I was born a god, the son of the Demon Lord.

Xu Yuan laughed in anger, crossed her arms, and looked down at the man in the pool who had turned the tables on her.

"Please, Shen Jiuyuan, get this straight, okay?"

Xu Yuan pointed towards the main hall, "It's your childhood sweetheart who's come knocking! Am I supposed to just tell her that you, Demon Lord Shen Jiuyuan, are pregnant with my child? And then bring her in to see your current state?"

Shen Jiuyuan paused in his wiping motion, the water flowing down his muscular chest.

"Who's here?"

"Lin Qingyue."

Xu Yuan shrugged. "Don't worry, I didn't kill her. I just slapped her and threw her out of the demon realm. After all, I don't want any random people dirtying my territory."

Shen Jiuyuan's face darkened, and the surrounding temperature instantly dropped to freezing.

"Why didn't you kill her?"

The question was so confident and assertive that Xu Yuan was speechless for a moment.

She looked Shen Jiuyuan up and down, then exclaimed as if she'd seen a ghost, "Are you kidding me? That's your childhood sweetheart."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Jiuyuan suddenly covered his mouth and gagged.

The enormous dragon tail thrashed irritably in the water, creating a wave half a meter high that crashed straight toward the shore.

"Who said she's my childhood sweetheart?" Shen Jiuyuan finally managed to suppress the overwhelming feeling of nausea.

Xu Yuan took a half step back to avoid the splash.

"Isn't this just something that spread within the cultivation world? Once, she was captured by a powerful demon clan. Seeing that she was about to die, she gave your name, saying that she was your childhood sweetheart. You two did know each other before, right? The clan didn't dare to touch her, so they went to report to you, the Demon Lord. You didn't object at the time. Later, the Three Realms tacitly accepted this relationship."

Shen Jiuyuan grabbed a handful of hair in frustration.

"Back then, I was ambushed by those old geezers and soaked in the blood pool for seven days and seven nights. Those idiots bothered me with her, and I just told them to get lost. Who knew that the bunch of morons outside would come up with all this nonsense? Can't you go and kill her now?"

This entitled, bossy attitude is truly an arrogance ingrained in one's very bones.

Xu Yuan raised an eyebrow: "Why don't you go by yourself?"

"Your daughter doesn't like her."

Shen Jiuyuan pointed to his abdomen, his face gloomy. "Whenever I get close to that woman, your daughter starts causing trouble. When I get close to her, that little brat starts causing chaos inside."

Xu Yuan was full of suspicion: "How do I know you're not making up an excuse? Even if my daughter hates her, if I kill her, wouldn't those old men of the human race use it as an excuse to wreak havoc in my demon realm? That way, your demon realm can take advantage of the situation and reap the benefits, right?"

Shen Jiuyuan was furious, slamming his dragon tail heavily against the pool wall: "Am I that kind of person?"

"Aren't you the same?"

Xu Yuan mercilessly dredged up old grievances, "Three hundred years ago, the leader of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect was merely passing through the border of your Demon Realm, and you immediately beheaded him. Then, taking advantage of the chaos within the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, you seized three of their spirit mines. One hundred years ago, the sect leader of the Joyful Union Sect came to deliver gifts, and you detained him along with the gifts, forcing the Joyful Union Sect to cede two cities to the south. Now you want to trick me into becoming your henchman?"

Shen Jiuyuan was speechless. This woman really knew how to hold a grudge.

His body is currently in an extremely unstable state. The two eggs are absorbing demonic energy at an increasingly terrifying rate, and they simply cannot withstand the strain.

"OK."

Shen Jiuyuan looked coldly at Xu Yuan, abandoning his last line of defense, "Anyway, I'll be staying in this pool for the next month to stabilize my origin. Just make sure she doesn't get too close to the demon realm. Once I lay the egg, I'll personally go and kill her."

Xu Yuan pouted.

This scoundrel makes having a child sound as murderous as killing someone.

"I can agree to that."

Shen Jiuyuan didn't speak again. He closed his eyes, formed hand seals, and began to guide the Yuan Qi from the Guixu Pool into his body.

The water surface churned again, the pure black demonic energy intertwining with the blue pool water.

The black robe was completely unfurled by the impact of the water, revealing two faint golden and black array patterns that glowed eerily on the abdomen.

Xu Yuan stood on the shore, her gaze falling on the glowing patterns on the bottom of the water. Suddenly, she stretched out her foot and used her toes to pick up a black jade pendant that had fallen into a crevice in the bluestone.

The jade pendant felt warm and smooth to the touch, with intricate magic patterns engraved on the back. She tossed it a couple of times, then stuffed it into her Qiankun bag.

In the center of the pool, Shen Jiuyuan had completely sunk to the bottom.

For the next entire month, Guixu Pond was never at peace.

The array patterns at the bottom of the pool shone with a blinding light day and night, and the vast primordial energy transformed into a tangible vortex, continuously pouring into the belly of the enormous dragon shadow underwater.

Enveloped in this boundless primordial energy, Xu Nanyi greedily devoured the drop of Ancestral Phoenix True Blood.

The scalding power of blood surges within the tiny meridians.

A mortal who obtains a single drop of true blood can achieve physical sainthood. This entire bottle, poured into her still-uncompletely formed body, brought devastating pain and transformation.

The meridians were broken inch by inch, but were rapidly rebuilt under the repair of the golden light.

The originally fragile demon bones were now covered with an indestructible dark golden luster.

She could feel layer upon layer of new feathers breaking through her skin.

That was no longer the ordinary downy feathers of a demonic bird.

Its entire body was covered in shimmering golden phoenix feathers, each feather shaft swirling with mysterious runes. And at the tips of its tail feathers and along the edges of its wings, a breathtaking touch of crimson stood out.

That's a sign of atavism.

Deep within the Qi Sea, the round demon core trembled violently.

Click.

A tiny crack spread across the surface of the cinnabar.

The crack grew larger and larger, and golden light burst forth from the gap.

The demon core shattered with a crash.

A phantom of a golden phoenix, no bigger than a palm, spread its wings from the fragments.

Breaking through the elixir to form an infant.

The pressure of the Nascent Soul stage surged within the eggshell, but this upward trend showed no sign of stopping.

shore.

Xu Yuan was sitting cross-legged on the bluestone, breathing deeply.

A water column several meters high suddenly burst open on the surface of the water.

A thick, pure black dragon burst through the water, its tail slapping against the waves, sending spray flying everywhere, its massive body thrashing about in agony.

The sky darkened without warning.

Thick, dark clouds pressed in from all directions, enveloping the entire demon palace. Within the heavy clouds, purple lightning writhed like mad snakes, emitting a muffled roar.

"Is she about to give birth? There's such a loud noise."

Xu Yuan looked at the black dragon churning the water and felt somewhat worried.

The Demon Lord giving birth is a first in the history of creation.

If this lightning tribulation really strikes down, the Guixu Pool will probably be destroyed. This is the core of the demon race's earth veins, and it took countless rare and precious materials to build it back then.

What's more troublesome is that once these two little brats are born, the humans and the demons will eventually find out.

Xu Yuan's mind raced as he weighed the pros and cons.

If we activate the clan-protecting formation now and forcibly suppress the lightning tribulation, we might be able to save the Guixu Pool, but that would inevitably cause a backlash from the Heavenly Dao.

Fine, let them smash it.