Sea God Pavilion, underground world.
In the meditation chamber filled with rich light elements, Ye Guyi slowly opened her eyes. Her skin, which had become translucent and lustrous under the influence of the light elements, instantly returned to its original state. All her aura was restrained within her body.
Looking at Xu Zihuang, who had been guarding in front of her, a smile curved at the corners of Ye Guyi's mouth. Satisfied and intoxicated, she wrapped her arms around Xu Zihuang's waist and back.
"Not bad performance."
Xu Zihuang said helplessly, "Why didn't you tell me in advance that you were going to condense a soul core?"
"Then why couldn't you guess it beforehand?" Ye Guyi smiled radiantly while gazing into Xu Zihuang's eyes.
Xu Zihuang was momentarily speechless. Thinking of the shocking news he had to tell Ye Guyi next, he decided not to say anything more.
Ye Guyi carefully examined Xu Zihuang's facial expression. She placed one hand on Xu Zihuang's chest and gently stroked his cheek with the other, her eyes profound.
"Are you hiding something from me?"
"Mm." Xu Zihuang nodded seriously.
The more honest and serious Xu Zihuang was, the less Ye Guyi took it seriously. She smiled charmingly and hooked her arm around Xu Zihuang's.
"Then just consider that you are."
The two did not hide their intimate relationship at all. As "siblings," such behavior was quite normal.
Elder Xuan and the other elders of the Sea God Pavilion did not come out to disturb Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi.
Xu Zihuang briefly informed Ye Guyi about the current situation on the continent, and then they left the academy together, flying toward the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Halfway there, three pairs of holy angel wings fluttered behind them. Seeing Xu Zihuang remaining relatively silent, Ye Guyi immediately furrowed her delicate brows.
"Really hiding something from me?"
"Mm." Xu Zihuang could only nod again.
Ye Guyi did not continue questioning, but carried this doubt as she arrived at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Xu Zihuang.
To avoid trouble, Xu Zihuang once again used the innate ability of his Golden Pupil Martial Soul's true body form to bring Ye Guyi across the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's linked soul guidance defensive system.
Unlike the bleakness of deep winter outside, the courtyard filled with apricot blossoms drifting through the air remained as beautiful as a scene from a painting.
Ning Tian, sitting on a stone chair in the courtyard, looked serene and delicate. A soft blanket made from the fur of a ten-thousand-year Flame Lion King was draped over her thighs and lower abdomen, her jade hands crossed and resting on top.
At that moment, Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi's figures stepped out from the massive golden pupil light shadow.
Ye Guyi's gaze instantly froze on Ning Tian's slightly bulging abdomen. She stood stunned in place as if struck by lightning.
Seeing Ye Guyi, Ning Tian stood up with a hint of pleasant surprise.
"Sister Guyi, you've finished your closed-door cultivation?"
Ye Guyi did not respond to Ning Tian for the moment. Her gaze never shifted away from Ning Tian's abdomen from beginning to end.
Ning Tian's face immediately turned shy, but her beautiful eyes held even more sweetness and happiness.
At the same time, Ye Guyi gave Xu Zihuang a deep glance and transmitted her voice through soul power.
"So this is what you've been hiding from me? You're really something."
As she spoke, Ye Guyi had already passed Xu Zihuang and stepped forward with a smiling face to support Ning Tian.
"You and Tianhuang really gave me a huge surprise this time."
"Sister Guyi." Ning Tian smiled sweetly, her tone carrying a touch of coquettish complaint.
Ye Guyi intimately held Ning Tian's hand, sat back down on the stone chair with her, and said with a beaming smile.
"How long has it been?"
"It should be a little over three months." Ning Tian said softly with a flushed face. "Three months ago, Tianhuang and I went to Dragon City, and then…"
Because she trusted in Ye Guyi, Ning Tian had no intention of hiding anything.
"Oh?" Ye Guyi deliberately showed an enlightened expression on her pretty face and smiled ambiguously.
"Three months ago—that should be around your and Tianhuang's eighteenth birthday, right?"
At this point, Ye Guyi's gaze fell once again on Xu Zihuang, who had silently followed over.
Seeing this scene, the expression on Xu Zihuang's expression couldn't help but stiffen. Their roles had instantly reversed. Now, the calmer Ye Guyi appeared, even smiling fully, the more Xu Zihuang felt his heart tremble.
Ning Tian, on the other hand, exchanged an affectionate glance with Xu Zihuang and gave a soft acknowledgment.
