Chapter 2442

Black Emperor pondered for a moment, then nodded. "Very well. This child has a good heart. Since that is the case, I will teach her some sword cultivation techniques. I hope it will be useful to her."

"Then you won't teach her medicine?" the Immortal Emperor asked.

Zhu Yanyi remained calm. "I will. But medicine requires years of teaching. I am about to go to the Demon Realm. If I stop halfway, it would not be good. So, I plan to leave some books suitable for her, along with my own notes and experiences. I will also tell Senior Brother Tianyun. If she has questions, Cuiwan can ask her. I will return in at most ten years. If things go smoothly, it won't even take that long. So, there is no need to plan too far ahead."

Zhu Yanyi never forgot how to act like a hands-off boss.

Of course, Black Emperor knew that Zhu Yanyi’s trip to the Demon Realm would not last long. For ordinary mortals, ten years is a long time. But for them, ten years passed in the blink of an eye. "Very well. I will help teach your disciple here. It is rare that you think of taking a direct disciple."

Zhu Yanyi said, "It was just a feeling of affinity."

It truly was just affinity. For Zhu Yanyi, taking disciples depended entirely on this feeling. If someone caught her eye, she would naturally cultivate them with all her heart.

"Anyway, taking a disciple is a good thing," the Empress said with a smile.

The Immortal Empress raised an eyebrow nearby. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Yanyi, why don't you have quadruplets or quintuplets?"

"Do you think I am a pig?" Zhu Yanyi was speechless. "I am a doctor myself. I know I am only carrying one."

"But the Mother of Vitality, Empress Wushuang, is here. She can give you some vitality to make you have more children," the Immortal Empress urged with a teasing look.

The Empress looked eager. "It is possible. I gave the Immortal Empress many of her children." Realizing this sounded inappropriate, she corrected herself. "My vitality is very powerful. You can have as many children as you want."

Zhu Yanyi shook her head directly. "No. I am fine as I am. I think it is better to have children one by one."

"One is enough," Yan Aohan said at this moment.

Zhu Yanyi raised an eyebrow slightly. "I remember my sister and Doumiao both had several."

"Yes. We already have two sons. Although they are not related by blood, their status is settled. So, we have enough. Whether this one is a boy or a girl, one is enough. Having too many children is not interesting," Yan Aohan said seriously. "Of course, I hope this one is a girl."

Zhu Yanyi laughed. "I have no preference for gender." After all, whether boy or girl, they were her and Yan Aohan’s children.

The Empress looked a bit regretful. "Yanyi, if you want more children in the future, tell me. I can give you as many as you want."

This statement had too much ambiguity. Zhu Yanyi found it both funny and awkward.

Yan Aohan said, "No need. One is enough. More would be troublesome to look after."

Unlike Black Emperor and the Immortal Emperor, Yan Aohan had only one unique focus in his heart: Zhu Yanyi. To him, children were merely a bloodline witness to their eternal union. So, one was enough. More would be troublesome. He preferred a world of just the two of them.

Zhu Yanyi understood Yan Aohan’s meaning. Therefore, she did not take his argument for only one child too seriously.

Besides, having become immortals, being able to conceive now was already quite good. The chance of naturally conceiving a second child in the future was very low.

As they were talking, a flash of light appeared. Cuiwan came out, holding a small cat in her arms.

Yes, it was truly a small cat. It even meowed when it saw people. However, its eyes were golden and very beautiful.

"A cat?" Zhu Yanyi asked curiously.

Cuiwan nodded. "Master, this is the spirit pet I chose. Mantou."

"Mantou?" Zhu Yanyi was slightly stunned. "What kind of name is that?"

"Mantou is a great name. It can make people full. I was hungry when I was little. To remember those hungry days, I named it Mantou," Cuiwan said proudly. Zhu Yanyi raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

"Is this a Lightning Cat?" the Immortal Emperor examined the spirit pet and said, with some admiration for Cuiwan’s luck.

"What is a Lightning Cat? Is it good?" Zhu Yanyi did not know much about spirit pets.

The Immortal Emperor explained, "A Lightning Cat is a type of cat. But this kind is very fast and has strong attack power. Most importantly, once a Lightning Cat recognizes its master, if the master is in danger, the cat has a natural ability to borrow life. Looking at this Lightning Cat, it is still in its juvenile stage. If you raise it well, it will definitely become one of your best helpers in the future."

The Immortal Emperor’s later words were naturally directed at Cuiwan. He was not wrong at all. Later, Cuiwan indeed faced a very big crisis. It was because of the Lightning Cat that Cuiwan gained new life, eventually becoming the Medicine King, one of the Four Kings and Eight Ministers under the Medicine God. But that is a story for later.

Cuiwan’s eyes lit up. "Then Second Uncle, what does our Mantou eat?"

"It can eat anything. Whatever you feed it for its first meal, it will mostly eat that in the future. If you feed it fruit for the first meal, fruit will be its main food. If you feed it meat, meat will be its main food."

"I fed it leftover mantou slices inside just now," Cuiwan answered.

No wonder it was named Mantou. It made sense.

It seemed the name came from eating mantou.

"Mantou slices. You really have strange ideas, just like your master," the Immortal Emperor said weakly. He had no idea anyone would feed a Lightning Cat mantou slices.

Cuiwan insisted stubbornly. "Mantou is my favorite thing. It is right to give my favorite thing to my Mantou. Because Mantou is my good sister."

Hearing this, Black Emperor coughed twice. "This Lightning Cat is male."

Cuiwan paused, then shouted loudly. "It doesn't matter. Mantou, I will not discriminate against you. Although you cannot be my sister, I will still love you like my good sister."

Was she trying to twist a future proud and vigorous Lightning Cat into something else?

Cuiwan, of course, did not know what "twisting" meant. She simply thought she would not discriminate against her spirit pet.