Chapter 258: The Five Divine Beast Babies Gather

Chapter 258: Chapter 258: The Five Divine Beast Babies Gather

After Su An’an successfully became pregnant, she returned to the Empire Palace with Night Abyss.

As soon as they reached the palace gates, they saw the Four Great Beast Husbands already waiting there with the children.

"Female Mother!"

The eldest, the Swan Baby and the Butterfly Wing Baby, were the first to rush forward, their sweet, milky voices almost cloying.

"My darlings!" Su An’an hugged one on each side, kissing their soft, squishy cheeks again and again.

"Female Mother, there’s me too!"

The Red Fox Baby nimbly hopped onto a nearby soft couch. He sniffed at her lower abdomen with his little nose, and his eyes lit up. "It smells like a little dragon!"

"That’s right."

Su An’an gently caressed her slightly swollen belly, feeling the stirrings of the small life inside. "You’ll all have a little Dragon Clan brother or sister soon."

The White Tiger cub saw this and wanted to pounce over too, but Ying Jiuyao grabbed him by the scruff of his neck.

"You’re so clumsy. Don’t hurt your Female Mother. Go play over there."

"Hmph!" The White Tiger cub made a face at his father, then turned and waved his paw at his friends. "Let’s go play!"

The moment he spoke, Platinum Flames erupted around his body, making him look like a small, burning sun.

"Let’s go!" the four little ones immediately responded.

The Swan Baby flapped his golden wings, scattering a trail of holy light.

The Butterfly Wing Baby shook off a pink, phosphorescent glow, like scattered starlight.

The nine-tailed Fox Baby’s figure flickered, and he instantly appeared beside the White Tiger cub.

In the blink of an eye, the little figures had run off and vanished from sight.

"They can already control their innate abilities?"

Su An’an was a little surprised.

Seville nodded gently. "The Divine Beast children are growing up fast. They’ll surely be able to help us crush Hong Chengtian’s plot."

Su An’an subconsciously stroked her belly, her eyes filled with anticipation.

"I wonder what kind of abilities our Dragon Baby will have?"

"Legend says the Dragon Clan can control time and the origin of chaos. Perhaps that will be the key to dealing with Hong Chengtian."

"Definitely!"

Night Abyss nodded emphatically, his dragon tail secretly curling up in pride.

’Even though he was the last to sire a child, it would absolutely be the most powerful one.’

"I’ll go watch the kids, so they don’t get into trouble again."

Hearing a CLATTERING and BANGING from outside, Ying Jiuyao’s figure flashed as he chased after the children.

Night Abyss wrapped his arm around Su An’an’s waist and said in a low voice, "Let’s go inside and rest. Don’t tire yourself out."

"I’m not tired."

Su An’an shook her head. Her energy levels were much better than when she was pregnant with the White Tiger and the mermaid.

"Don’t overthink it. Just focus on your pregnancy. Leave the rest to us."

Lan Cangming handed her a cup of warm seaweed tea.

In his arms was the little Mermaid Baby, who was still sucking on a pink gemstone pacifier.

Wagging her chubby blue tail, she stretched out her plump, fair arms, which resembled lotus roots, and desperately reached for Su An’an.

"Fe-Female Mother!"

"Sweetheart!"

Su An’an took the fragrant, soft Mermaid Baby, gave her a kiss, and held her, gently stroking her back.

The Mermaid Baby rested comfortably in her Female Mother’s arms, her big eyes slowly closing as she drifted back to sleep.

Su An’an placed the Mermaid Baby in her coral crib, then returned to the meeting room. She said grimly, "Hong Chengtian won’t just sit back and wait for his doom. We must formulate a counter-plan as soon as possible."

Lan Cangming said in a grave voice, "I’ve already had people reinforce the Imperial Palace’s Barrier, and the Five Races’ guard units are deployed around the perimeter."

"Hong Chengtian’s lair is most likely in the Black Sand Demon Realm."

Seville spread out a map, his fingertip tapping on a desert region at the Empire’s border.

"Unfortunately, it’s a no-man’s-land of chaotic Energy. No beastmen can get near it."

Su An’an stroked her belly, feeling the Dragon Baby’s movements.

