novelraw Chapter 567 - 506: Who Is Your Queen?
Chapter 567 - 506: Who Is Your Queen?
Her youngest son’s words were a bombshell, stunning everyone present.
Sang Luo was completely dumbfounded.
"Son, what did you just say?"
Little Nuonuo repeated himself earnestly, "Mommy has a baby in her tummy! You have to eat more. Daddy said Mommy was super tired when she was pregnant with me, and she slept a lot too!"
"..." Yan silently walked over and took Sang Luo’s pulse.
The pregnancy was too early; he couldn’t detect it yet.
However, he had complete faith in his son’s innate talent for Destiny!
Sang Luo’s condition lately had indeed been unusual, exactly like when she was pregnant before!
Regardless of whose child it was, their first priority was to nurture her.
Si Ye rummaged through the Phoenix Palace’s treasury for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. "Luoluo, are you hungry?" he asked nervously. "Do you want to eat something? Tell me what you’re craving, and I’ll find it for you!"
Usually, when Sang Luo was pregnant, she would eat voraciously. Even in the early stages, she would instinctively crave large amounts of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. But this time, she looked at the precious Spiritual Objects before her without a hint of an appetite and shook her head. "I don’t want to eat."
This was also why she found it hard to believe she was pregnant. Her appetite was indeed a little better than usual, but it was nowhere near the level of her previous pregnancies.
Si Ye and Yan exchanged a look and didn’t insist on her eating the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. In the following days, both of them watched over Sang Luo nervously, terrified that something might happen to her.
「Six months passed.」
Sang Luo still had no appetite for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Her waist remained slender and her stomach flat, showing no signs of pregnancy whatsoever.
She couldn’t help but ask Yan doubtfully, "Do you think our son was mistaken? I don’t seem pregnant at all."
"Nuonuo inherited his command of the Destiny Law from me, and his talent surpasses my own," Yan said solemnly. "No Destiny Law in this world is completely clairvoyant, and even I cannot guarantee a hundred percent success rate in my premonitions. But this child’s innate talent for Destiny is rarely wrong."
’So that means there’s a chance he’s wrong.’
’Although... that chance is very, very small.’
Sang Luo looked down and rubbed her belly.
’Am I really pregnant?’
Since her return, she had been intimate with each of her Beast Husbands. If she was truly pregnant, whose child would it be?
’There’s been no development for over six months, so the gestation period must be long. It probably isn’t a third child with Ah Ze. A second child with Anubia is a possibility, though...’
Sang Luo mentally ruled out the possibilities one by one but still had no clue.
「Another six months passed.」
Her belly still showed no signs of change.
It was much the same as it had been a year ago.
The only difference was that Sang Luo had become increasingly lethargic recently. Her appetite, on the other hand, had worsened, and her complexion looked somewhat haggard and pale.
Seeing this, her Beast Husbands’ hearts grew heavy.
One day, after Sang Luo had fallen asleep hugging a little fox cub, Si Ye sat by the bed and caressed her gaunt face. He turned to the others. "Luoluo has been sleeping longer and longer lately."
Ever since he noticed something was wrong, he had been keeping a close eye on her daily routine. She was now sleeping for about eighteen hours a day, with her waking moments few and far between.
Yan sat down on the other side, gently taking one of Sang Luo’s wrists. His expression darkened. "Luoluo is indeed pregnant..."
Before anyone could feel relieved, they heard his voice grow even colder and heavier.
"The child she is carrying is not of Beast World blood."
Just as the offspring of the Insect Clan required planetary energy to grow and the Hua Beast Clan’s offspring needed an abundance of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, children of different bloodlines required different types of energy for gestation.
That was why she had no interest in Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures during this pregnancy.
It was because this child was not of Beast World blood and required a different kind of energy to develop.
And because it had not received sufficient energy for over a year, the child’s development was in a perilous state.
Yan’s next words sent a chill down everyone’s spine.
"I suspect this child will devour her Divine Soul."
"Sangsang’s health has been so poor lately because of this child?!" Quan Jin’s face fell. "Can we... get rid of it?"
He subconsciously assumed this was his Demon Descendant.
’No matter how precious the child is, she is more important.’
If this child would harm Sang Luo, he would rather it was never born.
Si Ye looked at Quan Jin disapprovingly. "No matter what, this is Luoluo’s child. The decision to keep it or not must be hers, and she... would definitely not agree to get rid of it."
"..." Quan Jin knew full well she would never agree, which was why he had considered secretly taking care of it while the pregnancy was still early, before the fetus was fully formed and while she was still unaware.
"This child isn’t of the Demon Clan’s bloodline, either. Even I cannot determine its race." Yan shook his head. It wasn’t that he hadn’t considered it, but... "This child is very special. It is inextricably bound to Luoluo’s body and Divine Soul. If we were to terminate the pregnancy forcefully, Luoluo would also suffer catastrophic damage, or even..."
Yan didn’t continue, but the faces of everyone present turned pale.
A thousand thoughts raced through Quan Jin’s mind. He recalled their last trip to the Ghost Domain... He pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "I’ll go find some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that can nourish the Divine Soul. That should help her."
"Okay," Yan nodded.
Si Ye said, "I’ll go look too. A few days ago, I heard a Great Secret Realm appeared in the North. There should be a supreme treasure inside that can nourish the Divine Soul."
Nuonuo piped up, "I want to go too! And my big brother, Little Lion, has a talent for appraising treasures! I’ll call all my brothers and sisters to come find treasures with us!"
Si Ye couldn’t help but chuckle. He picked Nuonuo up and held him. "Alright, you can come with your uncle."
After everyone else had left, Yan looked at the sleeping woman on the bed. "Luoluo."
Sang Luo opened her eyes. In truth, she hadn’t been asleep for long before their conversation woke her up.
She looked down at her belly, her emotions a complicated mess. "So I really am pregnant..."
Her Beast Husbands didn’t know who the father of this child was, but how could she be completely clueless?
Yan comforted her, "No matter what, let’s focus on giving birth to the child first."
"...Okay." Sang Luo nodded.
She couldn’t bring herself to kill this child, and from what Yan said, it couldn’t be forcibly terminated anyway.
’The Rakshasa King probably can’t sense this child from the Ghost Domain, and I don’t plan on telling him about it either.’
’We agreed to have nothing more to do with each other, so let’s make it a clean break.’
In the days that followed, Sang Luo would occasionally feel a prying gaze on her.
Finally, one day, she couldn’t take it anymore. "Stop hiding. It’s pointless."
Dun, dressed in magnificent dark gold robes, stepped out from the shadows with a radiant smile. "Long time no see, little beauty."
A vein throbbed on Sang Luo’s temple. "You again. What are you doing here?"
Dun’s gaze shifted to her belly, his smile growing even more bewitching. "I’ve come to take my Queen and my child home, of course!"
"Who’s your Queen?" Sang Luo sneered.
"We held a wedding banquet. Naturally, that makes you my Queen!"
Sang Luo snorted coldly. "In your dreams. I’m not your Queen, and this child certainly isn’t yours!"
Dun guessed what she was about to say, and his handsome face darkened. "Then it definitely won’t be Sha’s!"
"..." ’He confessed before I even had to trick him. It looks like that night it really wasn’t Dun, but Sha.’
Sang Luo narrowed her dark eyes. "What makes you so sure? Why?"
"Hah. He’s lived for so many years without a single heir. Didn’t you ever find that suspicious, Luoluo?" A mocking smile played on Dun’s lips.