"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations, Your Majesty! It's a prince!" The midwife beamed as she held the swaddled infant and announced the good news to the emperor anxiously waiting outside.
This world was a Middle Thousand World, and the country was called Qin. Its ruler's surname was Ying, and he was in the prime of his life.
He took the infant and immediately felt how heavy the child was. His body was not wrinkled like that of an ordinary newborn. Instead, his skin was smooth and lustrous, faintly radiating an indescribable nobility and power.
It was obvious at a glance that the child was extraordinary, and the emperor was overjoyed.
"Heaven has revealed auspicious signs. My son was accompanied by an Auspicious Sign at birth. This is Heaven's blessing upon my Great Qin! Issue the order: let the entire country celebrate together. Give him the name—'Zheng'!"
Ying Zheng was the reincarnation of the "Little Thirteen" who had been created by Styx and the others as the Thirteenth Ancestral Witch.
Because his origin had been sealed by Styx with supreme divine abilities, he appeared to be merely more intelligent and robust than ordinary children, with no other mysterious phenomenon.
However, the immense power hidden deep within his origin, along with his affinity for Imperial Dao Fortune, had already quietly begun to take root and sprout.
At the same time, in this war-torn Mortal World Universe, and even throughout the still more vast Endless Mortal Realms, the undercurrents stirred even more violently because of Yin Hong's abdication declaration and the impending opening of the "Path of Trials."
On the Primordial Continent, in Chao Ge City, after Yin Hong announced his intention to abdicate, he did not slacken in governing the court. Instead, he became even more diligent.
He knew that before the next