Dance Of The Dragons
Chapter 440 : Releasing The Seal (2)

Chapter 440: Chapter 440 : Releasing The Seal (2)

"....."

Crippled by shock, Zhang Fengxi was rendered speechless. His eyes widened, pupils blown black, reflecting a bottomless pit of horror. A pang of guilt speared through Xie Junjie’s chest when he saw Zhang Fengxi’s face.

"Daddy, don’t be mad," he said in a low voice. "I won’t tell anyone."

Zhang Fengxi grabbed Xie Junjie’s wrist and dragged him further into the library.

"Junjie, how did you know?" He asked, panic creeping into his voice.

How could he be so dumb and tell his sons about the markings?!

"What book speaks about the Binding Seal Of Heaven?"

"No book does," Xie Junjie quietly confessed. "Not the books that I read, anyway."

Zhang Fengxi released the little dragon boy and retreated a few steps, his breath caught in his throat.

"Then, how?"

"Mmm... Daddy, the Binding Seal Of Heaven is evoked when eight certain stars are not aligned. I used to be one of the stars."

"..."

Zhang Fengxi and Xie Jianyu both knew that Xie Junjie was an incarnate of the Star Of Unblemished Virtue, but how did the star himself know, again?

Ah yes.

The stupid Goddess did speak about it in front of Xie Junjie back then.

Zhang Fengxi swallowed hard. Did children this age usually pay attention to what the adults were talking about, or was Xie Junjie too smart for his own age?

"Junjie, you..."

Xie Junjie raised his forefinger. A sliver of golden energy erupted from it, weaving a mesmerizing pattern in the air.

"I can use my star energy to bend the stars’ trajectories a little to allow their positions to align, but only for a limited amount of time."

Zhang Fengxi’s heart pounded hard against his ribs, just like a cheater who had just found the ultimate way to cheat.

This was it.

He didn’t need to chase after the Goddess of Fate and Destiny to get out of his predicament!

"And this limited amount of time is... How long exactly?" Zhang Fengxi asked, full of hope.

Xie Junjie cocked his head to the side.

"I don’t know, Daddy. I haven’t tried it before."

Zhang Fengxi licked with his lips.

"Let’s try now," he said.

"Mmm. Okay."

Xie Junjie furrowed his brow, clenching his fists as he dug deep within himself. Sun-kissed wisps of star energy, shimmering like fireflies, pulsed out from his body. They drifted around Zhang Fengxi, their gentle warmth brushing against his skin like the caress of a midday sun.

Zhang Fengxi too closed his eyes. He was expecting to be back in his adult body anytime soon, but the warmth quickly disappeared, leaving only cold disappointment behind.

When Zhang Fengxi opened his eyes again, the little boy in front of him was crying his eyes out.

"I can’t," he whined. "Daddy, I can’t. It’s too much! Wuuuuuuu..."

Zhang Fengxi quickly took Xie Junjie in his arms.

"Baby, don’t cry," he coaxed him. "You are just a child. Please forgive Daddy for demanding too much from you. Tell me, did anything hurt?"

"Wuuuu... No... It just disappeared, wuuuu..."

Disappeared?

Sounded like a case of lacking spiritual power.

Zhang Fengxi bit into his lips.

"There is a way to increase your power," he told Xie Junjie.

The little dragon boy blinked at him.

"How, Daddy?"

A broad grin spread on Zhang Fengxi’s face. He tipped at Xie Junjie’s nose playfully and said, "I believe that it’s time for you and Mingrui to start your cultivation training."

Thus in the weeks Zhang Fengxi spent in Longjing Palace, he guided Zhang Mingrui and Xie Junjie through their first steps in meditation and spiritual energy enhancement, laying the foundation for their cultivation journey.

At present, Qiao Wei stared at Zhang Fengxi in disbelief.

"They are pretty good," Zhang Fengxi mused. "Particularly Junjie, but maybe that’s because he is not as lazy as Mingrui. Together, they can produce quite an impressive amount of spiritual energy..."

"Zhang Fengxi!" Qiao Wei exclaimed. "How can you teach your sons to cheat fate???"

Zhang Fengxi’s face blossomed into a shameless smirk.

"Oh, I don’t know," he drawled. "My wife had yet to teach me the proper way of raising our boys. I am waiting for him to come back."

"Zhang Fengxi...!!!"

Qiao Wei’s hand flew through the air, aiming to smack Zhang Fengxi’s head.

Zhang Fengxi caught it easily and pinned both of Qiao Wei’s hands above his arms.

"Now, Baby, before you think about punishing me, you have to let me punish you first, hmm?"

"Don’t fool around," Qiao Wei turned his head to the side in embarrassment. "Huang Taichen’s tent is right next to ours. He can hear everything."

"Oh? And what is he going to hear, again?"

Zhang Fengxi tugged at Qiao Wei’s lapels, unveiling the smooth and fair crook between his neck and shoulder.

After being deprived of flesh for some time, the tiger could not help but be greedy.

"You..."

Qiao Wei’s protests morphed into moans when Zhang Fengxi bit into his neck.

"Fengxi... Ah..."

His Jianbao was so adorable, Zhang Fengxi thought to himself.

They already had two children together, but his wife still got flustered by a single kiss.

While cradling Qiao Wei’s face in his hands, Zhang Fengxi lowered his face on top of Qiao Wei’s. Their lips almost met when Zhang Fengxi suddenly disappeared.

"..... Fengxi...?"

A tiny claw reached out and grabbed at Qiao Wei’s robe in response.

Little Zhang Fengxi lifted his head, his eyes filled with fury and resentment at the same time.

"AAAARGHHHHHHHH...!!!" He cried out before Qiao Wei quickly put his hand across the little boy’s mouth.

"Ssssshhhh Fengxi, you will wake Huang Taichen up!"

Zhang Fengxi sat on Qiao Wei’s lap and pursed his lips.

"This sucks," he said. "I hope that Junjie and Mingrui meditate diligently every day."

Qiao Wei had to suppress his smile.

"You got yourself special clothes," he tugged at Zhang Fengxi’s robe. "Were they made by the Kunlun Mountain Fairies?"

Clothes made from Kunlun Mountain Silk were known to adapt to their owner’s physical change.

"Yeah, of course. Otherwise I will go naked whenever I transform. That is not ideal."

"Do you need to go back to the Heavenly Realm every time you transform back into a child?" Qiao Wei asked.

"No, not at all," Zhang Fengxi quipped. "Junjie’s mind is attuned to your distress. Whenever you are in danger, he will transform me back to my adult form."

"... Attuned how?"

"Well..."

Zhang Fengxi scratched at his cheek sheepishly while averting Qiao Wei’s gaze.

"I have been relying on Junjie’s dreams and visions to track your latest reincarnations on the Human Realm."

Qiao Wei was rendered speechless. For someone who did not know how to raise a child, Zhang Fengxi sure knew how to uncover Xie Junjie’s hidden abilities and use them to his advantage!

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Author’s note :

Zhang Mingrui : Cousin Fengyu is really no fun. At first he wants to get rid of the cursed markings, and then suddenly he wants us all to meditate!

Zhang Fengxi : Close your eyes and breathe, no talking! (⁠^⁠_⁠^⁠メ⁠)