Wet viviparity

Chapter 704 A Pack of Tigers, Golden Essence Mountain
Blessed Land - Jinjing Mountain.

This blessed land and treasure mountain is the ancestral home of the Jiang family. All day long, the mountain is shrouded in purple and red clouds, and auspicious mists rise and rise, as if the immortals were spitting flames from their alchemy furnace.

In the mountains, towering stone pillars stand in rows like a forest, their moss-covered patterns embroidered with emerald green, glistening with moisture. Suddenly, a suspended platform appears, spanning more than an acre in size, floating three zhang in the air, its jade-like blossoms lush and verdant, shining brightly day and night, illuminating the ravine as if it were daytime.

Southward in the mountains, outside a mystical dwelling, the rain falls softly on banana leaves, and summer thunder rumbles faintly.

Within the residence, deep beneath the underground palace, in the ancestral hall of the inner courtyard, layers of green tiles overlap like fine scales, and occasional spiritual light shines through the gaps in the trees in the courtyard, casting a cold glow. Countless ever-burning oil lamps are arranged in the hall according to the nine palaces.

There was a creature with a tiger's head and a human body, sitting upright on a large red gourd. It wore a bright red Bagua robe, a Hunyuan turban on its head, and a black sash around its waist. It had a pair of white eyebrows as hard as pine needles and a pair of bright golden eyes.

"sure?"

As soon as this person spoke, thousands of lanterns swayed in unison.

Standing around him were a dozen or so people, most of them dressed in uniform. One of them, with his naturally loud voice, replied, "Father, the doctor we invited from Kuangshan said that Ninth Sister's pregnancy is stable and she has been pregnant for several months."

"Several months!"
It seems that motherhood is innate; even she is not immune to it, having not proactively informed anyone of her pregnancy during this time.

"The tiger-man on the gourd said."

At this moment, another Taoist priest with a serene demeanor spoke up, saying, "Father, Ninth Mother is indeed born with a precious and immortal appearance. Her willingness to give birth to a son for you, thus continuing the lineage of our Jiang family, is a great merit. After this matter is settled..."

Before the Taoist could finish speaking, the loud voice interrupted, "Jiang Neng, you truly are your father's filial son. You've already begun to interfere in your father's internal affairs. It seems that you, the third tiger of the Jiang family, are about to take power."

Seeing that the tiger-man on the gourd remained silent, the loud-voiced man became somewhat dejected and quieted down.

“I made a promise beforehand that as long as she gives birth to a son for my Jiang family, she can have everything she wants, just like your other mothers. And of course, all of this includes the most useless and ridiculous freedom.”

The tiger-man spoke casually, as this was not an important matter to him; what was truly important was what was to come.

“Our Jiang family has passed down the ‘Six Jia Yin’ lineage for generations, refining the true form of the spirit tiger. Our ancestor was Jiang Xuan, the third ancestor of the True Spirit Sect’s Jade Toad. The Zheng family’s ancestor was merely a disciple of our ancestor. In times of glory, the Ji family cannot take away our brilliance.”

Unfortunately, the descendants were unworthy, which tarnished the family's glory. There was no one to carry on the family's legacy, and talented individuals were hard to find. The family had a treasure mountain, but no one to use it.

"Now, a member of our clan is newly pregnant, and the mother's body is extraordinary—she has earlobes and three openings in her center. We humbly beseech our ancestors to bless and protect her, and to invoke the protection of their servants, so that her blessings may be revealed, her spirit manifested, and the hearts of our clan may be comforted."

Inside the ancestral hall, accompanied by the man's prayers, tiger statues appeared around the edge of thousands of oil lamps, each in a different pose: some crouching, some lying down, some snarling, some pouncing, some raising their heads to the sky, and some lowering their heads to sniff the ground.

The central figure is particularly ferocious, with a mottled golden body and a jagged spine. Its nine human faces are like nine branches on a tree, and its front paws are actually stepping on a blurry stone skull. The nine heads and eighteen eyes are inlaid with dark red agate.

In the dim candlelight, this tiger statue stands several times taller than the others, gazing at you from afar in the darkness, its surface faintly glowing with a bloody light.

Before the tiger statues, on a long table, incense sticks and candles were arranged like stars, their dim yellow flames casting flickering, uneven light and shadow on the tigers.

Above the "Nine Gates Jade Threshold Array Diagram" outside Jinjing Mountain, wisps of divine energy blew through the array as if strolling leisurely in one's own courtyard. They entered through the key valve in the array and flowed silently into the array, sweeping down a section of the mountain.

"here we go!"

Ji Ming's whisper echoed from within the divine energy.

In order to maintain their lineage, the major clans within the True Spirit Sect secretly sought out extraordinary individuals, hoping to use the principles of Yin and Yang to create offspring with exceptional talents, so that they could surpass their peers from birth and bring glory to their families.

Among them, Jiang Shenhu, the current head of the Jiang family, is the best at this method. He has been recruiting excellent furnaces from the East China Sea, and has fathered dozens or even hundreds of offspring. However, only a dozen or so of them can be included in the family genealogy.

