Heavenly Dao Child

Nuwa hummed a song as she cleaned her personal storeroom, a room that only her spouses knew and would enter, a room that not even her children knew of the room's existence, a room that only her spouses and she were allowed to enter.

Now many would be curious about contains the storeroom, a storeroom that belonged to a cultivator of Nuwa's stature, but unfortunately, it did not contain any Heaven Defying Treasures or something of that nature, what it contains though was more valuable in front of her or her spouse's eyes, it was various memorabilia that they especially she had collected over the long years of their life, kept well preserved using various methods.

From time to time she would enter this room to clean the already spotlessly clean room, look over through which according to her was priceless treasures, pictures of the time when they were still young when she was just started her journey, the only picture of her birth family.

Her hand gently caressed through the picture of her parents as a small smile appeared on her face, 'It has been so long, we hope that your current reincarnations are doing well, we wish you could see me, father mother, then you would understand why we chose to run away from home leaving behind my life as a Princess, you may resent me for not marrying the son of your friend but our life has been great.'

She placed the picture down as her eyes roamed over various other 'treasures' of her she still remembered the day, dressed like a bride waiting for her nuptials to begin only for her sister wives and her husband to break into the palace and help her escape just minutes before her marriage, since then they had been on the run before eloping and then rest was history.

'The King is no longer there, not the once-proud Kingdom, a Kingdom whose name itself seemed to have erased by the ravages of time, even the blood of my kin has vanished with only us being still alive, standing tall and proud, one of the strongest cultivators of our world.'

She felt a pang of sadness at the thought of her parents, who loved her unconditionally, yet she defied their wishes and ran away with the one she loved even more, never did she regret her action, even when they had to face hardsh.i.p.s they had each other for company and it was worth it.

'What a fairy tale it was, the youngest, most beloved and only daughter of the King of one the most powerful Kingdoms of her planet eloping with a no-name orphan blacksmith.'

Her musing was cut short when her eyes fell on a stack of papers placed on the table, she picked up the bundle as a small smile blossomed on her face on seeing its contains.

Celestia was bored there was nothing to stave off her boredom, 'Hmm, maybe I should go and hunt down Maheswara, at least it would be fun for few hours', her planning came to an abrupt halt as her eyes fell on a content looking Nuwa who seemed to be reading something while sitting under a tree with her favourite pot of tea by her side.

Celestia quickly went towards Nuwa, hugging her from behind while placing a small kiss on her cheeks before she spoke, "You look content and happy, what are you reading?"

Nuwa smiled at her sister wife as she leaned into her embrace before she spoke, "I was looking into my storeroom and I stumbled upon this stacks of papers."

Celestia peered over Nuwa's shoulders as she looked at papers as a small nostalgic smile appeared on her face, "Ah those are from the time when they were still small children right?"

Nuwa nodded as she spoke, "So much had changed since then right, look at Sylvana's handwriting it used to be so atrocious then."

"Yes, it looked like someone had dipped an insect on an inkpot and then let them loose on a piece of paper, compare to him others are much better, and this is Ryuu's right?"

Nuwa nodded as she spoke, "Yes his first one, we remember quite well it was something you gave him to do, he did it so diligently even tried to draw pictures, see how cute."

Celestia simply touched the paper as she spoke with a nostalgic smile on her face, "To think the small child looking with a wonder would grow up to be such a nice cultivator, though I would have loved him to be a small child, even my daughters, I wish they would have never grown."

Nuwa nodded as she spoke, "Us too, it was so nice when they were mere children we loved to spoil them, but now if we treat them as such they would ask if I am right in my head."

Celestia giggled before nuzzling at Nuwa's neck they stayed silent for a moment before Celestia spoke, "That day I had a chat with Sylvana, it seemed that sister Khygnos was teasing Saidhal about her daughter falling in love with someone inside Eden, and I had laughed at the situation but then I realized that there is a chance that Ryuu might fall for someone as well, after all, it is not uncommon for someone to be affectionate with others when they are adventuring with them for decades."

Nuwa bit her lips as a frown marred her face before she spoke, "If it happens, then it will happen we will not interfere."

Celestia stood straight releasing Nuwa her face marred with a frown, "Have you seen Ryuu, do you think any run of the mill cultivator would be suitable for him, not to mention the rate of his progress, to compensate with his lover he would deliberately slow himself down, not to mention seeing the wealth supporting him the woman can become greedy using him as a resource to cultivate."

Nuwa simply gave her a sly smile before she spoke, "We understand where you are going but did you forget what happened when he lost his first friend, his sisters simply did not wish for him to fraternize with common rabble and orchestrated their demise but you do remember what happened, you do remember the curse that he still carries to this day, because of their blunder."

