Chapter 459: Chapter 175: No, What Does "Auntie" Mean on This Portrait?_3
[The Secret of Peeping: This is an image of Lady Li building her nest. As a mother, she has striven over a millennium to delay the birth of her child. How pitiful and lamentable!]
Reading this feedback, Zhou’s eyes lit up but quickly furrowed his brows.
Lady Li?
So, her name is Lady Li, a pregnant woman, not pretending. This alone significantly narrows down the scope.
But what does delaying the birth of her child mean?
And this effort has lasted over a thousand years?
Even Nezha wasn’t carried for such a long time, right?
The Nascent Soul Realm entails breaking the pill to become a Nascent Soul, granting a lifespan of a thousand years.
The Divinity Transformation Realm is the transition from Nascent Soul to Primordial Spirit, with a lifespan exceeding two thousand years.
From the imaging footage where she disregarded those Nascent Soul Realm demon beasts, and combining it with the current system’s introduction, Lady Li is at least in the Divinity Transformation Realm.
This poses a challenge; if truly found, it might require contacting the elders to step in.
Lu Yaoyao drowsily opened her eyes, watching Zhou seriously analyzing the imaging stone. She then let out a gentle yawn, turned over, and continued to sleep.
Having a young dad nearby who does all the thinking feels great!
In the night sky, the occasional whooshing sounds could be heard, while Zhou and Lu Yaoyao continued to rest there.
The next day, Lu Yaoyao stretched and asked, "Brother Zhou, where are we going next?"
Zhou took out a map and began studying it.
The stronger the cultivator, the harder it is to conceive, because as your cultivation advances, your body suffers from the erosion of Spiritual Qi. This particularly damages the gentle environment required for nurturing life, causing a gradual alteration in physique.
Combined with the side effects and backlash of cultivation techniques, mental state obstacles, and karma entanglements, all these factors make it increasingly difficult.
A Divinity Transformation Realm female cultivator pregnant for a thousand years, looking for spirit medicine alone with a large belly, suggests that maybe her man is no longer around?
Pregnant for a thousand years without giving birth, yet trying by all means to delay the child’s birth, hints at two clues.
First, Lady Li might have been pregnant since the Nascent Soul Realm up until she comprehended the realm, advancing to the Divinity Transformation Realm—this is quite scary.
Second, she is either perverted or mentally ill.
If the above reasoning is correct, as a pregnant mother, subconsciously she should like lively places rather than being surrounded by loneliness.
After all, during special times, one psychologically yearns for warmth and company.
At the very least, in the image where she was picking the Fusang Lingkui, she looked calm and serene, suggesting her emotions were at least stable.
This indicates her mindset may not be too bad, so perhaps she would choose to live in a livelier place.
Adding to that, the Demon King of Hou Mountain had thoroughly searched Canglan Mountain over the past year without finding her trace.
Then Lady Li is likely living in one of the cities surrounding Canglan Mountain, with a relatively high probability.
Zhou carefully examined the surroundings of Canglan Mountain; there were no other sects, but nine cities were positioned around it in different locations.
It’s hard to say which city exactly, so it looks like more clues need to be found.
Wait until after midnight tonight and conduct another identification. After all, the Daily Reflection sometimes gives different feedback on the same matter, depending on luck.
"Brother Zhou?" Seeing no response from Zhou for a long time, Lu Yaoyao couldn’t help but call out softly again.
Recovering his sense, Zhou smiled slightly: "Continue to rest!"
"Ah?" Lu Yaoyao was taken aback.
As midnight passed, Zhou once again activated the imaging stone for a second identification.
[The Secret of Peeping: To ensure her child can see his father the moment he is born, Lady Li has been delaying the birth of her child, needing a large amount of spirit medicine for nourishment and restriction. This imaging stone secretly recorded her entering a Demon King’s Cave Mansion to pick spirit medicine.]
Unexpectedly, there was indeed new information.
It even revealed Lady Li’s true motive.
"A thousand years of delay, just so her child can see his father at first sight?" Zhou was somewhat shocked.
Then what about the child’s father?
Dead or abandoned her?
If he was dead, how could she persist until now?
For a moment, Zhou didn’t know whether to call her foolish or praise her fidelity to love.
A child is innocent. After all the effort of getting pregnant and a thousand years of nourishment and restriction, what kind of freak will be born by then?
No, actually, it’s still uncertain if what’s in her belly is a normal baby.
"Let’s wait another night!" Zhou sighed softly.
Lu Yaoyao had no objections, waiting until the next day when she received a message from Cao Zhengyang first.
Confirming their safety, he revealed they were preparing to return to the sect.
They would fully organize the sect’s personnel to conduct a detailed investigation of the cities around Canglan Mountain, and then gradually expand to other sects in the Eastern Domain, urging the two to be careful.
Soon after, Zhou also received a message from Yan Xiaohu. He and Lei Luo had teamed up but found no clues, so they were preparing to leave, find a place to eat, and asked if Zhou wanted to join.
"You go ahead, I have some things to do!" Zhou could only reply.
As the third night arrived, Zhou conducted another identification. When the information no longer changed, Zhou helplessly took out the map and handed it to Lu Yaoyao.