Yang Xing's POV:
I finally understand what really happened. What a fool I've been. Chrystalla, the love of my life never betrayed me. The only thing worse than the embarrassment of a light cultivator not recognizing the color discrepancy after having it shoved in his face like that, is the hellish nightmares my love put me through for yelling at our daughter.
*Sizzle*
*Thud*
"…B-Brother?!"
"Ping! Lock these two up! I want to question them later!"
After waking up inside the guts of a giant serpent, I was a little bewildered. Wanting to know how this happened and who was trying to kill me, I had grabbed the only other two people inside that thing before blowing a hole through its stomach with my 3rd stage aura, 'Radiance'.
Radiance is essentially the aura version of a light cultivator's power. I manifest my aura into a blinding light that radiates from my body. I can concentrate it into a laser, or I can use it to move at the speed of light. Years ago, I used this in tandem with my qi to strengthen myself to unbelievable heights, but now, I guess this is my limit.
"Hm? What's with all the giant snakes today?" I complained as I finally noticed the giant multi-headed serpent leering at me.
"Well, whatever! I kind of need to take a shower before going to see my kid, so if you leave now, I'll let you off the-!"
"-NOW! LET! ME! GO!"
Cutting off my train of thought, came the loud shouts of the very person I wanted to see. Turning to look behind me, I saw my precious daughter who I had wronged, being assaulted by some bastard.
*Sizzle*
*BANG*
*Sizzle*
*SWOOSH*
When I saw him try to get to first base, my body moved before I had time to think, and I hit him with a full power Radiance Punch to the face. I was half expecting my laser punch to shoot straight through his head, but to my surprise, it didn't even leave a scratch on his face, as all it did was knock him back a few feet.
"GET YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OF MY DAUGHTER!!!" I shouted as I held my daughter in my arms.
"Thanks for the help stranger! Now if you would let me go, I can be on my merry way!"
"I'm sorry! Your father has been such a fool! I promise! I won't let anyone else hurt you!" I said, holding her against my chest as I hugged her for the first time.
"Shit! You took candy from another blood-related stranger again, didn't you?" She said as she pulled out a hacksaw.
"Hehe! Your mother explained everything, so, you don't have to pretend anymore! Your father is here to make all the bad guys go away!" I said as I snatched the hacksaw out of her hands, before she could saw open my skull… again.
"So, that's where she went! Figures!" I heard her say in a sad tone.
Before I could ask her why she was sad, I noticed something in the air.
"Hehe! This family is just full of surprises!" The dirtbag chuckled out, with an amused expression.
*Swoosh*
*Swoosh*
*Swoosh
Suddenly, dropping from the sky came a group of soldiers in black armor, led by a rabid old man in yellow robes. The soldiers surrounded us, before the rabid old man pointed at me with a crazed look in his bloodshot eyes.
"HOW DARE YOU LAY A HAND ON HIS MAJESTY! YOU HERETICS WILL PAY WITH YOU LI-!"
*BANG*
"Silence!" The bastard said as he lightly tapped his fist on the old man's head.
However, the moment he touched him, the rabid elder was hammered down into the ground like a nail.
*Sizzle*
While I was wondering why on earth he would attack his reinforcement, I felt a sudden flash wave of hot air hit the back of my head as the smell of burning flesh filled the air.
"Tsk! This is so annoying!" I heard Nox mutter as I turned my head to look.
Behind me stood Ping, pointing a sizzling white blade towards me. My brother had attempted to stab me in the back, and he would have succeeded if not for the delicate hand gripping onto the blade. I could see the flesh begin to melt as the blood evaporated leaving only a skeletal hand. My daughter's hand.
"BROTHER, YOU NEED TO HAND HER OVER TO THEM! IT IS FOR THE SAKE OF THE CLA-!"
*BOOM*
*SIZZLE*
I lost it completely and just released my aura of radiance at full power in Ping's direction. When the light died down Ping was gone along with half of the multiheaded serpent, the castle behind it and anything in the way of my attack as far as the eye could see.
"Nobody touches my daughter and gets away with it! Now who else wants to die!" I said, as turned back towards others, feeling levels of anger I didn't know was possible.
My killing intent was enough to knock everyone, but that smiling dirtbag on their ass.
"XING! HAVE YOU GONE MAD!!!"
Looking at where the source of the angry shout was, I saw my father, holding an unconscious one-armed Ping.
"YOU COULD HAVE KILLED YOUR BRO-!"
"I know, so shut it!"
"Ugh!"
"He hurt my daughter! So, drop him before I kill you too!" I said as I directed my killing intent toward my father.
I can't trust any of them. My daughter was right. I was too blind to the possibility of my own blood betraying me, and now I let one of them hurt my daughter, only moments after I said I would protect her no less.
"What a poor excuse for a father!"
"Xing! I-!"
*BOOM*
*Sizzle*
Those were the last words my father said before I threw another blast of aura towards him and he vanished into light particles with my brother.
*Sizzle*
*clap**clap**clap*
"What are you clapping for asshole! You're next!" I said as I fired another radiance blast towards the dirtbag who bullied my daughter.
*Sizzle*
"Haha!!!"
Instead of disintegrating from my attack, he just stood there unharmed in a ball of crimson and black flames.
"I approve!"
"Approve of what?!"
"I approve of you as my father-in-law!"
"Die!"
*Boom*
*Sizzle*
*Boom*
*Sizzle*
*Boom*
*Sizzle*
I kept shooting at him repeatedly, but no matter how many times I tried to kill him, he didn't budge. He would just stand there with a shit-eating grin while covered in that fire, completely unharmed.
"Hmph! Whatever! Hey, dumbass!"
