Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 326 A Couple with Many Children

The valley was quiet
Li Wushou keenly sensed a sealed, malevolent aura.

At the entrance, the body of a tiger was severed at the waist and lay upside down on both sides of the entrance, its internal organs and flesh spilling out on the ground, gathering a thick aura of malevolence.

If you get close enough, you can hear the mournful roars of tigers.

“Venerable one, this is an obstacle. The leader of that group is a Foundation Establishment cultivator.”

Looking out, Li Wushou could clearly see the menacing tiger spirits at the entrance, guarding all directions.

This technique is quite interesting. If it were more powerful, it could be a good method of protection.

Of course, this applies to ordinary people or evil spirits. It's insignificant to the talisman master and Li Wushou. After sizing him up, Li Wushou said to the talisman master:
"Let's go in and have a look."

The talisman master respectfully agreed, his black cloak fluttering slightly, and the tiger's ghost instantly prostrated itself on the ground. With one step, he entered the valley.

Unlike the tranquility outside, the valley was somewhat noisy.

Li Wushou broadened his gaze, taking in the entire valley.

Although it was already midnight, there were still shadowy figures moving about. Upon closer inspection, there were about a dozen people, some walking around, others huddled together in pairs by the fire.

These people are probably couples, but they are all quite old, looking to be around forty or fifty years old.

Surprisingly, all of these women had large, round bellies; they were all pregnant.

Just then, a baby's cry suddenly rang out from the valley.

A middle-aged man walking by the fire suddenly tensed up, walked to the cave on the side, and muttered absentmindedly:
"Another baby has been born."

Footsteps rustled inside the cave, and soon a heavily pregnant woman emerged. As she stepped out, she looked at the man standing before the cave and said:
"Go see your wife. She gave birth to quadruplets this time. The immortal master said that if she were to have another child, it might be too late."

The man only came to his senses after hearing what the pregnant woman said, but his expression was still somewhat numb. He sighed and stepped into the cave.

Seeing this, the other couples around the fire also had expressions filled with sorrow and despair.

Several pregnant women even began to sob quietly, their husbands embracing them and repeatedly expressing their regret.

"You shouldn't pray for children; if you don't have children, then so be it."

Suddenly, a pregnant woman, overcome with emotion, clutched her belly and cried out in terror:
"Oh no, I'm going into labor!"

Her husband, surrounded by women, had red eyes and bulging veins on his hands. He shouted frantically towards the cave:

"Immortal Master, my wife is about to give birth!"

A soft sigh came from inside the cave, and a young girl slowly walked out. The girl looked to be about twenty years old, with delicate features, but she had a pair of sword-like eyebrows, and her brows revealed a chivalrous spirit.

With a flick of his sleeve, spiritual energy emanated from his body, carrying the suffering pregnant woman into the cave.

"You wait, I'll call you when it's born."

Her voice was clear and crisp, like a silver bell, but it carried a hint of helplessness. After speaking, she turned and walked into the cave with the pregnant woman. The pregnant woman's screams echoed in the cave, but then disappeared in the next instant.

Li Wushou saw clearly that there were two piles of bats buried on either side of the cave entrance. After the girl led the pregnant woman across the piles of bats, all the sounds disappeared.

This young girl was the leader of the group the talisman master had mentioned, and she seemed quite skilled at controlling spirits.

Turn your gaze into the cave and follow the girl's figure.

The cave was quite spacious, with torches hanging on the walls, illuminating it somewhat.

Several pregnant women were busy around three stone beds, which were separated by hemp screens. On the outermost stone bed lay a pale-faced pregnant woman, covered in sweat, who looked like she had just given birth.

Her husband was the middle-aged man who had been lingering outside the cave. He stood before his wife's bed with a blank expression. Li Wushou wondered if it was just his imagination, but in that short time, the man's face seemed to have aged considerably.

What's even more surprising is that the pregnant woman, who had just given birth to four children, is now experiencing a gradual swelling of her belly again.

The man saw his wife's belly swell up again and clutched his head in pain.

He broke down and screamed loudly.

The girl, supporting the pregnant woman, pointed a finger at the man's neck from mid-air. The man groaned and fell to the ground. With a flick of his sleeve, the man flew out of the cave.

The girl thought for a moment, then took out a red pill and fed it to the pregnant woman whose belly was swelling again. The weak woman's complexion visibly became rosy, but her belly swelled up even faster afterward.

The young woman remained expressionless and addressed the pregnant women who were helping her:
“Take his wife out with him.”

Several pregnant women swallowed hard as they looked at the bottle containing the red pills, then worked together to lift the pregnant woman and carry her out of the cave.

The young girl casually placed the pregnant woman, who was still clutching her stomach and crying out in pain, on the stone bed, and quickly joined the other pregnant women in delivering the babies.

Judging from her movements, she was clearly very familiar with this kind of work, having done it many times before.

Li Wushou's expression was somewhat strange upon seeing this scene. He seemed to have seen quite a lot of childbirth recently, and he wondered if his nascent soul was also being conceived in this way because he had seen so much.

