After this parting, it would be years before Leyvi and Barbara met again for their wedding.
Fortunately, Barbara had received the modified array communication device from Sawi, allowing them to communicate with each other whenever they wished despite the great distance between them.
The journey back to the South Region was peaceful overall. Occasionally, crazed demonic beasts attacked the Universe Airship, but Alita dealt with every threat with ease. Inside the airship itself, life remained calm and comfortable throughout the trip.
Besides spending time with his growing children, Leyvi also worked hard to fulfill the wishes of his wives, who all hoped to have children of their own.
A few months had passed since Caterina gave birth, and the lingering weakness caused by her pregnancy had finally disappeared. She had completely recovered to her peak condition.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Anda finally launched another one of her night battle campaigns against Leyvi, this time with her newest reinforcement, Caterina Feline.
With Caterina joining the lineup, the total sexual power of Anda's night battle campaign squad had reached another new level.
At first, however, coordinating with Caterina proved difficult due to her abnormal body condition. She would simply lose herself in the act, making it impossible for her to play a supporting role alongside the others.
After several attempts, Anda adjusted their strategy.
Instead of asking Caterina to cooperate with everyone else, they simply let her take the lead while the others joined in afterward against an already exhausted Leyvi.
The new approach proved remarkably effective.
Facing Caterina alone had already been difficult enough for Leyvi. With Anda and the others joining afterward, he stood no chance no matter how hard he tried.
For the first time since Anda had founded her night battle campaign squad, they finally claimed victory.
By working together, they managed to squeeze out every last drop of Leyvi's seeds through their own efforts. He wasn't the one in control this time.
Well... if they were being honest, most of the credit belonged to Caterina.
Even so, Anda proudly counted it as the squad's first official victory since she was the one who had recruited Caterina into the team in the first place.
Leyvi wanted to complain about how unfair everything had become, but seeing his wives celebrating their hard-earned victory with such excitement, as though they had accomplished a major feat, he simply kept those thoughts to himself.
Seeing them so genuinely happy made any small complaint feel completely unimportant.
...
Two months of journey passed quickly.
Leyvi and the others arrived home safely without any further incidents. Caterina also came to Bara City to stay with them.
A week earlier, they had made a quick stop at Holy Cat City because Caterina wanted to show her babies to Sheila and announce the birth of her daughters to the entire city.
The announcement naturally brought cheers and congratulations from the citizens. They could not help but praise Leyvi's magic once again.
After making sure everything was in order, Caterina left the city management completely to Sheila as the acting city lord. She even suggested that Sheila find a secretary of her own to help manage the daily affairs.
This was because Caterina intended to stay at the Leyan Family estate until her daughters grew up enough to at least start cultivating.
Leyvi naturally knew that Caterina had done this partly for his sake as well. She did not want him to miss the precious time watching their children grow up.
Contrary to her fierce title as the Lady of the South and her usual reputation, as a wife she was definitely one of the more considerate and caring ones.
She had never once used her higher cultivation level to assert any kind of dominance in the family. In fact, she always made sure to prioritize the others in the family first.
Leyvi could not help but sigh inwardly. A great woman like this had somehow ended up becoming his wife.
If not for her special body condition, perhaps she would have been married long ago and become a great wife to someone else.
After arriving home, Leyvi felt a deep sense of freedom.
Now he could finally stay at home and focus on his cultivation without any obligation to go out again. At least not for the short term.
The entire trip to Buchanan Family territory and back had taken about seven months in total.
Although it was quite a long journey, Leyvi felt that, besides successfully getting engaged to Barbara, he had gained much more knowledge about cultivation. This knowledge would be especially beneficial for his upcoming days of focused cultivation.
He had also obtained a few useful techniques that would serve him well in the future, such as the ocular technique from Supervisor Leo and the water beam technique from Bardan.
All in all, it was a very fruitful trip for him. He had nothing to complain about.
For the next week before he dove fully into cultivation, Leyvi spent most of his time playing with his children.
Leylin was now around eight months old, while Leyana and Leyina were both six and a half months old.
All three of them could crawl quite fast now, especially Leylin, who had begun trying to stand on his own. Leyana and Leyina loved chasing after their faster-crawling brother.
So far, their growth had been pretty normal, with nothing out of the ordinary. There did not seem to be any clear signs of their special talents showing yet.
This made Leyvi wonder if the talents he had passed on to them would stay dormant until they grew up enough. And if so, when exactly would that be?
At night, Leyvi would spend time with Anda and Caterina to help Caterina deepen her understanding of Yin-Yang energy.
Because the window when Yin Yang energy activated during their intimate sessions was very short before they finished, Caterina could not easily gain more insight into it on her own.
She needed someone else to perform the act so she could observe and feel the energy carefully.
Without delay, Anda naturally offered her help. It was not necessarily because she wanted Leyvi's holy rod inside her, but because she had the best compatibility with Leyvi to produce Yin Yang energy, and she could also maintain it the longest among all the ladies.
And so, Leyvi and Anda would practice the Yin Yang Heavenly Bliss dual cultivation method together while Caterina observed the Yin Yang energy produced to gain deeper insight.
After one of their sessions, Leyvi received a message from Barbara saying that his name had already spread across the entire southeast land of the Central Region.
Leyvi Leyan, known as the Sex Fiend of the South, the rising star of the South Region famed for his abnormal sexual prowess, had arrived in the Central Region and, with his overwhelming talent, forced the Buchanan Family Patriarch, Bardan Buchanan, to betroth his daughter to him.
Apparently, that was how the regional news outlets had described the entire affair.
Barbara said that Bardan was outraged by this report because now people thought he had let his daughter get preyed upon by a big pervert.
Leyvi could not help but feel dumbfounded.
"Damn! Why did they make it sound like I used my sexual power to force the Buchanan Family? How can they write something like this?" Leyvi felt annoyed.
He had never liked being famous, preferring to stay under the radar and quietly mind his own business.
Yet somehow, he was becoming more and more famous... and almost always for the wrong reasons.
Not to mention, misleading headlines like these would only make things worse.
Leyvi felt slightly depressed. What if one day the entire continent came to know him only as the Sex Fiend of the South? How was he supposed to answer his children if they ever asked about it in the future?
"Hahaha!"
"Hihihi!"
Anda and Caterina burst into laughter, thoroughly amused by Leyvi's predicament.
Leyvi rolled his eyes. Of course it was funny to the two of them.
"You'll have to get used to misleading headlines once you become famous. Those news outlets do this all the time. They've written plenty of misleading headlines about me over the years." Caterina said, still chuckling.
Anda nodded in agreement.
"Haa... so be it. I won't be going anywhere for quite a while anyway. They'll probably forget about me soon." Leyvi sighed in resignation.
There was nothing he could do about it.
Apart from that, Barbara also asked for his permission on behalf of the Spiritual Cultivation Project to use the recording of his fight against Monica once the project was officially released to the public.
Supervisor Leo believed that showcasing what spiritual cultivators were capable of would inspire more people to take an interest in spiritual cultivation. Leyvi's overwhelming performance, in particular, would undoubtedly attract plenty of attention.
Although Leyvi was reluctant because this would cause even more people to know him, since Barbara had requested it and as an appreciation for the ocular technique Supervisor Leo had given him, Leyvi reluctantly agreed after giving some thought.
With that matter settled, Leyvi spent the following week accompanying all of his wives before finally entering the semi-seclusion he had been planning for so long.