Grandson of Destiny!

"Dad!" Su Yu felt exhausted. He had returned full of excitement, but his father was so utterly unreliable! To think he actually wanted him to do his entrance all over again! Su Long looked completely helpless, his heart drenched in sorrow. It was over! "You little bastard! Your old man... has lost all face!" He let out a heavy sigh. "Just last night I told your Uncle Chen that when my son comes back, the Great Xia Prefecture would be bustling like it was the New Year. But look at you... you're back, and you didn't even make a fart of a peep!" The crucial thing was that he had spent quite a while bragging to his old comrades earlier. When his son returned, it was supposed to be a grand, magnificent spectacle! Who could have guessed he would just casually stroll in without bringing along so much as a single foot soldier? No matter how well you did out there in the world, empty talk meant nothing. He was a practical man, and he cared about solid, tangible things. It didn't matter how powerful you were—he couldn't tell anyway. What he wanted to see was numbers! Su Yu rolled his eyes. "You want people, right? Fine. Next time, I'll bring several hundred thousand!" "Several hundred thousand?" Su Long gasped. "Isn't that a bit too much?!" Su Yu was speechless. "Then a few tens of thousands?" "No need for that either... Cough, cough. Uh... are you familiar with the Prefecture Lord? If you are... cough, could you invite the Prefecture Lord over to our house for a meal?" The Prefecture Lord he meant was not the current Xia Huyou, nor was it Marquis Xia. To Su Long, there was only one Prefecture Lord: Xia Longwu. He was the former Commander of the Demon Suppression Army! He was also Su Long's top superior and the expert he admired most. Ever since Su Yu was a child, his father had constantly talked about him, and that chatter had gone on for over a decade. Long ago, Su Long had wanted to join the Dragon Martial Guards, but his cultivation had fallen short, so he never made the cut. Su Yu had interacted with Xia Longwu a few times. He couldn't claim they were intimate friends, but their rapport was decent enough. Hearing his father's request, he couldn't help saying, "Dad, Prefecture Lord Xia hasn't returned yet. It'll be at least a day or two. How about I invite King Daxia over for dinner instead?" "King Daxia?" Su Long was initially overjoyed, but then he froze, saying dryly, "Forget it... King Daxia hasn't shown his face in years. If he comes, everyone will just assume he's an impostor." "..." Su Yu was at a loss for words! So it had to be someone everyone recognized? Granted, everyone recognized Xia Longwu, who was always livestreaming decapitations, but the point was that King Daxia was the founding lord of the prefecture! Unbelievable! The father and son chatted for a bit, and Su Long soon dropped the subject, chuckling. "How did you just pop back out of nowhere, you brat? Weren't people saying it's dangerous? And you came back all by yourself—weren't you worried something might happen?" "It's fine," Su Yu chuckled. "I wasn't alone. On the way back to the Human Realm, I came with King Daqin and the others. King Dazhou and his group escorted me into the Human Realm, and King Daxia personally accompanied me to the Great Xia Prefecture!" Listening to the names of those legendary peak experts, Su Long let out a breath. "You brat, you've truly struck it big! You've made a name for yourself! Those big figures used to be legendary beings only recorded in books. Who would've thought you'd be interacting with them now?" Su Yu grinned. "Of course! There was also King Dayuan, who tried to pick a fight with me, and I cursed him out! If King Daqin and the others hadn't been there, I would've beaten the crap out of him!" "Listen to yourself!" Su Long admonished him. "When you're out in the world, having more friends means having more paths! You may be powerful now, but you can't be this arrogant! Arrogance brings divine retribution! Even if he annoys you, you should call him 'Daddy' to his face, then stab him in the back..." Su Long added, "Don't get hung up on saving face. We're not from some aristocratic clan. Is face worth more than your life? Did you forget what your dad taught you when you were little? Be soft to their face, but ruthless behind their back... During my hardest days, when I was besieged by several myriad races experts, I fell to my knees and begged for mercy, only to turn around with a