In a daze, the voice he had hidden in the deepest recesses of his heart once more rose beside his ears.
"Mingxuan... I'm not going to make it..."
"..."
"Mingxuan... Don't yell at those doctors. This isn't their fault... My mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to me... Maybe this is fate."
"..."
"The doctor said I gave birth to a girl... What do you think we should name her?"
"..."
"Don't cry. A grown man crying like that—what kind of sight is that..."
"..."
"Mingxuan... Take good care of her. From now on, she'll keep you company in my place..."
"..."
Tang Mingxuan clenched his fists tightly, his eyes bloodshot.
Bai Ze's body trembled without end. The pale golden patterns across his skin began to be dyed crimson, while the water around him swirled into a vortex and surged from the riverbed toward the heavens!
The crimson color followed those patterns, inching toward the child he was giving birth to.
Roar—!
Bai Ze let out a howl, and the pale golden patterns over his body suddenly lit up. A holy, auspicious aura flooded into his lower abdomen, while his own body gradually withered and fell lifeless beneath the corrosion of the crimson blood.
He recklessly poured his pure bloodline into the fetus, driving away the violent, frenzied blood aura. If those things touched the fragile fetus, death would be almost certain. Even if it somehow survived, brutality and bloodlust would be branded into its very bones.
No matter what, Bai Ze did not want his child to become a beastlike monster...
So even if he himself fell, he absolutely could not allow those filthy things to touch his child in the slightest!
Pale golden radiance surged wildly. With Bai Ze's all-or-nothing effort, the ball of light