The first year in the eleventh month they got married. By the second year in January, when the new year had just begun, after Li Shiwen's hard work farming the land for two months, he finally got Yu Chi Zhen pregnant and the new life came with the new year.
Li Shiyin looked at Yu Chi Zhen's belly, feeling the new life inside, with an indescribable, special feeling.
Then she realized she was going to be an aunt! When that new life appears, she will instantly become a generation older.
"But I'm going to be an aunt already. No matter how you calculate it, I will be an adult from now on," Li Shiyin said standing next to Yu Chi Zhen, smiling, "On the way to Dao Sword Sect, back to the cultivation world, I can no longer be as willful and naughty as before. I need to become more mature."
"Brother, what are you talking about?" Li Shiyin felt something was off with Li Shiwen, he seemed a little too sentimental. "I'm always the most obedient and well-behaved one, okay?"
"Yes, yes..." Li Shiwen nodded, "You are the best behaved."
He pointed at the child in Yu Chi Zhen's belly and told Li Shiyin, "If it's a boy, his name will be Li An; if it's a girl, her name will be Li Ping. Remember these two names and don't forget."
Something was not right. Li Shiyin frowned and asked Li Shiwen again: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing. I'm just afraid you are careless and will forget our nephew's name." Li Shiwen concealed his sadness with a smile.
After all Li Shiyin was not one to be sad. Although she felt something was off, she only thought he was overly sentimental about her leaving. She tried her best not to show her concern.
She smiled and said to Li Shiwen: "Actually I can tell if it's a boy or girl."
"You don't need to tell me. Whether it is a boy or girl, they are the continuation of the Li family bloodline," Li Shiwen said shaking his head. "For someone like me who bears children but wasted this life away, what use was it? But for you, my sister, to become an immortal and deity, wouldn't that be glorious?"
"Brother... you are amazing too!" Li Shiyin quickly comforted him. She knew Li Shiwen couldn't get over that one failure.
Li Shiwen sighed. "If it's time to leave then hurry. Mother can't bear to see you go so she's crying inside, Father is accompanying her. Only your brother and sister-in-law came to send you off, don't take it to heart."
"Weird... I'm not leaving forever. I'll be back by the end of the year," Li Shiyin said. "Actually I can choose not to go. But I really don't suit staying at home all the time." The visit from Sword Deity Jiang Xiaobai made Li Shiyin thoroughly understand why her Master said that cultivators cannot stay with mortals for too long.
Jiang Xiaobai was someone righteous. He wanted to spar with Li Shiyin so he formally went to her house. After fighting and losing, he openly left through the front gate.
But if there was another evil-doer who also wanted to challenge her and found her family's home, he could use Li Shiwen, Li Zhan, Yang Yanqi and the others to restrict her abilities, or directly kill off the Li family, to disrupt her state of mind. How would she handle that?
Li Shiyin was no longer that clueless newbie cultivator from before. She understood long ago that cultivators from the cultivation world have no moral values. Wiping out an entire household was a high probability event.
Therefore, she couldn't stay at home for too long.
"Whether it suits you or not!" Li Shiwen said, "You staying home or leaving home, you just need to know that we all love you and will always remember you."
"Oh..." Li Shiyin felt goosebumps all over. Her sword pointed and drew out the Falling Star Sword. She lightly leapt onto the sword, crouching on it and smiled at Li Shiwen, "Want to try sword riding? It's fun!"
Li Shiwen shook his head, "No need, leave early to get to Dao Sword Sect sooner."
"Ah, why are you being so serious today?" Li Shiyin felt it was boring. She rode her sword up into the air, but halfway up she remembered something and flew back down, saying to Li Shiwen: "Oh wait... I forgot something."
"What is it?"
Li Shiyin pointed at Yu Chi Zhen's belly and asked Li Shiwen: "Do you want him to walk the cultivation path?"
"Cultivation?" Li Shiwen was startled but couldn't decide by himself. He turned to look at Yu Chi Zhen, "Zhen Zhen, what do you think?"
"Can my baby also become an immortal?" Yu Chi Zhen's eyes lit up as she asked Li Shiyin.
"If you want, whether he has high enough aptitude or not, I can make it happen," said Li Shiyin. "But walking the cultivation path has its pros and cons..."
She looked at Li Shiwen, "Brother probably knows some."
One was that the cultivation path was not easy to walk; two was that once you step onto the path, from then on, even relatives are strangers. Li Shiyin was purely lucky to have met Qin Ran. In her 4 years of cultivation, she returned still a maiden.
Li Shiwen kept silent and looked at Yu Chi Zhen again. For big decisions like this he shouldn't decide alone.
But Yu Chi Zhen didn't know the severity of the issue. She only knew immortals were amazing with their coming and going. She excitedly nodded her head, "Of course the immortals are better!"
"Good!" Li Shiyin deeply inhaled and told Li Shiwen and Yu Chi Zhen: "The first step of cultivation is to sense the energy, find that one strand of innate qi within your body, then use that one strand of innate qi to guide the heaven and earth spiritual qi into the body, integrating the two, settling it at the dantian, becoming the seed of magic power, and using that to lay your foundation.
"The seed of magic power is extremely important, influencing the entire cultivation career of a cultivator. And this seed can be from the heaven and earth qi you personally guided in, or some special heaven and earth treasure, it can even be an advanced cultivator's magic power.
"What I'm going to do now is guide a strand of my sword qi into the baby's dantian as the seed for his magic power.
"This way, after my Master's pills take effect after he is born, he will be at the Foundation Establishment stage right away. He will be building his foundation on my sword qi, and is innately a sword cultivator."
She swirled a strand of purple black Primeval Sword Qi on her fingertip, finally confirming with Li Shiwen: "If he becomes exceptional enough in the future, then this strand of sword qi will be his stepping stone to reach even higher heights. If his talent is insufficient, then this sword qi will be his assurance on the cultivation path for a more steady advancement."
Li Shiwen nodded.
Li Shiyin pointed her finger and the sword qi on it flew into Yu Chi Zhen's belly, fusing into the not fully formed baby.
"Humph, even if he is as formidable as me during the Foundation Building stage, that would be pretty good too!" After finishing, Li Shiyin smugly clapped her hands and added: "Consider this my baby gift to him. I won't be coming back after he's born.
"I will try to rarely come back home."
"Mm," Li Shiwen nodded and waved goodbye to Li Shiyin, "Take care."
Li Shiyin formally bowed to Li Shiwen while standing on her sword, but after the bow she couldn't hold it in anymore and burst out laughing. Then she also waved her hand saying, "You guys take care too, see you at the end of the year!"
After speaking, she rode her sword high into the sky, blinked and she was gone into the far distance.
Li Shiwen watched Li Shiyin's disappearing back and slowly tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. Li Shiyin thought this was just an ordinary parting but he knew there was a high chance this was their final parting.
"Shiyin is so powerful, why not let her stay and fight against the Xuan Qin Army?" Yu Chi Zhen held his hand and wiped away his tears, asking puzzlingly.
"Because Xuanqin has even more cultivators..." Li Shiwen sighed.
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