While the country was busy with treating fever, life in Hei Mansion was very peaceful. To keep away from the fever, they chose to stay at home. In the morning, Wu Ruo learned sword skills and cultivation skills from Hei Xuan everyday or improve his fighting skills by pairing up with others. In the afternoon, he either learned medical skills or elixir-refining skills from Numu or spent quality time with his son. His life was busy but peaceful. There was no hatred, no killing each other, or defending against anyone. But staying home didn’t mean staying away from troubles.

One day when Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi was about to take a lunch break after having a nice lunch, the doorman reported, “My lady, a person wants to see you and says that he has a letter for you only.”

Wu Ruo couldn’t think of who could it be. He asked, “did he say who he is? Did he say who wrote the letter?”

“He didn’t mention neither.”

Hei Xin was worried about any hidden danger and suggested, “I will go and see who he is first and come back to tell you.”

Wu Ruo nodded.

Very soon after Hei Xin left, something wrong at the gate happened. Wu Ruo ran out of the hall and when they arrived at the gate they saw someone walking in, threating Hei Xin’s life by placing the sword against Hei Xin’s neck.

Everyone was startled to step forward.

“Who are you? Why are you threating our housekeeper?” Hei Gan shouted.

The man walked out behind Hei Xin. Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi had a closer look and it turned out that the man was the monster man who had looked for Jixi a few days ago.

The man had a look at Wu Ruo. His original plan was to trick Wu Ruo outside and threated his life. Instead, it was the housekeeper he tricked.

Then he saw Jixi standing next to Wu Ruo. He flashed out and showed up before Jixi.

Jixi was mortified and was about to escape.

The man was quick enough to grab his collar.

“Want to escape?” He said coldly.

If it were not for the powerful formation to protect the mansion inside, there was no need for him to risk every possible way to get inside to catch him.

“Yeji, get your hands off me!” Jixi roared.

Yeji squinted and held Jixi, the size of a six-year-old boy, in his arms, “why are you turning into this?”

“Why do I need to tell you?” Jixi crossed his arms on chest.

“Do they know each other?” Wu Qianqing, who was watching them, asked Wu Ruo in a low voice.

Wu Ruo frowned and answered, “Perhaps they do. Father, you and mom can take a rest back in your yard. Xuanyi and I are going to stay here to see what we can do.”

Wu Qianqing nodded and took Guan Tong and Wu Xi back to their own yard.

Numu had no interested in getting involved with monsters. He yawned and said, “I am going to take a nap back in my own yard.”

“Where is the Three-Seven Stone?” Yeji asked.

“I hide it somewhere.” Jixi said unconfidently.

“You hide it?” Yeji snorted, “you must have used on someone else.”

“What do you mean?” Jixi was confused. But when he finally thought it through, he said anxiously, “are you saying that the Three-Seven Stone was used by someone?”

Yeji put on a cold face because of he was too mad to talk to Jixi.

“Why are you not talking?” Jixi frowned.

Yeji still didn’t say a word.

When Jixi connected the whole thing, he explained, “are you saying that I, Jixi, used the Three-Seven Stone on someone else? How come? It’s true that I lost it. To be more specific, someone stole it from me.”

If it weren’t for stop the man misunderstanding him, he wouldn’t definitely say that the stone was stolen because it was such a shame for him to share. How could he give anyone a chance to steal things from him?

Yeji asked since Jixi didn’t seem to be lying to him, “Fine. Since you said it was stolen, what’s your explanation about this kid?”

He looked at Eggie who was held in Hei Xuanyi’s arms.

“What’s wrong with Eggie?” Jixi had a look at Eggie and was confused.

He blinked his eyes and processed what Yeji said for a long while before he finally understood what he meant. “Are you saying…?” He was so shocked.

“He is not.” Jixi denied immediately.

Yeji looked away from the kid and back at Jixi.

Jixi explained, “He existed before the Three-Seven Stone was stolen.”

“Impossible! Unless…” Yeji argued, squinting his eyes.

Suddenly he thought of something. He snorted and walked toward the yard with Jixi in his arms.

“Xuanyi, do you know anything about Three-Seven Stone?” Wu Ruo asked Hei Xuanyi.

Hei Xuanyi handed Eggie to Hei Xian and told Heixin to bring him to his yard, and explained, “It’s a stone which has three souls and seven spirits, thus Three-Seven Stone in short. It can help breed children. You can just mingle your own blood and flesh with the Three-Seven Stone and give it a good care with spiritual power for a while. It will finally develop into a baby, a child that you can a blood tie with.”

“When he said that, he was looking at Eggie. Does it mean that Eggie was breed with Three-Seven Stone?” Since Hei Xuanyi knew the Three-Seven Stone very well, it reminded Wu Ruo of one thing. The possibility was that Hei Xuanyi had stolen the Three-Seven Stone to make Egge in last life and used his own blood and flesh. That explained why Eggie looked so much like Hei Xuanyi.

But why did Eggie have a connection with him as well?

In last life after Wu Ruo hadn’t seen his own dead body since it was taken by Hei Xuanyi. He had assumed that Hei Xuanyi had burnt it into ashes or buried it because Hei Xuanyi didn’t want him sad or angry at the sight of the dead body. Therefore he didn’t mention anything about it. Now come to think of it, perhaps Hei Xuanyi had used his flesh on Eggie in last life.

“It’s possible.” Hei Xuanyi was confused too. Because it required a large amount of blood and flesh to make a baby with Three-Seven Stone. But when did he use such a large volume of blood or flesh? And who made the kid and delivered him to Wu Ruo?

“Xuanyi, do you feel any connection with Eggie? I mean other than the fact that he resembles you. Do you feel a bonding between you and him?” Wu Ruo asked.

“I do.” Hei Xuanyi nodded. That was why he made Eggie stay for no reason in the first place.

Wu Ruo held Hei Xuanyi’s hands very excitedly because he was so sure that Eggie was their kid that Hei Xuanyi sent from last life, “Eggie is our son. No one can harm him a bit.”

He didn’t know why Yeji was looking for the Three-Seven Stone. But there was no way he could give his own son to Yeji. Besides, Eggie was sent from last life. The Three-Seven Stone Yeji was looking for must be the one in this life.

“Mm.” Hei Xuanyi held him in his arms and said, frowning, “I heard that the Three-Seven Stone is a holy item that belongs to the Demon’s emperor.”

“Are you saying that man is the Demon’s emperor?” Wu Ruo looked at him in surprise.

Hei Xuanyi shook his head, “I don’t know. I have never seen the Demon’s emperor before. But don’t worry. If the Three-Seven Stone is the only reason that brings him here, he wouldn’t have left that quickly last time.”