Invincible Dad-Chapter 737 Five-Colored Golden Core_1

Devouring him would be far more beneficial than taking him as a subordinate.

After all, the Cultivation World was a place where the strong preyed on the weak. Even if Xu Lai did this, outsiders couldn't criticize him for it. On the contrary, they would say The Supreme Emperor had found a great opportunity!

That's just how the Cultivation World worked. When you gained an opportunity, someone else would inevitably lose that same opportunity or even die because of it. It was a zero-sum game.

But after careful consideration, Xu Lai chose to extinguish his greed.

Thus, the Heavenly Court gained its Tenth Divine General.

Shan Baiwan managed the Heavenly Court's treasury with diligence and courtesy, always amiable to everyone he met. Let alone the Divine Generals, even if a common Heavenly Soldier asked for his help refining an elixir to save their life or break through, Shan Baiwan would not refuse. He only required that the petitioner prepare all the necessary medicinal ingredients and a Pill Furnace, and he never put on any airs.

In his conduct and his work, Shan Baiwan was impeccable in every way—truly perfect.

And Xu Lai had never told anyone the secret that the Tenth Divine General was the personification of the Laws of the Alchemy Dao. Not even to his dearest wife, Ruan Tang, or his daughter, Yiyi.

"The Transforming Crane Pill."

Xu Lai's eyes flickered. If I personally refined the Emperor's Elixir, the Transforming Crane Pill, I'd have less than a twenty percent chance of success. With Shan Baiwan, however, that chance would rise to thirty percent! A ten percent increase might not seem like much, but countless Alchemists in the Immortal Domain would rack their brains just to increase their elixir success rate by a few hundredths of a percent. Shan Baiwan has hidden his true strength for tens of thousands of years, constantly suppressing his cultivation boundary and his 'innate talent' in the Alchemy Dao. This time, he must be seizing this opportunity to step into the Quasi-Emperor Realm, right?

As Xu Lai was thinking this, he suddenly gazed toward the boundless starry sky, a smile gracing his lips.

The Sound of the Great Dao enveloped the Heavenly Court as dazzling golden light and a myriad of extraordinary phenomena appeared. A vast amount of Spiritual Energy and laws converged.

Shan Baiwan stepped into the First Heaven of the Quasi-Emperor Realm!

From this day forward, Shan Baiwan would become the Heavenly Court's third Quasi-Emperor, following the First Divine General Taotie and the Second Divine General Baize.

Xu Lai pursed his lips. No need for a tribulation, tsk.

The Laws of the Alchemy Dao were a part of the Heavenly Dao Laws, like a single leaf on a great tree. If the leaf wanted to grow stronger, the tree it shared its very life with would hardly be willing to slap it to death, would it?

Therefore, Shan Baiwan had no need to face a tribulation, nor did he have any so-called bottlenecks. As long as the time was right, he could advance. If it weren't for the fact that this starry sky had long since been under the "Xu" name, coupled with him constantly suppressing his boundary to hide his true strength, Shan Baiwan might have had a chance to become an Emperor!

"This is good. Only by becoming stronger can the Heavenly Court ensure that more people survive the upcoming Era of the Emperor's Fall."

Xu Lai was in a good mood, humming a little tune as he cooked. He brought breakfast to the dining table.

"Yiyi," Xu Lai said, "go wake up your sleepyhead mom for breakfast."

"Mhm, mhm, mhm!" The little girl gulped and dashed up to the second floor.

Ruan Lan reached out to grab a fried egg, but Xu Lai slapped her hand with his chopsticks. "Wash your hands before you eat."

"Hmph!" Ruan Lan ground her small, sharp canines. "Stinky brother-in-law, you just love picking on me."

"Are you going to wash them or not?"

"..."

Ruan Lan silently stood up. The moment she was on her feet, she heard the door to the upstairs room open, followed by two sets of footsteps—clearly her sister and niece.

Ruan Lan suddenly burst into tears. "Fine, I'll wash them! Isn't that enough? I'll do whatever you ask! I'll satisfy all your unreasonable demands! But... but can you please not let my sister find out? WAHHHH!"

"???"

A storm of question marks appeared in Xu Lai's mind.

At the top of the stairs, Ruan Tang descended, dressed in a black lace nightgown.

Ruan Lan watched with eager anticipation, waiting for the glorious sight of her stinky brother-in-law getting an earful.

To her surprise, Ruan Tang simply sighed softly. "Ruan Lan, it's a real pity you didn't go to the Central Academy of Drama. You would have been a wonderful actress."

