As Though It Had All Been a Dream

Without special methods of concealment, attacks on images of Sage Kong are almost indiscriminate and cover all directions.

This also made Zhang Xuezhou understand the concept of protecting the soul mentioned by the great Confucian scholar Yuan Gu. If one's own soul is in danger, the all-around attack from the portrait of Sage Kong is indeed a protective force.

Given the way this painting was attacked, it's no wonder it has survived to this day.

The Sage Kong edict, however, represents another form of suppression.

He hurriedly returned to his room with the Sage Kong edict in his hand. Perhaps sensing the disillusionment with the portrait of Sage Kong, the edict began to heat up.

When Zhang Xuezhou reached out and released it, the Sage Kong token had transformed into a tall and muscular man.

This is somewhat similar to how Your Majesty manifested by borrowing a treasure, but unlike Your Majesty, the man has little mental capacity.

Just like the appearance of the portrait of Sage Kong, this man appeared by pointing in all directions.

As Zhang Xuezhou involuntarily lowered his head, he saw the man take his blue rock cane, which he had placed aside, into his hand.

With a tap of the blue rock staff on the ground, cracks immediately appeared.

This made Zhang Xuezhou feel extremely bad.

Of course, Zhang Xuezhou was only feeling terrible. After all, the spirit jade stored in his home did not belong to him. It was "borrowed" by Wei Shao'er from the Marquis of Qu Ni's mansion and would need to be returned after a period of time.

Regardless of whether the spirit jade was excessively absorbed and damaged, or even rendered unusable, it was all used on Wei Shao'er.

Zhang Xuezhou kept his head down this time, but his mind was very active.

He could also hear the man murmur the word 'righteousness'.

A golden light flashed before his eyes, and a man murmured a question. This made Zhang Xuezhou point to the outside of the room, and then Chen Zhang's pig-like scream came from outside the room.

When Zhang Xuezhou straightened up, he saw that he was still holding the Sage Kong Token in his right hand, but there was no man or golden light in front of him.

He turned his head and felt that the force that had forced him to lower his head was gone, and he could now hold his head up normally.

"Chunyu Tiying, Lao Zheng, Yishuo?"

Zhang Xuezhou called out to the three doctors who were still looking down, but they did not respond. Only when Zhang Xuezhou reached out and touched them did they come back to their senses as if waking from a dream.

"Is it already dawn?" Chunyu Tiying shook her head and asked.

"Oh no, I overslept!" Zheng Wukong exclaimed. "How could I have fallen asleep at this hour? This woman is giving birth! Listen to how crazy that Young Master Chen is!"

How did I fall asleep standing up?!

Then Yi Shuo added a sentence, and everyone got up and peeked over to check on Wei Shao'er's condition.

As if lacking experience, the group seemed to lack some memories, instead believing that they had a short period of drowsiness after dawn.

This made Zhang Xuezhou gasp, realizing that treasures like the portrait of Sage Kong and the Sage Kong edict were far too unique.

"Dongfang, come quick and help! She's really going into labor this time! I can see the baby's hair on its head, it's about to pop out!"

Zhang Xuezhou only snapped out of his daze when Zheng Wukong reached out to call him.

"You're about to give birth? Wei Shao'er, are you alright? Where's Hua Yao?"

On the bed, Wei Shao'er began to make sounds of pain, echoing Chen Zhang's screams outside the room.

Zhang Xuezhou made a hand seal and then lay down on Wei Shao'er's stomach.

There was nothing unusual in Wei Shao'er's stomach, only the sounds of gas and food moving around, and the rapid flow of blood, without the slightest sound from Hua Yao.

As if it were all a dream, Wei Shao'er had now become a normal pregnant woman. Her skin was no longer red and scaly as before, but had become a normal skin color, and the horn-like protrusions in her hair had also disappeared.

Her blood turned a normal dark red, and the baby in her womb was slowly being pushed out.

Chunyu Tiying pushed the child out of the palace, while Zheng Wukong was responsible for dragging and pulling the child out. Yi Shuo prepared a wooden basin and clean old clothes.

"She's bleeding quite a bit. After I cut the umbilical cord, you should help stop the bleeding to prevent her from losing too much blood," Zheng Wukong instructed.

"No problem!"

"She has high cultivation and a strong body, so she should recover quickly!"

Zheng Wukong muttered something under his breath and shook his head.

He felt something was off, but with the child's head so close to his chest, it was difficult for Zheng Wukong to focus on the details, even with distracting thoughts in his mind.

In the end, he had no choice but to focus on delivering babies, using Chunyu Tiying's uterine-pushing power to continuously bring the children out.

"The child is very healthy!"

The pregnant woman could scream for a whole day and night, but when it was actually time for the baby to be born, the delivery would only take a very short time.

In less than a minute, Zheng Wukong had a baby with squinting eyes in his arms.

As he swung his dagger toward the umbilical cord, Zhang Xuezhou could see that the baby seemed to feel pain, trying to open its eyelids.

Zheng Wukong patted the baby, who was covered in filth, and then put him into a wooden basin to wash him.

"This child has a picture on his back... That's strange, there was definitely a picture just now!"

While cleaning the baby, Zheng Wukong muttered a few words.

This made Zhang Xuezhou was using magic to stop the bleeding, look back.

Just like Zheng Wukong, Zhang Xuezhou didn't see anything unusual.

"Hey, wake up, we're in the human world now!"

As he looked away, Zheng Wukong flicked the sole of the baby's foot, and the baby, finally feeling the full pain, let out a loud cry.

The cry jolted Wei Shao'er, who was struggling in pain, awake, and even Chen Zhang, who was outside the room, stopped wailing.

"Has it been born yet?"

Wei Shao'er, who had repeatedly teetered on the brink of death, asked in a low voice.

"Very healthy, baby boy, all limbs are intact, alive, and there are no signs of Demonization!"

Zhang Xuezhou a brief response, and Wei Shao'er immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Should we use the plan you set up beforehand?" Zhang Xuezhou asked in a low voice.

"Plan..."

Zhang Xuezhou's low question brought back Wei Shao'er's memories, which had been almost severed by pain. She remembered the plan she had previously agreed upon with Zhang Xuezhou to fake her death and escape.

This plan was meticulously devised by Wei Shao'er, who intended to use death to completely rid herself of Chen Zhang and then reunite with Huo Zhongru.

But at that moment, her thoughts inexplicably faded away.

Without Huo Zhongru, Wei Shao'er felt she could survive.

Even without Chen Zhang, Wei Shao'er felt that she could survive.

In the past, when she was down on her luck, she placed her hopes on these two men, but after the birth of her child, Wei Shao'er realized that her heart had shifted drastically.

Having seen the baby crying loudly, she realized that her own hopes had shifted.

She preferred to be with her children rather than live a life of luxury with Huo Zhongru.

That's fine!

Wei Shao'er took a deep breath and abandoned the rest of the plan.

She didn't know which way to go at the moment, but as long as her body could hold on, she could survive even if Chen Zhang kicked her out.

Wei Shao'er's mind was blank, but when the baby's little hand touched her face, a trace of warmth inexplicably appeared in Wei Shao'er's cold body.