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Chapter 256 Ye Yuan and An An 1
"So small, so soft!"

Lan Cangming cradled the newborn mermaid baby as if holding a fragile piece of glass.

"They're all like this right after birth. Your intuition is spot on! It really is a little female!"

Su An'an leaned against the soft cushion, gazing tenderly at the baby.

The tiny mermaid, no bigger than the palm of her hand, curled up in her father's palm.

Her ice-blue curly hair floated like seaweed, and her chubby pink fishtail unconsciously slapped the water.

"My dearest little princess!"

Lan Cangming gently touched the baby's cheek with his fingertips.

The little guy blew out a bubble, flicked its pink tail, and landed precisely on its father's nose.

Su An'an chuckled: "Looks like a lively child."

"Being lively is good!"

The aloof merman king revealed a silly father's smile, switching into doting mode.

The coral crib is woven from fluorescent jellyfish silk and has a singing seashell wind chime hanging from the top.

He personally feeds the baby formula every day, and even his own fish tail becomes her toy.

Raya secretly used her tentacles as a swing for the baby.

The old clam spirit offered her a large white pearl as a toy.

The mermaid baby's image was snapped up, and she was recognized as the most beautiful girl in the entire sea.

The male sea creatures were all instructed by their parents to strive to become the little princess's protectors.

"Lan Cangming, your daughter is likely to dominate the deep sea in the future."

Su An'an sat on the pearl-embroidered couch, helplessly watching Lan Cangming personally braid a pearl hair chain for the little mermaid baby.

Is it really okay to spoil someone like this?

"necessary."

Lan Cangming didn't even look up. Although his fingers were a little clumsy, he was still weaving very carefully.

"King, it's not good!"

Raya's eight tentacles, like wheels of fire, rumbled in: "Executor Night Abyss has suddenly come to visit, saying he has urgent business with the Queen."

Lan Cangming paused, his brows furrowing. "It's not the agreed time yet, why is he here?"

"Ye Yuan wouldn't have come here for no reason."

Su An'an sat up straight: "Let him in."

Ye Yuan walked in from outside the door.

After some time apart, the black dragon horns on his head were much darker than before, and his dark red vertical pupils held an unusual solemnity.

"problem occurs."

Ye Yuan spread a scroll of parchment astrological chart on the stone table. Three blood-red stars shaped like hearts were aligned in a straight line on the chart.

"The Royal Astrologer has just calculated the result: Hong Chengtian's three hearts have been successfully fused."

Su An'an's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly picked up the astrological chart to check:
"How could it be so fast? When we calculated it before, it should have been more than half a year."

“We had previously damaged two of his hearts, and after he sensed the threat, he accelerated the fusion process.”

Ye Yuan's voice was heavy and cold as he pointed his fingertip at a patch of chaos beneath the star map:
"The astrological chart indicates that in two months, apocalyptic phenomena will occur, including seawater overflowing and volcanic eruptions."

"Recently, news of missing ethnic groups from various places has begun to emerge."

Ye Yuan's vertical pupils swept over Su An'an and Lan Cangming: "We must gather the bloodlines of the five divine beasts as soon as possible. Right now, all that's missing is the dragon baby that you and I are carrying."

Su An'an's expression instantly turned serious, and she gently rubbed her lower abdomen with her palm:

"Two months is simply not enough time if the pregnancy doesn't go smoothly."

She turned to look at Lan Cangming, her eyes filled with anxiety: "The old clam spirit said that the dragon race has a long gestation period. Is there any way to speed it up?"

"Perhaps we can try to find the old clam spirit. Her thousand-year-old pearl contains life energy, which might be able to regulate the gestation cycle." Lan Cangming handed the mermaid baby to the maid and said in a deep voice, "I will take you to her now."

When the three arrived at the deep-sea sand bed, they could see the old clam spirit's giant clam shell open from afar.

She was sitting in the pile of pearls, resting with her eyes closed, when she heard a noise and slowly opened her eyes.

"You came just in time."

The old clam spirit's voice carried a hint of weariness, yet remained exceptionally clear: "I foresaw the signs of world destruction last night, and I've been waiting for you here since early this morning."

Ye Yuan was clearly somewhat surprised, his dragon tail tightening slightly on the sand: "You're a diviner too?"

"The thousand-year-old clam shell can sense the fortune of heaven and earth, and the energy fluctuations caused when Hong Chengtian merged with the heart can even be detected in the deep sea."

The old clam spirit took out a lustrous black pearl:
"This is the Dragon Essence Pearl, which contains the ancient spiritual power of the dragon race and can accelerate the formation of an embryo."

"But nurturing a dragon bloodline is no small matter. The process of a female nurturing a child is extremely painful, a thousand times more painful than morning sickness."

"no!"

Lan Cangming's pupils contracted sharply, and its tail fin slapped rapidly across the water's surface, creating a series of rapid splashes.
"Is there any other way? I'm willing to bear all the pain for her."

Ye Yuan frowned deeply: "I can share the burden with my own blood and essence; I absolutely cannot let An'an suffer this pain."

Su An'an gently pressed down on their arms, her gaze fixed firmly on the old clam spirit:
"I'm fine. As long as I can conceive a dragon baby as soon as possible and stop the world from being destroyed, I can bear this pain."

"But I can't bear it."

Ye Yuan suddenly spoke, his voice filled with unwavering resolve: "If you have to exchange your pain for hope, I'm giving up on this method."

Seeing the three arguing, the old clam spirit suddenly said slowly, "There is a way to transfer pain, which can distribute most of the pain to your beast husband with whom you have a marriage contract."

"But the formation can only be activated if all five beastmen agree at the same time."

"we agree!"

Lan Cangming and Ye Yuan answered in unison, their eyes showing no hesitation.

Lan Cangming immediately used the Conch Computer to contact Swan Seville, Red Fox Fei Zhao, and White Tiger Yin Jiu Yao.

Soon, three figures appeared on the water screen.

Seville held a baby in each of his arms; the swan brother stood there quietly in a daze, while the butterfly sister playfully tugged at her father's hair.

A baby fox sat on Fei Zhao's shoulder, sucking its thumb with an innocent expression.

Yin Jiuyao held a playful white tiger cub by the hand, its little paws waving like wheels of fire.

"Female!"

"Female!"

As soon as the cubs saw Su An'an, they rushed to the screen and shouted.

"Don't make trouble."

The three beast-men coaxed the child in their arms while looking excitedly at Su An'an.

Without the slightest hesitation, he heard the old clam spirit's suggestion.

"As long as I can help An'an, I'll go through fire and water, let alone share her pain."

Fei Zhao's nine fox tails swayed urgently.

Yin Jiuyao added in a deep voice, "My White Tiger bloodline is the most resilient to pressure, so give me more of it."

Seville nodded decisively:
"Just tell us what you need for the formation, and we're ready to begin anytime."

The old clam spirit nodded in satisfaction and took out five bone fragments engraved with animal patterns from its shell:
"You just need to drip your essence blood onto the divine runes that you have formed with An'an."

"Once the formation is activated, most of the pain will be distributed evenly."

"But as the source of the dragon bloodline, Ye Yuan must bear 30% of the pain; this is the rule of the dragon bloodline."

"no problem."

Without hesitation, Ye Yuan bit his fingertip and smeared his blood on the black divine runes below his collarbone: "I am best at enduring pain, what is this little bit of pain?"

(End of this chapter)