CHAPTER 1137: CHAPTER 1113: THE BIRTH OF A SON (3/3)

Old Azure Dragon had already learned that nascent forms of the Demon Sea were emerging everywhere, so he supported Zhou Heng. After all, Zhou Heng’s Milky Way light was the real weapon to restrain the Dead Spirits!

If the Black Cave Realm was already so powerful, what would it be like when Zhou Heng stepped into the Chaos Realm?

Understanding was one thing, but accepting it was another, because Zhou Heng was emptying his treasure vault!

The Dragon Clan loved wealth and were greedy, even if not to the extent of the Black Donkey, not much less either. The treasure vault was the painstaking accumulation of countless billions of years and generations. Watching it being emptied bit by bit, how could Old Azure Dragon not feel heartache?

But there was no choice. If the Demon Sea reached disaster levels, the entire Bright Realm would perish. Would he hold onto a pile of treasures to die together?

Having lived so long, Old Azure Dragon had come to terms with it, but he still had a beloved daughter who was now his only bloodline, and he couldn’t bear to lose her!

Thus, not only did he watch Zhou Heng empty the vault, but he also helped Zhou Heng seek out Holy Medicines that could boost spiritual power accumulation from the other three Divine Beasts and other subordinate Divine Beasts!

Holy Medicines, being what they were, were extraordinarily rare, but due to the ancient lineage of the Divine Beasts, each branch would have a stash or two! Besides, the most precious Holy Medicines were those that enhanced realm comprehension. While boosting spiritual power accumulation was valuable, it couldn’t compare to the former!

Under Old Azure Dragon’s influence and Heavenly Venerate Hongyue’s pressure, Holy Medicines continuously arrived from distant Star Domains.

Zhou Heng began a frenzied consumption!

Growth in physique was simple, but couldn’t be hastened. It would take at least ten thousand years to let his physique enter the Chaos Realm, but the spiritual power level was different. Comprehension of the realm was no problem as long as spiritual power accumulation was in place!

While Hongyue went into seclusion for nurturing, Zhou Heng also secluded himself to crazily enhance his spiritual power level.

Since it was impossible for all the Holy Medicines to arrive at once, and even a Black Cave level Star Core could only allow him to accumulate spiritual power for one Black Cave, the Holy Medicine couldn’t possibly compare to the Star Core!

After eight months, Hongyue came out of seclusion, and Zhou Heng’s second Black Cave also completed its spiritual accumulation, ready to advance to form a third Black Cave at any time.

"The child will be born in three more years!" Hongyue told Zhou Heng.

"You can calculate this precisely?" Zhou Heng’s mouth twitched.

"Of course, who do you think I am?" Hongyue boasted.

What’s there to be proud of? After touching Hongyue’s slightly bulging belly, Zhou Heng was satisfied and went back to his closed-door training to break through to the Black Cave Emperor, while the entire Dragon Clan was thrown into chaos by Hongyue’s emergence.

Who was Hongyue?

The second untouchable Little Witch, leaving the Dragon Clan with countless tales of woe, yet here she was on the Eternal Dragon Star! Who wouldn’t be shocked or shiver?

Zhou Heng, meanwhile, began his seclusion with a peace of mind, because his son would be born in three years, and he was going to be a father!

What to choose for the third Path?

The Thunder Series and the Time Path were relatively unfamiliar to Zhou Heng since he didn’t have Treasure Artifacts of those attributes, and thus couldn’t comprehend these paths, so he started with the Five Elements.

With the Chaos Heavenly Scripture as the foundation, at least he didn’t have to worry about the remaining four paths. The Path of Death was no problem either, having killed so many Shadow Dead Spirits, he had a heap of Shadow Cores!

As for the Thunder Series and Time Path, he’d ask Hongyue after coming out of seclusion, to see if this Little Witch had collected similar Treasure Artifacts.

For the third Path, Zhou Heng chose the Great Golden Path.

He had already fully deciphered the Great Five Elements Rune, holding nearly two steps of mastery in the Great Golden Path, but without a corresponding Black Cave, this remained a castle in the sky incapable of forming true battle power.

But as soon as the third Black Cave formed, the Great Golden Path instantly took shape, evolving continuously on the basis of two steps, reaching ten steps in just three days!

To achieve the eventual limit of twenty steps would take some time.

Zhou Heng first came out of seclusion to celebrate with everyone, his rapid progress causing Old Azure Dragon and the Second Ancestor to look as if they’d seen a ghost, utterly disbelieving!

—— In roughly a year or two advancing a small realm barrier, the realm couldn’t be there?

Wouldn’t this mean reaching the peak of the Nine Caves in ten to twenty years?

Next, Zhou Heng pulled Hongyue into seclusion together.

She could assist him in accelerating the Star Vortex!

"Has Master forgiven me?" Hongyue asked.

"Perhaps, maybe, sort of!" Zhou Heng wasn’t very sure; since the Heaven’s Mandate True Monarch could die and come back under a Saint’s hand, subtly influencing a Chaos Realm being probably wasn’t difficult!

So at least half of Huo Tian’s anger dissipated, but the crucial point was that Hongyue had acted improperly in all this! Clearly aware of the relationship between Zhou Heng and Huo Tian, yet she just had to step in!

"Now that the issue’s half-solved, in the future, as long as you plead more with Master and curry favor, she will naturally forgive you!" Hongyue nonchalantly replied.

"You make it sound easy!"

"You should be more optimistic, your outlook is too grim!"

