96: Chapter 96 This is called a fetus? This must be a fairy coming to repay a debt of gratitude!

Early morning at Cloud Top Palace, the air was filled with a freshness so intoxicating it felt like oxygen poisoning.

Ever since The Fourth child in Nalan Ruo's belly completely fused with that piece of ten-thousand-year soul nourishing wood, the entire ecosystem of Cloud Top Palace had improved significantly.

The trees, which were already lush, now had leaves so green they shone, looking as if they were about to drip with oil.

The wild flowers originally planted by the roadside were now blooming to the size of washbasins, competing in beauty.

Even the gaps between the bluestones used for paving were sprouting tender Xiao Cao that couldn't be pulled out no matter how hard one tried.

"Inhale—Exhale—"

Wang Dachui stood on the terrace of the main house, wearing his signature oversized boxers. He took a deep breath of this air filled with the essence of life, feeling every pore in his body cheering with joy.

"This isn't just a home; it's like living in the Queen Mother's Peach Garden of Immortality."

He sighed with emotion, then turned and walked inside.

Today was the routine "rounds" time.

Although the group of foreign experts and domestic obstetricians clamored to give Nalan Ruo and Ji Taimei the highest-specification prenatal checkups—even wanting to move a full set of medical equipment up the mountain—they were all kicked back by Wang Dachui.

Was this a joke? Could those cold machines be more useful than his eyes?

In the bedroom, Nalan Ruo was leaning against the headboard, holding a thread-bound ancient book.

At this moment, where was there any trace of the weakness of someone recovering from a serious illness, like when Wang Dachui had first dug her out from two thousand meters underground?

Her skin was fair with a rosy tint, crystal clear like a piece of high-quality warm jade. Her entire being radiated a soft and holy maternal glow.

Although her belly was already quite noticeably protruding, it didn't look bloated at all; instead, it added a touch of elegance and nobility to her temperament.

"Ruo Ruo, reading? Don't tire your eyes too much."

Wang Dachui leaned in with a grin and casually grabbed a washed Vermilion Fruit from the nightstand. These were also produced from his own fields and were now eaten as snacks. He took a crunchy bite.

Nalan Ruo put down her book and looked at the informal man before her. Her eyes were full of helpless yet doting laughter. "I'm not tired. But what about you? You run to my place every day; doesn't Little Ji have an issue with that?"

"Her?" Wang Dachui curled his lip. "That woman is currently locked in a battle of wits and courage with the fifth child in her belly. The fifth's Mental Energy is too strong; it's only been a few months and the baby is already starting to toss and turn the mother. She's busy suppressing it with meditation right now and can't be bothered with me."

As he spoke, Wang Dachui rubbed his hands together, his eyes becoming fervent. "Come, come, let me see if our family's Little Quilted Jacket is behaving today."

Nalan Ruo's face flushed. Although it wasn't the first time, she still felt an inexplicable shyness whenever Wang Dachui stared at her belly like this.

She gently lifted the quilt, revealing her rounded lower abdomen.

"Vision of God: True Sight Version, Open!"

Wang Dachui chanted silently in his heart, and a faint golden light instantly flashed through his eyes.

In his field of vision, the original flesh and clothing instantly became transparent, replaced by clusters of brilliant energy radiance.

Inside Nalan Ruo's body, Meridians were like broad rivers, flowing with emerald-green life energy.

And at the position of her uterus, the most dazzling and purest cluster of emerald-green light was quietly suspended.

That was no ordinary light; it was a miracle of life.

In the center of that light, a tiny infant was curled up, sleeping peacefully.

Though not yet born, her facial features were already faintly visible, as exquisite as a celestial child stepped out of a painting.

Most miraculously, her body was not entirely made of flesh and blood, but presented a semi-transparent spiritual state. Countless tiny green runes flowed under her skin, as if she were the darling of heaven and earth, a spirit of the flora.

"Is this... the Innate Spirit Body?"

Watching this scene, Wang Dachui couldn't help but hold his breath, fearing he might disturb the little angel inside.

In his vision, he could see that the ten-thousand-year soul nourishing wood had not disappeared. Instead, it had completely transformed into a dark green force of Origin, perfectly merging into the infant's spine and becoming her Innate Foundation.

