Beasts Besiege the City, Reinforcements Arrive, the Zhou Tian Star Array, Azure Nether Turns Black

The sun set at dusk.

Golden light spilled across the broad streets of Soaring Sky Pass, gilding the ground.

Cultivators hurried to and fro.

Only one figure strolled unhurriedly through the city, conspicuously out of place.

Luo Chen suddenly sighed.

"Too much time on her hands, after all!"

At such a critical juncture, Hui Niang's wish for a child was utterly unlike her usual habit of putting the larger situation first.

But Luo Chen understood.

Sima Hui Niang had long since stepped down as Sect Master of the Luo Tian Sect. She no longer needed to concern herself with its affairs, great or small.

She had stepped down once before, but the sect's survival had still weighed on her.

Now that Luo Chen had returned, she no longer needed to worry about that either.

Because of the Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu, Luo Chen would not allow her to continue cultivating.

Little by little, Sima Hui Niang found herself with nothing to do.

For a cultivator, to neither cultivate, work, nor seek pleasure, to no longer wield even the power she once held, and to watch her lifespan slip away day by day—that was torment of the cruelest kind!

To ease that torment, Hui Niang had volunteered to run the newly established Luo Tian Treasure Pavilion.

But with Luo Chen's reputation behind her, Luo Tian Sect cultivators helping her wholeheartedly, and capable people from the Heavenly Origin Commerce League advising her behind the scenes, what was there for her to worry about?

In the end, another idea had taken root.

Like cultivators whose aptitude fell short and who, as they grew older, instinctively wanted to leave behind an inheritance—or a bloodline.

She wanted a child, someone on whom she could place all her attention and hopes.

There was nothing wrong with that