When Alex was in the great world, he had snatched countless treasures and many spiritual herbs, especially several baskets of heavenly law fruits. Hence, it was not a big deal concocting a couple of pills to prolong one’s lifespan.
Most importantly, he could tell from a glance that Channing was diseased. This was the real reason for his short lifespan.
As long as be cured Channing’s disease and gave him another pill for breaking through, increasing his lifespan by a hundred years was not a delusion.
***
After leaving the room where William was in, Alex went to meet his mother, Brittany. She and Beatrice were together, serving several little ancestors. Beatrice had undergone great changes during this time. She had promised her sister, who had yet to become Xienna, that she would treat the four children as her flesh and blood. She managed to do that. Although she was still a
maiden, her entire body exuded a kind of maternal brilliance.
“Beatrice, you’ve worked hard! ” Alex said seriously as he approached Beatrice and looked at her.
The young lady put down a clingy kid and instantly threw herself into Alex’s arms. “Brother-in-law!”
Alex’s body slightly stiffened, but he could hear the sorrow in her voice. So, he was reluctant to push her away for a while.
“Is my sister really not going to come back?”
Upon hearing it, Alex felt a throbbing pain in his heart, especially when he saw the four children that had never received love from their biological mother since birth. He sighed, not knowing if Dorothy could still return to them.
Just then, all the four children’s eyes widened upon seeing Alex hugging Beatrice. The next second, they bawled. The power of four children crying together was simply devastating.
Alex hastily let go of Beatrice, and the four wimpy brats rushed forward.
They all hugged Beatrice’s calves and pulled her hands while shouting, “Mommy!”
“Mommy, hug!”
“I want milk..”
“Alex, these four little guys haven’t been named. They only have nicknames now. You have to name them!” Brittany said.
“What are their nicknames?” Alex asked.
Beatrice pointed at the girl drinking milk in her arms and said, “This is Three Rockefeller!”
Hence, Three Rockefeller would be a girl in the future. Beatrice respectively pointed at the other three children. “This is One Rockefeller. This is Two Rockefeller. This is Four Rockefeller…”
‘This… Who gave them the nicknames? Aren’t they a little too superficial?’
‘Those are no better than the ‘Bubbles’ I named my eldest daughter with!’
Brittany said, “Initially, your grandfather wanted to name them Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. It happens that Spring and Summer are female names, whereas Autumn and Winter are for males. Thus, they will sound very meaningful when they are together. But, Waltz and Maya felt that it’d be best for you to name them as their father. It was hard to tell whether you were alive or not at that time. They don’t have given names yet, so it’s also a sign of waiting for your return.”
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