"The bloodlines of the Five Divine Beasts can form a purification Barrier, but it requires all five babies to use their power at the same time."

"There’s only a little over a month left until Hong Chengtian’s projected time for world destruction. We need to have the children practice coordinating with each other beforehand."

As they were speaking, Night Abyss’s communicator began to vibrate violently.

He activated it, and his expression immediately turned ugly. "I just received an urgent report from the border. A black miasma has been spreading through the Black Sand Demon Realm recently, and we’ve lost contact with all the nearby tribes."

Fei Zhao also received a message from the Fox Clan. "The clansmen I sent to investigate have also gone missing."

Night Abyss’s face darkened instantly, his vertical pupils narrowing to slits. "Hong Chengtian is getting impatient. He’s making his move."

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in the Black Sand Demon Realm, at the center of a dried-up lake deep in the desert, Hong Chengtian’s corpse was suspended in mid-air.

The three fused hearts in his chest throbbed violently, forming a giant Eye of Demon.

Kneeling all around him were countless puppets, who were once the Warriors of various tribes.

Now their eyes were hollow, their skin covered with black veins, like walking corpses.

"The dragon fetus has been conceived, the Barrier will soon be formed!"

A low, demonic voice echoed from the depths of his heart, carrying a hair-raising reverberation.

"Before it is born, all hope must be utterly destroyed."

He slowly opened his eyes, and the scarlet glow from the Eye of Demon in his chest grew even more intense.

"My puppets, go to the heart of the Empire and give them a taste of despair."

As soon as he finished speaking, an endless black miasma spewed forth from the Eye of Demon. The instant it hit the ground, it condensed into hideous, mutated demonic beasts.

They resembled giant wolves but had twisted human faces. The Poisonous Saliva dripping from their fangs corroded the ground, and their limbs glinted coldly like blades.

"ROAR."

The horde of demonic beasts roared at the sky, the sound waves making the sand dunes tremble. Then, like a black tide, they surged outward in all directions.

They kicked up sandstorms as they swept across the desert and shattered rocks as they crossed mountain ranges, galloping madly toward the imperial capital.

Wherever they passed, all vegetation instantly withered to ash, its life force drained to the roots.

Rivers stopped flowing and dried up. Clear water sources were tainted by the black miasma, turning into bubbling Poisonous Swamps.

Even the birds in the sky plummeted to the ground, their bodies rotting on impact, leaving only skeletons in the blink of an eye.

On a watchtower at the Empire’s border, an eagle guard had just raised his spyglass when his pupils contracted violently. "W-What is that?!"

Before he could finish his sentence, a bolt of black miasma shot out like an arrow, precisely piercing his throat.

The guard didn’t even have time to scream. His body rapidly shriveled into a dried corpse, and the moment black veins crawled across his skin, his hollow eyes snapped open. He had become a new puppet.

BOOM.

The Empire’s city walls collapsed with a thunderous crash under the impact of the demonic tide, and a black fog flooded the streets like a tsunami.

Wherever it went, screams of terror and the roars of demonic beasts wove together into a symphony of despair.

"Hold the palace gates!" Lan Cangming’s fishtail whipped up a massive wave in the plaza, the seawater freezing into a wall of ice that temporarily blocked the demonic beasts’ charge.

Night Abyss’s dragon Wings were already spread in mid-air. With every blast of black dragon’s breath, swaths of demonic beasts were burned to ash. "Fei Zhao, left flank! Seville, right flank! Ying Jiuyao, break through the front with me!"

"Roger!"

Red Fox Fei Zhao’s figure flickered between the demonic beasts, his Fox Fire exploding like meteors. Each flame precisely ignited the black miasma on the beasts’ chests. "These bastards are afraid of purifying flames!"

Ying Jiuyao transformed into his true White Tiger form. His roar shattered swaths of the black miasma, and his giant paws swatted down the demonic beasts’ bladed limbs. "Their shells are tough! Aim for the eyes!"

Seville unfurled his Swan Wings, and a holy light showered down like a fine rain.

The skin of the puppets touched by the light began to peel away, revealing their original faces. "These puppets can still be saved! Don’t use lethal force!"