187: Heart Tribulation

Looking at the plus sign on the panel, Mo Xuan felt a slight thrill in his heart.

“Nascent Soul…”

Suppressing the throbbing in his heart, Mo Xuan’s thoughts stirred, and he sent a sound transmission to Zhou Licheng.

Inside the Zhou Family Main Hall, Zhou Licheng’s expression suddenly became stern, he paused, and respectfully assented.

Afterward, Zhou Licheng dismissed his attendants, calculating silently in his mind, his eyes flashing with excitement.

From that day on, the Zhou Family remained as usual; to outsiders, there was no change whatsoever.

It was just that occasionally, Cultivators noticed that the Zhou Family members seemed to have become even more low-key.

Surrounding Families, Cultivators, and Sects all felt a sense of admiration, reaching this point, the Zhou Family was still as consistent as ever, truly respectable.

After saying a word to Zhou Licheng, Mo Xuan opened his mouth and spat out the wind and rain pearl, activating the Dividing Spirit and Transforming Thought Divine Ability, and a black snake shadow merged into the precious bead.

Inside the precious bead, the snake shadow nodded, slowly floated upwards, and hovered above Mo Xuan’s head.

Having completed all this, Mo Xuan looked at the Realm column.

“Realm: Late Golden Core Stage (+)...”

His mind fiercely pricked the plus sign.

The Clan Fortune Points began to decrease rapidly.

A moment later, the Clan Fortune Points returned to zero.

A profound realization emerged in his mind.

Mo Xuan closed his snake eyes, and his mind sank into darkness.

At the bottom of Qingyuan Lake, the Black Giant Serpent was silent, only a Zhanblue precious bead, pregnant with wind and rain, rotated, occasionally emitting a faint glow.

In the boundless darkness, a bizarre and kaleidoscopic scene flickered.

It seemed to be a tiny world, yet it had its own way of functioning.

A black snake shadow separated from that scene.

Mo Xuan opened his eyes, looking at the colorful world before him, his thoughts stirring.

“This is…”

“Similar to the original world…”

“Nascent Soul Heart Tribulation?”

A realization emerged in Mo Xuan’s heart.

With the System’s existence, he could naturally remain clear-headed without needing to see through illusions.

The world evolved, scenes flowed, landscapes changed, rapidly magnifying before Mo Xuan’s eyes, until finally, it stopped before a white building.

“Hospital, delivery room…”

At this moment, a twenty-something-year-old phantom, strikingly similar to Mo Xuan’s previous life, materialized from nothingness and was cast into the womb of a woman giving birth in the delivery room.

“Reliving life…”

Outside the world, Mo Xuan’s eyes held an unclear meaning.

A moment later, Mo Xuan made a decision.

The black snake shadow plunged into this world, which was extremely similar to his previous life, merging with the Infant about to be born.

Mo Xuan actually chose to actively sink into the Heart Tribulation.

Outside the obstetrics and delivery room of the red cross hospital, a young man in his twenties waited anxiously.

His eyes were filled with deep worry.

The young man felt every day was like a year, and finally, the delivery room door opened.

A pale-faced woman in a wheelchair, holding an Infant, was pushed out by a nurse.

“Congratulations, the delivery was smooth, it’s a boy.”

The nurse gently announced the good news.

The twenty-something-year-old young man looked at the woman in the wheelchair, whose pale face could not hide her joy, and saw nothing else in his eyes.

After the nurse took the Infant to bathe, the woman lay down on the hospital bed, and the man accompanied her.

“Have you thought about it?”

The woman asked softly.

“What?”

The man was clearly stunned.

“Silly, of course, it’s our son’s name.”

The woman chided him.

“Zhang Xuan, how about it?”

The man finally reacted and replied softly.

“Zhang Xuan, Xiao Xuan…”

“Then let’s call him Zhang Xuan.”

The woman murmured a few times, a smile appearing at the corner of her mouth, and nodded.

