Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1636 - 440: Opening the Way, Receiving a Beating (5k)

Yu Ziqing calculated the timing and was somewhat surprised.Logically, based on the time when the female Ba showed signs of pregnancy, it shouldn't be this soon.

"So soon? How come it's suddenly time to give birth?"

"A sudden message came yesterday, Han Dong was at a loss, really didn't know what to do, so he sent a message asking for help. The village chief has already sent two experienced cooks."

Yu Ziqing nodded, not daring to delay, immediately stepped out and disappeared.

The matter of the female Ba being pregnant was strange from the start, even though Yu Ziqing thought perhaps Juice had altered something, he hadn't told Juice any related absurd stories.

And the vitality within the female Ba's belly couldn't be faked; her identity was as real as it gets.

With Li Qiu's precedent, this matter seemed abnormal no matter how you looked at it.

Fortunately, the female Ba was not having a ten-month pregnancy; the speed of nurturing and growing vitality in her womb was extremely slow, and it was not going to fully develop within a few years.

Yu Ziqing had other matters to attend to, so this issue was just being dragged along.

Yu Ziqing had someone look, but no one found any problems aside from the extended duration of pregnancy, and everyone could feel the vitality in the womb slowly growing.

However, the matter of the female Ba's pregnancy itself was fundamentally improbable.

Thoughts swirled in Yu Ziqing's mind as he kept pondering what was actually going on.

He hurried all the way to Han Dong's small yard, south of Jinlan Mountain.

In the courtyard, he saw two fierce cooks, whose arms could carry horses, vaguely puzzled, talking to Han Dong.

Seeing Yu Ziqing land, Han Dong inexplicably sighed in relief.

There were too many things he didn't understand, and such a bizarre situation, Yu Ziqing always knew more than he did.

Han Dong quickly stepped forward, about to bow, but Yu Ziqing raised his hand and spoke.

"Brother Dong, no need for formalities. Tell me the situation, how is your wife?"

"Come with me."

Han Dong didn't waste words, pulled Yu Ziqing and headed inside.

Inside the room, the female Ba lay on the bed, her belly bulging high, and one could vaguely feel the fetus inside moving its bones.

The female Ba's face was filled with worry, yet there was also a hint of expectation in her eyes.

To say nothing of when she couldn't conceive, but once she inexplicably became pregnant, she most strongly felt the vitality within her belly, could feel a fetus slowly nurturing, she couldn't help but hope she might successfully give birth to a child or two.

One look at the female Ba's belly, Yu Ziqing knew it was clearly almost time to give birth.

"Why so quickly? Brother Dong, where's the problem?"

Before Han Dong could speak, the female Ba continued.

"Let me explain, he can't articulate well.

Initially, it was indeed slow, the vitality nurturing extremely sluggishly, the fetus inside hadn't yet formed.

Moreover, the slower it got later on, reaching a pace comparable to six months pregnant, yet growing barely at all within a year.

Actually, I estimated, it might have been unable to complete nurturing..."

The female Ba paused at this point.

Han Dong looked at the female Ba with unexpected surprise.

The female Ba ignored Han Dong and continued.

"But just a few days ago, the speed of nurturing vitality suddenly accelerated.

Besides the expanding vitality, amidst the mist began forming the fetal shape.

By yesterday, it was comparable to ten months pregnant, I felt it was time to give birth.

Ziyu, is this really going to be okay?

Has some big change taken place?"

The female Ba couldn't help feeling somewhat panicked, somewhat at a loss, she didn't understand.

Yu Ziqing's face subtly changed.

A significant change, days ago? Yesterday?

"Sister-in-law, be specific, when exactly did the change begin? I need precise timing."

"It should be seven days ago, around 11:45 AM.

Yesterday around 7 a.m., I suddenly felt it was time to give birth.

The feeling grew stronger, yet somehow, I couldn't give birth."

Yu Ziqing's mind sank.

He calculated, the moment Jiu Nian started the death program, was essentially when the female Ba's womb began to change.

The moment Jiu Nian died coincided with when the female Ba felt it was time to give birth.

If this timing is accurate, then it perfectly aligned.

Does this have something to do with Jiu Nian?

Impossible, what ability does Jiu Nian have to accomplish such a fallback?

Is he intending to reincarnate?

No, the female Ba had been pregnant for a long time, her pregnancy is certainly unrelated to Jiu Nian.

Yu Ziqing thought for a moment and humbly said.

"Sister-in-law, allow me to act boldly."

"Do what you need to." The female Ba was decisive, and Han Dong nodded frantically.

Yu Ziqing's face showed solemnity, reaching out a hand to touch the female Ba's belly, at this moment, the feeling was especially clear.

No trace of rank, nor any fragmented divine essence, as if the fetus truly was just an ordinary fetus.

The fetus curled its body, surrounded by intense vitality, resisting the female Ba's power.

Indeed, the vitality itself was transformed from the Corpse Qi, Yin Qi, and a trace of Death Qi within the female Ba's body.

Life and death were both in conflict and in fusion.

A sense of extreme eeriness, yet harmoniously captivating, contrastingly, the fetus simply wrapped in vitality, seemed like an ordinary fetus.

As the fetus moved its body within the vitality, everything around seemed to hint at imminent birth—or rather, it had already started.

After sensing for a moment in the midst of this life and death fusion, Yu Ziqing suddenly understood.

He had been mistaken; this was indeed related to Jiu Nian.

But it should only be related to the death of Jiu Nian.