201: Chapter 201 Where is the child?

Yes, gentle.

Unbelievably gentle.

"Let's begin."

Ye Changge sat down beside her and reached out to pull at her sash.

Nangong Zili gave a cold snort and then spoke up.

"You dog of a man, I'll do it myself!"

...

A wisp of pure, mild spiritual energy was slowly transferred in, wandering along her Meridians as today's treatment began.

Nangong Zili closed her eyes, forcing herself to endure the discomfort.

However,

Ye Changge's movements today were exceptionally light and soft.

The rhythm of the spiritual energy transfer was much slower than usual, and the strength behind it was a few degrees lighter.

It was as if he was afraid of hurting her, acting with extreme caution, like treading on thin ice.

Nangong Zili grew even more suspicious.

She couldn't help but open her eyes to look at the man beside her.

Ye Changge was focused on controlling the spiritual energy, his brow slightly furrowed and his expression serious.

But within those deep eyes was hidden a kind of tenderness she had never seen before.

It wasn't a facade, nor was it deliberate.

It was a natural... pity, coming straight from the heart.

Nangong Zili's heart skipped a beat.

She quickly turned her face away, not daring to look any longer.

What was going on?

What was wrong with this dog of a man today?

Could it be—

Startled, a thought flooded her mind.

Could it be that he found out?

No, impossible.

Nangong Zili took a deep breath, suppressing the panic in her heart.

She was a Core Formation Cultivator; even if her cultivation was sealed, her control over her aura was not something a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator could compare to.

She had used a secret method to conceal the fetus's aura; unless one was also at the Core Formation stage, it was absolutely impossible to see through it.

He couldn't possibly know.

Impossible.

Nangong Zili told herself repeatedly, yet that unease was like a maggot in her bones, impossible to shake off.

While controlling the spiritual energy, Ye Changge quietly split off a wisp of Divine Sense and cautiously probed into Nangong Zili's body.

He had no other intentions.

He just wanted to confirm one thing.

But despite repeated investigations, he still failed to capture it again.

Ye Changge felt puzzled.

Could he have sensed it wrong?

No, impossible.

He had confidence in his own perception.

Though that aura was weak, it was incredibly real; it couldn't possibly be an illusion.

His Divine Sense wandered carefully through Nangong Zili's body, searching inch by inch.

Ye Changge's brow gradually furrowed.

Hmm? Why isn't it there?

He searched carefully once more, yet still came up empty-handed.

That aura seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving not a single trace.

Ye Changge grew even more confused.

With a thought, he quietly summoned the System panel.

His gaze landed on the 'Offspring' column—

Ye Changge was slightly stunned.

He remembered very clearly that when he left Longmai Mountain, he had twenty-two Offspring.

Now, there was one more.

The System panel showed it, but he really couldn't sense it on her body?

Could it be... that she concealed the aura?

Once this thought surfaced, it could no longer be suppressed.

He was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, while she was a Core Formation Immortal Revered Master.

Even if her cultivation was sealed, her control over her aura was far beyond what he could match.

If she deliberately concealed it, it would indeed be very difficult for him to detect.

The more Ye Changge thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

And—

A complex emotion surged in his heart.

If she truly was pregnant with his child, with her cultivation, she would have discovered it immediately.

But she found out and didn't abort it, choosing instead to conceal the aura...

Did this mean that she actually wanted this child?

Ye Changge thought back on Nangong Zili's behavior over these past few days.

Though her tongue was sharp, calling him 'dog of a man' and 'lecher' at every turn,

she didn't truly resist whenever he drew close.

In those phoenix eyes, what occasionally flashed was not loathing, but—

He couldn't say for sure what it was.

It was like bashful annoyance, like helplessness, and like a sliver of... dependence that even she hadn't noticed.

Ye Changge's heart softened slightly.

On the other side of the Grand Array, Xiao Caiyue was organizing some items when she suddenly sensed a gaze.

She looked up and followed that gaze—

Ye Changge was focused on healing Nangong Zili, his expression serious and his movements gentle.

Xiao Caiyue watched as a flash of complexity crossed those gentle eyes, but she quickly regained her composure.

She withdrew her gaze and continued organizing the items.

Meanwhile, Nangong Zili kept her eyes closed, feeling that mild spiritual energy within her.

Today's Ye Changge was completely different from before.

In the past, although he was considered polite, she had felt his forcefulness and dominance quite clearly.

Sometimes he even deliberately provoked her, leaving her both ashamed and annoyed.

But today—

He was so gentle it was as if he were a different person.

The rhythm of the spiritual energy transfer was slower, the strength was lighter,

and even those 'auxiliary treatments' that she found hard to speak of had become exceptionally soft.

As if he were afraid of hurting her.

The unease in Nangong Zili's heart grew stronger and stronger.

She bit her lip, forcing herself not to think about it.

Impossible.

He couldn't possibly know.

But—

What if?

What if he really did know?

A wave of irritation rose in Nangong Zili's heart.

That day while washing in the spiritual spring, she had noticed something unusual in her body.

That weak aura, though faint and fleeting, told her with absolute certainty—

She was pregnant.

Pregnant with that dog of a man's child.

In that moment, her first reaction was—

Abort it.

Abort it without hesitation.

She was the Spider Gu Envoy of the Five Gu Sect, a Core Formation Immortal Revered Master, a figure of some standing even in the Demonic Path.

How could she be pregnant with the child of a Righteous Path Cultivator?

Furthermore, that man had humiliated her in every possible way—

Thinking of this, Nangong Zili felt another wave of frustration.

But when she was actually ready to do it, she couldn't bring herself to.

She had been adopted by her Revered Master since she was a child and had never seen her own parents.

Although her Revered Master treated her well, they were not blood relatives after all.

She had always wanted a child of her own.

A relative truly connected to her by blood.

But she also loathed men and was unwilling to be intimate with any man, let alone bear children.

As for adoption—

Such things were a matter of chance and couldn't be found just because one wanted to.

When Ling Xiaotang appeared before her years ago, she had taken her in almost without hesitation.

Not only because Xiao Tang's grandmother was her Senior Sister and had been kind to her,

but more because—

she desperately wanted to experience the feeling of being a mother.

She treated Xiao Tang as her own, pouring her heart and soul into her upbringing.

But Xiao Tang was not her biological child after all.

That barrier, though not obvious, truly existed.

Now, she really had a child of her own.

A child of her own flesh and blood, connected by Bloodline.

Nangong Zili was extremely conflicted.

She wanted this child.

But she also didn't want it.

She didn't want to have any involvement with Ye Changge.

Even more, she didn't want her child to know that his father was such a person.

Thinking of everything these past few days, Nangong Zili's cheeks burned again.

That dog of a man, clearly inferior to her in cultivation, yet taking advantage of her at every turn because her cultivation was sealed.

Sometimes he even deliberately provoked her, making her so ashamed and angry that she wanted to tear him into ten thousand pieces.

But—

Did she really hate him?

Nangong Zili felt a wave of confusion.