single blade strike and slice down three or four of them..." "Cough, cough!" Su Yu gave a dry cough. "Dad, it's fine to tell me this, but don't let outsiders hear it!" "Besides, those 'myriad races experts' you're talking about were just Qianjun and Wanshi realm soldiers... I could blow away a whole horde of them with a single breath..." Su Long replied in displeasure, "What do you know! The principle is the same! You really think your old man knows nothing? So you're great, you're awesome—then let me ask you: if you're so amazing, why did you have to be so cautious coming back to the Human Realm?" Wasn't it just because he still wasn't strong enough? "Can you single-handedly sweep across all the heavens without a match?" "If not, keep a low profile, stay grounded, and don't get arrogant!" Su Long continued, "On the battlefield, the arrogant die the fastest! I told you this before, didn't I? On the battlefield, the commanders wearing shiny, bright clothes die first! Look at you—whenever you go out now, you're clad in white robes. Who else would they target if not you?" "When massive armies clash, always hold back thirty percent of your strength. The one who charges in the hardest at the start doesn't necessarily get the most kills, but they die the fastest. Within two or three moves, they reveal their whole hand, cut down three or five enemies, and get surrounded and slaughtered! There's a method to killing enemies: use a dull blade to carve meat, pick them off one by one, kill one over here, kill another over there, and before anyone notices, you've wiped them all out!" Su Long sighed. "You... I've heard people talk about your great battles against the various races across the heavens! You're fighting the wrong way! Why did you latch onto the Immortals and kill them relentlessly? If you kill too many, won't the Immortals hate you to the bone? You should kill a few from each—Gods, Demons, Immortals, Dragons—spread it out evenly! When the Gods want to deal with you, they'll think, 'The Immortals lost just as many, so let the Immortals do the heavy lifting.' When the Immortals want to deal with you, they'll think, 'The Demons have to act first before we do...'" "You foolish boy, you focused entirely on killing the Immortals, so even if they didn't want to step forward, they had no choice! Do they not care about face? If they care about face, how could they let you off? Look at it now: the Gods and Demons have both gone into hiding, while the Immortals will definitely never let this go!" As Su Long rambled on, Su Yu listened quietly, smiling, and nodded. "You have a point, Dad. But sometimes... you have to scare people until they're terrified! Otherwise, if only a few die, none of them will be afraid." "True enough. The specifics depend on the war situation." Su Long nodded. "Have you eaten?" "Not yet." "Then I'll cook for you!" Su Long walked outside, saying as he went, "What do you want to eat? It's a pity this place is too big; even walking to the kitchen takes a while. What a hassle! I still prefer our little house back in Nanyuan. Too bad that when I went back earlier, Nanyuan had turned into a black hole!" Su Yu followed behind his father, smiling. "Haven't they started rebuilding it?" "Yeah, but even rebuilt, it won't have the same flavor! Forget it, the house isn't what matters. It's the people that matter. I wonder how many of our neighbors died?" Su Long shook his head. "I hope not many died. We've known them for decades; it feels wrong if anyone is missing." Su Yu said with a smile, "Probably nothing major happened. I went back during the battle last time, and all the old neighbors had already evacuated. Afterward, Great Xia Prefecture arranged accommodations for them, so I don't think there are any issues." "That's for the best. I'd love to go see them, but staying here... it's best if I don't wander around, lest I cause trouble. Right now, plenty of people among the myriad races of the heavens are keeping their eyes on your old man..." Saying this, he turned his head toward Su Yu. "If they extract my blood, can they really deal with you?" "They can't," Su Yu smiled. "They can only track my location. Once my whereabouts are tracked, doing things in secret becomes inconvenient, and they might set a trap to ambush me!" "Then we must be careful!" Su Long remained very alert. As they talked, he led Su Yu to the new kitchen, which was spacious. There was no one inside; it wasn't mealtime yet. Su Long