Ruan Lan was speechless. Wait a minute. Why isn't Sis angry?

"Your sister has reached Foundation Establishment," Xu Lai said calmly. "She can hear our entire conversation. Trying to frame me is impossible."

"Damn it!" Ruan Lan slammed the table in frustration. "I can't believe I didn't think of that. A miscalculation."

"Mommy is amazing! She reached Foundation Establishment after just a few days of cultivation!" Yiyi said with admiration.

"So what!" Ruan Lan hmphed. "I just don't care to step into the Golden Core Realm, otherwise I'd already be at the Peak of Golden Core!" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

That part was true. Ruan Lan had entered the Dao through Formations. Although she had yet to form a Golden Core in her body, her understanding of Formations had long surpassed the Golden Core Realm. If Ruan Lan wished, she could trigger a heavenly tribulation and break through at any time.

Moreover, armed with the legacy of the Star Origin Sect and the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation, her destructive power was utterly terrifying. If she had enough time to properly set up a Formation, Ruan Lan could even kill a Venerable several major boundaries above her own!

And she had only been cultivating for less than a year.

Such talent would be considered first-class even in the Immortal Domain.

"That's wonderful," Ruan Tang said gently, not wanting to crush her sister's confidence.

But Xu Lai was different. He said with a grin, "Your sister reached Foundation Establishment in half an hour. As for the Golden Core Realm... probably within a month."

"Hiss!" Ruan Lan gasped in shock. "Half an hour for Foundation Establishment?"

Yiyi was also astonished, her mouth wide open. "A month to reach Golden Core? Mommy is so amazing!"

Xu Lai was actually being conservative. He suspected that with Ruan Tang's terrifying talent, it might not even take her a week to reach the Golden Core Realm.

Ruan Tang hesitated for a moment before speaking. "...Actually, I think I might have already reached the Golden Core Realm."

"???"

Three question marks appeared simultaneously above the heads of Xu Lai, Ruan Lan, and Xu Yiyi.

"Yesterday, I was bored at work, so I cultivated for a while. Then I discovered a multicolored sphere had appeared inside my body. It looks a bit like a Golden Core," Ruan Tang said uncertainly.

Xu Lai said nothing. With a solemn expression, he sent out his Divine Sense. A moment later, his face was a mask of bewilderment.

Ruan Tang wasn't mistaken; it was indeed a Golden Core. But it wasn't golden. Instead, it had five colors: white, black, red, blue, and yellow. The five colors intertwined, yet they weren't particularly dazzling. In fact, all their radiance was contained within.

Ruan Tang spoke softly, "I felt something was off yesterday, but I was too embarrassed to ask. Xu Lai, did I mess up my cultivation again?"

Xu Lai's breathing grew heavy with excitement. Mess up? It was far beyond just being wrong! A Five-Colored Golden Core was simply unheard of!

It was common knowledge that a Golden Core had only one color: gold. The perfect Golden Core, as acknowledged by the Immortal Domain, emitted a resplendent golden light. Take Xu Yiyi, for example. After training in Qingfeng Camp for over two months, she used her military merits to exchange for heavenly materials and earthly treasures and successfully forged a perfect Golden Core.

But Ruan Tang's Golden Core... it swirled with five colors, its light retracted inward, and it exuded a deeply unnerving, oppressive feeling.

If he hadn't sent his Divine Sense into her body to investigate, Xu Lai would have never sensed that Ruan Tang had already reached the Golden Core Realm. That Five-Colored Golden Core seemed capable of blocking Divine Sense probes.

The look Xu Lai gave his wife was strange.

Foundation Establishment in half an hour. A few days of cultivation... no, the actual time spent cultivating might have been less than a single day to step into the Golden Core Realm. And on top of that, it was a never-before-seen Five-Colored Golden Core.

Xu Lai's stare made Ruan Tang feel inexplicably uncomfortable. She asked nervously, "Is my problem very serious?"

"It's okay," Xu Lai said, retracting his gaze. "It's not a huge problem. Just keep cultivating. I'll look through some ancient texts later and see which Empress had a Five-Colored Golden Core."

Ruan Tang was speechless.

The last time, when she reached Foundation Establishment, Xu Lai had suspected she was the reincarnation of some Empress. Now, this unusual Golden Core only served to deepen that suspicion.

Ruan Tang couldn't help but roll her eyes at him. The charm she exuded in that fleeting moment was absolutely spellbinding.