3 Sixteen?

Hearing their mother mention their husbands, their faces turned dark. They were nearly heartbroken when Granny Gu had mentioned how many years she had to live.

"What's wrong?"

Granny Gu realised that their faces had actually grown darker when she had mentioned their husbands. She knew that her children would be heartbroken after they had heard news of her age, but she felt her children hiding something from her.

{Author: Because of how I mention their husbands, it makes it sound as if each of them has multiple husbands. Let me get rid of the misunderstanding, there is only one husband for each of the Greats}

Trying to make it sound natural, Lavender spoke in a rigid voice:

"Mother, why didn't you tell us? You always told us you were around the age of 18,000 having around 2-3 thousand years to live?"

"You are too young. You three are only 9,000 this year. I am an old hag who had you when I was 11,000. Fulfil this old hag's last few... *cough cough* requests"

Granny Gu had started coughing mid-sentence. This caused the worry for her to increase from Lily, Rose, Lavender and Little Chen's side.

"Is Granny Gu going to die?"

Little Chen was a smart child, even at the age of 9, he had accepted the cycle of life and death. He was very serious when he talked about this topic.

"Little Chen, before I die. I want to see you become a Sky Realm or something beyond that, a Semi-Immortal by the age of 15! If you can cross heaven's Passage, Gate and Entrance and become a Demi-God by the age of 100. You will be the biggest Genius in the 33 Heavens!"

Granny Gu said that with a resolute voice. She wanted to see Little Chen succeed. She turned her head towards her three children:

"I want to see a Grandchild before 10-20 years! That is my second and last wish."

The faces of the Three Greats had twisted and turned when they heard what Granny Gu had said. If another person from the 33 Heavens had seen The Three Greats making such faces, they would probably question themselves if the world they lived in was false. The Three Greats were the peak kind of Genius' that existed in the 33 Heavens. They were only below the Evil God's successor, Mu Lu. They were known for being unpredictable. They always had cool faces and killed many kings and sovereigns in the First Heaven.

"What about killing Mu Lu? Isn't he the biggest threat to us? We don't have time to willy wally around when such an enemy could destroy us anytime!"

Lily tried to pleadingly change Granny Gu's wish.

"Hmph! Do you dare to try to talk yourself out of this? That Mu Lu can wait. I want to see my Grandchildren. I was wondering around the mortal plane, I have seen them breed at the age of 16, cant you have children at the age of 9,000?"

Granny Gu was absolutely reluctant for rejection from her children.

"But didn't sister Rose say that they had lost their..."

Little Chen was innocent. He couldn't keep secrets very well. He was about to say something that would set off Granny Gu to go on a rampage. When he was about to say 'lost their cultivation', his mouth was blocked from saying the words by Rose.

Granny Gu had never caught on to what was said.

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Remembering what had happened back then, Ji Chen almost shuddered. He had been beaten for a full 10 days. The three back then had called it 'Refining your body".

"Sixteen!"

Mrs Krul called out.

"What? Sixteen thousand? That is quite the old man! How does he keep his skin so clean?"

"I would've thought he was something older than sixteen thousand. Just look at Mrs Krul's face, she is looking at the guy with eyes as if she is indicating that he is a monster."

"..."

Much gossip blazed through the women. Mu Lu once again had a calm indifferent face. He didn't want to think that Ji Chen was a Sky God Realm like himself.

"He is sixteen! The two-digit number!"

"Impossible!"

Mrs Krul had a received quite a shock herself. She was sure that she could tell anyone's age just by glancing at anyone once. She, herself wasn't sure that the information she had got was correct.

Mu Lu was the first to refute what was said.

Children born in the heavens were never allowed to see the daylight until they were at least 100! The gravity was too much, so much that even a Sky Realm would have to crawl to barely move. There were talismans that protected children from such harsh conditions in the First Heaven, but that would create an orb which surrounded the user. Ji Chen had no such orb surrounding him.

Lavender was a person that would usually light a fire the first chance she'd get. Ji Chen was surprised that Lavender hadn't stepped in...

"It is true. Ji Chen today is sixteen! You don't have the talent to be no.1 in the First Heaven. Step down!"

Ji Chen facepalmed. He had known them too well. How could he not predict their movements?

The women were set off. They really treated Ji Chen as if he was a ragdoll that could be thrown around. The comments and opinions of the women bounced around the large Stronghold.

"I always knew he was young with that face of his."

"The way he can fluently move, he must be above the last few layers of the Sky Realm! He may even be at Heaven's Passage or beyond, Heaven's Gate! So young!"

"..."

The comments really kept going. It was only until 2 minutes that they had dried out. For an expert, this could be the division between Life and Death.

Mu Lu's eyebrows were twitching. It seemed as if the women really didn't mind that this was a moment that was supposed to haunt them even in their dreams. Mu Lu had gone from a Cool Demon that could tame hearts of women just with his face to a creepy clown that would just stay there and stare.

Ji Chen sighed when he saw Mu Lu's angry face. There was even an awkwardness on Mu Lu's Cool and sharp features. Only Ji Chen could understand what Mu Lu was facing. The more he saw Mu Lu's expressions, the more he realised that Mu Lu was quite similar to himself.

Unlike his godly facial features, Ji Chen was quite perverted. Though Mu Lu was perverted as in fighting, Ji Chen had quite a weird sense of reasoning, he had begun treating Mu Lu in his heart as if he was a fellow brother that had encountered many tribulations like himself.

Mu Lu kept his face down, trying to calm down his anger when a hand patted him on his back, it came along with a voice that sounded as if it pitied him:

"It's ok. We men shouldn't concern ourselves with the matters of women..."

Mu Lu was stunned for a couple of seconds but coming back to the real world, he slashed towards the figure patting his back.

The figure caught his slash that Mu Lu had initiated with his hands.

"Surprising. You can summon a sword using the Evil God's methods. Interesting."

The voice paused, then continued:

"Us perverted brothers should build a palace recruiting all perverts, it shall be the true meaning of brotherhood..."

The voice didn't shut up for a long time...