Zong Shen walked slowly toward the garden, the cobblestone path beneath his feet making a faint rustling sound.
A gentle smile lingered on his lips, and his gaze first fell upon Luna's rounded belly, where the continuation of his and Luna's bloodline was growing.
"Dear."
"The power within you..."
Sensing someone's arrival, Luna turned her head slightly, her violet eyes reflecting a soft glow beneath the sunlight.
She tried to stand, but Zong Shen quickly stepped forward and gently pressed her shoulder.
"Just stay seated."
"What you're feeling is the surge of divine power."
Zong Shen took the opportunity to sit beside her on the stone bench, reaching out to cover the hand she had placed over her belly.
His palm felt warmth beneath it, along with a faint, intermittent ripple.
It was actually resonating subtly with his own divine power.
The source was the child in Luna's womb.
He focused his senses, and his brows twitched almost imperceptibly.
"What is it?"
Luna keenly noticed the subtle shift in his expression.
"Our child..."
Zong Shen closed his eyes for a moment. The perception of his Chaos Godhead was like the most precise detection spell, piercing through the barriers of flesh and life.
He saw the tiny life still taking shape.
Completely unlike the vigorous vitality of an ordinary fetus, an extremely faint yet exceedingly high-grade grayish-white aura was entwined around the core of that mass of life-light.
That was Chaos divinity!
And it had not been infused afterward. Rather, it seemed to be an imprint naturally born within the fetus through their bloodline connection when Zong Shen's life essence had leaped forward after ascending to godhood.
Even more remarkably, that strand of divinity was closely fused with the fetus's own life force. Not only was there no rejection, but it