What shocked Wang Dachui even more was that although this child was sleeping, she wasn't idle.

With every breath she took, wisps of extremely pure life Origin Qi radiated from her body, feeding back to the mother through the umbilical cord.

"This..."

Wang Dachui's eyes widened as if he were watching a sci-fi movie.

He clearly saw that Nalan Ruo's Physical Body, which had already recovered to its Peak, was undergoing a more mysterious qualitative change under the nourishment of the fetus's Innate Spiritual Qi.

This didn't look like repair; it looked more like evolution.

It was like a piece of already flawless jade being injected with the luster of a Soul.

Nalan Ruo's Meridians became broader and tougher under the scouring of the Spiritual Qi. Even every cell was cheering, greedily absorbing this power from the life Origin and advancing toward the SS-rank threshold.

"My god..." Wang Dachui muttered to himself. "Other kids come to collect debts, wishing they could suck their moms dry. Our fourth child is here to repay a debt!"

"What's wrong?" Seeing Wang Dachui's exaggerated expression, Nalan Ruo couldn't help but get nervous, her hand instinctively protecting her belly. "Is there... something wrong with the child?"

"There's a problem, a huge problem!"

Wang Dachui suddenly looked up with a serious face.

Nalan Ruo's heart instantly leaped into her throat, her face turning pale. "What problem? Is the Soul nourishing wood being rejected? Or..."

"The problem is she's too perfect!"

Wang Dachui suddenly grinned, breaking the tense atmosphere. "Ruo Ruo, do you know what kind of deity you're carrying in your belly?"

"Not only is she not draining your energy, she's actually cleansing your marrow! Haven't you felt the vitality in your body becoming more majestic lately? Even your physical fitness, which had already reached the S-rank Peak, is actually faintly improving?"

Nalan Ruo froze for a moment, sensed carefully, and then nodded in surprise. "Now that you mention it... it really is."

"I've felt lately that every cell in my body is filled with unprecedented activity, and the stable Realm barriers even seem to be loosening."

"I thought it was because the Feng Shui of Cloud Top Palace is good, or because you've been giving me so many supplements..."

"Bullshit supplements, that's our daughter being filial!"

Wang Dachui pointed at Nalan Ruo's belly, his face full of pride. "This girl has the Innate Wood Spirit Body; she's a child of nature!"

"She started using Innate Qi to temper your Physical Body while still in the womb. This isn't just giving birth; this is clearly carrying a top-tier evolution pod with you!"

Hearing the word "daughter," Nalan Ruo's eyes instantly became as gentle as water.

"Is it really a daughter?" she asked softly, her tone full of anticipation.

The Wang family currently had more males than females. The first and second were both rascals. Although the third was a girl, her personality—obsessed with mechanics and prone to dismantling the house—made it very hard to associate her with a sweet Little Quilted Jacket.

Nalan Ruo dreamed of having a soft, cute little princess who would act spoiled and wear dresses.

"Absolutely certain! One hundred and ten percent a daughter!"

Wang Dachui patted his chest in guarantee. With the Vision of God, he could see chromosomes clearly; there was no way he was wrong.

"And, I've already thought of a name."

Wang Dachui crouched by the bed, gently pressing his ear against Nalan Ruo's belly, feeling the steady and powerful rhythm inside. He said softly:

"Look at how the plants on the mountain are growing wildly because of her, look at how Cloud Top Palace is vibrant because of her."

"Lush and green vegetation is called 'Qian'."

"Our fourth child shall be called—Wang Qian."

"Wang Qian..." Nalan Ruo gently turned the name over in her mouth, her eyes and brows tinged with a smile. "Qianqian... it sounds good. It has the Spiritual Qi of plants and trees, yet doesn't lose the gentleness of a girl. Let's call her Qianqian."

"Hehe, of course. Look who came up with the name."

However, in the next second, Nalan Ruo's brow furrowed slightly, a flicker of worry in her eyes.

"But Dachui... I can feel her power constantly growing. Although she's feeding back to me, her size... doesn't seem to be growing very fast. Instead, she's stayed very small."

"And that energy is too massive. I'm afraid... it won't be easy to give birth when the time comes."

