The God-Devouring Child's Demise

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

One could see a crimson light surging in his palm, and thirteen blazing red chains shot out, coiling around his hand, their surfaces shimmering with a metallic luster.

Each chain was only as thick as a finger, but they were a fiery red all the way through, with faint glowing currents flowing within them.

Tang Qinghe channeled Spirit Power into the chains, attempting to control them with his mental strength.

But no matter how much Spirit Power he used, it was like trying to move a mountain with a needle. The chains merely trembled slightly before falling still again.

"It seems that before I've fully absorbed the Spirit Essence, I can only use him as a temporary substitute for the Yang Flame technique. Even so, breaking through those Spirit Bodies' soul power defenses should still be of considerable help."

Tang Qinghe muttered to himself, then put away the second martial soul and began to cultivate cross-legged.

From Jedi City to Heavenly Battle City was a ten-day journey, and during that time, he couldn't afford to slack off in his training.

The Jedi Academy's academic year was one year.

The normal class time each year was nine months, during which students had no holidays.

Only at the end of May each year would school be dismissed, reopening in September, giving a three-month break.

But since the academy was mostly filled with children from commoner and low-level soul master families, they couldn't afford to slack off in cultivation like those noble families with resources and connections, who might train for three days and rest for two.

Therefore, most students would choose to return to school early, using the academy's facilities to provide themselves with a better cultivation environment.

And the academy would also, at this time each year, distribute a batch of soul crystals to the students.

Just as Tang Qinghe was heading to Heavenly Battle City...

The originally quiet Jedi Academy, due to the holiday break, once again buzzed with activity.

At the same time, in almost every corner of the Jedi Academy—classrooms, dormitories, dining halls, training grounds—similar conversations could be heard.

"Do you know? That old geezer actually became a dad?"

"Of course I know, how could I not? This matter has spread like wildfire; even the little vendors at the academy gate know about it. They're all waiting to drink a full-month wine with him."

"No way, isn't that old geezer a lifelong bachelor? How did he suddenly become a dad? Could it be an adopted son?"

"Not an adopted son, but close enough..."

"Then what exactly happened?"

The two who knew exchanged a knowing smile, leaned in to whisper a few words into the ear of the one who had asked, and that person's eyes immediately went wide with disbelief: "A man... a man giving birth..."

Xiao Wu and Han San, who had already returned to school, overheard these conversations.

Xiao Wu looked at Han San, her face full of confusion as she asked a similar question: "Xiao San, can men also have babies?"

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

Although he said that, he couldn't help but think of his own master, Jade Little Sister.

The changes in her body were truly too similar to those pregnant women in the final months.

Especially when he had just returned to the academy a few days ago and went to her room, seeing the letter she had left behind.

The letter said she would be away for about a month and would return in two or three months. It told him to cultivate well while she was gone and not to slack off.

One month, plus the previous nine months, made ten months in total.

This timing was far too coincidental.

It was impossible not to think of that possibility.

This was also why, amidst the rampant rumors, he hadn't dared to refute them.

First, because his master Jade Little Sister might really have become a father. If not, the rumors would eventually die down on their own.

Second, when he returned, the rumors were already flying everywhere. He couldn't possibly tell everyone, "You're already dead," could he?

"Don't know, then don't bother. Speaking of which, how do we deal with that bastard Tang Qinghe?"

Mentioning Tang Qinghe, Xiao Wu was so angry her teeth itched.

That last poisonous strike had directly sent her flying into a stone pillar, and Han San had broken several ribs. After the two of them were rescued and treated in the Soul Spirit Pool for seven or eight days, they only fully recovered.

It was fortunate they were Spirit Bodies with strong recovery abilities.

Otherwise, for an ordinary person, it would have taken three to five months, and they might not have fully recovered.

They might even have been left with permanent disabilities.

So when it came to Tang Qinghe, Xiao Wu wished she could eat his flesh and sleep on his skin.

Now the two had already discussed how to deal with Tang Qinghe. She would use her soft whip to engage him head-on, while Han San would use hidden weapons and poison to ambush him from the shadows, ensuring they would take him down.

When the time came, at the very least, they would first make him pay for the two strikes he had dealt them.

Who knew that Tang Qinghe would actually be quite clever.

He had rushed back to the academy in a panic, but in the end, he hadn't shown up at all. No one knew where he had gone.

"Don't worry, as long as he dares to return to the academy, I will make him pay for his past actions."

Mentioning Tang Qinghe, Han San's face also turned cold.

Han San and Little Wu had waited at the Jedi Academy for two or three months, but even as the holidays were about to end, they still hadn't been able to wait for Yu Qinghe. Instead, they ended up waiting for Jade Little Sister.

Jedi Academy dormitory corridor, Jade Little Sister's room door.

Han San looked at the two children in his arms and at Jade Little Sister, whose face was full of smiles. For a moment, he was at a loss for words.

"Oh, it's Little San who's come. Come, come, take a look at your two little daughters. The one on the left is called Big Jade, and the one on the right is called Little Jade. They're both my daughters. Speaking of which, you're not too bad either. After you snatched the first Spirit Essence for me, that Spirit Essence Knowing Self from the Chaotic Great Courtyard somehow found out I was injured and specially came to visit me. He's always been deeply in love with me, and this time he finally expressed his feelings for me. Under the circumstances of a lonely man and a single woman, feelings developed. I never thought I'd end up with his child. For the past few months, he's been out taking care of me."

Yes, yes, it was Jade Little Sister and a certain Spirit Essence Knowing Self who had them, not him himself.

This was the story Jade Little Sister had come up with to block Youyou's mouth.

After all, having children with a former Red Through Knowing Self sounded much better than a grown man giving birth to children.

As for why there were two children instead of one, that was also very clever.

Naturally, on the night Jade Little Sister drank the Mother-Child River Water, she felt her mouth dry and tongue parched. The next morning at the crack of dawn, she poured the remaining tea water that had been steeped with Mother-Child River Water into a cup and forcefully gulped it all down into her belly.

And he placed great hope on these two children.

According to what his master, the Heavenly Defying Venerable, had said, beings capable of giving birth to Chaotic Realm phenomena could only be conceived by gods.

In other words, these two children were divine embryos.

Once their martial souls awakened, they would surely be extraordinary talents with heaven-defying abilities.

At the very least, they would be born with full innate martial soul power. It might even be possible for them to awaken innate martial souls.

Once these two children grew up, together with his proud eldest disciple Han San, then beneath him, Jade Little Sister, there would be a hall of three venerables.

When that time came, why worry about being unable to prove to the world his own greatness and proclaim the name of Jade Little Sister the Great? Why worry about having no way to take revenge on the Martial Soul Hall for that eight-year grudge?