The Big Shots Are Lining Up to Be My Dad

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Lu Shangyuan has been hated since childhood and considered an ill omen. Wherever he goes, he is driven away. His parents abandoned him long ago, and he barely survives until the age of five, malnourished and gaunt.

One day, a big brother appears out of nowhere and angrily seeks him out. Lu Shangyuan assumes that yet another person has come to harass him, the bringer of bad luck. But when the man sees him, he looks stunned and flustered, then inexplicably says he wants to adopt him.

Lu Shangyuan is wary. He must be planning to adopt him just so he can abuse him! He won’t agree.

But there isn’t just one person like that. There are two... three... four... So many angry-looking people show up at his door, only to suddenly decide they want to raise him.

Lu Shangyuan refuses their “kindness,” convinced it’s all a plot.

But they give him food, clothes, and necessities, and show him a level of care he has never received before.

Lu Shangyuan lowers his head, his fingers nearly drawing blood as he digs his nails into his palm. “B-but they all say I’m an ill omen.”

The child has finally gained a little weight, but he’s still so small and thin he looks like a kitten. He curls up as if trying to fold himself into a ball.

The four great masters of the cultivation world all draw their swords at once. “Who said that? I’ll go deal with them right now!”

They have already forgotten that when they were reborn, the first thing they wanted to do was kill the villainous Lu Shangyuan.

*

Pei Langze is reborn.

The first thing he does is seek out Lu Shangyuan, the Blood Venerable who wreaked havoc across the cultivation world in his previous life.

Furious, Pei Langze tracks down the big... little villain who ruined his life in his previous one.

He looks at the tiny thing in front of him, only five years old, dressed in rags, red-eyed and watching him warily.

Lu Shangyuan clenches his tiny fists, presses his lips into a thin line, and stares up at him with reddened eyes. “If you’re going to kill me, then go ahead. Everyone says I’m an ill omen anyway, and even my mom and dad don’t want me...”

The child bravely speaks in a babyish voice, making threats. But as he talks, great big tears spill from his eyes, and his body trembles uncontrollably.

The little thing keeps wiping his tears while stubbornly holding his ground. His fierce facade lasts barely three seconds before crumbling completely. “If you’re going to kill me, then do it. Waaaah, I... I... Waaaaah...”

Pei Langze: “...” How could anyone bring themselves to do it?!

*

Lu Shangyuan is the Blood Venerable who has committed every imaginable atrocity. The reborn Immortal Venerable, the great demon of the demon race, the Demon Venerable, and others all plan to kill him before he grows powerful.

B-but nobody told them Lu Shangyuan is still a five-year-old child at this point!!

And nobody told them there would be so many reborn people.

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1. Song Qingdu transmigrates into a book as the demon-race villain destined to give the protagonist opportunities and gear.

Bad news: the protagonist follows the lone hero’s solo-leveling path. Not only do the villains who oppose him die, even his good friends all end up dead. Anyone who gets involved with him has a skyrocketing chance of dying, from powerful cultivators to ordinary mortals. It’s practically unavoidable, a hellish difficulty-level dungeon!

Good news: being the protagonist’s spirit pet grants immunity.

As it happens, Song Qingdu is a demon beast, and a rare spirit beast with phoenix blood. The human cultivators of the cultivation world all covet him.

To stay alive, he willingly becomes the first spirit pet of a Qi Refining protagonist, despite having a Golden Core cultivation base.

As a sacred beast of the demon race who was originally meant to be sacrificed, Song Qingdu works for the protagonist by day and returns to his clan at night to be their ornamental holy son.

Spirit pets may get to live, but they have to work!

Still, there’s no need to worry. The protagonist is still in the beginner village, so his enemies are low-level. Song Qingdu can mow them down with ease!

When he meets someone with a lower cultivation level, Song Qingdu says: Leave this to me!