Ye Guyi's current mood could absolutely be described as complicated. Back then, she had liked being intimate with Xu Zihuang behind Ning Tian's back, but she never expected that she herself would one day become the one being kept in the dark. Moreover, Ning Tian had become pregnant without her knowing.
How uncomfortable she felt right now could similarly be inferred for Ning Tian. It could be said to be a mix of shock, anger, and shame. But thinking that what Ning Tian was carrying was the continuation of Xu Zihuang's bloodline, she couldn't bring herself to feel resentment.
Ye Guyi forcibly calmed her emotions. After a moment, her noble and aloof golden eyes returned to clarity.
"Tianhuang, Ning Tian, and I are going to talk about some rather private matters next. You go out first."
"Alright." Xu Zihuang agreed readily. After all, he was the one at fault. However, before leaving the courtyard, he still exchanged a look with Ning Tian.
At this time, only Ye Guyi and Ning Tian remained in the spacious courtyard. The two women leaned close and whispered to each other. The specific content of their conversation was unknown.
Xu Zihuang wandered around inside the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. About half an hour later, he received a message from Ye Guyi via mental power, asking him to return to the courtyard.
As night fell, various soft soul guidance lights flowed throughout the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, including in the courtyard. Under the glow of light, it appeared even more beautiful.
Ye Guyi and Ning Tian were still sitting on the stone chair side. Both women's pretty faces were filled with smiles; clearly, their exchange had been very harmonious.
Xu Zihuang's figure appeared from the void. Ye Guyi immediately beckoned to him and said meaningfully,
"Ning Tian and I talked it over. We both want to know whether what she's carrying is a boy or a girl. Use your Golden Pupil Martial Soul's innate ability, Future Sight, to take a look."
Seeing Xu Zihuang look over, Ning Tian also nodded slightly, full of anticipation.
"Tianhuang, I'm a little curious too."
"My ability has limitations. Right now, I can only see future scenes related to myself. I'm not sure if I can see what you're asking for." Xu Zihuang naturally would not refuse Ye Guyi and Ning Tian's request.
"I'll give it a try."
As he spoke, Xu Zihuang's eyes turned brilliant gold. Under the gaze of the two women, six red and one gold, seven soul rings, emerged one after another from beneath his feet. Immediately after, the bright golden seventh soul ring burst forth with noble and majestic golden light.
Scenes quietly appeared before his eyes.
It was an endless vast grassland, covered with verdant Blue Silver Grass, blended with the silvery glow of moonlight. Under the gentle breeze, it rippled like waves, the soft blades swaying as if extending endlessly into the distance.
But in the next instant, Xu Zihuang's pupils suddenly contracted.
In front of the silver moon hanging high in the night sky above this grassland floated a soul beast with a pitch-black body, surrounded by black airflow that caused palpitations and oppression.
It was a black giant tiger, its body length exceeding eight meters. This black giant tiger was pure black all over, without a trace of other colors; even the "king" character on its forehead was black. But unlike the black of its fur, it was a gloomy black like mist.
Compared to ordinary tiger-type soul beasts, its tail was much longer and stood upright. It was composed of countless bone segments, with a huge inverted hook at the tip, emitting a chilling, eerie light. On its broad back grew a pair of similarly black wings.
It was unmistakably a soul beast that existed only in legends—the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
Xu Zihuang even recognized at a glance that this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was the very one he had encountered with He Caitou in the Star Dou Great Forest back then.
At that time, its cultivation was only around sixty thousand years, yet it had managed to escape unscathed from the hands of the Red King, the three-headed Red Demon Mastiff, ranked eighth among the Ten Great Savage Beasts. Judging from its size and aura now, its cultivation had already approached seventy thousand years.
A Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, nearing seventy thousand years of cultivation, was enough to easily kill any hundred-thousand-year-level soul beast. Of course, exceptions existed for abnormally powerful special races like Di Tian and Bear Lord.
However, at this moment, facing this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was another extraordinarily divine soul beast, confronting it without falling behind.
It was a handsome white horse exceeding four meters in length and over two meters in height. A pair of enormous wings spread at its sides, its entire body radiating golden-white light. On its forehead grew a spiral horn like clear golden crystal, and the horn was shrouded in a hazy seven-colored halo.
The white horse held its head high, appearing so noble, proud, and pure.
The golden-white light it emitted completely dyed this space the same color, sharply distinct from the black airflow released by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
The golden-white light and the black airflow continuously crushed against each other, actually evenly matched.
