Chapter 150: Chapter 150: Older Brother Becomes Fourth Uncle

There were houses in the space built by Zhou Dayong and the others, and Chu Feng led his people to settle into them.

The island manor that had been merged into the space also had rooms. Yu An took Yu Huang to stay at the manor. The master bedroom had previously been occupied by Ao Wu, but after the integration with the space, it naturally became Yu An’s room.

Yu Huang carried Xiao Yu away, while Yu An and Han Li went to the master bedroom to rest.

After washing up, they lay on the large, soft bed. Han Li wrapped his arm around her waist, seeming a little preoccupied.

"...I should be giving birth in a few days. When the time comes... Han Li, are you listening to me?"

Yu An waved her hand in front of his eyes. "What are you spacing out about?"

"Nothing," Han Li snapped back to reality and smiled at her. "I’m about to become a Beast Father. I’m just a little excited."

Yu An gave him a suspicious look. "Is that it? I feel like you’re preoccupied. Are you hiding something from me?"

"Of course not!"

"Hmm? Really?"

When Yu An pushed his hand away, Han Li realized his reaction had been a little over the top.

Under Yu An’s stare, he said helplessly, "Alright, there is one thing."

"When Female Mother and Beast Father left Han Ling City, they said they were going to the other side of the Endless Sea. This must be the place they were headed. I want to see if I can find that fruit my Beast Father once ate."

"So that’s what it is," Yu An said, exasperated. "Why would you need to hide that from me?"

"We’re not going back right away anyway. Once we find Mo Yan and the others, we can all ask around together."

"Speaking of which," she suddenly recalled the fruit pit, "I gave the pit to the Cloud Beast to put into storage back then and forgot all about it. I’ll look for it tomorrow."

Seeing that Yu An believed him, Han Li breathed a temporary sigh of relief.

’I’ll just hide it for as long as I can.’

"Zaizai, are you sure this thing is really edible?"

Ao Si stared at the dirt-caked lumps Da Hu and Xiao Hu had dug up, and his brow furrowed with worry.

"Cubs, our Dragon Clan doesn’t lack for meat. You can’t eat dirt..."

"Brother, you can really eat this."

Da Hu said with certainty, "I remember this stuff is called sweet potato. Female Mother used to make lots and lots of delicious food with it."

Xiao Hu chimed in, "Yeah, you can fry it or boil it. Hmm, it’s also delicious roasted."

Lately, familiar figures had been popping into their minds. The Dragon Clan’s witch doctor said they were on the verge of recovering their memories.

Ao Si had been taking the two of them wandering everywhere. This time, they happened to see sweet potato vines on a mountain, and some of their memories came flooding back.

Seeing how certain the two little ones were, Ao Si had no choice but to build a fire and roast the sweet potatoes as they asked.

’Whatever, I’ll just humor the kids.’

After being washed, the sweet potatoes didn’t look so much like dirt clods, but they still didn’t look edible. Following the motions from his memory, Da Hu placed them in the fire.

Bored, Ao Si chewed on a blade of grass as he added wood to the fire, wondering where he should take the two zaizai hunting later.

As he was thinking, a fragrance he’d never smelled before wafted from the fire, and Ao Si sniffed instinctively.

’So fragrant and sweet!’

"They’re ready," Da Hu said excitedly upon smelling the familiar aroma. "The sweet potatoes are cooked."

Ao Si was once again ordered to pull the sweet potatoes from the fire. He was a little more enthusiastic this time, but he hesitated when he saw the blackened lumps.

’Can you... really eat this?’

Xiao Hu demonstrated for him like an expert. "You have to peel off the outside skin. The sweet potato is inside."

Ao Si tried again. When he took a bite of the fragrant, sweet flesh, his eyes went wide.

’So, so delicious!’

"I told you it was edible," Da Hu said, planting his hands on his hips proudly. "Brother, let’s dig up some more later to take back and let the others have a taste."

Ao Si’s mouth was too full to talk, so he could only nod in agreement.