Without paying excessive attention, I looked past the screen towards the two stone beds behind it and into the interior of the cave.

Even though Li Wushou had already received the news from the talisman master, he was still somewhat shocked by what he saw.

Next to the pregnant woman in labor, four infants lay side by side on the stone bed, their bodies still covered in amniotic fluid. They were clearly the four babies that the woman had just given birth to.

But these infants were strange; they didn't look like newborns, but rather like they were two or three years old. Li Wushou carefully examined the infants' mouths and, sure enough, saw a mouthful of teeth.

Thinking of the couple who had suddenly aged after giving birth, Li Wushou understood.

They were indeed using their lifespans to give birth!

In addition, these children did not look right; all four babies had some degree of disability.

Two of them were already on the verge of death and about to die, while the other two didn't look like they would live much longer either.

Beyond the screen behind this stone bed, the last stone bed is empty, but at each end of the stone bed, there is a corpse buried.

The corpses were a man and a woman, both extremely old. The woman's belly was loose and sagging, suggesting they were also a couple from the previous encounter.

Like the tiger outside the valley, these two corpses were cut in half at the waist and buried upside down in the pit.

Li Wushou could clearly see that the couple's souls had transformed into malevolent spirits, sealing off the inside of the cave.

Beyond the two eerie shadows, inside the cave, a large stone chamber had been carved out and connected to the entrance, resembling a gourd when viewed from above.

In the stone chamber, niches were carved out of the walls, and in each niche sat a crippled infant.

Some lack facial features, some lack limbs, and some even lack internal organs.

These are all stillborn babies!

At a glance, there were no fewer than a hundred dead infants on the three walls, in addition to the corpses of some other infants and the bodies of a dozen or so couples piled up in the stone chamber.

The entire cave was filled with an eerie atmosphere, making people extremely uncomfortable.

As for why the corpse of the dead infant was placed on the niche, Li Wushou glanced at it and had a general understanding in his mind. This should be a kind of magic used by the girl to control the spirits.

She used the corpses of these dead infants to refine three infant souls, which then resided in three walls, sealing off the entire cave.

Besides these three walls, the girl had also buried several couples' corpses in the top of the cave.

This is also why Li Wushou sensed a sealed aura of evil spirits when viewed from the outside.

If Li Wushou hadn't learned the whole story from the talisman master beforehand, he would have thought he had stumbled into some evil cultivator's shady place.

Two days ago, when Li Wushou was learning about the Western Sea Vein through the daily routine of the talisman master, the talisman master recounted how he unexpectedly discovered this group of people.

The reason for this was that the young girl rushed to Zhenhai City to find her master, hoping that he could help her with something.

Her master was a Golden Core manager of the Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce, and came from the Zhu family, one of the seven clans.

He was initially pleased by the girl's sudden visit, but after she made her request, her master's expression changed drastically. He then sternly reprimanded her, saying that she was too naive.

He even knocked the girl unconscious, his eyes filled with murderous intent, as if to eliminate any future trouble.

The talisman master, who was filling in his eyeliner grid at the time, happened to overhear the two men's conversation in the guild. They mentioned the Western Sea Vein several times, which piqued his interest.

So he made a last-minute decision to enslave the mind of his young master.

After questioning, it became clear that the girl wanted her master to help her enter the Cape of the Sea.

She is going to sue the Western Sea Vein for harboring evil gods and harming the people!

Upon hearing this, the talisman master's mind stirred; he felt that this was very likely the opportunity that the Venerable One needed.

The manager of the Zhu family in the Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce was afraid of provoking the Western Sea Vein, but they were not.

It was unclear how serious the girl's lawsuit was, so the talisman master awakened the girl and, through her master, informed her to settle down and secretly bring some victims, while the others would await her master's instructions.

The girl didn't understand why her master had changed his mind, but she was overjoyed.

After excitedly leaving Zhenhai City, they cautiously arrived at this valley.

After the talisman master secretly followed them here, he witnessed a scene completely different from what he had seen before.

The people in the valley kept giving birth and getting pregnant again.
After each cycle, the lifespan of the couple who give birth is greatly reduced. In just two days, nearly half of the original thirty-odd people died of old age.

But nearly a hundred babies were born!
All of this was the result of the girl emptying her family's savings to buy blood pills, which strengthened the bodies of the pregnant women.

However, the blood pills were clearly only a temporary fix; although they strengthened the pregnant woman's blood and energy, she began to conceive multiple babies.

This bizarre scene made the talisman master sense the presence of the divine.

Moreover, the style of this deity looks somewhat familiar, and it is somewhat similar to the birth of a child by the nine daughters of the Deng family in Chaohai City some time ago.

Therefore, he immediately informed Li Wushou of the whole incident.

This led to Li Wushou's nighttime visit to the Cape of the Sea with his Mind Shield.

After witnessing all of this, Li Wushou couldn't help but have a strange expression.

Could all of this be the will of Heaven?

(End of this chapter)