Clearly, Aunt's childbirth had given Lin Heng a small shock.
Cultivators carrying children were unlike ordinary mortals. The longer a spirit fetus gestated, the greater the drain on the mother's body.
Especially fetuses born with powerful bloodlines—the way they drew upon the mother's vitality was more like an endless draining dry.
And if it triggered a Heavenly Tribulation when the time came, the slightest carelessness would spell disaster for both mother and child.
It seemed becoming a father out of the blue was not as easy as he had imagined.
In truth, Lin Heng still had one question: now that the struggle for the Mandate of Heaven had ended, did the Immortal Realm still have a Mandate of Heaven?
If there was no Mandate of Heaven, then where did Heavenly Tribulations come from?
Were they simply left behind naturally by the remaining laws of the Heavenly Dao?
As he had said before, the Dao was merely a tool of the Mandate of Heaven.
The master was gone, but that did not mean the tool could not still be used.
Fortunately, in the days that followed, the Immortal Realm remained safe and sound everywhere. Postwar reconstruction was both difficult and easy, depending on how one looked at it.
People would always concentrate first on rebuilding the more important places, such as the Central Domain.
As the core region of Heavenly Action Continent, the richest and home to the greatest number of spirit veins, it was naturally where the vast majority of cultivators and ordinary mortals would be willing to gather and settle in the future.
The foundation of the mortal population remained. To ordinary people at the bottom, wars between cultivators were more like natural disasters passing through. But as long as people were alive, life could go on.
As heaven