452: Chapter 452 Heaven and Earth Rejoice, the Loving Mother Arrives!

Pregnant?

Her?

How foreign and absurd this word was to a woman who had dedicated her entire life to imperial power and hegemony.

Her body was a vessel for the Great Xia's Luck, a divine weapon to deter all petty troublemakers.

It belonged only to the Empire, to the throne. How could it... how could it be nurturing another life?

After a brief moment of daze, a wave of overwhelming shame and fury suddenly surged into her heart!

Who was she? She was Ji Hongxue!

The Great Xia Empress, whose words were Law and who held the power of life and death!

Her fate should be in her own hands!

But now, within her body, an "uninvited guest" had quietly appeared without her permission?

This was simply the most blatant provocation to her imperial dignity!

"Absurd!"

She slammed her hand onto the dragon desk. The indestructible desk, crafted from ten-thousand-year-old Purple Gold Divine Wood, was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks!

"Zhang Zhiwen! Do you realize what you are saying?!"

A terrifying pressure at the Quasi-Emperor level erupted, bearing down heavily on Imperial Physician Zhang.

Imperial Physician Zhang's already frail body was struck by this pressure like a heavy hammer. He coughed up a mouthful of old blood and instantly became listless.

Yet he still lay prostrate on the ground, using his last ounce of strength to shout hoarsely.

"Your Majesty! This official... this official does not dare to speak a single word of falsehood!"

"This is an auspicious sign from heaven, the Foundation of our Great Xia's eternal immortality!"

His voice was filled with fanaticism and piety.

Seeing his near-manic fervor, Ji Hongxue's anger somehow quietly dissipated a little.

She once again turned her gaze toward her flat lower abdomen.

Pregnant...

In her mind, that man's face involuntarily surfaced.

That face that always wore a lazy smile, yet hid endless depth in the eyes.

The man who claimed to want to be a salted fish, yet wiped out powerful enemies with a flick of his fingers.

The man who joked around and lacked decorum in front of her, yet pulled her back from the abyss at the critical moment.

Who else could it be but him?

At the thought of this, Ji Hongxue's imperial heart skipped a beat violently without warning.

A complex surge of emotions she had never experienced before—shame, panic, anger, yet mixed with a trace of... indescribable sweetness and anticipation—instantly overwhelmed her.

A blush uncontrollably crept onto her cheeks.

However, just as Ji Hongxue's mind was in turmoil and the atmosphere in Fengming Hall became incredibly strange,

an anomaly occurred!

Rumble—!

The entire Great Xia Imperial Capital, and even the entire Xuanyuan Continent, began to vibrate violently!

In the sky, the wind and clouds rolled backward, and the sun and moon lost their luster!

Beams of golden light as thick as mountain ranges tore through the heavy clouds, like swords cast by a Heavenly God, precisely enveloping the entire Great Xia Imperial City!

Within the Imperial City, countless Mortals and Cultivators looked up in horror.

They witnessed the most shocking and inconceivable scene of their lives.

Golden lotuses bloomed out of thin air from the void!

They took root upon the Laws of heaven and earth, their petals layered and emitting an intoxicating fragrance.

Golden Lotuses Springing from the Ground!

Following that, high-pitched Dragon roars and Phoenix cries echoed from the Nine Heavens!

Countless phantoms of golden dragons and multicolored phoenixes, condensed from pure Luck, appeared out of nowhere!

They circled and danced joyfully around the Great Xia Imperial Palace, scattering a rain of light across the sky!

The Dragon and Phoenix Bringing Prosperity!

Streams of Spiritual Qi, refined to the extreme, poured down from beyond the Nine Heavens, turning the entire Xuanyuan Continent into a cultivation Holy Land!

All living beings—whether human, demon, devil, or beast—felt their cultivation Bottlenecks showing signs of loosening at this moment!

"Heavens! This... what is happening?"

"Is some Great Emperor about to attain the Dao?!"

"No! This phenomenon is ten thousand times more terrifying than a Great Emperor attaining the Dao! I feel my comprehension of the Law skyrocketing!"

Everlasting Su Family, Lesser Formless Realm.

Seventh Elder Su and Eighteenth Ancestor, who were about to enter seclusion to consolidate their cultivation, rushed out of their seclusion grounds at the same time.

They stared dumbfounded at the world-destroying, terrifying phenomenon in the sky, feeling the Bloodline aura so noble it made them want to prostrate in worship. The expressions on their two old faces were vivid to the extreme.

"This... this is..." Seventh Elder Su's lips were trembling.

Eighteenth Ancestor, who had lived for nearly a million years and was well-traveled, also had an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

He performed a calculation with his fingers, then froze on the spot.

"The source... the source is actually in the Great Xia Imperial Palace!"

"It's... it's His Highness the Divine Son! No... that's not right! Isn't His Highness the Divine Son on the Ascension Ancient Road?"

"Could it be... that Empress girl..."

The two old men looked at each other, both seeing emotions named "absurdity" and "ecstasy" in the other's eyes!

His Highness the Divine Son isn't even here, yet he can still cause such a massive commotion?!

What a Heaven-Defying ability to sow seeds!

...

Just as the entire Xuanyuan Continent was thrown into a frenzy by this sudden celestial phenomenon,

no one noticed.

Within an endless Chaos void,

a pair of gentle eyes that could not be described in words, seemingly containing the birth and death of the Universe and the changing of eras, slowly opened.

That gaze ignored the distance of time and space, ignored the barriers of worlds and planes, and instantly locked onto the beautiful woman on the Xuanyuan Continent who was touching her abdomen with a dazed expression.

"Hehe, this child certainly knows how to find things for his mother to do."

A light chuckle echoed in the Chaos.

The voice was as warm as jade, yet carried a supreme authority that brooked no argument.

In the next second,

the sky of the Xuanyuan Continent changed.

All the boiling phenomena—the dragons and phoenixes, the golden lotuses... all came to a screeching halt at this moment, as if a pause button had been pressed.

The entire world fell into a suffocating dead silence.

Time seemed to stop flowing.

Space seemed to freeze into glass.

A figure in plain white appeared silently inside Fengming Hall.

She did not release any pressure, and there wasn't even a trace of cultivation fluctuation on her body.

But the moment she appeared,

Ji Hongxue, the Empress of the Great Xia Divine Dynasty, felt her Soul trembling uncontrollably!

It was an absolute crushing force originating from the deepest level of existence!

She looked at the white-robed woman before her, whose beauty was beyond words and whose temperament was as gentle as water, and spoke with difficulty, her voice carrying a tremor she hadn't even noticed.

"Who... are you?"

The white-robed woman, who was Su Chen's mother, heard this and revealed a loving smile, as if she were looking at her own daughter-in-Law.

"I am Chener's mother, Matriarch."

"And also... the grandmother of the child in your womb."