Chapter 467

She frowned deeply. "Could it be because I'm an immortal? That's why I don't even have the reaction to childbirth?"

That's all she could guess.

After all, there was no precedent for a Celestial King becoming pregnant throughout history, so she naturally had no experience to draw upon.

However, there is still one question she needs to clarify regarding the fetus in her womb.

"System, can you tell me if my child is a boy or a girl?"

She pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked.

[Ding! This function is not available in the system. The host is advised to deduce it using common sense.]

The system's response was brief.

Xiao Minghuang's lips twitched slightly.

What kind of answer is that?

But she quickly realized what was happening.

Common sense...

So it must be similar to the situation of other women giving birth?

Soon, Xiao Minghuang found from various records that unless a woman takes a specific pill to specify the sex of her newborn, the newborn will always be female.

The meaning is very clear--

Is she carrying a girl?

"I hope this child grows up healthy!"

Xiao Minghuang muttered to herself.

Having resolved his immediate crisis, Xiao Minghuang still possessed two treasures that he needed to study while he had the time.

One of them, she had possessed this treasure for a very, very long time, so long that she had almost forgotten how she obtained it.

After thinking carefully, Xiao Minghuang finally remembered.

At that time, when she was still in the Eastern Pole, she returned from the Quasi-Emperor Ancient Tomb. During a gift-giving process, she obtained the Time-Space Ancient Script.

At that time, she tried to grasp the power of this ancient character, but was met with great rejection and even fell into an unknown alternate dimension. Moreover, she seemed to have had a brief contact with an indescribable great being.

After escaping, Xiao Minghuang decided to temporarily refrain from touching the Time-Space Ancient Script, and to make further plans when her cultivation level was sufficient.

Unexpectedly, this wait took them from the Saint Realm to the Immortal King Realm.

However, Xiao Minghuang did not regret it. On the contrary, she was glad that she was cautious and did not risk touching the Time-Space Ancient Script.

Otherwise, in her memory, that indescribable, great being could probably kill her a thousand times over with just a thought.

However, times have changed. If Xiao Minghuang was previously somewhat wary of the mysteries within these Time-Space Ancient Script and unwilling to try them rashly, things are completely different now. She has become a Celestial King!

With her current strength, even if she were to encounter that indescribable, great being again, even if she couldn't defeat it, she could at least escape unscathed.

Besides.

As her cultivation level increased, her understanding of the Great Dao also deepened, and she gained new insights into the Dao of Time and Space.

Xiao Minghuang speculated that before the power of the Time-Space Ancient Script was truly mastered, no matter who activated them or in what form, it would cause irregular spacetime reversals, dragging things within a certain scope into the spacetime turbulence.

If she were to trigger the Time-Space Ancient Script again now, she might not necessarily end up in that seemingly chaotic yet undeveloped alternate dimension.

But she was unwilling to take the risk before, so she waited until now.

Having made up his mind, Xiao Minghuang's gaze narrowed slightly as he summoned this Time-Space Ancient Script.

"Time and space, manifest!"

In an instant.

A mysterious light flashed, and everything around became blurry, but Xiao Minghuang could clearly feel her connection with this ancient character.

"Really."

Xiao Minghuang knew in her heart that this feeling was absolutely correct.

She felt a slight surge of excitement.

Last time, when she activated the Time-Space Ancient Script, her own senses were instantly overwhelmed, leaving her bewildered and falling into a coma.

Now, as a Celestial King, she has mastered the Star Dao and is no weaker than the Time-Space Great Dao in terms of power, so she is no longer submerged by the turbulent currents of time and space.

"Whoosh!"

The next moment.

A halo of light appeared, Xiao Minghuang raised her right hand. An ancient character slowly emerged and floated quietly in front of her.

Its surface is hazy and invisible, with only a pale golden light shining through.

But upon closer inspection, one can vaguely see a river surging and rushing within the pale golden light.

This is -- the Time-Space Ancient Script!

The next moment, a dazzling white light burst forth, enveloping her.

In an instant.

She then sensed that she was in an incredibly strange world, surrounded by a hazy mist, filled with nothingness and chaos, everything was blurry, and nothing could be seen through.

She seemed to be standing in the Primordial Era of the universe, with nothing but endless expanse in all directions.

Suddenly, a violent tremor came from a certain location, causing her to turn around and look.

Boom!!!

The next moment.

A deafening roar echoed through the void, and she saw that everything around her, hazy and misty, was like a counter-current, rapidly sweeping in one direction, converging towards that spot, and gradually transforming into a vortex that swallowed everything around it.

The vortex was deep and vast, as boundless as the ocean, and carried an extremely dense aura of destruction, as if leading to another dimension, radiating a terrifying, suffocating energy.

It was an incredibly vast scene.

"That is..."

