Yan Zidong, the fifth disciple of Silver Sword Peak's younger generation.
Golden Core Stage cultivation.
Yan Zidong was born into the Yan Family of Hedong.
He and Li Mengyun of the Li Family of Hedong had known each other since childhood and were mutually in love.
Sadly, the Li and Yan families were sworn enemies, and their relationship was destined to bear no fruit.
Later, Yan Zidong entered Shushan.
Li Mengyun entered the Xuantian Sword Sect.
Yan Zidong, too, found a Dao companion.
Though she was not a Shushan Disciple, she was innocent and kind-hearted.
They met while upholding justice and slaying demons and exterminating devils.
Thereafter, the two fell in love and became Dao companions.
By now, they even had a child of their own.
Yet Yan Zidong's Dao companion did not know that, from the very beginning, Yan Zidong had intended to cut open her abdomen and take their child to save the life of the woman he loved.
Li Mengyun had been born with a Yin Spiritual Root.
Though a Variant Single Spiritual Root possessed immense potential and cultivated no slower than a single spiritual root, some variant spiritual roots also had flaws.
Li Mengyun, for instance, was already a female cultivator with heavy yin energy within her body.
Coupled with her innate Yin Spiritual Root, if she persisted in cultivating, it would only cost her her life.
But if she did not cultivate, her path of cultivation would be ruined.
For the rest of her life, she could only remain a Golden Core cultivator, her realm and cultivation declining again and again.
After learning of this, Yan Zidong thought of Bai Ling.
Bai Ling—Bai Ling had been born with a Yang Spiritual Root.
If she became pregnant with a boy, and the child was taken by