Chapter 4: Should I Cry Now?

Ten months of pregnancy, one moment of delivery.

In any era, childbirth is an unavoidable ghostly threshold for pregnant women.

Even with the constant nourishment and sustenance of Primordial Qi, Chen Yun continued to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye until the day of delivery arrived.

For this reason, Li Li Boyang's father in this life—Li Yu—had to return home early to accompany his wife.

As the only hunter in the village, Li Yu's status in the village was not low.

Coupled with the rumor that "Chen Yun was seemingly protected by the Mountain God," a midwife had been waiting at the house since long ago.

"How is Yun'er?"

He paced anxiously back and forth at the entrance of the delivery room.

Li Yu's behavior at this moment was completely unlike that of a burly, rough man.

To this, the midwife's assistant, who had long grown accustomed to it, continued busily with her own affairs with a calm expression, having no patience to attend to Li Yu at all.

Instead, the old village head nearby was soothing Li Yu, who had asked this question countless times, with kind words.

"Just rest assured!"

"Your wife has such a good body, and we have hired the best midwife within a hundred li; nothing unexpected will happen."

Before the old village head could finish speaking, a scream from Chen Yun suddenly rang out from inside the delivery room.

"Ah!"

Hearing this scream, Li Yu immediately lunged forward to the door, wanting to pull open the room's large door.

However, before he could even reach out his hand, he heard the midwife's voice coming from inside the room.

"Do not come in!"

"You rough men have too much yang energy; you absolutely must not come in!"

Having said that, the midwife inside the room was heard speaking to Chen Yun.

"Push hard; at this moment, you absolutely must not lose your spirit!"

"It is just this last breath; exert a bit more strength!"

Li Yu, whose soul seemed to have left his body, listened to the sounds from inside the room and could only pace back and forth restlessly.

Fortunately, although Chen Yun's screams were miserable, they were always full of vital energy, sounding in no way like the voice of a pregnant woman.

No one could clearly say how much time had passed.

The only thing that could be confirmed was that Chen Yun's screams continued from sunset until the bright moon hung high.

"Ah!"

Accompanied by the final scream, Chen Yun, who had persisted for so long, finally fainted as wished.

Immediately following, the midwife's voice, slightly terrified, was heard.

"This is..."

Realizing something was wrong, Li Yu, disregarding much else at that moment, immediately pushed open the delivery room's large door and rushed inside.

Then, what came into view was the midwife holding the infant with trembling hands, while her assistant stood nearby, shivering in fear.

"What happened? What is going on?"

"Where is my wife? And what about the child? Why is there no sound of crying?"

Having spotted the infant in the midwife's hands at a glance, Li Yu, who had barely relaxed his breath, hurriedly asked in pursuit.

However, what responded to him was the midwife's hands, trembling as they extended the child forward.

"You... you... your wife gave birth to a monster..."

Instinctively taking the infant from the midwife's hands, Li Yu only now saw clearly the appearance of this newborn.

It was actually an infant who did not cry or fuss, with a head of crimson downy hair like flames.

Seemingly sensing Li Yu's horrified gaze.

The infant in his hands slowly opened both eyes, surveying this world with a look full of curiosity.

By heaven and earth, Li Li Boyang swore he absolutely did not intend to frighten the midwife and Li Yu.

To conceal his innate strange phenomenon, Li Li Boyang could be said to have expended great effort.

Not only did he strive to control the power of the Sword Pill during the birth process.

He even consciously kept the Third Eye at his brow tightly shut, daring not to open it at all.

If one did not examine closely, one could only vaguely see a crack at the newborn's brow.

Li Li Boyang had considered many things and considered them thoroughly, yet he alone overlooked the influence the flesh and blood of Xi Luo had brought him.

Perhaps out of curiosity, and also to allow Li Li Boyang to be born smoothly.

The flesh and blood that Xi Luo fed to Chen Yun were not ordinary beast meat, but the flesh and blood of spirits living in the mountains.

Only such spirit flesh and blood could provide sufficient nourishment for Li Li Boyang in the fetal stage, allowing him to refine a continuous stream of Primordial Qi.

Regrettably, Li Li Boyang, who developed and took shape in this manner, would naturally inevitably be influenced by that spirit flesh and blood.

Possessing a head of dense, crimson downy hair like flames immediately upon birth was one of these residual influences.

Because the vision of normal eyes had not yet fully developed.

Li Li Boyang, who barely opened his eyes, actually could not see clearly what was happening all around.

But judging from the midwife's words and Li Yu's various behaviors...

Li Li Boyang still found it not difficult to distinguish that something must have gone wrong with his own body.

Just as Li Li Boyang hesitated whether to open the Third Eye at his brow to see what the situation actually was, Li Yu finally spoke.

"What monster?"

"You old woman, do not speak nonsense!"

"This is my son; no matter what he looks like, he is my son!"

Glaring viciously at the midwife, Li Yu's domineering aura, forged from years of hunting fierce beasts in the mountains, was laid bare in that instant.

"It's just that his hair is a bit red; shave it off and that's it."

Li Yu was seen speaking while reaching out to rub Li Li Boyang's head.

Feeling the soft texture coming from that red hair, Li Yu immediately added another sentence.

"By the way, I've hung twenty jin of cured meat next door..."

"There is also some gold and silver on the table; don't forget to take it when you leave later."

Snapping back from his terror, the midwife immediately realized Li Yu was bribing her.

After a moment of hesitation, the midwife turned her head to glance at her assistant beside her, then nodded without the slightest hesitation.

"Child of the Li family, rest assured."

"This old woman saw nothing today, and no one will speak a single idle word to the outside world."

Receiving the midwife's hint, the assistant beside her immediately understood and nodded as well.

"Mm, then I won't keep you for a meal."

Hearing this, Li Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, then walked over to his wife's side while holding Li Li Boyang.

Looking at Chen Yun, whose face was pale but otherwise unharmed.

Li Yu hesitated, but in the end placed Li Li Boyang, who had never cried or made a fuss, beside her.

No matter how this child came to be, he is our own flesh and blood.

"Yun'er, this is our child!"

Gently bending down, Li Yu pressed his forehead against Chen Yun's face, not even noticing when the midwife and the other person left.

"Although he looks a bit strange and won't cry..."

"But this face looks exactly like yours."

Hearing his father of this life say so, Li Li Boyang finally realized what he had overlooked.

From birth until now, he had been nervously controlling the strange phenomena of his birth, only to forget to cry like a normal infant.

【If I cry now... would it seem a bit forced?】

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