Today's second update: Chapter 3266! 2/4!
This proved that over the course of nineteen whole years, Zhan Rourou's cultivation had not improved in the slightest. It had remained completely stagnant!
The reason was cruel, yet clear—the twin divine embryo daughters in her womb, containing the final divine souls of the God of Light, Gal, and the God of Darkness, Mona, as well as the crystallization of her love with Xu Kun, had placed an unimaginably heavy burden upon her!
(PS: Some readers in the book group said that Zhan Rourou entered the Seventh Realm back then? I don't seem to remember that... and I couldn't find any previous description of her breaking through. Please forgive me—I haven't kept notes after writing more than three thousand chapters, and as for an outline... I've been relying entirely on my memory. If there was such a part, then just treat it as if there wasn't. Otherwise, Zhan Rourou wouldn't be suitable for participating in this Second Tier War, nor would she be suitable as foreshadowing for what comes later~)
Although Xu Kun knew that nurturing divine embryos was no trivial matter, he had never expected these twin sisters to affect Zhan Rourou so profoundly that they completely locked down her path of growth.
What pained him even more was that despite her realm being suppressed at merely the early Third Realm, the aura circulating around Zhan Rourou remained extraordinarily unstable, like a candle flickering in the wind. Clearly, sustaining this lengthy pregnancy had inflicted tremendous and unceasing exhaustion upon her body.
Back when Shen-bao had been carrying Caiyi, the burden had also been immense. Yet the pregnancy had been much shorter, and with the protection of his Kongtong Seal, followed by the shelter of the Haotian Pagoda, the entire process had passed