Chapter 20: Crossing Time and Space to Find Her

Jiang Beiting answered seriously and solemnly, “This is an egg!”

Lu Yunsheng almost choked. She knew it was an egg, but the question was—where did it come from?

“Could it be a dinosaur egg? Ninth Master, did you take a one-day trip to the Jurassic period?”

“…”

Jiang Beiting didn’t want to reveal too much and simply said, “Help me keep it warm day and night, clean its shell morning and evening, and when I finish my business and come back, I will grant you three wishes!”

Keep it warm day and night?

Clean its shell morning and evening?

Lu Yunsheng immediately understood—whether or not it was a dinosaur egg, it was definitely an ancestral egg!

She rolled her eyes and said, “Ninth Master, you’re asking me to do so much before you even repay me. That’s not fair.”

Jiang Beiting raised an eyebrow. “What, isn’t the entire Jiang family fortune and the power to manage the family enough for you to enjoy?”

“Enough, but let’s keep things separate!”

“Hmph, fine. Tell me, what do you want?”

“I want you to grant me one wish first, then after your business is done, fulfill the other two wishes. It’s still three wishes in total—I’m not asking for more.”

“Heh…”

Not asking for more, huh.

No employee in the over 500 companies under the Jiang family worldwide had ever been given such treatment before even starting work.

If he weren’t in a hurry to find Ah Ying, how could he let this little girl take advantage of him like this?

Jiang Beiting held back his emotions and calmly said, “Alright. What’s your wish?”

Lu Yunsheng smiled, “I want to know—how did you cross over?”

“Just that wish?”

“Yes!”

Jiang Beiting narrowed his eyes.

Every time he thought she was about to extort him badly, she always managed to defeat all his knowledge with her shallow understanding.

Jiang Beiting sighed, “I can tell you, but don’t misuse it. A mere mortal body trying to cross over using a divine artifact will definitely have their soul scattered!”

“Okay, I got it. Please tell me!”

Lu Yunsheng’s confident tone and straightforward, carefree little face easily lowered people’s guard.

Jiang Beiting stopped holding back and suddenly uttered a phrase in Dragon language, “!@#@!#@$*&%.”

She almost thought there was something strange in her ear. “Is this a mantra? Which country’s language is this? Why is it so tongue-twisting…?”

“Tongue-twisting?”

That was his mother tongue that had been used for ninety thousand years!

Jiang Beiting’s face turned dark, and he retorted, “You have a bad memory. If you can’t learn it, just say so. No need to insult dialects from other regions!”

Lu Yunsheng frowned, “Who can’t learn it? Isn’t it just ‘!@#@!#@$*&%’?”

He: “Hmm?”

She repeated it word for word without missing a single character!

Lu Yunsheng asked excitedly, “With this mantra, can I just jump into this so-called astrolabe and cross over?”

“Of course not!”

Jiang Beiting explained, “This phrase is only the key to unlocking the crossover. If you want to cross to another world, you need to know the corresponding world’s number!”

“Number?”

“That’s right. The Great Dao and the myriad phenomena split from primordial chaos into ten thousand small worlds. Each world is numbered in order according to spiritual power, the larger the number, the weaker the spiritual power!”

“For example, the place I just went to is the world with the strongest spiritual power. It’s the center of the astrolabe and its number is 1. You can simply call it—the Divine Realm!”

World numbers? Divine Realm?

After hearing this, Lu Yunsheng was deeply suspicious. Could Jiang Beiting have been infected by some strange virus?

Worlds with numbers? When did that happen? Who assigned these numbers?

But surprisingly, Lu Yunsheng was especially interested in these crazy stories!

She followed up on his words and asked, “Then what’s the number for our world here?”

“9999!”

“Second to last?”

“You could say that.”

“…”

Lu Yunsheng forced herself to absorb all this information and continued, “I know the key, I know the world numbers—it’s between 1 and 10,000 anyway, so just pick any number. What’s next for crossing over?”

Jiang Beiting heard her talk about crossing over so casually and let out a cold “hmph.”

Thinking to himself, “So what if you know these useless facts? You’ll never use them!”

He calmly stretched out his hand, pointing to the astrolabe in the study. “Every world has its own astrolabe! When both the astrolabe at the departure and destination points are activated at the same time, you only need to silently recite the key and the destination number at the departure point to freely cross over.”

“If only the departure astrolabe is activated, you have to choose between crossing over as yourself or as a fetus. Crossing over as yourself will most likely fail and drain your cultivation, but fetal crossing will succeed 100%.”

Lu Yunsheng suddenly understood.

Just as she was about to ask more, Jiang Beiting grew impatient, “I’ve told you everything you need to know. Now it’s time to fulfill your duty.”

“Duty, huh… alright, no problem!”

Lu Yunsheng hugged the golden egg in her arms, her gentle face rubbing against the smooth eggshell, saying with a smile, “Isn’t it just holding it? That’s easy~”

While she was getting close to the dragon egg, Jiang Beiting sensed the aura of the little dragon inside the shell and was surprised to find that the little dragon was happily spinning around in circles!

Well, as long as it’s not rejecting her, that’s good.

Now he could set off to find Ah Ying without worries.

“Lu Yunsheng, remember to clean the shell morning and night!”

After saying that, Jiang Beiting and his crystal ball flew into the astrolabe with a “whoosh.”

By the time Lu Yunsheng reacted, an image appeared in the astrolabe—a newborn baby, with a bare little bottom?

Wait… a newborn baby? Fetal crossing?

Could this baby be…?

The answer in Lu Yunsheng’s mind was about to surface.

Jiang Beiting’s voice, holding back his anger, immediately came through: “Lu Yunsheng, do you even understand what ‘don’t look if it’s improper’ means?!”

And the voice came right from the baby’s mouth!

It took Lu Yunsheng ten seconds to fully process what she was seeing: Jiang Beiting—he really had crossed over as a fetus right before her eyes!

A 28-year-old grown man had turned into a little helpless baby, unable to control even his bodily functions!

In her heart, she thought: “Hahaha! Jiang Beiting has become a baby! And he isn’t even wearing pants!”

But on the surface, she calmly replied, “Ninth Master, you’re exposing yourself like that, and you blame me for looking? Do you think I want to look?”

As Lu Yunsheng spoke, she quietly took out her phone to take a photo, but in the next moment, the signal was cut off from Jiang Beiting’s side.

The empty study echoed with his lingering voice: “Once I’m sure the one I’m looking for isn’t here, I’ll return! Behave yourself!”

“Got it, got it~”

Lu Yunsheng covered her mouth and laughed.

She had originally thought that coming to Jing City was just to fulfill a boring marriage contract…

But unexpectedly, she encountered something so mysterious!

What exactly is Jiang Beiting’s identity? Could he be a hidden master of the supernatural? A fellow practitioner?

Just then, the golden egg in her arms suddenly moved.

Lu Yunsheng looked down and focused.

The round golden egg was nudging and wiggling in her arms…

Like a spoiled little baby.

From inside the shell, she faintly heard “ying ying ying” sounds and something knocking against the eggshell!

Lu Yunsheng was suddenly shocked.

No way!

This egg… wants to hatch right now!