didn't feel comfortable having others live with him either. Aside from him, the household had no one inside unless friends came over; only a ring of experts kept watch around the perimeter. The ingredients, however, were fully stocked. Su Long wrapped an apron around himself and picked up a kitchen knife, instantly making Su Yu feel as though he had returned to the past. Alas, they could never truly go back! Su Long began chopping and washing vegetables, calling out, "Give me a hand..." Su Yu smiled, crossing his arms and watching from the side without lifting a finger. It had always been like this in the past: whenever his father called for help with chores, Su Yu never helped, at most cheering him on from the sidelines! Sure enough, Su Long was used to it. Muttering a few curses under his breath, he quickly went about the work himself, asking as he chopped, "Is anyone near our house?" "Yes, three Sun Moons. Great Xia Prefecture barely has any Sun Moons left, so they really spared no expense!" Su Yu chuckled. "Still, the key is the presence of the Invincible Realm. Without an Invincible's protection, Sun Moons are useless." "Brat, tell me, is your old man a burden to you now?" "Not really, right?" Su Yu smiled. "Just a bit weak. You're hardly a burden. Don't worry, I remember your words: if someone kidnaps my dad, I shouldn't care about it. I'll just hack them to death with a broadsword. If my dad lives, great; if not... I'll give you a grand funeral!" "You little brat, is that all you remember?" Su Long cursed with a laugh, then added, "Well, as long as you remember! We kicked around on the battlefield for so many years; if nothing else, we have experience. When your comrades are surrounded and the enemy is baiting reinforcements, ignore your comrades and slaughter the fucking enemy first! Wipe out the enemy, and the siege is broken naturally. If you can't wipe them out, everyone dies together!" Su Yu nodded. Su Long said further, "It's just a bit of a pity that you didn't enlist. Otherwise, after kicking around on the battlefield for a few years, you'd understand everything! Still, it's just as well. If you had joined the army, you might not have achieved what you have today!" Su Yu laughed. "Dad, what you learn in a cultural academy isn't necessarily less than on the battlefield. The battlefield is mostly straightforward clashing, whereas academies have more deceit and intrigue. There's actually plenty to learn!" Su Long nodded. "True. When educated people do evil, they're nastier, darker, and more ruthless!" Was that praise, or an insult? Su Yu didn't know! Probably praise? Forget it, he would take it as praise. Paying that no mind, Su Long continued cooking while asking, "Brat, I want to tell you something. No one can overhear us, right?" Su Yu moved slightly, quickly checking on the mother ball. Was it sleeping? Regardless, he set up a sound-isolating barrier first. He also cast one over the little fur ball before saying, "Dad, what is it?" With that, Su Yu leaned in conspiratorially. "Do you have some big secret to tell me? Am I actually the second-generation heir of some martial powerhouse?" Su Long rolled his eyes! "Second-generation martial heir? Does the son of a Qianjun count as a martial heir?" "No?" Su Yu was puzzled. "I thought you were a peerless master in hiding! Since you aren't... are you going to tell me my mom didn't actually die, and she's a peerless expert? She wouldn't happen to be the Time Master, would she?" "What?" Su Long looked bewildered. "What master?" "You don't know?" Su Yu rubbed his chin and quickly filled in the blanks in his head, blurting out, "Dad, you might not know this, but my mom was an ancient peerless powerhouse!" "Bullshit!" Su Long snapped crossly. "'Peerless,' your mother!" "..." Su Yu was speechless. Were you cursing at me, or were you literally stating that my mom was peerless? After cursing, Su Long coughed and said, "Stop spewing nonsense! Your mom was just an ordinary person, a frail normal human who struggled even with basic martial arts. Otherwise, she wouldn't have hemorrhaged to death giving birth to you! If she were truly an expert, she wouldn't have looked twice at your father. When your mom and I got married, I wasn't even at the Qianjun Realm! Have you ever seen a peerless powerhouse marry an Open Origin nobody?" Thinking it over, Su Yu shook his head. "True. Unless you were an expert too, otherwise, she might've blown you to death just exhaling in