Interrupting my radiance spamming, I heard Nox's voice, bringing my thoughts back to what I should have been doing instead of wasting time with this dirtbag.
"Oh, sorry! Is your hand still hurting! Daddy is going to get you a doctor to make the ouchie go away, I promise!"
"…! Ugh! Sorry, I think I blacked out there from the share amount of stupid! Anyways, she won't leave you so I'm warning you now! Drop the ball again like you did 16 years ago and I will personally drag you down into the deepest pits of hell!" She said, as I could feel my soul almost got devoured by those black and blue eyes.
"Hehe! Well, then! I hate to break up this loving moment between this lord's woman and her father, but we truly have to get going!" the dirtbag said, breaking the tense atmosphere Nox was giving off.
"Oh, that's right! Thanks for reminding me playboy!" She said as she pulled out a button from her pocket with her skeleton hand.
*Boop*
*RUMBLE*
All of a sudden there was an earthquake. I struggled to keep on my feet, and ended up letting go of Nox as I fell on my butt.
"HAHAHA! Noxy you shouldn't have!"
"Shouldn't have what? HEY, GET OFF OF ME!"
Hearing my daughters cry for help as that dirtbag or I guess 'playboy' as my daughter called him, assaulted her once again, I scrambled to get back up on my feet, but once I saw what caused the earthquake, my mind went blank, and I froze in shock. The mountain where my mother had spent her days wasting away, until Nox cured her, was now flying high in the sky. I could see chunks of rock and vegetation start to fall off as it moved towards us.
"You went out of your way to construct a replacement for the Crimson Eye! How thoughtful of you!"
"Stop talking about your pink eye and get off of me or else!"
"Oh, don't be like that! I actually brought over some gifts for you as well! So, how about we celebrate by taking my new aircraft for a test ride to this great lord's palace!"
"*sigh* Still can't take a hint, can you?"
*Snap*
The moment Nox snapped her fingers, lots of small red laser lights from the giant floating plate shaped mountain in the sky started pointing at us.
"Hey, Noxy? Is it just me or did you just grow a bunch of pimples?"
"Have fun, and don't forget to pick up some trypophobia while you're at it!"
*Pop*
And with a popping sound, my daughter disappeared into a spatial distortion, leaving me alone with this playboy and the thousands of red dots covering our surroundings.
*BANG**BANG**BANG*
*BOOM*
*BANG**BANG**BANG*
A multitude of different attacks came raining down on us in succession, or to be more specific, the playboy, as I somehow survived once I got far enough away from him thanks to my radiance.
Still, the rain of attacks didn't stop even though he was surely dead already. Only after she made what appeared to be a bottomless hole did the assault finally stop. Then suddenly, I heard Nox's voice coming from the mountain.
"TESTING! TESTING! 1, 2, 3! SHIT THE HOLOGRAM NEEDS FIXING! NAH, I'LL DO IT LATER! HEY, DUMBASS! CATCH!"
*SWOOSH*
*BANG*
"Whoa! Wait, father? PING!"
Coming flying out of a cannon came my father and brother whom I thought I killed earlier in a fit of rage. Now that I had calmed down a bit, I regretted attacking dad, but I was still furious with my brother for hurting my little girl.
"THE OLD MAN IS MY PROPERTY, SO DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT KILLING HIM AGAIN OR I'LL USE YOU FOR TARGET PRACTICE! CAPISH! NOW, I'M OFF TO BREAK SOME LEGS TO WIN A TALENT SHOW! WISH ME LUCK!"
*POP*
The entire mountain disappeared into a spatial distortion, and just like that she was gone.
"Ugh! Damn it! She really does not know the meaning of the word 'restraint'! *sigh*"
"How are you alive?"
Crawling out of the hole came the playboy. His clothes had been disintegrated, his left arm dislocated and there was a small trickle of blood running down his head, but aside from that, he was completely unscathed.
"Ah! This is nothing but one of my beloved Noxy's little love taps! That said, I would like to request something of you!"
"Why would I help you of all people? If you want my daughter, then forget it! You'll have to take her over my dead body scumbag!"
"No, I would like for you to teach Noxy some restraint father-in-law, as this son-in-law does not know if he will survive having another Walpurgis Island dropped on his head!"
"Pft! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" I just started laughing as it clicked in my mind.
"What is so humorous about what I said! Just by the size of that ship, should you not realize that it was not a jest!"
"No, I am just laughing at myself is all, playboy!"
I recalled a certain story Nox once told me, about how she had stolen the prized possession of the sages only so she could explode it in some playboy's face. Stealing, or destroying the Walpurgis Island is something I had attempted in the past but deemed it impossible. I had blown off her tall tale as pure fantasy, but to think, my girl pulled off something I couldn't do with the might of the whole clan behind me, all on her own. And I said I'd be the one to protect her, what a joke. Who would want a father this stupid, especially after all the things I said to her. She must hate my guts.
"No wonder she calls me a dumbass!"
'You really are stupid if you think she ever hated you!'
"Chrystalla?"
"Hm?"
'Don't speak out loud or you might look like a crazy person in front of our daughter's most promising potential suitor!'
'Sorry! Wait, SUITOR?!'
'Ouch! Don't yell into the psychic link! Or I will give you more nightmares later!'
'Oops! Sorry! But how can I hear you? I thought I could only talk to you when I was asleep?'
'Alice reached out to me while you were busy rampaging! Not exactly setting the best example to our already super violent daughter!'
'Well, they hurt our daughter, and my vision went red! What was I supposed to do?'
'Fair enough! At least now Alice knows she can trust you a little bit!'
'Okay, I have been letting it slide so far, but why do you keep calling her that?'