He'd rather run than be turned into a cannon fodder for the broken engagement.

Chapter 143 To be born or not to be born?

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"Sister, are you okay?"

Fu Xun returned, still carrying a faint smell of blood. Seeing the chaotic scene, he frowned slightly. "Has someone been here?"

Leng Huan straightened his sleeves: "It's nothing. There was an old man who tried to rob me, but I chased him away!"

Yay! Actually, I'm a little happy. It's the first time I've fought against a high-level cultivator of the same realm, and I even won. Leng Huan was confident he could take down that person, but the other party ran away out of fear of death, which is a bit of a regret.

Gao Xiuwei is indeed powerful. The Water Dragon Spirit Technique he uses now is on a completely different level than the one he used before.

Fu Xun sincerely praised, "Senior sister is amazing."

Leng Huan shook his head and joked, "That's not true. You, the great mountain, are right here. How dare my firefly compete with the sun and moon?"

Fu Xun: "..."

"You... dealt with Yan Hu?" Smelling the bloody scent he brought with him, Leng Huan felt a little uncomfortable. The faint smell of blood entered her nostrils, making her feel nauseous. She immediately took a step back.

"Hmm, what's wrong?" Fu Xun opened his palm and there was a crystal clear bead with a faint glow, about the size of a walnut: "This is the inner core of a demon beast."

Demonic beasts also need to reach the Golden Core stage to have a pure spiritual core, or inner core.

This kind of pure inner core can be directly refined to improve one's cultivation level. Leng Huan looked at the Nascent Soul level inner core with curiosity. It was quite beautiful!

But she took another step back; the smell of blood made her uncomfortable.

Leng Huan covered his nose: "You, the smell of blood is a bit strong, it doesn't smell good."

Fu Xun paused, carefully putting away the inner core. Actually, he couldn't smell it, but seeing her disgusted expression, he took a few steps back, distancing himself from her: "It'll dissipate in a bit. I'm glad you're alright, keep going."

Leng Huan nodded and walked ahead, crossing the canyon and continuing through the grassland into the Red Rock Mountains, with the Lava Valley behind them.

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The Red Rock Mountain is all red as far as the eye can see, barren of everything... no, that's not quite right, there are still some grayish thorn bushes.

Looking at this striking mountainous area, Leng Huan let out a long breath. After walking for several days, he had finally arrived here.

Fu Xun probed with his divine sense, and found that the endless expanse for dozens of miles was filled with these red rock mountains: "Senior Sister, to reach the center of the secret realm, we can travel for a few more days and bypass the lava valley..."

Leng Huan was a little dazed and didn't respond, secretly touching his stomach.

His face was a little pale. Yesterday, he encountered a pregnant female beast on the grassland. It looked a lot like a big cat, but it wasn't. It was being attacked by other demon beasts. Leng Huan took a liking to it and helped it out. Fu Xun said that the big cat demon beast was pregnant with cubs and was about to give birth.

Leng Huan didn't think anything was wrong at the time, but when he felt some movement in his stomach that evening, he realized that the energy ball had grown quite a bit when he meditated and looked inward.

She couldn't tell anything from the air mass, but when she touched her belly, it looked more and more like a small ball. She pondered for a long time, and the more she thought about it, the more something seemed wrong!

A strong sense of foreboding rose in my heart.

She recalled that before she left the clan, she casually asked Che Li and the others how to read a pulse... The pulse of pregnancy is the simplest and easiest to detect.

She tried it herself, and the experience was like a thunderbolt... her pulse was strong, like beads rolling on a plate...

So she didn't sleep well all night.

Fu Xun noticed she seemed a bit distracted and called out, "Senior Sister?"

Leng Huan murmured softly, "It's not easy to get around..." She stared at Fu Xun for a long while.

Leng Huan's disadvantage was her serious lack of common sense and the absence of similar examples around her—at most, after more than half a year, most women would be showing their pregnancy, but she just wasn't. If it were any more obvious, even she, who was slow to notice, would have noticed the problem.

I've been in a daze all day, and right now I can't even muster the interest to visit Lava Valley.

I'm conflicted, but I'm still clinging to a sliver of hope that maybe she's misunderstood?

Even with Fu Xun here, she didn't dare ask, afraid of asking something she wouldn't be able to accept.

Leng Huan's belly has been growing faster lately, but there haven't been any other effects. With so much going on, she hadn't paid attention to whether she was gaining weight or not. Now that she's suddenly realized this, she feels utterly bewildered.

Some things happen when you think they're impossible; some things you expect to be earth-shattering happen quietly.

Perhaps it was psychological; if he hadn't known, he wouldn't have cared, but knowing made Leng Huan feel very uncomfortable.

