Chapter 4: Should I Cry Right Now?
Pregnant for ten months, giving birth in a day.
In any era, childbirth is an unavoidable Ghost Gate for a pregnant woman.
Even with the continual nourishment and nurturing of Innate Qi, Chen Yun still visibly withered at an alarming rate until the day of delivery arrived.
For this reason, Li Yu, Li Boyang’s father in this lifetime, had to return home early to be by his wife’s side.
As the only Hunter in the village, Li Yu held a certain status in the community.
Coupled with the rumors that "Chen Yun might be under the protection of the Mountain God," a Midwife was already waiting at home early on.
"How is Yun’er?"
He paced anxiously at the door of the delivery room.
At this moment, Li Yu didn’t seem like a burly man at all.
To this, the Midwife’s assistant, long used to such scenes, calmly continued with her tasks, not even bothering to acknowledge Li Yu.
Instead, it was the old village chief on the side who was patiently comforting Li Yu, who had asked this question countless times.
"Don’t worry!"
"Your wife is in such good health, and you invited the best Midwife within a hundred miles around, nothing unexpected will happen."
The old village chief had barely finished speaking when a sudden scream from Chen Yun came from inside the delivery room.
"Ah!"
As soon as he heard this scream, Li Yu rushed to the door, intending to pull it open.
Before he could reach out, he heard the Midwife’s voice from inside the room.
"Don’t come in!"
"You men with strong Yang Qi must not come in!"
After saying this, the Midwife continued speaking to Chen Yun inside.
"Push, don’t lose strength now!"
"Just need a bit more effort!"
Distraught, Li Yu could only pace nervously as he listened to the sounds from the room.
Fortunately, although Chen Yun’s screams were miserable, her voice remained strong, not at all like that of a woman in labor.
No one could say for sure how much time had passed.
The only certainty was that Chen Yun’s screams continued from sunset until the moon hung high.
"Ah!"
With the final scream, Chen Yun, who had held on for so long, finally fainted.
Immediately after, the Midwife’s voice, tinged with fear, was heard.
"This is..."
Realizing something was wrong, Li Yu couldn’t care any longer and immediately pushed open the delivery room door, rushing in.
What met his eyes was the Midwife, trembling, holding a baby in her hands while her assistant stood by, shivering.
"What’s wrong? What happened?"
"Where’s my wife? And the baby, what happened? Why don’t I hear crying?"
Seeing the baby in the Midwife’s hands, Li Yu let out a little sigh of relief and quickly asked.
However, what responded to him were the Midwife’s trembling hands as she passed the baby to him.
"Your... your wife gave birth to a monster..."
Instinctively taking the baby from the Midwife’s hands, Li Yu finally saw the appearance of the newborn.
It was a baby who neither cried nor fussed, with a head of flame-like crimson hair.
Sensing Li Yu’s shocked gaze,
the baby in his hands slowly opened its eyes, observing the world with a curious gaze.
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With honesty before heaven and earth, Li Boyang swore he had no intention of scaring the Midwife and Li Yu.
To conceal his innate anomaly, Li Boyang went to great lengths.
He not only strived to control the power of the Sword Pill during birth,
but also consciously kept the Celestial Eye on his forehead tightly shut, not daring to open it even a bit.
Without careful examination, one could only vaguely see a crack at the center of the newborn’s forehead.
Li Boyang considered many things and thought about them thoroughly, but he singularly overlooked the influence of those pieces of meat from Xiluo.
Perhaps out of curiosity, and also to ensure Li Boyang could be born smoothly,
the meat that Xiluo fed Chen Yun was no ordinary beast meat, but the flesh and blood of Spirit Monsters living in the mountains.
Only such Spirit Monster flesh could provide enough nutrition for the fetal Li Boyang, allowing him to refine a continuous stream of Innate Qi.
Unfortunately, developing in such a way, Li Boyang naturally could not avoid the influence of that Spirit Monster flesh.
Being born with a head of thick, flame-like crimson hair was one of the leftover effects.
Due to the incomplete development of normal vision,
Li Boyang, who could barely open his eyes, couldn’t actually see what was happening around him.
But from the Midwife’s words and Li Yu’s behaviors,
Li Boyang could easily discern there must be something wrong with him.
Just as Li Boyang hesitated about whether to open his third eye on the forehead to see what the current situation was, Li Yu finally spoke.
"What monster?"
"Old lady, stop talking nonsense!"
"He’s my son, no matter what he looks like!"
Giving the Midwife a fierce glare, Li Yu’s domineering aura, honed from years hunting fierce beasts in the mountains, was fully revealed at this moment.
"It’s just that the hair is a bit red; it can be shaved off."
As he spoke, Li Yu reached out and rubbed Li Boyang’s head.
Feeling the soft texture of that red hair, Li Yu continued.
"Oh right, I hung twenty pounds of cured meat next door..."
"There are also some gold and silver on the table. Don’t forget to take them when you leave."
Returning to her senses from shock, the Midwife immediately realized that Li Yu was trying to buy her silence.
After a moment’s hesitation, the Midwife glanced at her assistant beside her, then unhesitatingly nodded.
"Li Family boy, don’t worry."
"This old lady didn’t see anything today, and no one will say a word outside."
Receiving the Midwife’s signal, the assistant immediately nodded knowingly.
"Hmm, then I won’t keep you for dinner."
Hearing this, Li Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, then carried Li Boyang to his wife’s side.
Looking at the pale but otherwise unharmed Chen Yun,
Li Yu hesitated, and ultimately placed the always silent Li Boyang by her side.
No matter what was going on with the child, he was still the flesh and blood of him and Chen Yun.
"Yun’er, this is our child!"
Gently leaning down, Li Yu laid his forehead against Chen Yun’s cheek, not even noticing when the Midwife and her assistant left.
"Although he looks a bit strange and doesn’t cry..."
"But his face looks exactly like yours."
Hearing his father say this, Li Boyang suddenly realized what he had overlooked.
In controlling his anomalous birth features so diligently from the moment of birth, he had forgotten to cry like a normal baby.
[If I cry now... would it be too deliberate?]
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