An Abnormal Matter

"Fetal movement?"

Hearing Imperial Preceptor Huo Yuan's description, Murong Zhenlin and Jia Huarai both revealed looks of surprise and suspicion.

The latter immediately used his divine sense, releasing part of the aura he had previously gathered from above the Eastern Wasteland Dynasty.

"Lord Imperial Preceptor, was the aura of that sign of fetal movement the same as this?"

At his words, Huo Yuan merely swept it with his divine sense before nodding. "Correct. This was the very aura I sensed aboard the immortal vessel back then."

After confirming the matter, the three exchanged glances, each unconsciously revealing a somewhat grave expression.

No matter how one looked at it, this matter was far too strange.

For mortals, who carried a child for ten months before giving birth, fetal movement generally began around the fifth month of pregnancy and peaked during the seventh or eighth month.

Because cultivators possessed spiritual essence and had shed their mortal bodies, their pregnancies differed from those of ordinary people.

Generally speaking, the higher a cultivator's cultivation, the longer she carried her child.

Qi Gathering Cultivators were basically no different from mortals.

After a Core Formation Cultivator became pregnant, the time needed to nurture the fetus extended to twelve or thirteen months.

For Spiritual Connection cultivators, it could last as long as around a year and a half.

As for Enlightenment Dao Cultivators of an even higher level, although the three had never encountered one, they had learned of them through the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

True Intent Cultivators generally carried a child for around three years. If a Profound Insight cultivator became pregnant, she would need as long as eight to ten years to nurture the child.

However, although the time spent nurturing a fetus was prolonged, both mortals and cultivators followed the fundamental laws of pregnancy.