"Found it."
The Calamity Black Dragon soared across the sky, swallowing the surrounding Heavenly Ghost Clan members whole before flying into Gu Qing's body.
Below, on the continent, within the lakes, rosy clouds billowed and surged.
A pristine immortal flower, without any stem or root, floated above the lake, exuding hazy profound light as the laws and dao rhythms flowed from it.
Within the flower, a plump, fair-skinned infant was sleeping soundly.
It exhaled and inhaled the essence of laws and dao rhythms, surrounded by swirling profound light.
Gu Qing's expression was one of shock.
No one had told him that the Immortal Flower truly contained an infant.
Looking at the plump, fair-skinned, smooth-skinned Immortal Infant, it was indistinguishable from a human baby.
Gu Qing was dumbfounded.
How could he bring himself to do this?
"Meng-meng..."
The Immortal Infant seemed to sense danger, opening its innocent large eyes, black and white, and began to cry, large golden tears rolling down.
"This..."
Seeing the pitifully crying Immortal Infant, Gu Qing was at a loss for what to do.
"It's just a flower, don't have any psychological burden, quickly refine it."
Seeing this, Zhi Meng's expression changed as she said softly.
"No, I can't refine it."
Gu Qing said subconsciously.
Zhi Meng was taken aback, not expecting such a strong reaction from Gu Qing.
What she had most feared had still happened.
The Immortal Flower truly was an infant with spiritual intelligence, and it could cultivate the dao path, growing into an immortal being.
If Gu Qing couldn't bring himself to do it, things would become difficult.
"Meng-meng-meng..."
The Immortal Infant cried loudly, just like a human baby, struggling and rolling within the flower.
Gu Qing's heart inexplicably trembled at the sound, making it even harder for him to act.
Such a cute chubby baby, crying truly made one's heart break.
"Let's break the formation first."
After a long silence, Gu Qing said so.
He activated his Dao Eye to examine the natural defensive formation guarding the lake.
Seeing its operational patterns, Gu Qing tossed out formation flags and quickly opened a gap.
With a wave of his hand, the flower was drawn by a force and brought before Gu Qing.
"Meng-meng-meng..."
Looking at the crying infant with tears rolling down, Gu Qing didn't hesitate and picked it up.
"Can't..." hold.
Seeing that Gu Qing had already taken action, Zhi Meng silently swallowed the last word.
"Stop crying."
Gu Qing carefully touched the infant's face, the feeling was very real, just like a human baby.
"Master, why don't we just forget it?"
"It's just a single Immortal Orchid Flower. We have Primordial Yellow Qi, after a few more months of cultivation, we can achieve the same effect."
Gu Qing thought of his unborn child, wondering if after birth, it would be like the Immortal Orchid, plump and fair-skinned, pink and adorable.
"Alright!"
Zhi Meng's red lips moved, and in the end, she could only force out these two words. After pondering for a moment, she smiled brightly.
"Let me hold her."
"Okay, Master be careful."
"I know, I know."
Zhi Meng carefully held the baby in her arms, her face glowing with maternal love.
Did I see that wrong?
Gu Qing blinked, uncertain, and looked again.
Completely unaware, the Immortal Baby's immortal aura quickly receded, tainted with the aura of the two of them, becoming indistinguishable from a mortal.
The Immortal Baby didn't sense any danger and immediately stopped crying, laughing foolishly with joy, its plump little appearance extremely adorable.
"Huh, why is the immortal aura of the Immortal Orchid gone?"
"Keep your voice down, don't scare my precious baby."
"..."
Gu Qing looked at the Immortal Orchid, then at Zhi Meng, who was overflowing with maternal love.
"How did she get tainted with our aura? Why is her bloodline the same as ours?" Gu Qing was shocked.
"Making a fuss over nothing. You're about to be a father."
Zhi Meng teased the Immortal Baby with her jade-like white hands without looking up as she spoke.
"The Immortal Orchid Flower is pure and flawless, a natural Great Dao fetus. Once it's tainted with the aura of living beings, it will be assimilated, and our bloodlines will connect."
"Master, you mean she's our daughter?"
"Mm."
"Uh heh..."
The Immortal Baby opened its big, clear black and white eyes and laughed foolishly, making baby-like sounds.
"..."
Gu Qing was at a loss for words, his expression indescribable.
He never expected that such a bizarre thing existed in the world.
Forget it, being a father is being a father. It's pretty good to get a fair-skinned chubby baby for free.
"No, this natural grand formation is about to collapse, we need to leave quickly."
The Immortal Orchid Flower was the core of this natural grand formation. Without it, the formation was rapidly changing.
It might collapse, or it might evolve into another type of grand formation.
Gu Qing put the Immortal Infant Immortal Flower, along with Zhi Meng, into the Ruyi Space, and before leaving, he took away the lake.
The water in this lake was not water, but Immortal Source Liquid, containing the laws and Dao rhythms.
A small scoop could be exchanged for 100 million immortal crystals.
Such a large lake of Immortal Source Liquid was simply immeasurable in value.
Gu Qing naturally would not miss out.
"Ahhh..."
Seeing the change in the formation, Long Jue could guess that the Immortal Infant Flower had been snatched by someone else, and his eyes instantly split with rage.
"Who was it?"
"Who on earth was it?"
Long Jue's eyes were bloodshot, his hatred was wild, and his heart was collapsing.
For the Immortal Infant Flower, he had schemed exhaustively, consumed countless resources, and didn't know how many capable subordinates had died.
Moreover, he had emptied his family's coffers, giving out immortal pills to his subordinates, hiring immortal formation masters, and owing many favors. It could be said that he had exhausted everything.
He was just waiting to get the Immortal Infant Flower, to completely sublimate his physique and transform into innate foundation.
At that time, he would be able to stand out among the many princes and ascend to the position of Crown Prince.
Just as the Immortal Infant Flower was about to be in his hands, a bright road was beckoning to him.
But who would have thought that in the end, it would all be for nothing.
"Pu!"
Long Jue's qi and blood surged, his aura was violent, and blood rushed upward as he spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood.
"Your Highness."
"Your Highness."
All the subordinates were greatly alarmed and rushed forward to support him.
"Get lost."
Long Jue's Heavenly God Realm cultivation erupted, shaking all his subordinates away, with a sky-shattering killing intent in his eyes.
"Investigate."
"Investigate for me."
"No matter who it is, I must drink their blood and sleep in their skin."
On the other side, Shi Jingqiang led a group of subordinates, looking disheveled as they walked out of the siege formation.
Her clothes were tattered and covered in blood.
Occasionally revealing a small section of snow-white and delicate skin made someone in the dark secretly swallow their saliva.
Shi Jingqiang couldn't care about that much, swallowed a few immortal pills, put on a cloak, and said with lingering fear.
"Let's go quickly."
A group of people fled in disarray, as if a fierce beast was chasing them from behind.
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