The target of this second primordial spirit's reincarnation is the twins conceived by her newly acquired ninth wife.

He had considered the other major families, but the Ji family was concealed by a master, making it difficult to calculate in detail. The Zhao family had strict rules and clear hierarchy, which was not conducive to growth. The Zheng family was the most declining and could not be protected by him.

After much thought, only the Jiang family is suitable.

He had thoroughly investigated the internal and external affairs of the Jiang family during his visit. Because the Jiang family's bloodline was newly pregnant, it was necessary to use the "Secret Technique of Spiritual Protection".

Once this secret technique is unleashed, the true remains of the Jiang family ancestors worshipped in the ancestral hall will be able to sense the blood cells. If the blood cells are of extraordinary quality, the ancestors will send down their servants to protect their path.

The more superior the bloodline, the more powerful the servants of the ancestors it can obtain.

Strands of intangible yet tangible divine energy wandered through the mountains and blew along the water's edge, slowly arriving at a courtyard within the Jiang family's ancestral home. A woman sat in the courtyard, her body exuding the fragrance of sandalwood, her hands gently covering her slightly protruding belly, softly humming a lullaby.

Although the song was light and melodious, you could still feel her nervousness.

This woman was originally from an overseas island. She was born with full earlobes and a triple structure visible inside her earlobes. This was known as the "precious appearance of having earlobes with three gates in the middle." She was originally ordained by a Buddhist monk.

After entering the Buddhist order, this woman worked in the East China Sea to eliminate evil and promote good, gradually earning the title of Bao'er Ni. Later, her reputation grew and spread along the coast. Eventually, she was sought out by the True Spirit Sect, which brought her a calamity for no reason.

The divine wind blew into the courtyard. This wind, which was originally the most violent in the upper realm of the spirit world, had been tamed into the gentlest form by Ji Ming's escape technique.

Above the incense burner, the incense smoke hanging down in the courtyard was plucked by the divine energy, trembling like a string. The woman was completely unaware of all this, while Ji Ming, transformed into the Flowing Energy Escape Technique, was carefully sensing the state of the blood cysts inside the woman's abdomen.

Within the divine energy, the eye of the wet egg and embryo slowly emerged, and the character "胎" (embryo) within it gradually faded away, indicating that the second primordial spirit had already anchored itself to the next life.

This time, Ji Ming learned from Chi Shenzi's lesson and did not accumulate good fortune for the twins right away.

While this certainly raises the starting point, setting it too high at the beginning attracts attention from all sides, and a large part of one's energy will be spent on concealing one's abnormality in the future. Once one breaks the norm, one will always have to find a reasonable explanation for oneself.

This time, with his mastery of divination, he could avoid a lot of trouble, but he still needed to keep a low profile when his second primordial spirit was born in this world.

Inside the ancestral hall.

The flickering flames of incense and candles on the table made the shadows of the tigers seem restless, as if they were about to burst through the air at any moment.

On the table sat a bronze sacrificial vessel, filled with dark wine, which wafted faintly with a fishy smell as it rippled. Layers of candle wax piled up like solidified amber, yet they exuded a sticky chill. On the gourd, Jiang Shenhu, the current patriarch of the Jiang family, chanted the Six Jia Yin Tiger Precious Proclamation.

"The auspicious beast of the Yin Palace, the Jia wood is spiritual."

It occupies the Zhen position and commands the Xun wind.

It travels throughout the three realms and governs all spirits.

Extremely strong and fierce, yet also extremely compassionate and benevolent.

"

Incense smoke curled on the table, like thin, gray-white snakes coiling between the beams and pillars, slowly entwining the dark coffered ceiling.

All the tigers' eyes, regardless of size or height, were fixed intently on a spot outside the hall, their gazes cold and heavy, their light chilling.

Jiang Shenhu looked around the tiger statues in the ancestral hall expectantly. He did not expect this bloodline to receive a response from the enlightened beast with nine heads and human faces. He only hoped that this bloodline could be recognized by a tiger lord.

For example, if one receives the influence of the three tiger lords, namely the fierce tiger Zhi, the blue tiger Luo Luo, and the rare beast Zou Yu, then the child born from this bloodline can become the pride of the clan, a true spiritual seed, and receive the clan's full support.

If these are the four supreme immortal tigers—Chihu, Baihu, Qiuer, and Menghu—then their blood relatives will still receive the same treatment as the clan in the future, enjoying fine clothes and delicacies, exquisite residences and sacred dwellings, numerous servants, and the protection of the family.

If the creature that descends with the aura is a spirit tiger such as a mountain tiger, tomb tiger, red tiger, or flesh-winged tiger, it can be accepted by the family. However, it can only be listed as a member of a collateral branch and will be placed under a forbidden spell. Unless it achieves a breakthrough and obtains great fortune, it will be granted special favor and allowed to enter the main family.

In the past few hundred years, there has only been one example like Jiang Neng.

But if even the spirit tiger is unwilling to descend and sense it, then it is unworthy to be born into the world bearing the name of the Jiang family.

(End of this chapter)