her sleep!" "..." Now that stung! Realizing it wasn't any juicy gossip, Su Yu said, somewhat bored, "Then what else could it be? Are you planning to find me a stepmother?" "Cut the crap!" Su Long bared his teeth. "I wanted to ask if there's anything wrong with you right now." "What do you mean?" Su Long said mysteriously, "Any headaches, fevers, or anything? Didn't you have nightmares every day when you were little? Are they gone now?" "They're gone..." "That's good!" Su Long breathed a sigh of relief. "When you were little, you had nightmares constantly, scaring the hell out of your old man... Back then, I was at my wit's end! I couldn't find anyone to help. After pondering back and forth, I heard that a big shot was living in seclusion in Nanyuan—a student of Head Ye Batian who had been exiled to Nanyuan... I asked around and found out it was Liu Wenyan. Your dad gave him a few bottles of good liquor before I could squeeze you in under him..." "Sure enough, after you studied with him, things got much better. I knew you were an intellectual who would stand out sooner or later! Good thing I didn't let you follow the path of a meathead martial artist." Su Yu froze. What did that mean? He knew about giving gifts to Old Liu. But his father's words meant he knew about Ye Batian? He knew about Liu Wenyan? Seeing his confusion, Su Long chuckled. "What? Brat, did you really think your old man was an idiot? That I'd just send you to study culture under any random person? These days, there are plenty of frauds who steal fame! Ye Batian... I fought in the military for ten years; how could I not know about him? Even though he's been dead for decades, I've heard of him! Serving in the military, how could I not know what a Civilization Master is?" Su Long snorted contemptuously. "I just couldn't be bothered to tell you, brat, lest you knew too much and got all sorts of ideas in your head! I knew full well those scholars talk about having an 'innocent, uncorrupted heart' and all that nonsense... Anyway, I didn't want to mislead you, so I didn't bother saying much." "Wait... Dad, what are you trying to say?" Su Yu was utterly bewildered and surprised. So his entry into the intermediate academy and studying cultural courses under Liu Wenyan wasn't an accident or coincidence—his dad had arranged it on purpose! He had known about Liu Wenyan all along! As Su Long continued cooking, he grinned and said, "What am I trying to say? Say my ass! There isn't much to say, just making sure you have an idea in your head!" "An idea about what?" Su Yu was puzzled. Su Long lowered his voice and said, "About that golden book inside your head!" Thunder rumbled through Su Yu's mind! A bolt from the blue! Holy crap! My dad knows? Seeing his face turn pale with shock, Su Long looked at him with utter disdain. "Look at you—and you're supposed to be a major figure? Damn it, you're not even as calm as me! What are you afraid of? Your old man has known for over a decade, and has anyone found out?" At this moment, Su Yu was truly shaken, astonished, and overwhelmed, his mouth dry as he stammered, "Dad, you know?" "Bullshit!" Su Long snapped crossly. "How could I not know? I'm the one who did it... Cough, cough. Anyway, I was terrified during that time too, and I didn't dare breathe a word! You know your old man served in the military for years and knows a thing or two. At a glance, I could tell it was a supreme treasure. I was scared shitless too, worried someone might slice your head open..." Su Long sighed with emotion. "Back then, you had nightmares every day, scaring the daylights out of me. I saw your head congested with blood, and you didn't dare close your eyes day or night. I was terrified! I was scared someone would kill you, and scared you'd kill yourself! Out of options, I figured that since the thing looked like a book, it was probably related to Civilization Masters... So I had you read books and tried to find a way to get a Civilization Master, hoping cultural qi could suppress it!" "And wouldn't you know it, after letting you read some books, you really got much better!" "You said you dreamed of monsters killing you... so I showed you the myriad races illustrated guide, letting you look at all those demons, ghosts, and fiends. After seeing enough of them, you naturally stopped being afraid!" Su Yu's mouth hung open. It took him a long while before he managed, "No wonder there were so many books like that at home when I was little. I