She gasped, her heart trembling. It was an indescribably powerful aura, like an ancient behemoth awakening.

The next moment.

Then they saw the vortex shrink rapidly at an incredible speed, continuously compressing until it was compressed into a tiny, indistinguishable point of light.

But this infinitesimally small point of light exudes a powerful aura that seems capable of destroying the universe.

Her eyes widened, a sense of foreboding rising within her, and she immediately turned to retreat.

But it was too late.

Buzz!!!

A piercing, sharp explosion suddenly resounded throughout the entire universe.

Immediately.

"Call--"

Xiao Minghuang suddenly opened her eyes, looked at the familiar scenery around her, and realized that she had returned to the Ziwei Immortal Palace. She finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're back..."

That scene is still vivid in my mind.

That intense sense of crisis made her break out in a cold sweat; if she had been even half a second later, she probably would have vanished without a trace.

"I am now at the Immortal King realm, yet the aura surging from those points of light just now seemed capable of easily annihilating me..."

She sighed softly, her heart heavy with unsettled emotions.

She glanced down at the Time-Space Ancient Script in her hand.

However, the light on this mysterious and complex rune had dimmed, as if it had lost its spiritual power.

Xiao Minghuang quickly checked and was surprised to find that the Time-Space Ancient Script had easily merged into her body, and the time and space path that had previously teleported her to another time and space had disappeared without a trace.

This feeling is very subtle.

She could vaguely sense that the power of the Time-Space Ancient Script had not completely disappeared. Only the specific power that had transported her to the other spacetime had vanished; the other great laws possessed by the ancient characters still remained within them.

"Is it possible that two consecutive spacetime reversals exhausted the power accumulated within the ancient characters, and it needs time to recover... or perhaps, it will never happen again..."

Xiao Minghuang muttered to herself, somewhat worried.

But soon, a relieved smile appeared on her face, "It's not necessarily a bad thing that this strange power has disappeared; at least I can control it more easily now."

Her eyes gleamed with a sharp light.

Immediately, she activated the Immortal Dao Law, bringing the Time-Space Ancient Script under her control.

"Let's give it a try..."

563. Outer Deep Space

Xiao Minghuang's mind raced. She raised her delicate hand, and a blooming rose appeared in her palm, its vibrant red color captivating the eye.

"Time and space! Change!"

She silently recited it in her heart.

Xiao Minghuang then felt the ancient Time-Space Ancient Script in her mind suddenly jump up, and mysterious runes intertwined, radiating a dazzling light, with ripples spreading outwards.

The next moment, the vibrant rose suddenly withered, turned to ashes, and drifted down.

"Time and space! Restore!"

Suddenly, the ashes scattered on the ground vanished.

A vibrant rose suddenly appeared in her hand, as if nothing had happened before.

"The power of time and space."

A slight smile appeared on Xiao Minghuang's lips.

The power of the Time-Space Ancient Script represents the essence of all emptiness and time in the world. Through the Time-Space Ancient Script, one can manipulate all the rules that belong to these two great paths.

Indeed.

The laws of the Immortal King are solid and indestructible, still shining brightly even after countless eons. But everything has its beginning and end. Even if it can endure ten thousand eons, can it endure another twenty thousand or thirty thousand eons?

Amidst the coming together and parting of the forty-eight thousand beings, not only could the essence of an immortal king not sustain it, but even a celestial venerable could not claim true immortality!

The terrifying power of spacetime is evident from this.

Xiao Minghuang possessed this power.

"The power of the Time-Space Ancient Script is both unexpected and perfectly reasonable..."

Xiao Minghuang sighed.

Of course, the power of the Time-Space Ancient Script is not without limits. With her current cultivation level, she doesn't need to use the Time-Space Ancient Script to fight against opponents below the Immortal King level. However, if she were to fight against an Immortal King, she probably wouldn't be able to defeat him with just the Time-Space Ancient Script.

She still needs to use other means to defeat and suppress its Immortal King Laws, and then use the Time-Space Ancient Script to reverse its spacetime, which would make it easy to kill it.

Then, she retrieved the Time-Space Ancient Script into her small world.

"Next, the Ancient Script of 'Bow' '..."

She acquired the ancient character for Ancient Script of 'Bow'" and the accompanying "Character Control Technique at a considerable cost from an auction.

Xiao Minghuang slowly closed his eyes, activated the vast and boundless immortal Immortal Dao Law within his body, and summoned brilliant characters, holding them in his palm.

In an instant.

The void trembled, and a silver short bow appeared, hovering in mid-air, its bowstring resonating and unleashing a terrifying aura.

Xiao Minghuang's expression turned solemn. He condensed a wisp of Immortal Dao Law and poured it into the silver bow and arrow. In an instant, the bow and arrow hummed and burst forth with a dazzling sharpness, tearing through the sky and cleaving a huge gap in the firmament.