Only after finishing one did he have a moment to speak. "Cubs, I’m so curious what kind of female your Female Mother is. To think she could discover such a delicious food!"

Da Hu swallowed the food in his mouth and said proudly, "My Female Mother is the most, most, most powerful female in the whole world! She can defeat bad guys, and she can make lots and lots of yummy food..."

As he spoke, his voice trailed off, becoming a mumble. "Female Mother... Female Mother’s egg-fried rice is the best... I miss Female Mother..."

"I... I miss Female Mother too."

Xiao Hu’s tears suddenly started to fall. PLOP. PLOP. "And I miss Beast Father... I miss Beast Father Mo Yan, and Han Li Beast Father, and..."

In their minds, the once blurry figures slowly came into focus.

Da Hu didn’t want to cry, but when he heard Xiao Hu’s sobs, he couldn’t help but shed tears too. Panicked, Ao Si tossed aside the sweet potatoes and pulled them into his arms, one on each side, to comfort them.

"Don’t cry, don’t cry. Brother will find your Female Mother and Beast Fathers for you. That’s great, you even remember your Beast Fathers’ names! It’ll be much easier to find them now."

He was so busy comforting the children that he didn’t have a chance to think too deeply about one of the Beast Father names Xiao Hu had mentioned.

After finally managing to calm them down, Ao Si realized they had fallen asleep.

He let out a long sigh of relief and carried them down the mountain, back home.

After tucking the two little ones safely into bed, it finally dawned on Ao Si.

"Wait," he muttered to himself. "Did Xiao Hu just mention Xiao Wu?"

Ao Wu, his brother with the oh-so-creative name.

All five brothers had been found and brought home by their Female Mother and Beast Father. Just like Fuzai, who still hadn’t been claimed by any adult dragons, the five of them had appeared in a flower bed on Suspended Island and remained unclaimed. So, their Female Mother took them home.

Later, their Female Mother gave birth to a little sister. They eagerly awaited the day she would hatch from her shell, but not long after she did, their Female Mother and little sister both disappeared.

The next time they met, their Female Mother had become Lord Huang, the Vice Alliance Hierarch of the Invincible Alliance, while their little sister’s whereabouts remained unknown.

’I wonder how Eldest Brother and the others are doing with their search. Have they found our little sister yet?’

’Wait, if Xiao Wu is the zaizai’s Beast Father, doesn’t that mean I’m their Fourth Uncle?’

’Doesn’t that mean he’s been letting the zaizai call him "Brother" for all these days, getting demoted a whole generation for nothing?!’

Ao Si beat his chest and stomped his foot, not daring to imagine how Ao Wu would laugh at him.

Still, the priority was to find him. He just had no idea where Xiao Wu was now.

「Inside the Imprisonment Cave on Suspended Island.」

Ao Wu swatted away a spider trying to spin a web on his head.

"Are the youngsters in the clan so well-behaved these days? How has no one messed up yet!"

What he didn’t know was that the clan elders felt that any misbehaving members were a disturbance. To prevent them from hurting the zaizai, the elders had ordered them to be locked in temporarily built "little dark rooms" to reflect on their actions.

Only two guards were stationed on Suspended Island year-round, and they never strayed from the flower beds, so they certainly weren’t wandering around.

So... to this day, no one had discovered there was someone locked in the Imprisonment Cave.

"Hey, look! Why is Fuzai moving?"

The guard poked his companion. They both saw the golden flower moving about restlessly, its petals oriented in one direction as if it wanted to go somewhere.

"It’s about to hatch, right?"

His companion guessed, "Counting the days, it should be sometime in the next few." 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"You scared me to death. I thought something was wrong."

The first guard let out a sigh of relief and soothed it gently, "Fuzai, it’s not time to hatch yet. Be a good cub and stay put. You can play after you’ve hatched, alright?"

’I wonder which dragon family Fuzai’s Female Mother and Beast Father belong to. If they don’t come to claim their cub soon, I might just have to steal it and take it home myself!’