thought you brought them back from the army." Su Long curled his lip. "A crude brute like your dad, why would I bring books home? When you were little, your dad told you every day about chopping this one to death today and that one tomorrow, and made you watch Prefecture Lord Xia decapitating people... After watching enough of it, look, weren't you no longer scared?" "..." Su Yu was speechless once again. So the bedtime stories he had heard and the decapitation livestreams he had watched as a child were all deliberately shown to him by his father? "Wait, Dad, what exactly happened?" Su Yu was truly mystified. What was going on? His dad knew about the golden album! Yet his dad was genuinely not strong at all! Su Long chuckled. "What do you mean, what happened? A supreme treasure falls from heaven, and my son is fated for it, so he gets the treasure! I've heard stories like that countless times. Even with my eyes closed, I know a fortuitous opportunity when I see one!" "No, Dad, tell me the details. What really happened?" Su Long grinned. "Nothing much. When you were little, around six years old, your dad was broke. Raising you made it hard to find a job, so having no choice, I thought about finding a place to make some quick cash. Didn't they say Starfall Mountain had plenty of bandits? I figured I'd go kill a few bandits—not only could I loot some cash, but I could also claim bounties..." According to Su Long, it had been a drizzly day. In the dead of night, he ran up Starfall Mountain, hoping to wait for an ambush and kill a few bandits for bounty money. As it turned out, thunder roared violently across Starfall Mountain that night! The bandits were so terrified they didn't dare step outside. Su Long staked out half the night without seeing a ghostly shadow. Left with no choice, he was about to pack up and return the next night. Just then, a sudden thunderclap struck, nearly shaking Starfall Mountain to its core. After a series of explosions, a speck of light suddenly plummeted from the sky. Su Long recalled the legend of Starfall Mountain—that the range had been formed when a massive astral body crashed in ancient times. Assuming it was a legendary star fragment, he mustered all his strength, risking his life to reach the spot where the speck of light had dropped... "So... you picked up that book?" Su Yu was dazed. The Time Record was picked up off the ground? Not picked up by him! Picked up by his dad! Su Long chuckled. "Yep, picked it up! I took a look... Holy shit, it was a book! I thought it was some martial arts manual. You know, on the battlefield of the heavens, killing enemies can grant rewards from heaven and earth! I wondered if some experts had clashed and someone was slain, causing heaven and earth to bestow a reward even in the Human Realm. In my excitement, I rushed home... But when I got home, no matter what I tried, I couldn't open the book!" Su Long looked dejected and somewhat helpless. "I had no clue what that thing was. There wasn't a single character on it. I messed with it for days, but couldn't pry it open. I even thought about finding a place to sell it, but feared stirring up trouble..." Su Long sighed. "And then... I hid it away at home. But look at you—the next day after I went out, when I came back, you little brat had somehow dug it up, and its golden edges had sliced you until you were covered in blood. Scared the living daylights out of me!" Su Yu was flabbergasted. "I don't remember any of that!" "What would you remember?" Su Long snapped crossly. "You nearly bled to death—how could you remember anything? After that, you ran a high fever for several days, and then had nightmares every day. How could you remember? You don't remember, but I sure do! I don't know if your dripping blood claimed ownership or what, but whoosh, it shot straight into your head! It terrified the hell out of me, and I didn't dare say a word to anyone, didn't even dare think about it... I watched over you for several years, and only relaxed once I saw you were fine!" Su Long said wistfully, "Later, seeing that it had no adverse effects other than nightmares, I sought out Liu Wenyan to have you study and learn... And to be fair, from then on, you got much better! I thought that after all these years of peace, everything was probably fine." Su Long looked at Su Yu. "But you brat quietly grew so powerful, so I started wondering if it had something to do with the thing in your head." Su Yu swallowed