0p0 Chapter 2470
Chapter 2470
Hearing Xia Jiuyou's words, Chen Xuan's heart softened instantly, and his eyes almost overflowed with doting affection. He couldn't help but lean down and place a gentle kiss on her smooth forehead, his tone tender yet firm:
"Fool, how could I not know the principle of 'the tallest tree in the forest is the first to be felled by the wind'? Rest assured, in this mere battle of destiny, the top combat power deployed by both sides is at most at the level of a first-class god-king. This level of strength poses no threat to me."
"But..." Xia Jiuyou wanted to say something more, her worry evident in her words, but before she could finish speaking, Chen Xuan gently pressed the back of her head and leaned down to seal her red lips with his.
The warm touch, accompanied by a familiar calming aura, instantly soothed the anxiety in her heart—Chen Xuan was doing this simply to calm her mind and put her at ease.
Only Chen Xuan himself knew that there was a hint of reassurance in his words.
If a first-class God-King were to join forces and attack individually, he would naturally not be afraid. However, if dozens or hundreds of first-class God-Kings joined forces and formed a combined array, condensing billions of strange Daoist principles, even if he possessed astonishing divine and demonic combat power and held an imperial weapon sword embryo, he could only temporarily retreat and avoid their sharp edge.
However, the probability of such an extreme situation occurring is extremely low. He did not want to tell Xia Jiuyou, nor did he want to add to her worries. He only wanted his wife to focus on protecting the child in her womb and dealing with this calamity.
After a moment of tenderness, Xia Jiuyou leaned against Chen Xuan's chest, her expression gradually becoming solemn. After a long silence, she softly said:
"Chen Xuan, you'd better not tell the other sisters about this yet."
He hesitated before saying,
Our relationship is ultimately ambiguous and complicated in the eyes of outsiders. If Xueqi, Yu'er, and Zixian knew that I was pregnant with your child first, they would inevitably feel resentful.
"After all, I am just a latecomer, and my position is not legitimate. It is not appropriate for me to take the lead like this."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan slowly nodded, his tone tinged with guilt and helplessness:
"If it weren't for the fact that after the tribulation, time was too rushed, and we were busy practicing the God and Demon Combined Formation before rushing to the frontier to participate in the war, Yu'er, Xueqi, Piaoxue, and I would have already become a real couple, and you wouldn't be so wronged."
To be honest, when Xia Jiuyou actually heard these words, he was still shocked.
The memory of Chen Xuan's passionate and mad love for her at the Northern Underworld Immortal Mansion is still vivid in my mind;
However, he has actually spent more than a million years with Qing Tian Yu'er, Lu Xueqi and other top-notch beauties, and to this day, Yu'er, Lu Xueqi, Piaoxue and others are still virgins.
If it were anyone else, she would never have believed it, but she knew Chen Xuan well enough to know his character and that he was by no means a promiscuous person. The shock in her heart eventually turned into tenderness and heartache.
Seeing the complex expression in Xia Jiuyou's eyes, Chen Xuan guessed what she was thinking. Slightly embarrassed, he scratched his head and whispered the truth:
"In fact, most of my time on this journey of cultivation has been spent either working hard to reunite the tribe, hunting down enemies in foreign lands, or searching for Xueqi's whereabouts."
"The days I spent with Yu'er, Piaoxue, and even Zimo, Tianxing, Lin Yuyao, and Zhanxin were either spent discussing and exchanging ideas, or guiding them in cultivation to become stronger and hone their combat abilities. I never overstepped my bounds in the slightest."
Chen Xuan closed his eyes, his mind replaying the events of his journey, his tone tinged with a sense of melancholy and wistfulness:
"If we're talking about the true taste of love, perhaps the short-lived memories are those days when I first met Yu'er and Zhanxin and walked side by side with them."
"In the years that followed, I spent more time with them, fulfilling my responsibilities and wanting to protect them all so that they could grow up safely and break through to higher realms in this cruel world of cultivation."
Xia Jiuyou was not a lover who was always by Chen Xuan's side. She had no impression of those who accompanied Chen Xuan when he failed his tribulation and was on the verge of death, such as Zi Mo, Tian Xing, Lin Yuyao, and Zhan Xin. In fact, she had never actually met them.