CH 128
(nobody POV)
Seeing the respect, Ali smiled gently as he nodded :"I am extremely satisfied with your gifts and will definitely work hard to be a worthy emperor."
But the blue silver grasses and Blue Silver King didn't raise :"you don't need to be strong to get our love, your majesty. Just your existence is enough. Please just protect yourself, we would hate to see you injured."
Ali chuckled before he nodded :"alright, I will take care of myself. By the way, how long did I sleep while going through the second awakening?"
"You were resting for a few days, your majesty. But don't worry, we were careful so that you wouldn't get dirty or harmed."
Ali's eyebrows twitched as he took in a sharp breath :"shit, a few days? I told them that I would be back sooner... Sigh, whatever. Alright, I will be going now. You all take care of yourselves."
The Blue Silver King bowed even further along with the blue silver grasses :"yes, your majesty. Please take care of yourself."
And Ali started running towards the Tian Dou city while his Majesty's Crown was out and he was testing the Majesty's Grace out.
As he ran while focusing on the Majesty's Crown, he started to slowly pour his soul power into it :'it should be like this...'
And as he poured his soul power into it, a white light exited from one of the ten gems on the crown and began to transform into a halo.
Ali looked at it with interest as he came to a stop and decided to pay more attention to it :'this is interesting. It takes the soul power that I transfer into it and creates a soul ring with it.
But... I don't want to just walk around with a soul ring in front of me. Let's see if I can do something about that.'
He closed his eyes as he took a deep breath in and focused on the Majesty's Crown, specifically, the gem that the soul ring was connected to.
As he paid attention to the flow of the soul power into the soul ring, he tried to take the soul ring back to the gem.
And he succeeded after wrapping the soul ring inside the soul power and guiding it back to the gem :'good, that problem is solved.
I can also pour my soul power into it and increase its age without taking the soul ring out and just leaving it in the gem.
But this is really interesting. It's like my soul power is the electricity, the gem is the charger and the soul ring is the phone.
And what is even better, is that I don't have a single charger. There are a total of 10 gems on the Majesty's Crown, so that means that I can create ten soul rings and store them inside of the gems.
I can also pour my soul power into all of them at the same time, but that would be consuming too much time and soul power since I have to focus a lot and spend a lot of soul power.
But it's alright, I can just relax and take my time. Now, I should try and see if I can hide the Majesty's Crown.
It would be kind of awkward to just walk around with a crown after all. So I should try and see if I can solve that... Hmm, what to do, what to do... Ah! I can do that!'
As he smiled, he grabbed his hair and the crown before passing the hair through the crown. After that, he changed the size of the Majesty's Crown and made it smaller so it would just look like a fancy hair tie jewelry.
As he fixed his hair, he created an ice mirror as he looked at himself and nodded in satisfaction :"a simple pony tail, I like this! Now, no one will find anything weird."
'from now on, I will always be slowly pouring my soul power into the Majesty's Crown throughout the day.
Haha, I know what I will be doing till the Continental Soul Master School Elite Tournament now.
I should keep a certain amount of soul power flowing into the gem. Hmm, let's see... If I just do it casually like now, I should be able to raise this soul ring to 100'000 years in about a month.
But, I should hurry a little for a little. Erlong and Yuehua will reach the titled douluo level after they absorb the soul bones that I have brought for them, so after reaching the Tian Dou city, I should focus on getting two soul rings to 200'000 years.
If I put my all into it and exhausted myself, I should be able to finish them in a week. But that is only if I really give it my all everyday to the point of exhaustion.
But well, it's worth it. I should also study it Majesty's Grace more and experiment with it. Since it directly creates a soul ring, I might actually be able to fuse it with an already existing soul ring.
If I can manage to do that, I can turn all the girls' soul rings into century millennium soul rings and make them far stronger than they are.
But I will only do this for the girls. I am not a stingy person, but that is only towards the people incredibly close to me.
I am not willing to make anyone other than the girls, uncle Guan and uncle Mei stronger. These are the people that I trust my life with.
Heh, a harem that all the girls in it have a full century millennium soul ring match before they are even gods. That seems just like a bad joke. Anyway, I should return now.'
And with that, he continued running towards the Tian Dou city while pouring his soul power into two of the gems.
After a few hours, he finally reached the city gates before he slowed down and started to walk towards the Shrek school :'my mark let's me know where the girls are.
Yuehua is in the Moon Pavilion as always, I can't go there since they probably wouldn't allow me in if I'm not with Erlong.
So I should go to Erlong and Zhuqing, and they seem to be in the Shrek school. But... Why do I feel like I'm forgetting something...?'
As he dismissed the thoughts, he made his way towards the Shrek school school and entered after walking towards Erlong's little house.