hard. "Dad, you're saying... this thing was picked up by you at Starfall Mountain?" "Yeah!" Su Long sighed with feeling. "Starfall Mountain... the place where stars fell. Sure enough, there really were treasures there!" Su Yu's mind was in utter turmoil! The Time Record had fallen onto Starfall Mountain! The thing in his head was the Time Record, wasn't it? Did that mean the Time Master had battled someone back then, was slain, and dropped the Time Record? Or was it for some other reason? And during that same period, Liu Hong had apparently obtained his fortuitous opportunity as well. Was it a coincidence, or an inevitability? Su Yu sank into deep contemplation. After a long while, he couldn't help saying, "Dad, so that means you possess immense fortune and great providence. To think you could pick up something like that!" Su Long nodded proudly. Su Yu hesitated, then asked, "Then why are you so weak?" "..." Su Long blew his top. "What the hell do you know! If your dad didn't have capability, would you have today? If your dad had no skills, would my subordinates, like Chen Long and the others, be doing so well? Back in the day, the Demon Suppression Army had countless foot soldiers. Look at the brothers your dad led—a whole bunch of Shanhais and Lingyuns! I brought them all up, what do you know!" Su Yu was slightly taken aback. That was true! His dad's squad really did produce several talents. For the battlefield of the heavens as a whole, a tiny squad producing a single Shanhai was already abnormal. Of course, no one paid attention to it, because there were too many Shanhais overall. Su Long sighed. "It was only for you, brat, that I had to retire and return home. Otherwise, I'd definitely be stronger than Chen Long—at the very least, I'd be a Sun Moon general by now!" Listening to his father's rambling, Su Yu asked solemnly, "Dad, in other words... there's really something unusual about Starfall Mountain?" Why didn't it drop anywhere else, but landed right on Starfall Mountain? "Indeed!" Su Long nodded as well. "That place... is actually very eerie! Didn't you absorb the book? Later, seeing you fell ill, I wondered if there was a way to resolve it there... so I went back a few times. That place, let me tell you, is truly bizarre!" "How bizarre?" Su Yu had never really paid attention to that. He had visited Starfall Mountain several times and had even killed people there! "Normally there's nothing, but go there when it rains and you'll see. The thunder is terrifyingly loud..." "Isn't that normal?" "How is that normal?" Su Long shook his head. "It's not normal at all! There's dry thunder without much rain. More importantly, when you press your ear to the ground, the thunder sounds louder than when you listen standing up!" Su Yu hesitated. "Isn't that right? Wouldn't sounds heard from the ground be louder?" "Idiot!" Su Long cursed. "Have you ever been on a battlefield? Pressing your ear to the ground lets you hear vibrations. For example, if the enemy has cavalry, listening against the ground will definitely make the sound louder because of ground vibrations. But if they're airborne cavalry, could you hear wings flapping by listening to the ground?" Is that so? Su Yu wasn't sure if his father was right, mainly because he had never paid attention to such things in normal times. What normal person would pay attention to that? Su Long added, "So, I thought, maybe the thunder was coming from underground. And let me tell you, your old man even dug holes on Starfall Mountain... I thought, could there be a legendary expert's ruins? I dug pretty deep for quite a long time, but after digging and digging, I didn't find a damn thing!" Su Long shook his head. "I didn't understand back then, but later when I went to Nanyuan and looked... Yo, that ruin was suspended in midair, inside some spatial crevice! So I wondered: could Starfall Mountain also have some ruins?" Su Yu was stunned. Back then, he had forged clues and tricked people on Starfall Mountain, claiming there was a ruin there! In the end, many people searched, but found nothing; only Cult Master Tianyi's treasure had been excavated by Su Yu. Now his father was telling him that the place might genuinely house a ruin. "Dad, are you being serious?" "Nonsense, of course I am!" Su Long tossed ingredients into the wok, the food sizzling loudly. While stir-frying, he asked, "Set aside the useless chatter for a second. Brat, did you find that golden book?" "I found it!" "Does