A Divine Baby Was Born

Thinking of this, Tang Qinghe raised his left hand and released his second martial spirit.

A flash of purple light burst from his palm, and thirteen purple-black threads appeared in his hand, glimmering faintly.

Each thread was only about a foot long, yet they were infused with an enormous amount of spirit power, and faint sparks of light danced along them.

Tang Qinghe injected spirit power into the threads and tried to control them with his mental strength.

Even though he had only just begun using them, the spirit power he poured in was like a river flowing into the sea. The threads merely trembled slightly before becoming still again.

It looks like, before I can obtain a spirit essence, I'll have to make do with the Tang Sect's hidden weapons for now. That way, I can break through the spirit-power barrier of those Spirit Bodies. They should prove quite useful.

Tang Qinghe sighed inwardly and withdrew his second martial spirit. He then put on his clothes and packed his things.

The journey from Jedi City to Heaven Dou City would take ten days. He couldn't afford to dawdle.

The Jedi Academy held classes for ten months each year.

The regular school term began in February. During those ten months, students had no holidays.

The academy only let students out at the end of May and again in September, with three months of vacation in total.

Most of the academy's students were children of commoners or of low-ranking spirit master families. They couldn't possibly be like the children of those powerful clans, who skipped school for days at a time to hunt spirit beasts.

That was why many influential people tried to enroll their children early, using the academy's facilities to provide them with a good environment for cultivation.

The academy also held a spirit essence awakening ceremony every September for the children of influential families.

Just as Tang Qinghe arrived in Heaven Dou City,

the Jedi Academy, which had been quiet because of the holidays, became lively again.

At the same time, rumors like these could be heard in nearly every corner of the academy—in the classrooms, dormitories, cafeteria, and training grounds.

"Have you heard? That guy Tang San's father is going to be a grandpa!"

"Of course I have. How could I not? Everyone at the academy's front gate knows by now. The shopkeepers are already arguing over who'll treat his son to a full-month banquet."

"No way. Isn't Tang San still a kid? How could his father be a grandpa already? Could it be that he's getting married?"

"Not married, but it's pretty much the same thing..."

"Then what exactly happened?"

The first two people exchanged a knowing smile. The one at the end of the line leaned close to the listener's ear and whispered a few words. The listener's eyes widened in disbelief. "A man... a man can give birth...?"

Xiao Wu and Han San had just returned to the academy, and they overheard the conversation.

Xiao Wu turned to Han San, curiosity written all over her face. "Little San, can men give birth too?"

"I don't know." Han San shook his head.

That was what they'd said, but he couldn't help thinking about his adoptive father, Jade Little Sister.

The scars on her body matched the wounds left by those women from that month.

Especially during the few days after he'd returned to the academy. He'd gone to her room and seen the letter she'd left for him.

The letter said he could spend at least another month away, and that he'd be back after two or three months. He'd decided to make the most of the time while she was gone and cultivate properly, without lazing around.

One month, plus the nine months of pregnancy, came to ten months in all.

That was far too coincidental.

He didn't want people to find out that he knew, either.

That was also why, even with rumors flying everywhere, he hadn't stopped them.

First, because there was a chance that Jade Little Sister really was going to become a grandpa. If she wasn't, the rumors would soon die down on their own.

Second, by the time he awakened his martial spirit, the rumors would have spread everywhere. He could already hear people asking, "You've awakened your spirit, haven't you?"

"Forget about that. How did Tang Qinghe end up mixed up in this?"

Whenever Tang Qinghe came up, Xiao Wu grew furious.

The last time he poisoned them, she'd ended up vomiting blood. Han San had suffered multiple broken ribs, and his injuries were so severe that he'd spent seven or eight days recuperating at the Spirit Hall before he fully recovered.

He was a Spirit Body, after all. His ability to recover was extraordinary.

If he'd been an ordinary person, he'd have needed three to five months to recover, and might even have been left with lingering injuries.

So Xiao Wu had always considered Tang Qinghe a mortal enemy.

Now they'd already discussed how to deal with him when he returned. She would confront him head-on, while Han San would use the Azure Ganoderma and a hidden weapon to launch a sneak attack from the shadows, ensuring Tang Qinghe was taken down.

For now, at least, they had to let him have a few days of peace.

Who knew whether Tang Qinghe had gone somewhere else?

He had been so obsessed with going to the Jedi Academy, but then he'd disappeared without a trace. No one knew where he'd gone.

"Don't worry. As long as he dares to come back to the academy, I'll make him pay for what he did to us."

At the mention of Tang Qinghe, Han San's face grew even colder.

Tang San and Xiao Wu had waited at the Jedi Academy for two or three months, nearly until the holidays were over. They'd spent all that time waiting for Tang Qinghe, but instead, they'd been kept waiting for Jade Little Sister.

Jedi Academy, dormitory building, Jade Little Sister's room.

Han San stared at the two children in Jade Little Sister's arms. Her face was full of smiles, but for a moment he didn't know what to say.

"Oh, Little San, you're here! Come take a look at your younger siblings. The one on the left is the older one, and the one on the right is the younger. They're both your father's daughters. You should be happy for them. I don't know how you found out I was hurt, but you specifically came all this way to see me. I'm deeply grateful to you. This has made your father very happy. After all, a man and a woman can't have children together. I never imagined she'd already had your father's child. For a few months, she was out there just looking after him."

Yes, the children Jade Little Sister had with a certain Spirit Hall elder weren't Han San's.

That was the excuse Jade Little Sister had come up with to keep him from asking questions.

After all, it sounded better for children to be born of two women who had once shared a bed than for a grown man to give birth.

And, after all, why were there two children rather than one? It was quite a mystery.

Of course, it was because the night Jade Little Sister drank Mother-Child River Water, she'd felt parched. Early the next morning, she'd taken the water left in her cup and poured it into the Mother-Child River Water, then used a large spoon to feed it to her belly.

And he'd also placed his hopes in the children.

According to what his adoptive father had said, Haotian Douluo, only a Divine Baby could display an innate spirit power that surpassed the world's limits.

In other words, those two children were Divine Babies.

Once they awakened their martial spirits, they would surely be natural geniuses.

At the very least, they would certainly be born with a great deal of spirit power. Even a twin martial spirit wasn't out of the question.

When the children grew up, with his brilliant big brother Han San to back him up, Jade Little Sister would have a powerful trio at his side.

By then, how could he explain himself to the world? How could he clear his name and take revenge on the Spirit Hall for what they'd done to him eight years ago?