This was the intuition of an S-rank powerhouse.

For normal people, birth is a delivery; for an Awakened, birth is breaking through a pass.

When the eldest was born, he almost sucked General Leng Feng dry. When the second was born, he caused a volcanic eruption.

Although this fourth one was gentle, if this majestic life force exploded at the moment of birth, would it blow up the delivery room? Or get stuck in the birth canal and not come out?

Seeing Nalan Ruo's worried eyes, Wang Dachui reached out and gently smoothed her brow.

"Silly, you're overthinking it."

"Our Qianqian is different from her older siblings who only know how to use brute force."

Wang Dachui opened the Vision of God again, staring at the tiny infant radiating soft light, and said with certainty:

"She is currently in an Innate Spirit Body state. To put it simply, she is a cluster of high-purity energy with sentience."

"When it's time to give birth, she won't need you to exert any effort at all. She'll be like water, sliding right out with a 'shoo'. It might not even hurt you for a second."

"Really?" Nalan Ruo found it hard to believe. How could giving birth not hurt?

"Why would I lie to you? I'm a professional!" Wang Dachui talked nonsense with a straight face. "Besides, this child is very sensible. She already knows how to care for her mother in the womb; she definitely won't want to trouble you when she comes out."

"Just put your heart at ease, focus on the pregnancy, eat and drink well every day, and just wait to be a beautiful mom."

After being fooled... no, scientifically analyzed by Wang Dachui like this, Nalan Ruo's hanging heart finally settled down.

She stroked her belly, her face overflowing with the glow of happiness. "If that's the case, then it's good... I hope Qianqian can be a lady in the future, not like her brothers and sister... violent."

"That's a must! A child born of Ruo Ruo must be a refined young lady!"

Wang Dachui said this, but in his heart, he was muttering:

A lady? Unlikely.

He had clearly seen through the Vision of God that when the girl was bored just now, she casually waved a green light and tied a knot in the roots of the Soul nourishing wood that was trying to wrap around her, then used it as a swing.

How was this a lady? This was clearly a black-bellied little demoness who hadn't even been born yet!

However, he didn't dare say this to Nalan Ruo, lest he scare the pregnant woman.

"Alright, you get some rest. I'm going out for a stroll."

Wang Dachui helped Nalan Ruo tuck in the corners of the quilt, stood up, and took a long stretch.

He walked to the window and looked at the busy scene outside.

With the mass production of dragon tooth rice and the expansion of the base, Cloud Top Palace was no longer the desolate ruin it once was.

In the distance, in the newly opened spiritual fields, Special Agricultural Soldiers sent by the state were busily harvesting a new crop of dragon tooth rice.

The entire Cloud Top Palace presented a scene of prosperity and flourishing activity.

"So lively..."

Wang Dachui squinted his eyes at the bustling scene with a smile on his lips, but deep in his eyes, a flicker of imperceptible gravity flashed.

"A tall tree attracts the wind; wealth stirs the hearts of men."

"Before, this was a forbidden zone where not even birds would shit, and ghosts wouldn't visit. Now, this is the fattest piece of meat in the world. The flies that want to take a bite... are probably already on their way."

Although under the scan of the Vision of God, everything within sight was peaceful and he hadn't found any obvious red names or individuals with off-the-charts malice.

But as the head of the family and the king of this territory, Wang Dachui's instinctive sense of crisis, originating from the Ancient Sacred Body, was faintly throbbing.

It was too smooth.

Everything lately had been too smooth.

Great victories at the front, the children leveling up, the dragon tooth rice harvest, his wife's pregnancy... This kind of smooth sailing always gave him a sense of the calm before the storm.

Wang Dachui rubbed his chin, withdrew his gaze, and turned to walk out of the room.

Despite the vigilance in his heart, his steps remained relaxed and casual, and he even hummed a tuneless little ditty.

Soldiers to block, water to cover.

No matter what kind of monsters or demons they were, as long as they dared to stretch their claws into Cloud Top Palace, he, Wang Dachui, had the ability to chop those claws off and use them as fertilizer for the spiritual plants on the back mountain!

The sun was just right, and the breeze was not dry.