The path to immortality through martial arts begins with being forced into marriage!

Following the direction where the spiritual energy was most concentrated, Cui Yi soon arrived at a natural cave nestled among the cliffs on the shady side of the mountain.

There was a simple barrier at the entrance to the cave, making it obvious that it belonged to the Red Demon.

Cui Yi easily broke through the restriction with the inner disciple's token and stepped inside.

The cave dwelling was quite spacious, and inside was a spiritual spring about ten feet in diameter, which was gushing out and emitting amazing spiritual energy.

This made Cui Yi exclaim in admiration, "As expected of a Core Formation cultivator's cave dwelling, this cultivation environment is simply a masterpiece of nature!"

The efficiency of training in such a place will increase by at least half!

Sharing happiness is worse than enjoying it alone, so Cui Yi summoned the dragon egg from his sea of ​​consciousness.

To everyone's surprise, as soon as the little guy landed, the dark blue patterns on the eggshell suddenly shone brightly!

The spiritual energy floating in the air was as if it had encountered an invisible black hole, and it frantically converged towards the dragon egg!

The speed of spiritual energy flow suddenly increased tenfold, even a hundredfold!

It even formed a visible vortex of spiritual energy, and at the center of the vortex was the dragon egg!

The concentration of spiritual energy in the entire cave was decreasing at an alarming rate!

Cui Yi was dumbfounded.

He knew that hatching a dragon egg required a huge amount of energy, but he did not expect that this little guy would eat so lavishly, as if he was going to drain all the spiritual energy in this cave and even the spiritual spring in this corner of Blood Fiend Peak!

"Goodness...isn't your appetite a bit too much?"

Cui Yi was both amused and exasperated, but a secret excitement was stirring within him.

It's good that there's a response!

Moreover, the strong reaction indicates that the spiritual energy of Blood Fiend Peak is indeed beneficial to the dragon egg!

Cui Yi wasn't worried that the dragon egg would drain all the spiritual energy.

The spiritual spring is connected to the earth's veins, and the earth's veins themselves generate spiritual energy.

If the dragon egg could drain its energy so easily, then the Blood Robe Sect's earth veins would be utterly worthless.

Cui Yi found a clean place, sat cross-legged, and began to prepare to refine the magic weapon by focusing his energy in his dantian.

As a low-grade Xuan-level defensive magic weapon, the Hunyuan Umbrella has complex internal restrictions, making it much more difficult to refine than a Huang-level magic weapon like Qieman.

After Cui Yi had tempered it with his true energy for an unknown period of time, the Hunyuan Umbrella finally trembled slightly and emitted a low hum.

It's done?!

With a thought, Cui Yi felt the Hunyuan Umbrella spin and grow larger, eventually becoming the size of a normal umbrella, hovering above his head.

As the umbrella rotated slightly, strands of dark golden light descended, completely protecting him!

Cui Yi tentatively threw a punch with the Mountain and Sea Collapsing Cloud Fist!

Double Force!

boom!

The dark gold light curtain only slightly indented inward, rippling out in circles like water waves, and easily neutralized all the force of Cui Yi's punch!

"Such strong defense!"

Cui Yi admired it in his heart.

Although he did not use his full strength just now, with his current mid-Foundation Establishment cultivation, combined with the power of the Mountain and Sea Collapse Cloud Fist, he could render a cultivator in the early Foundation Establishment stage unable to fight.

While the defensive power of this Hunyuan Umbrella is astonishing, its consumption of true energy is also not to be underestimated.

The light barrier, which deflects the impact, will inevitably consume true energy to maintain its stability. Cui Yi's punch alone consumed about 20% of the true energy in his dantian!

It looks like it can only be used in critical moments.

After throwing the Hunyuan Umbrella into the space of the Floating Pagoda, Cui Yi took out the White Bone Soul-Slaying Nail.

Next, we need to refine this item!

......

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at the same time.

The villa of the Marquis of Zhenbei in the capital.

Although this place is not as grand as the imperial palace, it has the advantage of being quiet and peaceful, making it one of the few places outside the palace where Xiao Yuli can truly relax.

At this moment, Xiao Yuli was meditating cross-legged with a frown on her face.

She has been feeling unwell these past few days, especially when she is practicing breathing exercises, there is a momentary delay in the flow of true energy to her lower abdomen near the dantian.

At first, Xiao Yuli thought it was just because she was upset, plus some hidden injuries left by the loss of control of her true energy when she was chased last time, or that her body had not fully recovered after that absurd night.

To eliminate this discomfort, she even forcibly increased the intensity of her cultivation.

However, the situation did not improve; instead, the strange feeling of sluggishness became even more pronounced.

Xiao Yuli opened her eyes, a cold glint in them.

The cultivation technique she practiced was the Profound Ice Technique, a rare type of ice-attribute true energy, and she was extremely sensitive to her own true energy and physical condition.

Any slight abnormality could be a sign of going astray!

We can't delay any longer!

We must find out what's going on right now!

Having grown up in the palace, Xiao Yuli instinctively wanted to find a royal physician for a diagnosis.

However, the person chosen for diagnosis must not be the imperial physician in the palace. Those people are mostly entangled with various forces, and if something really happens to them, the consequences will be endless.

"Someone, go and fetch Imperial Physician Sun."

"Yes, Your Highness."

The summoned physician, Sun, was highly accomplished in medicine and pharmacology. He had received great favors from the Marquis of Zhenbei in his early years and had always been loyal to the Marquis of Zhenbei's mansion.

Three years ago, he reached the advanced age of old age and was released from the palace to live out his remaining years.

He is the best candidate!

Before long, Imperial Physician Sun was blindfolded and led into a room in the villa.

"This old man greets Your Highness; may Your Highness enjoy boundless blessings and peace!"

"No need for formalities. I've been feeling a bit unwell since I came in. I feel like my cultivation isn't going smoothly. I'd appreciate it if Imperial Physician Sun could take a look."

"I wouldn't dare, I've been rude."

Physician Sun dared not say more, and took out a clean handkerchief and placed it on Xiao Yuli's wrist.

The moment the physician Sun's fingers touched Xiao Yuli's wrist pulse, his aged brows twitched.

"Your Highness... have you experienced nausea or vomiting recently?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yuli's delicate brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

She did indeed experience a few times in the morning or afternoon when a strange nausea would rise in her chest, especially when she saw or smelled certain meat dishes sent from the imperial kitchen.

She attributed it to her recent mental distress and didn't pay much attention to it.

Could it be that his own ice-attribute true energy has invaded his meridians, causing him to suffer a qi deviation?

"Imperial Physician Sun, what does this have to do with my stagnant cultivation?"

Although Xiao Yuli did not admit it in person, the meaning and expression in her words clearly indicated that she nodded in agreement!

The once composed old face of Physician Sun instantly turned deathly pale, and his hand, which was taking his pulse, began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Your Highness... this illness is neither truly serious nor truly minor; it's quite serious in some ways!"

Looking at Xiao Yuli's beautiful face with her furrowed brows, Imperial Physician Sun almost burst into tears.

After hesitating for a few moments, his aged body trembled, and he closed his eyes as if resigned to his fate, saying, "After repeated confirmation, Your Highness is not suffering from a qi deviation, but rather from pregnancy!"

Om-!

Xiao Yuli's expression froze instantly, as if something had exploded in her mind.

Is it a pregnancy pulse?

Does that mean she's pregnant?

She...is pregnant?!