Chapter 686: Xue Ke Gives Birth, A Dragon and Phoenix Bring Auspiciousness

"Your Highness Crown Princess, keep going, it's almost out."

Inside the Eastern Palace of the Gu Lei Imperial Palace, an important war comparable to a god-level battle was currently taking place.

Xue Ke VS her children.

After ten months of pregnancy, the day of Xue Ke's delivery had finally arrived.

Although Qian Renxue and Lv Lingqi had both always wanted to bear a firstborn son for Feihuang, they had spent this entire year striving to become gods, and only Xue Ke had remained by Feihuang's side, ultimately allowing her to overtake them on the inside track.

On this day, both Nan Tianchen and Nan Feihuang had set aside everything in their hands, waiting anxiously outside for the birth of the children.

Even the various important figures of the nation had come; after all, everyone knew the importance of this pregnancy of Xue Ke's. If it were a boy, he would be the eldest son of the royal family.

No matter how strong Feihuang's combat power was, he could not help with something like giving birth, so he could only listen to the midwife's cheering and mutter to himself outside.

Nan Tianchen was pacing back and forth, not stopping for even a moment.

"Alright, you two, Ke'er has nurtured the pregnancy very well these ten months, and she is a Title Douluo, nothing will happen, don't be so flustered." Lan Xue looked at the two men and said helplessly.

She had given birth before and knew the pain of childbirth, but with the toughness of a Spirit Master's body, the kind of difficult labor seen in commoner families would simply not occur.

Not to mention that Xue Ke had consumed the Nine Heavens Divine Dragon Pill and reached the highest rank of human Spirit Masters, the Title Douluo realm.

"How can I not be anxious? These are my grandchildren, the eldest son and daughter of the next generation," Nan Tianchen said.

Their Gu Lei Royal Family had always had few descendants, and by his generation, there was only one son, Nan Feihuang.

Therefore, spreading the branches and leaves had always been the thing he valued most; after all, this vast dynasty must have successors.

Just at this moment, the loud crying of an infant suddenly came from inside the room.

It was not one, but two voices rising and falling in succession; the crying of the little infants was so loud and so crisp.

The door opened, and the midwife walked out holding two children, "Congratulations to the Emperor, congratulations to the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess has successfully given birth to a son and a daughter, a dragon and phoenix bringing auspiciousness."

"Haha, good, good, good, quickly let Me hold My grandson and granddaughter." Nan Tianchen excitedly took his grandson and granddaughter; the way the two little ones kept crying in his arms truly melted his heart. "Issue an edict: today, a dragon and phoenix have descended upon My Gu Lei Dynasty, and My heart is greatly pleased. Everyone inside and outside the Imperial City shall be heavily rewarded, and national taxes will be reduced by thirty percent next year!"

The crowd immediately knelt and bowed, saying, "As you command, Your Majesty is wise!"

"Ke'er!" Unlike Nan Tianchen, the first thing Feihuang thought of at this moment was Xue Ke. As soon as the door opened, he rushed in to see his wife first.

Xue Ke had a smile on her lips; although she was covered in sweat, she did not look as weak as ordinary women. The body of a Title Douluo was indeed very tough; it felt like she could get out of bed after resting for a while.

"Brother Feihuang, Ke'er has given you a 'good' 【a son and daughter together】, do you like it?" Xue Ke said happily.

"I like it, of course I like it, it's just a pity that my father and mother are even more excited than I am; I, the father, haven't even held them yet before being beaten to it by them." Feihuang held Xue Ke's hand and said with a smile.

At the doorway, the officials all crowded around to see the eldest son and daughter of the royal family.

Newborns are usually wrinkled when they are first born because they have soaked in their mother's womb for too long, but this pair was different. Xue Ke loved them very much and often nourished them with her own soul power.

Therefore, their skin was fair and smooth the moment they were born, and they looked extremely cute; their crying voices were even twice as loud as ordinary people's.