When he meets someone at the same level or stronger, Song Qingdu says: Master, I’m useless, please save me QAQ

Song Qingdu becomes the protagonist’s strongest ally in the early stages, especially since he is the only one the protagonist can wholeheartedly trust after his family is destroyed and he is bullied by his fellow sect disciples.

His position speaks for itself.

Later, when the protagonist takes on new and powerful spirit pets, Song Qingdu’s workload drops dramatically, and he naturally settles into a comfortable early retirement, eating and drinking well.

By day, he enjoys the resources of the protagonist, the Child of Destiny of this world; by night, he enjoys his share of the resources as the demon clan’s holy son. He also takes every opportunity to educate his new spirit-pet underlings.

He even uses his villainous secret identity to bully his “master” a little, until the day his own face-slapping scene is due to arrive.

When the demon race deceives him and forces him to be sacrificed, he successfully gets the protagonist to kill him in front of the assembled demons, dying in an explosion and giving the protagonist his heaven-defying opportunity.

The demon race is defeated as a result.

From then on, the demon race’s holy son Song Qingdu disappears from the lower realm.

2. It isn’t until just before the protagonist ascends.

When one person attains the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascend with them.

Although Song Qingdu’s cultivation can’t compare to the protagonist’s, he can hitch a ride to the upper realm. Taking advantage of the protagonist’s imminent ascension, he exploits a loophole in the contract from years ago, breaks it, and regains his freedom.

Under the protagonist’s stunned gaze, Song Qingdu transforms into human form, reveals his true cultivation level, and runs off!

Hahahahahaha! The calamity of a protagonist has ascended. From now on, the lower realm will be the back garden of this ancestor, Song!

He has no desire to follow the protagonist to the upper realm, cultivate all over again, and suffer another round of being hunted down.

He chooses to live the good life as the strongest person in the lower realm!

Song Qingdu returns to the demon race with the greatest cultivation in the lower realm. Under everyone’s horrified gaze, he drags out and deals with, one by one, everyone who bullied or threatened him back then.

From that day on, the name Song Qingdu shakes the world!

Song Qingdu enjoys a carefree life in the lower realm for a full thousand years!

3. A thousand years later, with his lifespan nearly at an end, Song Qingdu has no choice but to ascend. He sneaks around, hoping to find some small, out-of-the-way place to lie low in the upper realm.

But as soon as he ascends, the immortals waiting at the Ascension Platform grab him and deliver him straight to the protagonist.

Only then does he learn that over the past thousand years, the protagonist has become the most powerful person in the upper realm, and the first order he gave after taking that position was to search for Song Qingdu throughout the entire upper realm.

Song Qingdu looks nervously at the protagonist, who this time is genuinely several cultivation levels stronger than him, and wants to cry.

It’s over. This time, he’s really going to die.

The protagonist sits in the seat of honor, gazing at him nonchalantly. After a long pause, he picks up a large handful of pills with a faintly amused smile and stuffs them into Song Qingdu’s mouth.

Song Qingdu: What a cruel heart. He won’t even give me a quick death; he’s going to torture me with poison!

But Song Qingdu chews.

Huh?!

They’re all high-grade pills that can improve his cultivation!

Song Qingdu stares at the protagonist in shock. The protagonist calmly continues feeding him pills that other cultivators would fight tooth and nail to get even half of, then says coolly, “You don’t want to be my spirit pet?”

Song Qingdu nods without thinking... then frantically shakes his head.

He does! He’s willing!

The protagonist gives a cold laugh. “You don’t want to be one, either. That’s fine.”

Song Qingdu: ???

After a thousand years apart, has he gone deaf?

He said he’s willing! Did he hear that? He said he’s willing!

Song Qingdu fumes. So he’s still going to kill him after all.

The protagonist says mildly, “You don’t have to be my spirit pet. You can be my Dao companion instead.”

Song Qingdu: Gah?!

Theme: A child’s personality is greatly shaped by their family environment and atmosphere.