Madam, are you one of Empress Profound Ice's people?

Northwestern region of Nine Cauldrons Heaven.

Ancient Si Kingdom, Heavenly Sun Marquis's Manor.

At this moment, pained moans from a young woman drifted intermittently from a room in the rear courtyard.

As the woman's cries grew louder and louder, another, somewhat aged female voice rang out:

"Madam, it's almost out! Push harder!"

Hearing this, the room fell briefly silent.

Then the young woman cried out with even greater force, "Ah~"

Outside the room.

An old man with graying hair, seemingly past fifty, paced back and forth with both hands tightly clutching his sleeves.

His steps were hurried and his expression grave, making him look exceedingly anxious and restless.

Seeing his expression, the servants and guards beside him all held their breath, not daring to breathe loudly for fear of disturbing this marquis whose might shook the northern region of Nine Cauldrons Heaven.

As his wife's cries from within the room became ever more urgent and agonized, Heavenly Sun Marquis Huo Jingfeng could not help raising his head toward the door.

"It has been so long. Why hasn't my wife given birth yet?"

Suddenly, the air in the room seemed to freeze, and Madam Tang Mei's voice abruptly stopped, making Huo Jingfeng's eyelids twitch violently.

"Ah~"

At that moment, Tang Mei's voice rang out again, louder than any before it.

Then the somewhat aged female voice cried out, "She's delivered! Madam, the child is out!"

Just as her words fell.

"Waa!" An infant's cry resounded throughout the entire rear courtyard.

Huo Jingfeng excitedly clapped his hands. "He's born!"

The door opened.

The midwife came to the doorway with an excited expression, holding an exquisite swaddling cloth. "Marquis, it's a young master!"

"Wonderful!"

Overjoyed at the news, Huo Jingfeng hurried into the room.

He was already over sixteen hundred years old, and