18: Chapter 18 Chrysanthemum Douluo is born

"Handle this matter according to the Old Ancestor's will. The upbringing of Alternative will be fully entrusted to the Adjudicator Elder. The entire Spirit Hall must cooperate fully, and there must not be the slightest slack."

As the voice faded, the Titled Douluos present, even with lingering concerns in their hearts, all bowed and agreed in unison.

The lingering prestige of the Old Ancestor, Qian Chongguang, remained. The plans he laid out during his lifetime had never gone wrong, and no one dared to defy this will.

The core meeting concluded, and as everyone was standing up and preparing to disperse, the hall doors were pushed open. A young girl dressed as a maid rushed in, panting, her face flushed red, her words jumbled: "My lords! Great... great news! Something huge has happened! News has come from the residence of Chrysanthemum Douluo; Lord Yue Guan is about to give birth! Ghost Douluo is guarding outside the delivery room and sent me to report immediately!"

As soon as these words fell, the meeting hall, which was just about to disperse, instantly fell into a deathly silence.

After a full three breaths, the entire hall erupted.

"What did you say?! Giving birth? Having a baby?!"

Demon Subduing Douluo jumped up on the spot, his Coiling Dragon Rod clattering to the ground. His face was filled with utter astonishment, as if he had seen a ghost, and he somewhat doubted his own ears: "Yue Guan? That Chrysanthemum Douluo, Yue Guan? Isn't he a man?! How can he give birth to a baby?!"

"Exactly! This is no time for jokes!" Thousand Jun Douluo followed, eyes wide in disbelief. "Yue Guan and Gui Mei are both grown men, how did they manage to have a child? Could it be that practicing a Spirit Fusion technique can mess up one's gender?"

Light Feather Douluo sprang directly from his chair, his lively eyes wide round, muttering incessantly: "Absurd! This is too absurd! The two of them disappeared for several days, and I thought they went to execute a secret mission, but it turns out they went to have a baby?!"

The group of Titled Douluos, who had lived for nearly a hundred years, chattered in confusion, their faces filled with shock and bewilderment. Even the usually composed Gold Crocodile Douluo frowned, clearly unable to process this unbelievable news.

Watching everyone in chaos, a rare trace of helpless amusement appeared on Bibi Dong's cold face. She raised her hand to press down, letting everyone quieten, before slowly explaining the cause and effect: "This is a long story, and it dates back to three years ago when the Old Ancestor was still here."

"Three years ago, when Elder Yue Guan was out on a mission, he accidentally found an Immortal Plant, the Harmony Immortal Ganoderma. This Immortal Plant is quite special; it has both pure Yang and pure Yin effects. For those with related Spirit Fusion technique attributes, it can completely stimulate the medicinal properties, complement the Yin and Yang compatibility of both parties, and allow the power of the Spirit Fusion technique to break through its limit."

"Yue Guan's strange velvet sky chrysanthemum is an extreme Yang Spirit, while Gui Mei's Ghost Spirit is an extreme Yin Spirit; they were naturally the best recipients for this Immortal Plant. However, since both were in male Physical Bodies, the Yin and Yang could never achieve ultimate Fusion, which was the root cause of why their Spirit Fusion technique had struggled to make progress for many years. The Old Ancestor had nodded after seeing the Immortal Plant back then, saying it could resolve their Bottleneck."

Bibi Dong paused, looking at the still-astonished crowd, and continued: "After the two took the Immortal Plant together, the medicinal properties erupted completely. To achieve the ultimate Yin-Yang complementarity, it directly completed the misalignment between Yue Guan's Divine Soul and his Physical Body—his Divine Soul was naturally biased towards Yin, which conflicted with his male body and pure Yang Spirit. The Immortal Plant directly reversed his physical Yin and Yang, turning him into a female body, which happened to complement Gui Mei perfectly."

"Since then, the two have achieved complete Yin-Yang compatibility, and the power of their Domain of Two Extremes has more than doubled. Their feelings, nurtured over sixty years, no longer needed to be hidden, and they naturally came together. Later, Yue Guan was found to be pregnant, but the two have always been low-key, fearing complications, so they never announced it publicly. Even we only found out a few days ago."

After she finished speaking, the meeting hall fell into a deathly silence once again.

Everyone looked at each other, unable to say a word for a long time.

They had seen countless Immortal Plants that could improve cultivation or heal severe injuries, but they had never imagined there was such a miraculous object in the world that could directly reverse a person's biological gender just to fulfill a Spirit Fusion technique. But thinking about it carefully, it felt reasonable—in the entire Spirit Hall, who didn't know that Chrysanthemum and Ghost were inseparable, living and dying together for decades? Their tacit understanding was deeper than that of ordinary couples. Now that their Yin and Yang were harmonized and they had finally become a couple, it could be considered a matter of Perfection.

"Go, go, go! Let's go take a look!" Light Feather Douluo was the first to react, grabbing his Light Feather Divine Bow and rushing out the door. "I've lived for so long, and I've never seen what Gui Mei looks like as a father! I must see Yue Guan's baby; it must be as good-looking as him!"

Demon Subduing and Thousand Jun joined in the commotion, swarming out. Even the usually staid and steady Gold Crocodile Douluo couldn't suppress his curiosity, shook his head, and followed.

At this moment, at the Chrysanthemum and Ghost residence on the west side of the Spirit Hall, it was already in chaos, yet it also carried a sense of tense warmth.

Ghost Douluo, Gui Mei, who was usually ghostly and unapproachable, had completely lost his aura of a god of slaughter. Like a headless fly, he paced back and forth in front of the delivery room door.

The ghostly Qi surging around him was completely withdrawn. His face, which was usually gloomy and could scare children, was now full of anxious helplessness. His eyes, which always carried a chill, stared fixedly at the closed door of the delivery room, his fingers clenched so tightly they cracked, his knuckles turning white.

Who would have thought that this Titled Douluo, who made all Spirit Masters on the continent tremble with fear, would have such a flustered moment, like a raw youth.

"Lord Ghost Douluo, please stop pacing; you're making us anxious too."

A maid on the side whispered a persuasion: "Lord Chrysanthemum Douluo is now a level ninety-one Titled Douluo, his physique far exceeds that of ordinary people, and there is the best midwife in the Spirit Hall guarding him; he will definitely be fine."

Gui Mei's footsteps came to a sudden halt. He opened his mouth to retort but swallowed his words, only muttering a muffled "Hmm."

But after not even two seconds of quiet, he uncontrollably started pacing back and forth again. His heart was beating faster than when he faced the siege of three experts of the same level back in the day.

He had lived a lonely and bitter life. When he was young, his Spirit was weak and mutated, and he was despised by his Family. After his Spirit's second Awakening, he was regarded as ominous by his Family and abandoned, almost being branded an evil Spirit Master.

Everyone feared the ghostly Qi on him and stayed far away. Only Yue Guan never despised him, accompanying him from a nameless little Spirit Master, step by step, struggling through wind and rain, living and dying together for more than forty years.

In the past, he always felt that being able to accompany Yue Guan for a lifetime, being brothers and partners for a lifetime, was already a great Perfection.

Back then, truthfully, he really liked Chrysanthemum Douluo. He didn't dare to ask for more, fearing that if he pierced that layer of window paper, they wouldn't even be able to be brothers anymore.