But while walking in the small forest, he suddenly heard extremely pained shouts from where the house was :'what is that?!
Erlong and Zhuqing aren't in any danger or harm since I would know because of my mark activating. But these screams... They seem to be from a man...'
Because of the 9 century millennium soul rings, Ali's senses had skyrocketed, so hearing the sound from very far away wasn't a problem at all.
Not wanting to take any risks, Ali sped up and ran towards the house. But the sight confused him a little.
Flender, Zhao Wuji, Erlong and the Shrek Seven Devils were standing in front of the house with nervous and worried expressions.
As he walked towards them while the painful screams continued inside, he called out :"hey, guys. What's up? What the hell is going on?"
Hearing the ever so beautiful voice, all of them turned around to see Ali walking towards them with a confused face.
But even though he had returned, other than Zhuqing and Erlong, the nervous and worried mood didn't leave anybody else.
Flender sighed with slumped shoulders as he turned to him :"hey, Ali. Welcome back. Well... Sigh, it's happening..."
Ali walked and stood between Erlong and Zhuqing as he grabbed their hands :"hey, Erlong, Zhuqing. I've missed you two."
But he them looked at Flender with an even more confused face as he frowned :"what is happening? Whatever it is, I don't think it's anything enjoyable considering the screams."
They all sighed helplessly as Zhao Wuji put his hand over his face and rubbed it :"master is... Giving birth..."
Hearing the words, Ali's body shook for a second as his eyes went wide. The shake wasn't because of shock, but because of trying his absolute hardest to not burst into laughter :'bwahahahaha!! So that's what I had forgotten!'
And just when Zhao Wuji said that, a slightly old voice came from the inside :"push!! Just a little more! It's almost finished!"
An extremely pained scream came from the inside before another sound took over :"waaaaaaah"
The screams stopped from then on as the crying of a child took over. And after a few seconds, a slightly old and fat woman walked out :"it's done. Both the child and the... Father are safe. It's a healthy girl!"
Hearing the midwife's words, everybody but Ali and his lovers rushed inside. Ali looked at the two with tight lips :"so~, wanna go inside???"
They both nodded before they all walked inside to see an extremely tired looking Yu Xiaogang laying on a bed with a blanket covering him.
As Ali looked around, he saw a newborn girl crying on a small bed. Flender turned towards the midwife with a worried expression :"miss, how is Xiaogang? Is he alright?"
The midwife took a look at the panting and tired Yu Xiaogang as she sighed :"well, thankfully, the both him and the child are fine, but his pelvis..."
All the boys in the room hissed in pain as just the thought of it was painful. Flender sighed as he nodded :"alright, thank you for your hard work."
When he finished his sentence, Yu Xiaogang hoarse and tired voice came :"Flender, my child... Let me see my child..."
The midwife walked towards the child and gently locked it up before she took her to her dad and gently laid her on his arms.
Yu Xiaogang hissed in pain before he smiled down at his daughter with tears in his eyes :"I have a child... I actually have a child..."
The view was... Interesting. Ali's lips twitched as he tried desperately to not laugh while Tang San went to his master's side :"master, she is beautiful. What will you name her?"
A look of sadness took over Yu Xiaogang's tired face as he turned towards Erlong beside Ali :"Erlong, I know that this is inappropriate, but can I ask you to name her?"
Ali's eyebrows twitched, but Erlong thankfully squeezed his hand and looked at him :"I'm sorry, I don't have any name in mind, but how about Ali names her?"
Ali's lips twitched as he was really beginning to get pissed off at getting forced to naming things. But he didn't want him to bug his lover again :"sigh, how about... Yu Chang?
Chang for "free". Since you seems to have been restrained and whatever, how about you name her Yu Chang?"
And before Yu Xiaogang could say anything in response, Erlong also nodded :"yeah, I think it's a beautiful name."
And so, Yu Xiaogang sighed with a small smile as he treated the name as a parting gift :"alright then.
From now on, my daughter will be known as Yu Chang. I just hope that she will have a happy and lucky life unlike me."
Flender wanting to ease the mood, reached out towards him :"come on! Give Xiao Chang to uncle so he can get familiar with her!"
Yu Xiaogang nodded tiredly with a small smile as Flender gently picked the new born which had already stopped crying in her father's arms :"hey, Xiao Chang. Nice to meet you, I'm your uncle Flender."
Seeing that the child is free to look at, the others also surrounded Flender as Ma Hongjun spoke out :"whoaa, so cute. Master, you have to keep her so I can marry her in the future!"
Some laughed and some shook their heads at him as Ali slapped the back of his :"dumbass, she hasn't even been born for 10 minutes, and you're already being weird."