.

"You were on watch?"

"Mhm," Chen Nuo nodded.

Old Jiang mused, "If nothing happened overnight, we should be safe. If those people were still pursuing us, they wouldn’t have found us in this city after a whole day and night. They’ll likely assume we’ve fled elsewhere and will continue their pursuit there."

Chen Nuo felt Old Jiang’s analysis was likely correct and said with a smile, "Master, your reasoning is sound."

Looking at Chen Nuo’s smiling face, however, Old Jiang felt increasingly irked and exasperated. "Little Chen Nuo, tell me! When you pestered me to take you as my disciple, were you scheming against me from the very beginning?"

"How can you call it scheming?" Chen Nuo chuckled. "Wasn’t I also finding a reliable master for Lin Sheng, and a good disciple for you, venerable sir, to inherit your legacy?"

"Then, what about Zhu Dazhi?"

"Lin Sheng has to follow me for other matters, so Master, you can’t be without someone to attend to you. Dazhi is honest and simple, and he’s a smooth talker..."

A smooth talker? Hearing this, Old Jiang’s wounds nearly split open again. A breath caught in his throat, and it took decades of cultivation to force it back down.

Glaring fiercely at Chen Nuo, Old Jiang lowered his voice. "First, let’s talk about your situation... When you suddenly disappeared last year, your family and Old Sun’s family were frantically searching for you."

"But now that I’ve run into you... and knowing you’re no ordinary person, well, there’s no need to ask all the questions I had."

"Since you’re not ordinary, an Ability User, you must have had your reasons for your whereabouts this past year. I shouldn’t pry too much..."

Chen Nuo immediately nodded. "Rest assured, Old Jiang. I’ve already been back to Jinling, and everything with my family has been settled."

Old Jiang nodded, not pressing further on the topic.

Since he was an Ability User, in Old Jiang’s understanding, he was also part of ’that world’—and who in ’that world’ didn’t have their secrets?

It was good enough that he had returned safely.

"Then let’s talk about your relationship with... these girls," Old Jiang said, frowning.

Truth be told, Old Jiang had been holding back this question for a day and a night. But when Chen Nuo returned, he had immediately gone into the room to check on the seriously injured Lu Xixi and the child, so Old Jiang could only wait.

Now, with a belly full of questions, he naturally wanted a clear explanation.

"The older one lying in there... did the little girl say she’s her teacher?"

"Yes, she is."

"And then something about you being her teacher’s... husband? Chen Nuo! Since when did you have a wife somewhere else?"

Uh...

Chen Nuo twitched the corner of his mouth.

Well, Master... you might not believe this, but this wife of mine actually beat you up quite badly! She even once thought of you as ’our dad’. Oh, right, and she listened to ’our mom’ sing opera and tell stories. She even went with ’our mom’ to Wind Shelter Hall. Where on earth could I even complain about all this?