Three days later, the Family of three was discharged from the hospital, returning to their small home in the Town.

Time passed.

Their small home, which once held two, suddenly had a child.

Although the two had prepared early and learned a lot about Infant care, they were still in a frantic mess.

Fortunately, they had acquaintances they could ask from time to time, which made things a little better.

At three in the morning, “I can’t hold on, why is he awake again?”

The woman yawned, complaining with dull eyes, looking at little Zhang Xuan, whose dark eyes were rolling, feeling exasperated.

“My beauty sleep is all ruined by you, kid.”

The woman grumbled.

The man standing by her side smiled wryly at her words.

Taking care of a child was just like this, like taming an eagle.

“You go to sleep first, I’ll watch him.”

The man said, forcing himself to stay awake.

The two had initially planned to take turns watching, but being new parents, one person alone couldn’t manage.

The woman shook her head, pushing the man onto the bed, telling him to sleep.

After all, he still had to go to work.

Time always makes people grow.

New parents became experienced parents a few years later.

“Zhang Xuan, if you cause trouble at kindergarten again today, see if I don’t beat you.”

Outside the kindergarten, a woman in her late twenties, almost thirty, holding the hand of a five or six-year-old boy with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and slightly curly, textured hair, gently instructed him.

“Got it.”

The little boy pouted, casually agreeing.

“Go on.”

The woman let go of the boy’s hand and patted his head, saying.

The boy’s heart was filled with joy, and without looking back, he greeted the gatekeeper and ran into the kindergarten.

Seeing the boy’s retreating figure without a glance back, the woman gently stomped her foot and lightly swung her fair fist.

In the evening, in the chat group, “Zhang Xuan’s mom, quickly tell your son to put away his Divine Ability, now my daughter cries as soon as she gets home if she doesn’t see Zhang Xuan…”

“Yes, yes, my daughter too…”

“And my child…”

“…”

In the two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, a man and a woman awkwardly clicked on the voice messages in the group, their faces flushed.

In front of a small desk, little Zhang Xuan watched cartoons with a serious expression.

In reality, he was listening to the voice messages playing aloud.

Little Zhang Xuan pouted.

He just told a few small stories, was it really that big of a deal… “Cough~”

“Xiao Xuan, teach Dad, how did you do it…”

“No, Zhang Xuan, how could you do that!”

Seeing the woman’s face about to explode, the man immediately changed his tone and questioned him with a serious expression.

“I just told a few small stories…”

“What stories?”

“Hmm, like Prince Charming, and the overbearing CEO who fell in love with me…”

“These are all things I dreamed of, I didn’t see them on Mom’s phone!”

The woman’s face flushed, and she rushed over, flicking little Zhang Xuan’s forehead.

Zhang Xuan looked unconvinced.

He was just a bit smarter, knew more characters, was it necessary to hit him?

The man’s eyes were strange, darting around.

“Slap!”

Seeing the man’s expression, the woman snorted coldly and casually slapped him too.

Time flew by.

Little Zhang Xuan was indeed exceptionally intelligent.

From first grade of elementary school to third grade of junior high, his grades were always at the top.

However, during high school, Zhang Xuan fell in love with web novels, and his grades began to decline.

In the end, he only got into an ordinary university.

The world kept changing.

Scenes from university flashed by rapidly: postgraduate studies, further education, graduation, work.

Light flowed.

At twenty-eight, he went on blind dates and got married.

Two people who didn’t particularly like each other ended up together.

Within two years, they had a son and a daughter.

The couple, like Zhang Xuan’s parents before them, relived yesterday.

And like countless ordinary people, they did fixed jobs and faced the same crises.

More than twenty years later, their son and daughter both started their own Families.

Each had their own children.

Zhang Xuan and his wife then started taking care of their grandchildren.

Thus, they walked on this ordinary and mundane Dao that countless living beings also tread.

Many years later, on his deathbed, “Haha~”

Zhang Xuan suddenly chuckled twice, closed his eyes, and passed away.