your increase in strength have to do with that thing?" "Yes!" "Then I was right!" Su Long grinned widely. "It definitely had to be a great treasure, I knew it! I suspect this thing couldn't have fallen onto Starfall Mountain for no reason. If it fell because some expert killed someone, why didn't the expert come looking for it? I figured it might have been drawn to something. For example, if Starfall Mountain has ruins, was this golden book trying to return there? People say spiritual treasures possess consciousness, and falling leaves return to their roots... Tell me, does that make sense?" Su Yu was dazed again. That actually made some sense! So the Time Record might have been returning to its roots! 'The Time Master died, and Starfall Mountain has the Time Master's ruins, so the Time Record returned to its roots at Starfall Mountain, only to be intercepted by my dad!' Su Yu thought to himself: 'The Time Record... if the thing in my head really is the Time Record, something incomparably mighty, could it have exhausted all its power when traveling across space?' 'And that's why it needed me to replenish its energy with the blood essence of myriad creatures before it could gradually awaken?' Thinking along these lines, it really made some sense. 'Maybe the Time Master was alive all along... fighting someone above the grid, like the master of the rule Liu Hong obtained... Both sides fought fiercely, wounded each other fatally, and perished!' 'I received the Time Master's inheritance, while Liu Hong got the inheritance of the Time Master's enemy?' 'That's a possibility!' Su Yu's thoughts raced as he pieced things together. Right now, he made a series of deductions, and the possibility was definitely there. Or perhaps... the Time Master and the master of that rule were the same person. Except they had been killed! Liu Hong obtained part of the legacy, while he received another part, and only combining them would yield the complete legacy of the Time Master? The reason he judged that the Time Master was dead was that for a supreme treasure like the Time Record, Su Yu believed that unless its owner died, it would never be lost. Yet wasn't it said that the Time Master had vanished back in the ancient era? And only now did Su Yu realize that his greatest fortuitous opportunity had not come from anyone else, but from his own father? My god! Su Yu couldn't believe it! He had imagined so many scenarios before, even wondering whether his mother had faked her death to escape and was a peerless expert... Only for it to be proven total nonsense; a peerless expert would never look twice at his father! He had also wondered if his ancestors had been extraordinary... which also proved to be nonsense; his ancestors were mere farmers! He was indeed living off his family's legacy, but not from ancient ancestors—from his weak father? A father he could blow away with a single breath? "Dad, doesn't that mean you missed out on a colossal opportunity?!" Su Long snorted in contempt. "Nonsense. If you got it, it's mine all the same. If I hit you, do you dare hit back?" *Smack!* A spatula swung toward Su Yu's head, speckled with grease. Su Yu was speechless! Su Long chuckled. "Brat, this is what a true opportunity is! You go fight life-and-death battles out there while I don't have to do a thing except wait for your glorious success. Once you're thriving, your dad is wrapped up in good fortune so thick I can't shake it off!" Continuing, Su Long added, "This matter... your old man has kept it buried deep in my heart, never daring to speak of it or even think about it! Now that I've told you today... don't you powerhouses have ways to alter memories? Erase this memory for me so I can sleep peacefully, rather than being terrified to even think about it day and night, constantly worried some expert might read my mind." Su Yu frowned slightly. "Tampering with memories is quite troublesome..." "Still better than bottling it up inside. Can you do it or not? If you can't, don't make excuses!" Su Yu, resigned, nodded. "I can, but it won't be erased completely. I'll just seal away a portion of the memory. Normally you won't remember it, and unless it's specifically brought up, it will be very hard to recall. It's essentially induced forgetfulness." "That works too. Just make sure you don't bring it up to me. Aside from you, nobody else knows." Su Yu thought for a moment and nodded. Yet shock still rippled through his heart. The Time Record... was