Celestia rubbed her head as she spoke with a sigh, "I do, it was so foolish of them to act as such, these things could have been dealt with much more finesse but they bungled it up with their insane idea of trying to make him a bit ruthless, but upon saying that do you still wish to do nothing, that woman can become a leech on Ryan for the rest of his life."

Nuwa wave off her concern as she spoke, "Think of the bigger picture, Ryuu is not as naïve as before, the village was not only remote but so dirt poor that even beggars would not venture there let alone bandits that know to cultivate, yet they had arrived there, the younger Ryuu would not have thought something strange about it but the current one is different if he even sniffs something amiss it might spell disaster."

Celestia gained a defeated look on her face as she spoke, "Not to mention a person in love tends to lose their sense of reason so what are we are going to stand in the sideline and watch Ryuu being destroyed by some unworthy whore."

Nuwa picked up her cup taking a sip before speaking, "How do you know maybe the child will be a good one for Ryan."

Celestia could only snort on her words as she spoke, "Yeah right, the level and skill of cultivators have fallen a lot, and comparing him with others will be greatly unfair to him."

Nuwa sighed before she spoke, "Sister, please stop worrying the situation, first of all, nothing might happen and secondly it might resolve by itself."

"And how so? How will it resolve by itself?"

Nuwa suddenly gained a rather dangerous look on her normal regal face, gone was the kindly visage as a rather fierce one took its face making Celestia to be taken aback, 'How long has it been since I saw that face of hers, the one when we went to battle together, the one when she would tear apart out enemies and mount their head for all to see.'

Nuwa without paying any heed to the inner turmoil of Celestia continued, "Sister you seem to have forgotten a very important person in this matter."

Celestia spoke with confusion in her voice, "Forgot who?"

With a tilt of her head, Nuwa continued, "Why the self-proclaimed wife of Ryan, did you forget her? Do you think she would tolerate any woman trying to capture Ryan's heart, what do you think would happen, dear Celestia."

Celestia's eyes widen momentarily before she spoke, "You are absolutely right Sister Nuwa, that woman will not tolerate such nonsense."

Nuwa nodded before she took another sip of her tea before as Celestia spoke with a frown, "But, at the same time she is mentally unstable so she might also harm Ryuu out of anger."

Nuwa's grip on her cup increased as she spoke with barely concealed anger, "As long as we draw breath we will not allow another of our child to die, even if she is stronger than us by a large margin, we will find a way to prevent her from harming Ryuu."

Celestia nodded as she gained a similar grin on her face, "That is a wonderful idea how could I forget about her existence."

"Maybe you are age is affecting you."

Celestia narrowed her eyes before she brought Nuwa into a toe-curling kiss which lasted for a moment, as she let her go Nuwa developed a glazed look making Celestia smirk at her as she spoke, "This lady has enough to make you fall head over hills for her.", with that she grabbed Nuwa before disappearing from that place.

Meanwhile, back in Eden under Ryuu's leadership, the cultivators of the Deva realm had been freed and what left of the Preta Realm had gone into hiding to save their lives.

While Ryuu was being lauded and praised by many for his work, inwardly Ryuu was in a quandary, 'Damn it, I did nothing at all, it was just a chance and coincidence and now because of them I will gain more infamy my bounty would not only rise but I might even end up getting attention from some incredibly nasty people, so nasty that even going to the bathroom would require one of my sisters to be an escort, ugh what a bad luck.'

"Brother Ryuu, are you alright?"

Ryuu looked towards Frozen Ocean before he spoke with a tired sigh, "No I am not, currently I am trying to stifle a headache, what happened was pure luck and coincidence and now they are praising me for something that I had no hand in it."

Frozen Ocean with a smile replied to him, "The array was yours right?"

"Yes, they were but the incident was their doing."

"So true it was but at the end of the day the array was yours so indirectly you led our enemies to their death if this had failed and if either Frost or I were to be captured then, what do you think would have happened to us?"

Ryuu nodded as he spoke with a tired sigh, "I know and understand but now my bounty would rise and I will get the attention of beings that I am nowhere confident of even scratching let alone defeating them as such I am unsure about what to do."

"Then walk forward and go stronger."

Ryan looked up towards the speaker, who was none other than Frost Flames who spoke with a smile on her face, "I believe in you Ryuu and so does your family, we will always be by your side so walk forward and grow stronger, sitting and drowning in self-pity and moping is so unlike you, I know you will survive anything."

Ryuu smiled touched by his concern while inwardly he grimaced, 'No matter how good that sounds out to be, they are mere words and we are not a low level that in a blink I could cross realms to become a higher-level cultivator.'