533: You give birth to one ball, I'll give birth to ten babies!

The maidservants and servants rushed to call for midwives and doctors, but they did not know how to explain the General-in-Chief's condition.

The midwife was dragged into the bedroom. Seeing Li Jing's appearance, her eyes almost popped out. After a while, she stammered: "Gen... General-in-Chief, this... I have never seen a man give birth! No... birth canal... this... how do I deliver?"

"Stop the nonsense! Deliver the baby as usual!" Li Jing, in pain to the point of losing his mind, roared.

He felt those ten "little ancestors" were already impatient to be born.

"That... that still requires a canal..." the midwife muttered.

"Why do you care so much? Chicks don't pee, everyone has their own Dao. If there's a canal, use it..." Li Jing continued to roar.

"Oh, oh..."

Perhaps due to the strange energy pouring into his body, or perhaps it was the Heavenly Dao playing tricks, the delivery process was unexpectedly "smooth".

Li Jing let out painful roars that did not sound human.

"Wah!"

"Wah! Wah!"

"Wah!"

A series of loud, even resonant baby cries rang out in the bedroom like a string of firecrackers!

The first, the second, the third... The midwives and maids were in a flurry, almost unable to keep up.

These infants were exceptionally robust, their cries shaking the heavens. Their bodies still carried faint, lingering rosy clouds, their skin was crystalline, and spiritual light faintly flowed between their brows.

Nine baby boys fell to the ground one after another.

Finally, just when Li Jing was almost exhausted and thought it was over, his abdomen contracted again.

"Waa..."

A baby girl, equally robust but with a slightly clearer cry, was born.

Ten cries echoed through the Li Mansion, even faintly reaching outside.

In the sky, auspicious clouds gathered, surrounded by five-colored rosy light, and a strange fragrance lingered for a long time.

Li Jing lay limp on the specially made soft couch, his face gray and his breath weak. Looking at his nine sons and one daughter arranged in swaddling clothes beside him, his eyes were hollow, and his Soul seemed to be experiencing Soul Emergence.

On Lady Yin's side, almost at the same moment, she successfully gave birth to a child. It was a meat ball, the room filled with red light, a rich strange fragrance, and the phantom of a lotus flower flashed and vanished.

The midwife tremblingly brought the ball born by Lady Yin to Li Jing: "Con... Congratulations, General-in-Chief, your wife has given birth to a ball!"

Li Jing moved his eyes numbly, looked at the ball, then at the ten hungry, spiritual-light-filled children beside him, and he could not catch his breath, almost fainting on the spot.

In one night, nine sons, one daughter, and one ball!

Ten of them were his own "flesh and blood"!

This... this was simply an unheard-of strange event! A strange rumor! No, a scandal!

Li Jing seemed to already see the astonished, mocking, and even disdainful gazes of his colleagues, as well as the rumors spreading through the streets.

"Prodigy... It must be a Prodigy at work!"

Li Jing caught his breath, shocked, angry, ashamed, and afraid. He pointed at the eleven babies/ball, his fingers trembling, "Such a thing that violates human ethics and the Heavenly Dao... Could it be because of the colored light that entered my body that day? That's it! It must be that strange object harming me!"

The more he thought, the more afraid he became, especially associating it with the rumors of the Nüwa Palace incident and the great calamity of the world. He felt these ten children and one ball were an ominous sign, fearing it would bring disaster to the Family and even implicate Chentang Pass.

"Husband, you must not!"

Although Lady Yin was also shocked, maternal instinct took over. Seeing Li Jing's expression, she hurriedly tried to dissuade him weakly: "Although the children's origins are strange, they are all spirited and have loud cries; they might not be a Prodigy. This matter needs to be considered carefully, to find out the cause..."

"You've given birth to a ball, what cause is there to find!"

Li Jing's mentality had collapsed, and he roared, "My, Li Jing's, lifelong reputation, is it to be ruined by this... this absurd matter? This must never be spread!"

"Prodigy... It must be a Prodigy at work!"

Li Jing lay on the couch, listening to the ten children's cries, one after another, full of energy. In a short time, they had grown a circle, looking like two or three years old.

And that meat ball, spinning around with faint red light, made him feel a surge of evil fire rushing to his brain.

Overnight, his wife gave birth to a ball, and he "gave birth" to ten cubs! If this matter got out, as the General-in-Chief of Chentang Pass and a dignified general of the Shang Dynasty, what face would he have left in the world?

Fear, shame, confusion, and lingering fear of that strange light entering his body intertwined, almost swallowing his reason.

Especially seeing that weird meat ball, it touched his deepest taboo. If it's not human-shaped, it must be a Prodigy!

Investigate or not?

"My wife has given birth to a ball, what cause is there to find?"

Li Jing suddenly propped up his exhausted body, his voice hoarse, his eyes bloodshot: "I, Li Jing, have fought all my life, loyal to the monarch and patriotic. I have been worthy of Heaven above and the people below. How could I attract such an absurd and ominous event? It must be that monster's light from that day, harming my household!"

His gaze swept over the ten infants in swaddling clothes, glowing with spiritual light but causing him great shame. Finally, he stared fixedly at the meat ball with glowing red light in the midwife's arms, his murderous intent rising sharply.

"Such a monster, leaving it will surely be a disaster! It ruins my Family's reputation and disturbs the peace of Chentang Pass! Today, I will eliminate this root of disaster!"

"Husband! No!" Although Lady Yin was also shocked and afraid, the bond between mother and child was strong. After all, that meat ball was born after her three-year pregnancy; how could she watch it be destroyed?

She struggled to get out of bed to stop him, but due to her postpartum weakness, she could not move. She could only say urgently: "That... that is also our flesh and blood! Even if there are strange signs, it may not be evil! How can you harm his life without asking right from wrong?"

"Flesh and blood? Do you think it looks like flesh and blood?!" Li Jing laughed in extreme anger, pointing at the meat ball, "People are pregnant for ten months, how can there be a reason for a three-year pregnancy for a ball? And these ten... of unknown origin, it must be a Demonic Technique! My Li Jing's household must never tolerate this filth!"

As he spoke, he forcibly gathered a breath of True Qi, ignoring his postpartum weakness and the lingering severe pain in his buttocks. He staggered to the wall and, with a "clang," drew the precious sword hanging there!

This sword was a Sharp Weapon in the army, having drunk countless blood, filled with Evil Qi.

"Li Jing! How dare you!" Lady Yin's eyes were about to split.

The midwives and maids were scared to the point of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, kneeling in a row, trembling, not daring to make a sound.

Li Jing held the sword in his hand, the tip of the sword trembling slightly, partly due to weakness and partly due to intense internal struggle.

But thinking of the pointing fingers of colleagues, the rumors of the common people, and even the possibility of angering the imperial court and implicating the Family... that bit of struggle was quickly overwhelmed by fear and righteousness.

"For the reputation of the Li Family, for the peace of Chentang Pass, Prodigy... die!"

A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and he channeled his remaining magic power into the sword, hacking down fiercely at the meat ball glowing with red light in the midwife's arms!

The sword light was cold, carrying the sound of breaking wind, straight for the meat ball!

"No—!" Lady Yin shrieked miserably.

Just as the sword edge was about to touch the meat ball,

"Hum—!!!"