picked up by his dad off the ground. What in the world! And here he had been worrying whether there was some grand conspiracy behind it! The crux was that he had actually managed to integrate with it! Under normal circumstances, that shouldn't have been possible! Unless countless coincidences aligned to the absolute extreme: for instance, the Time Record was completely masterless, its power drained to the limit, lying dormant, while Su Yu's blood and sea of will just happened to resonate with the Time Master... Through all those coincidences, after absorbing his blood, it was fused into him. If all those conditions were met, couldn't he be considered a Child of Destiny? And his old man... was one too? So he was a Grandson of Destiny, while his old man was the true Child of Destiny? Su Yu felt dazed. Without further ado, he helped seal his father's memory. Even Chen Yong could perform this kind of technique, and with Su Yu's current formidable strength, it was naturally easy. It was only a seal rather than a complete rewriting, making it even simpler. ... A moment later. Su Long continued stir-frying, looking somewhat puzzled. "What was I trying to tell you again? How did I forget? There was something nagging at the back of my mind, but the moment I saw you, I went and forgot it!" Su Yu grinned. "Did you want to find me a stepmother?" "Bullshit!" "Then you must owe someone money and forgot to pay them back!" "Did I?" Su Long looked completely bewildered. Probably not. Seeing his son, he had definitely wanted to say something, but in the blink of an eye, it had slipped his mind. Oh well, whatever. If he forgot, so be it! Su Yu, meanwhile, fell into deep thought. Starfall Mountain! Could there really be a ruin there? However, Invincibles had passed by Starfall Mountain—King Daming, King Daxia, and others had all been there and found nothing. Could it be that their strength wasn't enough to detect it? If the mother ball, a Dao Integration expert, went there, could it find anything? Wait, no. The human race didn't have Dao Integration experts in this tidal change, but they surely did in the preceding ones. Then... the Time Record? Su Yu mused to himself. It seemed he would need to find time to visit Starfall Mountain! If there really was a ruin left by the Time Master... he would strike it rich! Such an immensely powerful figure must have left behind countless treasures, right? "It's hard to say, though... Maybe it's just an empty shell. Take me, for instance: just forging a single Civilization Chronicle consumed over half my wealth!" When the Time Master forged the Time Record, perhaps it drained their wealth completely as well. Regardless, it was still worth a visit. 'Let's wait a bit first. Causing too big a commotion wouldn't be good!' He glanced once more at his father, who was still cooking, feeling somewhat wistful. Fate was a strange thing. Could his father be considered fortunate? Hard to say! He survived ten years on the battlefield, his old squadmates were promoted and prospered, and his son was sweeping across the heavens... If you called that good fortune, it certainly was. The only catch was that his dad wasn't strong himself. 'More importantly, my dad is actually quite cunning!' Su Yu thought to himself, wanting to chuckle. Did Liu Wenyan know that his dad was aware of his identity, and had shoved Su Yu onto him with just a few bottles of cheap wine? If he hadn't known Liu Wenyan's identity, that would be one thing. Knowing it, Ye Batian's student had been bought off with liquor worth just a few hundred coins a bottle... How degrading! Under normal circumstances, to get a Civilization Master to accept a disciple, let alone a few hundred coins, even a few million would hardly get your foot in the door! 'If the Time Record was given to me by my dad, that's not bad.' Su Yu thought to himself. What he had feared most was that some supreme powerhouse had forcefully foisted it upon him. Now it seemed... while that possibility wasn't entirely eliminated, if he could truly find the Time Master's ruins on Starfall Mountain, the chance of it being artificially orchestrated would be very slim! 'Around fifteen years ago, something major must have happened, yet none in the myriad realms of the heavens know what it was!' 'Perhaps the upheaval occurred above the heavens!' Su Yu quietly pondered, then suppressed these thoughts. That realm was still too far away from him; there was no rush to dwell on it now.