The moment Shiheng's God-level divine sense clearly caught that faint yet incomparably vibrant breath of life quietly taking root in Kelin Xiaoman's womb, life took its gentlest turn for this supreme expert who had swept across the Yulan Continent and mastered two sets of laws.
Upon hearing the joyous news that he would soon become a father, Shiheng showed none of an enlightened cultivator's detachment. His heart surged with indescribable elation and tenderness. From that day onward, he completely set aside every obsession with cultivation, laws, and combat strength, casting aside the decades of relentless training, seclusion, and contemplation.
He no longer entered the secret chamber to contemplate Fate and the Destruction Laws, nor deliberately honed the strength of his divine soul or the fighting power of his divine body. He even gently stilled and restrained the vast divine power circulating on its own within him, leaving only the mildest, most harmless aura of life lingering around him. He fixed all his thoughts, attention, and even a strand of his primal divine soul firmly upon the pregnant Kelin Xiaoman.
Once, he had climbed to the pinnacle and swept aside formidable foes to protect the woman he loved. Now, with unrivaled strength and no equal beneath the heavens, he sought only the simplest wish-to remain at her side day and night, quietly awaiting the arrival of the child born of their love. He wished only for mother and child to be safe and well, to live a peaceful lifetime, without another distraction or stray thought.
Kelin Xiaoman, too, finally laid down the burden of the empire that had weighed upon her shoulders for twenty years.
As empress of the Klan Empire, she ruled a vast realm and attended to countless affairs each day. For twenty years, she had presided over the