The fetal movement is like a thunderclap! Killing someone from afar to deter villains.

The pair of blood-red eyes deep underground had just opened.

Jiang Yining felt a burning sensation in her abdomen.

It was as if something had been provoked.

The little one inside her clearly didn't like anything running wild in her territory.

"Sizzle—"

Jiang Yining's guidance is not needed.

A pure, purplish-gold arc of electricity pierced through her body, flowing down her legs and into the ground.

That electric current was so domineering and unreasonable.

There are no fancy techniques, just pure level suppression.

From the shadows at the base of the stone pillar came a muffled groan, as if someone had been burned.

Those chilling red eyes lasted only a moment.

It was forced to close under this overwhelming divine power.

"Click".

The cracks in the stone pillar closed up again.

Jiang Yining wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.

That was close.

Fortunately, this little guy was there, otherwise she would probably have already been possessed by that demonic cultivator.

Jiang Yining, supporting her lower back, slowly walked out of the ancestral hall.

It was already dark outside.

However, many cultivators had already laid an ambush near the Jiang family's residence.

"You arrived so quickly?"

Although Li Xueyi was nearly killed by the lightning talisman last time, it did not deter the greedy jackals.

This only made them more convinced that the Jiang family possessed a great treasure.

Half a month later.

Jiang Yining went to her boudoir and sat in front of the bronze mirror.

She unbuttoned her large robe.

If someone else saw the reflection in the mirror, they would probably be terrified.

In just half a month, her belly had grown as big as a woman who was six or seven months pregnant.

"Thump." The baby in her belly kicked her.

Powerful.

The teacup next to Jiang Yining was jolted awake, and tea spilled all over the table.

The sky outside the window was originally sparsely lit by stars and the moon.

Suddenly, a dark cloud gathered.

Thunder rumbled softly.

It was as if responding to the restlessness of the unborn baby.

"Stop fooling around."

Jiang Yining gently patted her belly, picked up the spiritual fruit on the table, and took a bite.

My grandmother sent over a basket of these spiritual fruits, and there's also a large pot of spiritual medicinal cuisine over there.

When her aunts learned that she was pregnant and that the baby was "unusual," they prepared different medicinal meals for her every day and fed the baby various kinds of food.

Jiang Yining's skin was so fair and tender from all the nourishment they gave her, she looked like a pretty little pink pig.

"Ningning."

Second Aunt pushed the door open and came in: "The Blood Fiend Sect people are here again."

"This time...this time they brought a lot of people, and they're guarding outside the courtyard wall."

"They said they were afraid that someone in our Jiang family would get infected with the plague and run out to wreak havoc on the whole city, so from now on, members of the Jiang family are not allowed to go out."

Jiang Yining threw the fruit pit into the plate: "These people actually want to incite the entire city to be hostile to our Jiang family."

They wanted to trap them inside, waiting to catch them like turtles in a jar.

"Let them guard it."

Jiang Yining's eyes deepened; she had a premonition that the baby was about to be born.

"As long as they don't come in, we'll hold our positions for now. Let them enter the formation first."

In order to protect everyone with the greatest energy, she adjusted the Jiang family's grand formation to be only the size of two rooms.

Aunt Jiang nodded: "I'll do as you say, I'll have everyone stay inside the formation."

Jiang Yining also got up and followed her second aunt outside.

At that moment, she could sense several furtive figures approaching her courtyard.

They were all cultivators in the Qi Refining stage.

Although she deliberately suppressed her breathing, Jiang Yining keenly sensed it.

"Isn't the eldest daughter of the Jiang family supposed to be crippled? Why is she in seclusion every day?"

"The young master said that if there really is any treasure, it will definitely be hidden on her."

Jiang Yining held her belly and felt the fetal movements becoming more and more intense.

A feeling of disgust traveled through her veins to her mind.

That's a child's direct reaction to malice from the outside world.

It found it noisy.

"Boom—"

A thunderclap suddenly exploded in the sky outside the window.

But the thunder did not come from the sky.

A bolt of lightning, only as thick as a hair but purplish-black, struck outside the courtyard in an instant.

There wasn't even a chance for a scream to escape from outside the window.

There was only a soft "plop" sound, like red-hot iron chopsticks being inserted into lard.

Then came a burnt smell.

"What's going on?!"

"Third brother! Third brother, what's wrong with you!"

Suppressed gasps came from outside.

Then came the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, followed by a chaotic sound of footsteps.

Those who had been lurking in the shadows scattered like startled rabbits, fleeing frantically.

Jiang Yining walked outside into the yard, where a dark, murky corpse lay beside the flower bed.

It's no longer recognizable as human.

Everything was carbonized by the instantaneous high temperature.

Jiang Yining looked down at her stomach.

This kid is just too amazing!

Even before it was born, it could instantly kill a cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining.

If this were to be born...

She touched her stomach, her tone complicated.

"Son, this gift you gave us when we first met was a bit too much."

The baby in her belly seemed quite pleased with itself, nudging her palm.

The dark clouds in the sky did not dissipate; instead, they pressed down even lower.

The rumble of thunder was faint.

The entire population of Qingyun City was horrified to discover this.

Tonight, Lei seemed to be focusing only on the small courtyard of the Jiang family.

It's like some precious treasure is about to be born.

Outside the gate of the Jiang family.

Li Xueyi sat in a sedan chair, toying with two iron gallbladders in his hands.

Upon hearing his subordinate's report, the iron flask in his hand clattered to the ground.

"What did you say?"

"Did the third brother get struck by lightning and die?"

"Didn't even see Jiang Yining's face?"

The subordinate kneeling on the ground trembled like a leaf, his face pressed against the ground, not daring to raise his head.

"It was...it happened in an instant."

"The men didn't even see a shadow of a person."

"That thunder... came from inside the house."

Li Xueyi felt her throat was dry.

Could it be that the old geezer in the Jiang family has such methods?

No, that's not right.

If it were that old woman, she would have already come out to fight.

This is more like... a rare treasure protecting its owner.

The fear in Li Xueyi's eyes was gradually replaced by a kind of insane greed.

It can automatically protect its owner and even influence celestial phenomena.

This is definitely not an ordinary magical artifact; it might even be a legendary spiritual artifact!

If I could get this thing...

Why should Li Xueyi worry about not being able to dominate Qingyun City, or even join a major sect?

"go."

Li Xueyi took a deep breath to suppress the trembling in his heart.

"Go and fetch my father."

"Also... leak this information to the city lord's mansion."

His subordinate was taken aback: "Young Master, if the City Lord's Mansion gets involved, what will happen to us..."

"idiot!"

Li Xueyi kicked his subordinate in the shoulder.

"That stuff is too strange; our whole family can't eat it."

"We need to find a scapegoat to scout ahead."

He looked at the Jiang family's mansion, which appeared particularly eerie in the night, and a sinister smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Send more people to seal off the Jiang family's residence; don't let a single fly out."

"I don't believe they can hide in that turtle shell forever."