Actually, Feihuang was the same when he was born. "Let me see, let me see!" Nan Feiling squeezed in front of the two children, looked at the two jade-carved babies, and exclaimed, "Wow, so cute, they look so much like my brother and sister-in-law."

She was not talking nonsense; although the features of these two children had not yet fully developed, one could vaguely feel that they were reflections of Nan Feihuang and Xue Ke.

It was just slightly reversed: the son resembled the father, and the daughter resembled the mother, whereas folk legends usually say the son resembles the mother and the daughter resembles the father.

"Hehe, looking so much like my son, they will surely be as outstanding as my son in the future." Lan Xue gently took the two children. Surprisingly, the two babies, who would not stop crying whether held by Nan Tianchen or Nan Feiling, immediately stopped crying in Lan Xue's arms and even started giggling.

Being able to smile just after birth could be considered a great wonder.

"Haha, it seems that compared to their grandfather and aunt, my grandson and granddaughter indeed like their grandmother more." Lan Xue's heart melted at the sight of the two children's smiles, and she was filled with nothing but love.

Nan Tianchen was a bit jealous; sure enough, they were his son's seed, exactly the same as his son back then.

He remembered that when Feihuang was an infant, it was useless for anyone else to hold him; only when his mother Lan Xue held him could he quiet down.

And he clearly loved the children just as much.

At this time, after Feihuang comforted Xue Ke to sleep, he also walked out of the room. Seeing this, Lan Xue asked, "Huang'er, how is Ke'er?"

"Nothing serious, just a little tired, she will be fine after a sleep," Feihuang smiled.

"That's good, come, hold your own children." Lan Xue handed the two babies to Feihuang. Feihuang acted as if he were receiving some rare treasure, taking the two children one in each arm.

Just like in Lan Xue's arms, the two babies did not cry in their father's arms. That babbling laughter was even more beautiful than the voice of his teacher, Zuo Ci, when he passed his God Trial.

"By the way, brother, hurry and give my nephew and niece a name," Nan Feiling reminded him.

Feihuang nodded, "Alright. Father, according to the generation chart of our Gu Lei Royal Family, after the 'Tian' generation and the 'Fei' generation, it is the 'Feng' generation, right?"

Nan Tianchen replied, "That is correct."

Many royal naming conventions have specific rules. For example, the Ming Taizu established a generation chart for each of his sons, with 20 characters per chart, naming them in order starting from his grandsons. There was also a rule that starting from the son's generation, every five generations would be named according to the order of the Five Elements, using the radicals of the characters within the same generation. The order is: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, rotating in a cycle.

As for the Nan Family, there was an ancestral motto: "The wind is fierce and the waves are high, fly toward the sky," a seven-character cycle, meaning that no matter how big the wind and waves are, the men of the Nan Family must look up and fly high, never giving up.

Nan Tianchen was of the 'Tian' generation, Feihuang was of the 'Fei' generation, and his descendants would complete a cycle, starting over from the 'Feng' generation.

A new unified dynasty, to be taken over by a new generation in the future; this is very good.

Feihuang had already thought of the children's names and said, "Then, my son shall be named Nan Fengrui, meaning happiness, auspiciousness, and full of hope; the daughter shall be named Nan Fengyue, meaning warm and elegant, hoping she will be happy all her life."

"Hmm, Rui'er and Yue'er? Not bad." Nan Tianchen thought about it and felt it was quite good, immediately expressing his approval.

Although Feihuang had promised Xue Ye that one of his and Xue Ke's future children would take the surname Xue, in any case, it could not be the eldest son or daughter.

For a country, the importance of the eldest son and daughter goes without saying.

For instance, now that the news that the Crown Prince finally had heirs had spread, many ministers of the Gu Lei Dynasty felt much more at ease. Originally, they had been afraid that the Crown Prince would one day ascend to godhood without leaving a son behind; what would the country do then? Now they could finally rest easy.

(End of chapter)