"What right does a Little Witch like you have to criticize me, watch as I properly punish you!"

Alone with a man and a woman, with sparks flying, Zhou Heng naturally attracted high-tier female Martial Artists, and it was strange if they weren’t a scandalous couple!

While cultivating, taking medicine, and indulging in passion, it wasn’t until Hongyue’s small abdomen was evidently protruding that both dared not fool around. Higher realm made conception difficult, and this pregnancy was simply a miracle; possibly no second child for billions of years!

But as Hongyue approached childbirth, Zhou Heng only just filled the third Black Cave, ready to charge to Four Caves.

He wasn’t in a hurry; he wanted to wait for his son to be born first!

"How can you be sure it’s a son?" Hongyue asked curiously. Under her protection, the Power of Laws spread far and wide, even the strongest Saint like Huo Tian might not be able to see through it!

—— When it comes to Laws, she was just a tiny bit weaker than Huo Tian.

"I’m this formidable, of course, the firstborn is definitely a boy!" Zhou Heng said confidently.

What kind of nonsensical reasoning is that!

Hongyue was too lazy to bother with him. She could give birth at any moment now, and this wasn’t the time to bicker with Zhou Heng.

The pain arrived!

Hongyue couldn’t help but let out a groan, and then Zhou Heng was ushered out. A dozen female Nine Caves True Monarchs from the Dragon Clan took on the role of midwives to assist in the delivery — otherwise, a woman in labor could easily slap everyone nearby to death due to immense pain!

Such an extravagant lineup of midwives could probably only be assembled by the four Divine Beasts.

Following this, the entire Dragon Domain almost passed through a tumultuous tsunami!

The pain, it was truly excruciating!

The entire Star Domain was enveloped in Hongyue’s uneasy aura; streams of Power of Laws circulated, and Blood Moons unfurled everywhere, although they didn’t harm anyone, just looking at them sent chills through one’s heart!

Old Azure Dragon and the Second Ancestor were on full alert, so tense that sweat trickled down them, yet they didn’t dare to wipe it off, for fear that any disturbance might trigger an attack from Hongyue!

—— Never try to reason with a woman in labor!

Only after five full days did Hongyue’s painful groans finally fade away, and the loud cry of a newborn resounded across the Eternal Dragon Star. It was only then that Old Azure Dragon and the Second Ancestor finally breathed a sigh of relief!

Goddamn, it’s clearly someone else giving birth, but why did it feel a hundred times more exhausting than giving birth yourself?

"Congratulations! Congratulations! It’s a boy!" The midwife carried out the baby, congratulating Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng quickly took the child. This was an incredibly beautiful baby, with big, lively eyes. He didn’t cry or fuss, just stared at Zhou Heng, then broke into a smile, waving his chubby little hands excitedly.

"Let me hold him!"

"Let me hold him!"

The group of women all rushed forward. This was the Zhou Family’s first child, and he was so beautiful, loved by everyone who saw him!

Zhou Heng used his Divine Sense to scan the area, his expression appearing somewhat strange!

Because, his son’s lineage was incredibly peculiar!

There was Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise, practically a hodgepodge, yet perfectly fused together!

That dose of fetus-preserving medicine!

Zhou Heng immediately realized that the fetus-preserving medicine contained four main ingredients derived from the "pieces" of the four Divine Beasts. Normally, these combined bloodlines would cause a huge ruckus, but a drop of Sainthood suppressed it all, and there was also the mysterious Heaven-Earth Fruit!

This created a super genius with the fused bloodlines of the four Divine Beasts!

Moreover, this little one also had the bloodlines of Zhou Heng and Hongyue, and with this combination, his future achievements were simply unimaginable!

No matter how strong their child was, parents could never harbor jealousy or envy, on the contrary, they would only feel endless joy! Just in education, they must ensure not to raise a spoiled brat who only knows how to bully others.

Heavenly Venerate Hongyue was delighted with the birth of a son, which was naturally a big event!

Many nearby forces sent congratulatory gifts, and as for those farther away, Zhou Heng couldn’t be bothered to notify them, he didn’t care anyway! Huo Tian surely knew, but no envoy from the Taixu Sect came with gifts.

Zhou Heng certainly understood Huo Tian’s feelings. The fact that she didn’t come to kill was already good enough; expecting her to offer congratulations was too much?

Not coming for revenge was a good thing, meaning reconciliation was possible!

"Name him! Name him!" the women urged.

Zhou Heng looked at his son in his mother’s arms and smiled, "Let’s let his father and mother name him!"

Zhou Dinghai and Zhao Kexin were very happy. They pondered for several days and came up with a rather ordinary name: Zhou An, hoping that this child would live a life of peace and contentment.

In truth, Hongyue was dissatisfied with the name; naturally, she wanted her child’s name to carry a bit more grandeur, but since it was the decision of the grandfather and grandmother, respect must be given.

Zhou An it is, worst case, they’ll come up with a more grandiose nickname in the future!

After accompanying his son for several days, Zhou Heng resumed his seclusion; he aimed to break through to the Four Caves.

For the fourth Path, he chose the Wood Series Laws, intending to fully strengthen the Great Five Elements Rune.

And by this time, the Holy Medicine was used up!

After all, it’s Holy Medicine! Not like cabbages, where you get as much as you want.

But time is pressing, Zhou Heng and Hongyue continued their seclusion, accelerating the rotation of the Star Vortex, while Zhou An... was slowly growing into a Little Demon King. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to give recommendation votes and monthly tickets on Qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)