96: Chapter 96 The Holy Maiden is Pregnant, Double Happiness Arrives

When Gu Yan slowly came back to his senses from the mysterious Realm of his Breakthrough, the violent Spiritual Qi storm inside the secret chamber had long since subsided.

He lowered his head and took a look at his own jade-white body, which seemed to contain infinite power, and then sensed the vast lake composed of liquid true essence within his Dantian and Qi Sea.

A sense of unprecedented power and confidence welled up within him.

This was Foundation Establishment!

Compared to the previous Qi Refinement Stage, it was already... a difference between clouds and mud!

He raised his head and cast his gaze toward the opposite side.

He saw that Leng Yuechan was still sitting cross-legged on the jade platform with her eyes tightly closed.

But the aura on her body had also undergone an earth-shattering change!

If she had previously been a broken sword that was sharp but covered in cracks.

Then at this moment, she was a peerless divine weapon that had been tempered a thousand times by ice and fire, about to be... reforged and unsheathed!

Her beautiful face, which had already regained some rosiness, was now shrouded in a layer of holy, precious light.

Around her, strands of extremely pure ice true essence uncontrollably emanated from her body, and in the air behind her, it faintly condensed into a... lifelike phantom of an ice Phoenix!

Her cultivation had not only recovered to the Foundation Establishment Stage Great Perfection Realm from before she was injured!

But, as a blessing in disguise, her Dao foundation was even more... stable! And... pure! than before.

Clearly, the benefits she gained from this Dual Cultivation were no less than Gu Yan's!

It seemed she felt Gu Yan's gaze.

Leng Yuechan's long eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her Phoenix eyes, which were as cold as cold stars.

Their eyes met.

In the air, it seemed as if invisible sparks were flashing.

There was no longer the previous vigilance and detachment.

There was no longer the previous shyness and awkwardness.

What remained was only a kind of... tacit understanding and... ambiguity that arose after experiencing the deepest level of energy fusion.

Two charming blushes flew onto Leng Yuechan's beautiful face.

She was the first to stop her cultivation, stood up from the jade platform, and performed a standard woman's bow toward Gu Yan.

Her voice was still cold, but it already carried a hint of... heartfelt tenderness and gratitude that even she hadn't noticed.

"Thank you... Brother Gu, for healing me and acting as my Protector."

"Between us, there is no need for thanks." Gu Yan also stood up and smiled indifferently.

However, just when Leng Yuechan was about to say something else.

Her jade-smooth brows suddenly furrowed slightly.

She felt...

Something was wrong inside her body.

Besides the surging, vast mana that had returned to its Peak.

In the depths of her Dantian and Qi Sea, there was actually...

There was an extra strand of... a strange aura that, although extremely weak, was full of infinite vitality and connected to her Bloodline?

This is...

As an Immortal Master at the Foundation Establishment Stage with profound cultivation, she understood what this meant almost in an instant!

Boom!

A wave of emotion that made her feel even more shocked and... at a loss than when her Dao foundation was repaired, suddenly rushed into her heart!

Her face, which had been relatively calm, instantly flushed red to the roots of her ears!

She subconsciously reached out her jade hand and gently stroked her lower abdomen, which was still flat and without a trace of fat.

Her cold Phoenix eyes were filled with disbelief, bewilderment, and panic, but in the end, they all transformed into a trace of... holy, maternal... tenderness that she had never possessed before.

"What's wrong? Is... the injury recurring?"

Gu Yan keenly noticed her abnormality, stepped forward quickly, and asked with concern in his eyes.

"No... nothing..."

At his question, Leng Yuechan was even more ashamed and unable to find a place to hide. She shook her head repeatedly, and her beautiful face was almost about to drip blood.

She didn't know how to speak.

How could she tell a man whom she had only known for less than a month, who, although they had the most intimate relationship, was still nominally just a "Fellow Daoist"...

That she seemed to have... conceived his... child?

[Beep! Beep! Beep! Major discovery! Major discovery!]

In his mind, the System's voice, which had just fallen silent after issuing the "congratulatory message," screamed frantically again with a posture more excited and fanatical than any time before!

[Detected SSS-rank target character 'Leng Yuechan', new life fluctuation appears in the body!]

[Performing gene matching... Match successful! DNA compatibility with host: 99.99%!]

[Conclusion: Target... has successfully conceived!]

The System's voice, due to extreme excitement, became incomparably solemn, as if it were reading some sacred decree!

[This 'spreading the branches and scattering the leaves' act, quality assessment: perfect among the perfect! Epic-level success!]

[Currently performing preliminary assessment of offspring potential based on maternal Aptitude...]

[Assessment result: ...]

[??? (Warning! Potential too high, already exceeded this System's current calculation limit!)]

[Urgently applying to headquarters for 'World-Destroying level'... no, 'World-Creating level'... Epic-level rewards!]

[Host! Well done!]

[I feel like I can already see countless shining bonuses frantically waving at me!]

After hearing the System's incoherent "good news," Gu Yan was stunned for a moment.

Immediately after, a huge, ecstatic joy, ten times, a hundred times stronger than when he had just broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, swept over him like a mountain torrent or tsunami, instantly drowning his entire body and mind!

She's pregnant?!

Actually... hit the mark on the first try?!

And... listening to the System's tone, which was so excited it was about to crash... the Aptitude of this child, I'm afraid, is already... Heaven-Defying!

He forcibly suppressed the ecstasy surging in his heart and looked at the beautiful woman before him who was still so ashamed she wanted to find a place to hide.

His eyes were burning with heat!

He stepped forward, and without saying a word, pulled her slightly trembling delicate body into his arms!

"Ah!"

Leng Yuechan let out a short exclamation and subconsciously wanted to struggle.

But, after feeling the warmth of the man's embrace and the masculine aura on him that made her feel incomparably at ease.

All her struggles turned into... weak, compliance.

"You..."

"Don't speak."

Gu Yan lowered his head and whispered in her ear in a tone filled with dominance and tenderness.

"From today on, you, and the child in your belly..."

"Will be protected by me."