The black airflow emanating from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's body was precisely its domain, an extremely overbearing, supreme evil attribute. The only things capable of contending with it, aside from special attributes like destruction and annihilation, were those that mutually countered evil attributes: the sacred attribute.
That's right, this white horse was the sacred-attribute soul beast that had long vanished from the Douluo Continent, the Sacred Unicorn!
Legend had it that the Sacred Unicorn was not a species naturally born on the Douluo plane, but a creature from another plane. The Sacred Unicorns on the Douluo Continent had arrived here by chance through spatial rifts between planes.
However, many creatures from other planes could not adapt to the Douluo plane's environment and would perish on their own. Only an extremely small number of otherworldly races could survive on the Douluo plane, and those that did were especially powerful existences.
The Sacred Unicorn was one of them. The bloodline origin of the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear clan also came from an otherworldly creature, the Golden Behemoth.
An ordinary unicorn could already be called a super soul beast, while the Sacred Unicorn was the king among unicorns, similar to the position Beast God Di Tian held among the Dark Dragon clan.
As early as the ancient era, when the first-generation Angel God purified the evil on the continent, a Sacred Unicorn had followed beside her, holding an extraordinary status. Although the Spirit Hall and Martial Soul Empire had long disappeared into the river of history, these deeds had been passed down and were still well-known among the people of the continent.
In the courtyard, Xu Zihuang abruptly withdrew his martial soul and selectively transmitted the scenes he had seen to Ye Guyi and Ning Tian.
What he transmitted to Ye Guyi contained no concealment whatsoever, while what he transmitted to Ning Tian only included the Sacred Unicorn. The Sacred Unicorn and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger perfectly matched his and Ye Guyi's martial souls; they definitely had to go there. Not letting Ning Tian know about the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was also to avoid worrying her.
"This is…" Ye Guyi appeared even more shocked than Xu Zihuang.
Ning Tian couldn't help exclaiming,
"A Sacred Unicorn, this soul beast that only exists in legends actually really exists?!"
"The Sacred Unicorn has only one attribute, and that is the sacred attribute." Xu Zihuang said solemnly to Ye Guyi.
"Legend says the Sacred Unicorn has a very gentle personality. If the Sacred Unicorn lineage truly followed the first-generation Angel God back then, it should not harbor malice toward us. Moreover, we can negotiate with it and try to make it become a soul spirit. It seems we need to make a trip."
Ye Guyi understood tacitly and looked at Ning Tian beside her.
"I'll go ask Great-Grandfather to accompany Sister Guyi and Tianhuang." Ning Tian did not doubt what Xu Zihuang said, but she was still somewhat worried.
Ye Guyi pressed down on Ning Tian, who was about to stand up, and smiled.
"No need to trouble Elder Gu. With Tianhuang here, even if something unexpected happens, we can leave safely. On the contrary, since you're pregnant now and the situation on the continent is turbulent, having Elder Gu stay at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to protect you will let Guyi and Tianhuang feel at ease."
"Don't worry." Xu Zihuang gently brushed aside the strands of hair falling across Ning Tian's cheek and softly comforted her.
"We'll come back safely."
"Mm."
Ning Tian pursed her lips and did not insist further. But her eyes, like autumn waves, were especially pitiable and endearing.
"Let's go." Xu Zihuang took a deep breath, turned his head, and took Ye Guyi's hand.
Even he, after Ning Tian became pregnant with their child, had clearly undergone a subtle transformation in his temperament. However, he did not reject this feeling of having attachments.
Genuine emotions revealed naturally were the most moving.
Watching the subtle exchange of glances between Xu Zihuang and Ning Tian, Ye Guyi unusually felt little jealousy.
Brilliant golden light rippled outward. Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi's figures instantly vanished from the spot. Only Ning Tian remained, gazing toward the horizon with longing in her heart.
One hundred kilometers east of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, two streaks of light, one gold and one purple, sped eastward.
It was precisely Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi.
The location Xu Zihuang had seen through his Golden Pupil Martial Soul's true body innate ability, Future Sight, was the Spirit North Great Prairie he had once visited, located in the northern part of the Dou Ling Empire. Traveling east from Heavenly Dou City would lead them straight there.
Both Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi were using their martial souls' abilities to fly. This method was faster than purely relying on soul power to fly through the air and also conserved more soul power.
A pair of black-purple bone dragon wings spread behind Xu Zihuang, his entire body wreathed in lightning. Ye Guyi, just as when she came to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, fluttered the three pairs of pure white angel wings behind her.
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