Future Beast World: Becoming A Pampered Beauty-Chapter 153 - 97: Do You Want to See the Child?

Someone had secretly set up all sorts of Array traps along Sang Luo’s intended path.

Sang Luo suspected that Anubia had sold her out.

Containment Arrays, killing arrays—they were endless. Killing intent lurked everywhere, and a space-blocking power prevented her from using Space Jumping.

Lou Xianyue took care of all of them for her. He even eliminated the Insect Clan soldiers hiding in the shadows, and went as far as to kill an Insect Clan Prince he’d never even met. Every single one was a one-hit kill; he never needed to strike a second time.

His methods were clean and efficient, and he wasn’t even using his own power, but the power within Sang Luo’s body.

Sang Luo’s beautiful, dark eyes widened in amazement. She puffed out her cheeks like an indignant little hamster. "Why is my body so much stronger when you use it? Its power is more than double what I can manage! It’s like you’re the real owner of this body!"

Lou Xianyue had been watching her soul body the whole time. Seeing her puffing her cheeks, he found it strangely cute and couldn’t help but let the corner of his lip curl up. "Practice makes perfect. You have quite a few Talent Powers, but you’ve had too little time for Cultivation. Besides, having too many varied Talent Powers is both a blessing and a curse. It’s made you a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of none... If you focus more on tempering your Talent Powers, you’ll benefit greatly."

’Why do I get the feeling this guy is subtly calling me out for not focusing on my Cultivation and spending all my time chasing men instead?’

Sang Luo blushed and glanced at "herself." Seeing "her" calm and beautiful face, looking down to seriously analyze the complex and treacherous terrain, she realized that in just that short moment, Lou Xianyue had already taken out another hidden Insect Clan squad... ’Yeah, I must be overthinking it!’

Sang Luo looked away, just in time to see Lou Xianyue form a hand seal and launch a Thunder Fire Ball at a High Rank Insect hiding in the shadows.

This was nothing surprising. After advancing to King Rank, she could also fuse two Talent Skills at once.

The High Rank Insect quickly used its Concealing Technique to dodge the attack, but the next second, the Fireball reversed course and struck it from behind, instantly obliterating it into ash.

"You! How can your Thunder Fire Ball curve and track a target?"

"It’s a Combined Skill I created by fusing three of your Talent Powers: Purple Gold Thunder, Ghostly True Fire, and Precise Cage. The effect is surprisingly good. If you want to study Fusion Skills in the future, you could add Weakening Hunting. That Talent Skill is very interesting; it lets you land a fatal blow on an opponent’s weak point. However, the more skills you fuse, the harder it is to control. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask me."

"Okay," Sang Luo said, taking his lesson to heart. She then added, "Sorry to trouble you."

"...Do you also feel like you’re ’troubling’ your other mates?"

"No."

"Then don’t say that to me. I don’t like to hear it. You are my son’s Beast Mother, which makes you my mate. Between mates... there’s no need to be so distant."

Sang Luo didn’t respond. Although they had a child together, she truly had no romantic feelings for him—only for his Clone. But the personalities of the Clone and the main body were vastly different; she couldn’t see them as the same person.

Lou Xianyue saw through her inner conflict and said bluntly, "You can also call me Ah Ze."

"...You’re not Ah Ze."

"But he is me."

Lou Xianyue stopped walking, his tone serious.

"Sang, did you know? While I was asleep, I had a dream. And it was that very dream that woke me."

"What did you dream about?"

"My younger self, and an unforgettable... experience."

"You mean Ah Ze?"

"Ah Ze... he is more like a soul-blood incarnation of my youngest, most ignorant self. Shortly after I was born, I was sealed in the Deep Sea by my Beast Father because I was too weak. I spent my entire youth in slumber, without a single memory. But you, you unexpectedly stumbled into that memory that should have been a void. You gave me a beautiful and unforgettable dream, and our most precious child. I..."

His voice paused for a moment before he finally said the words.

"I love you very much."

"Even without you, there would have been an Ah Ze. But without you, the Lou Xianyue standing before you now would not exist, and I would not have our precious child."

"That sounds more like gratitude than love. You were asleep for so long, you’ve probably experienced less than I have. You must have confused the two emotions." Sang Luo chuckled, not taking the words he had summoned the courage to say to heart.

’A Male Beast’s passionate pursuit of a female stems from their desire for offspring.’

’They value their children the most, not their mates.’

’It was true that Lou Xianyue was grateful to her. And Male Beasts are, for the most part, loyal; the mother of their child is their chosen mate. That’s why he was willing to give her his mate’s mark.’

’But the foundation for all of it was the existence of their child.’

’Not love.’

Lou Xianyue was silent. After a long moment, he finally nodded. "Little An is growing well. Do you want to come see him?"

"Little An? Is that the name you gave our child?"

"Yes. Blue Eucalyptus."

Sang Luo was suddenly reminded of a poem. She paused for a second, then smiled. "That’s actually quite romantic."

"Merfolk are very weak when they’re first born. They can’t stay on land for long and must return to the Deep Sea immediately. I’ve placed him in the Spirit Pool to be cared for temporarily. It won’t be long before he officially hatches from his egg. If you want to see our child, you can come over anytime."

He quickly added,

"If you want to come, just let me know. I’ll come get you."

’So he didn’t intentionally steal our child that day. He had no choice but to take him away. I was sound asleep at the time, so he probably couldn’t wait to wake me and decided to act first and explain later. It turns out I’ve misunderstood him all this time.’

Sang Luo’s mood brightened considerably, and the smile on her lips was far more sincere. "The Sea Emperor himself is coming to get me? It would be disrespectful to refuse! I definitely have to come over and see how you’re raising my precious baby boy! Is he chubby and pale, and unbearably cute?"

Lou Xianyue, who was standing guard by the Spirit Pool, glanced inside and chuckled. "He’s pretty chubby."

...

They chatted idly while he continued to kill their enemies.

Sang Luo grew much more familiar with Lou Xianyue, and the initial feeling of unfamiliarity between them vanished.

On the surface, Lou Xianyue seemed cold, aloof, and unapproachable, as if he cared about nothing. But if you dug a little deeper, you’d find that he was right—Ah Ze really was him. The main body and the Clone were essentially the same. It was just that Ah Ze was newborn and naive, with a simple heart, wearing all his feelings on his face. Meanwhile, this old Mermaid had lived for hundreds of years. And although he’d spent most of that time asleep, his heart was far more delicate and gentle than others’, and he knew how to hide his emotions away.

Seeing him cut a path through all obstacles, Sang Luo decided not to bother coming out at all, instead just chiming in with some banter from time to time.

"I heard that Mermaids sing like celestial beings. Can you sing?"

"When I have the chance, I’ll sing for you."

"Can’t you sing now?"

"That’s something... I have to sing for you in person." He seemed a little shy.

Lou Xianyue stopped walking.

Sang Luo asked him, "What’s wrong?"