"Senior sister? Senior sister, what's wrong?" Seeing that she was lost in thought, Fu Xun pulled her aside and asked in a low voice, "It's getting late today, let's find a place to rest first."

Leng Huan glanced at him, then looked away: "Okay, I'm a little tired."

The two found a suitable spot and dug a cave to stay temporarily. Leng Huan meditated to relieve his physical discomfort and looked inward. Sure enough, the energy ball in his stomach was absorbing spiritual energy and blood essence faster.

Leng Huan closed his eyes, his mind filled with many thoughts, yet it also seemed as if he wasn't thinking about anything at all.

It seemed quite ordinary. Considering that it didn't cause her too much distress, she could reconsider whether to keep it or not.

Some people recently said that having children is defying nature, but this is definitely a slap in the face.

No way. Does this secret realm have any healers? The kind who can help with surgery. Anything else is out of the question. She can't bring herself to do it if it's really that kind of thing.

Leng Huan's mind was racing with all sorts of thoughts for a long time. This was the world of cultivation, and even if she had surgery late in her pregnancy, she could find a way to recover her health.

But if we really stay here, we're still in the secret realm. When we get out... the heir of the Leng family has a child out of wedlock, and suddenly the child is two years old?

Hiss! Thinking of the Leng family, thinking of his fellow disciples, Leng Huan is already dead.

She didn't want to face it.

What should I do?

There's another person involved who's completely unaware of this. Should we tell him?

The spiritual energy in Red Rock Mountain is relatively thin, and there are no large demonic beasts. Lava Valley is hidden in Red Rock Mountain. They flew directly over it on their swords and looked down from the sky. Only then did they realize that this area was not just a few dozen miles long, but Red Rock stretched for thousands of miles!

After thinking about it all day, Leng Huan still couldn't figure out what to do, and she started to panic.

Logically speaking, there should have been slight movement a month ago, but Leng Huan really didn't notice, or maybe he ignored it. Who the hell would think that the movement similar to intestinal peristalsis is fetal movement!

Even if we disregard the fact that Leng Huan is a novice, even real women sometimes overlook this.

Lost in thought, she slowed down her sword-riding. The thought that fetal movement was somehow connected to her own body caused her to lose her balance and almost fall off the sword.

"Senior sister, be careful!" Noticing that she had slowed down, Fu Xun had no choice but to fly slowly beside her. Seeing that she was not in good condition and almost fell, Fu Xun was shocked.

She's been acting a bit strange these past two days. Fu Xun frowned, then simply teleported onto her sword and landed her on a flat area.

"Senior sister? What are you thinking about?"

Leng Huan's face darkened for a moment. She shook her head and remained silent. Not wanting to stay there any longer, she turned and walked slowly forward, regardless of whether Fu Xun followed or not.

Seeing this, Fu Xun carefully observed her back and felt that she looked like a squirrel whose winter food had been stolen, and she seemed quite resentful.

She was not someone to be trifled with. Fu Xun secretly gasped and followed Leng Huan in silence.

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Leng Huan sighed inwardly, "Ugh! This is so annoying. Being soft-hearted is a bad thing. I only did it because I felt sorry for his fate in the original book... Now what's the point of training him? I've just gotten myself into this mess."

Who would want to be a cannon fodder character and have the protagonist's child? It's laughable if word gets out.

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To have or not to have

While Fu Xun went out to scout the way, Leng Huan sat on a rock, breaking off a dry thorn he had picked up, deciding to let fate decide what the last piece he broke off would be.

Life, no... life. Looking at the last piece of thorn in her hand, then at the pair of feet that had just stopped in front of her, she raised her eyes and met Fu Xun's dark eyes. He was back.

He had just broken it off, and what remained was... Leng Huan flicked his finger, and the thorn flew away with a "biu" sound.

"Senior sister, are you getting bored while waiting?"

"No." Leng Huan clapped his hands and stood up.

"Senior sister, have you finished your spiritual fruit?"

Spiritual fruit? It seems that ever since she found out she was pregnant, Leng Huan has been feeling unwell and has lost her appetite for many days. "No, I just suddenly don't like to eat."

Not only do I not like to eat, but I also feel nauseous.

It was entirely psychological that affected her physical condition. When she didn't know it, she had a good appetite and slept well.

She hasn't been eating or sleeping well these past few days, so her spirits are naturally low. Fu Xun noticed that she wasn't behaving normally, but Leng Huan is like a hedgehog now. Whenever he gets close, she gets prickly and won't even let him hold her hand.

Fu Xun felt a little strange. He didn't know when it started, but Leng Huan was deliberately avoiding contact with him.

In fact, ever since she gained weight, Leng Huan stopped contacting her.

Xian had already changed into a collared shirt, the belt fastened, the loose fabric concealing her figure, making it impossible to tell that she had changed.

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