「The Eastern Volcano Plateau.」
Volcanoes, deserts, wastelands... Sang Luo followed the direction where the Heavenly Tribulation had vanished, searching several places. The harshness of each region was beyond imagination. The entire land seed as if it were being scorched by flas, and the air was thick with a fiery energy that made it almost impossible to breathe.
’Even if Si Ye was angry and didn’t want to see her, he didn’t need to pick a place like this.’
"ROAR!"
A heart-rending tiger’s roar ca from not far away, nearly shaking the heavens and the earth.
Sang Luo quickly teleported over and saw a slender figure lying in a pool of blood.
The once brilliant and proud Si Ye was now a wretched sight, half-kneeling on the ground. A longsword was plunged into the earth beside him. His magnificent robes were tattered, his body was covered in wounds, and the ground beneath his knees was stained red. His short, fiery-red hair had slowly grown into long, linen-colored locks, interspersed with a few red strands, draped ssily over his body. Faint wisps of Black Qi swirled around him; his condition was dire.
Hearing footsteps, Si Ye assud it was another person sent by Fei Yuan. Without even raising his eyelids, he barked out a cold rebuke.
"Get lost! I’m not leaving! A re Heavenly Thunder is nothing for to fear!"
"Ah Ye, it’s ."
Si Ye’s heart stopped. He looked up.
His eyes were scarlet, filled with an unfamiliar, violent aura. He froze when he saw Sang Luo clearly, and the Black Qi around him began to stir restlessly again.
"Luoluo... Why did you co here..."
A thought seed to strike him, and he lowered his head dejectedly, turning as if to get up and leave.
But he had clearly underestimated his injuries. He had barely taken two steps when—THUD!—he collapsed heavily to the ground.
Si Ye had never been so humiliated in his entire life. A flush of sha crept across his handso face as he gritted his teeth and forced himself up. His expression was sowhat grim. "Go away! This is no place for a female."
"I ca here to find you. If you leave, I leave."
"..."
"Ah Ye, you foolish boy. You already removed the soul mark. I thought you would have let go. How could you still give rise to a Heart Demon?"
Sang Luo sighed softly. She wanted to walk over and hug him, but her belly was truly getting in the way. Instead, she could only loosely wrap her arms around his waist and say gently, "Fei Yuan said you refuse to go back, so I ca to take you ho. Your injuries are too severe. You need treatnt."
"...I’m not that weak."
"What about the Heart Demon? Can you get rid of that on your own?"
Si Ye fell silent for a mont, then slowly released her hand. "That first month after we t, I truly felt that eting you was the greatest fortune of my life."
"To think it was the start of your misfortune," Sang Luo said with a bitter smile. "Ah Ye, I’m sorry. I’ve owed you an apology for a long ti."
She whispered, "I thought about confessing everything to you, but every ti we were together, I was basking in your sincere and passionate affection. For the first ti, I didn’t know how to confess sothing like this to a Male Beast. It was my fault from beginning to end. I was too hasty back then and didn’t consider your feelings. I was a real bastard."
The rampant Black Qi around Si Ye gradually subsided. His Adam’s apple bobbed, as if he had a thousand things to say, but in the end, he just looked at her belly and asked, "Whose child is this, really? Is it that Snake Beast’s, or is it..."
Sang Luo took his hand and placed it on her round belly. "The baby is about to be born. You can sense it, can’t you?"
His fingers trembled as he murmured distractedly, "Impossible. The gestation period for the Bian Clan isn’t this short. Besides, we only slept together once, and you and that Snake Beast have been partners for a long ti..."
"Don’t doubt it. It’s your child. If you don’t want to acknowledge it, then I’ll just let soone else raise it." Sang Luo turned away, her expression lonely.
Si Ye suddenly pulled her into a hug. "No!"
Sang Luo looked down at the empty lava ground, unable to see the expression on the man’s face behind her, but she could clearly feel his body trembling uncontrollably.
Overwheld with a multitude of guilty feelings, his voice was hoarse, as if he were on the verge of tears.
"I’m sorry, Luoluo. All this ti you’ve been pregnant, I haven’t been there for you and the child..."
He suddenly spat out a large mouthful of black blood and his body collapsed.
"Ah Ye!" Sang Luo’s heart ached seeing his aura fall into disarray again. She covered her face as tears stread down like rain. "I did approach you with an ulterior motive, but I also truly fell in love with you. I thought about raising our children together..."
She knelt on the ground, placing his head on her lap, and whispered, "The question you asked that day... there’s another answer."
"If I had t you in another ti, another place, I definitely would have said yes..."
Si Ye had passed out, and she didn’t know if he had heard her.
Sang Luo tried to teleport him back to the Imperial Palace, but a sharp pain twisted in her abdon. Her emotions had been too turbulent just now; she was likely going into labor two days early...
Fei Yuan appeared before them just in ti. He gave Sang Luo a helpless look. "You really don’t listen, do you? I was about to co over here myself, knock this kid out, and drag him back. You beat to it."
Sang Luo was pleasantly surprised. "Your Majesty, the Demonic Qi on Ah Ye seems to be almost gone..."
Fei Yuan looked at the unconscious Si Ye. The Demonic Qi had indeed mostly dissipated. A flicker of surprise crossed his eyes. "Indeed. The one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it."
An Array appeared beneath the three of them, teleporting them back to the Central Phoenix Palace.
The Demonic Qi on Si Ye was gone, and the remaining injuries were only superficial. Male Beasts were tough and healed quickly; with so dicinal salve, he would be mostly recovered in a couple of days. Fei Yuan had soone take Si Ye to a side hall to rest and paid him no further mind.
He strode over, carried Sang Luo into the prepared delivery room, and gently placed her on the bed.
Sang Luo’s face was slick with sweat and deathly pale. Waves of pain wracked her abdon.
She was already familiar with the process, but every ti it ca to the final step, she still gritted her teeth, extrely tense.
The pain was making Sang Luo’s consciousness drift in and out. She didn’t know what Fei Yuan had fed her—it was sothing round, apparently an elixir... Without a second thought, she swallowed it whole, not even tasting it.
Then, the contractions in her abdon gradually faded away...
Sang Luo opened her eyes and turned to look at Fei Yuan, who was putting on gloves by the bed. "What did you just give ?" she asked softly.
"A pain-relieving elixir. This is a Top Grade elixir that I personally refined. It’s priceless and not for sale. I was only willing to give it to you."
"You know alchemy too?" Now that the pain had subsided, Sang Luo had the strength to speak.
"Did I ever say I didn’t?" Fei Yuan chuckled. To deal with the old ailnt from the Poisonous Gu in his body, he had spent hundreds of years exploring every possible path, conventional and otherwise, and had beco quite accomplished in the art of alchemy.
Seeing Sang Luo remain silent, lost in thought, he sat on the edge of the bed and stroked her cramping stomach. "Guess what race the baby will be this ti?" he whispered. "Could it be a Little Phoenix? If Little Ye doesn’t want it, let raise it. I’ll definitely raise it as my own."
His shaless words snapped Sang Luo out of her thoughts, and so of her tension dissipated. "Don’t even think about it! No matter what race the child is when it’s born, it will be sent to the Bian Clan first."
"Then how about you give one of my own?"
"...That depends on whether Your Majesty can even have children!" Sang Luo retorted irritably.
Fei Yuan sighed. ’Getting a child of my own really isn’t easy, is it?’
"Little Luoruo, focus. It’s coming," Fei Yuan said suddenly.
Sang Luo gritted her teeth. She felt a sudden downward pressure in her stomach, and then, just as abruptly, a feeling of emptiness...
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