37: Chapter 37 My God! It's a Profound-level Spiritual Root!

Rumble—

Above the Gu Family mansion, the speed of the massive Spiritual Qi vortex suddenly accelerated!

The wind howled and air currents whistled; at the center of the entire vortex, light burst forth, faintly revealing a hint of brilliant cyan!

Outside the mansion, the Cultivators blocked by the Formation were already dumbfounded, stretching their necks, their expressions shifting from initial greed to awe and shock.

Such an astonishing phenomenon of heaven and earth—even if a Late Stage Qi Refining Cultivator were having a Breakthrough, it would be nothing more than this!

Gu Family... What exactly is happening inside the Gu Family?!

"Ah—!!!"

Inside the delivery room, Liu Ruyan exhausted her last ounce of strength and let out a roar that echoed through the clouds!

Accompanied by her roar—

"Wah—!!!"

A baby's cry, several times louder than when Gu Fan and Gu Yue were born, and even faintly carrying some profound Dao essence, exploded suddenly like a thunderclap on flat ground!

This cry was full of infinite vitality, as if it could pierce through the clouds and reach the Nine Heavens!

As the crying sounded, the violently spinning Spiritual Qi vortex in the sky came to a sudden halt!

The next instant, the entire vortex transformed into an immensely thick column of cyan light condensed from the purest Spiritual Qi, like a beam of divine punishment descending from the heavens, and with absolute precision, it instantly poured into the delivery room!

The light column flashed and vanished.

Immediately after, all the phenomena shrouding the sky above the Gu Family, whether it was the Spiritual Qi vortex or the Bewildering Formation, dissipated at this moment.

The sky returned to its usual clarity.

As if the earth-shattering scene from just a moment ago had never happened.

Gu Yan's heart was in his throat at this moment.

[System! Quick! Scan!]

He didn't even bother to care whether the child was a boy or a girl, or if mother and child were safe; he roared urgently at the System in his mind!

[Beep...]

In his mind, the System's voice experienced some kind of... lag for the first time.

[Detected... Host's third offspring... birth...]

[Currently... conducting Bloodline... depth... scan...]

The System's voice was intermittent, the electrical static more intense than ever before, as if it were running some extremely complex, extremely computationally expensive program.

Waiting.

An unprecedented, long wait.

Time, at this moment, seemed to be infinitely stretched.

Every breath felt like an agonizing century.

Gu Yan could even hear his own heartbeat, pounding crazily due to excessive nervousness.

Yellow Grade High Grade?

Or... higher?

Finally.

After a suffocating silence that lasted for dozens of breaths.

The System's lagging voice disappeared.

Replacing it was a sound...

A sound that tore through Gu Yan's entire consciousness space, a sound enough to make the gods and Buddhas of the Nine Heavens tremble, a sound mixed with electrical noise so intense it was almost explosive...

A hysterical... scream!!!

[Heavens!!!]

[Xuan!!!]

[It's Xuan Grade!!!]

[Xuan Grade Low Grade Spirit Root!!!]

Boom!!!

The moment Gu Yan heard these words, his entire brain went blank!

Xuan Grade! It actually... really is Xuan Grade!

In a backwater place like Luoyun Town where Spiritual Qi is thin, even a Yellow Grade Spirit Root is a Genius seen only once in a hundred years!

And Xuan Grade... that is a Heaven's Chosen one that could only possibly be born in legends, only in those truly large Cultivation Sects!

It is a seed for an Immortal Master who is destined to step onto the Golden Core Dao, become an Old Ancestor of a region, with a Lifespan of eight hundred years!

He, Gu Yan... he, a corporate slave in his past life, a Useless Spirit Root in this life...

Actually... had a son with a Xuan Grade Spirit Root?!

[Host! Host, did you hear that?!]

The System's screams were still echoing crazily in his mind, incoherent with excitement.

[We hit the jackpot! We really hit the jackpot!]

[Xuan Grade! It's Xuan Grade! This isn't just an SR anymore! This is an SSR! This is a top-tier gacha item that could get a front-page feature across all the worlds!]

[I'm going to apply for a special reward from headquarters! No! An ultimate reward! I'm going to... I'm going to throw every resource I can apply for at you!]

[Host, from today on, you are the most handsome kid I've ever brought along!]

Gu Yan could no longer hear what the System was saying afterward.

His entire body and mind were enveloped by an unprecedented, massive ecstasy that was enough to completely drown him!

He knew that from this moment on.

The fate of his Gu Family... no, the fate of him, Gu Yan!

Would be completely... different!

"It's born! It's born! Old Ancestor! The Madam has given birth!"

The door to the delivery room was pushed open violently.

The midwife, her face full of joy and even carrying a hint of excitement and adoration, carefully held out a little baby, also wrapped in red swaddling clothes, as if she were holding a rare treasure.

"Congratulations, Old Ancestor! Congratulations, Old Ancestor! The Third Madam has given birth to a big, healthy boy! Both mother and child are safe!"

Gu Yan snapped back to reality.

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the churning emotions in his heart, stepped forward quickly, and reached out with hands that were even trembling slightly to take his... second son.

The little guy was not crying or fussing.

He just stared quietly, opening a pair of pitch-black eyes that were even brighter than Gu Fan's, as if they contained a sea of stars, curiously examining this brand-new world, and also examining this man holding him.

His skin was more translucent than that of an ordinary baby, like fine mutton-fat jade.

The most peculiar thing was that, right in the center of his forehead, he was naturally born with a dot of cinnabar-red as blood... a mole.

Gu Yan looked at this son who was born with an extraordinary aura, looking at this "Qilin child" who was about to bring him earth-shattering changes.

His heart was filled with unprecedented... excitement and heroic spirit!

Luoyun Town? No.

This small pond, from today on, could no longer... trap this shallow Flood Dragon of his that was about to transform into a Dragon!