flstandardbreds Chapter 395 Heavenly Tribulation or Heavenly Gift?
Chapter 395 Heavenly Tribulation or Heavenly Gift?
However, correspondingly, your gestation period cannot be controlled within two and a half months... but will be the same as the normal gestation period of the Kunpeng clan, three years! Or even longer!
The reason it takes longer is because the talent and combat power of this batch of Kunpeng cubs in Xixi have been greatly enhanced!
[Moreover, you will face a heavenly tribulation on the day of your childbirth! This tribulation is originally for the Kunpeng cub, but it is also the tribulation for every female who gives birth to a Kunpeng cub! From one to nine, the stronger the cub's combat talent, the more tribulations it will face. During this period, the childbirth system cannot provide you with any assistance; you will have to endure it all by yourself!]
"Wait a minute!" Xixi blinked, feeling a bit like she'd been tricked into something she shouldn't have. "You're saying that females who give birth to Kunpeng cubs get struck by lightning, so whether I take ten or eighteen Pregnancy Pills, aside from the different reproductive cycles, I'll actually get struck by lightning! Is that the logic?"
【…Yes!】After a moment of silence, Yuanmeng gave a definite answer.
However, the number of tribulations required to nurture one Kunpeng is necessarily different from the number required to nurture a hundred Kunpengs!
Obviously, the number of lightning tribulations that nurture a hundred Kunpengs is naturally much, much more!
As for whether it's a matter of returning to one or simply adding them together, even Yuanmeng doesn't know!
"I have a national treasure I'm not sure if I should say it! By the way, why didn't Kunhai mention it to me?" Thinking of this, Xixi angrily questioned.
Poor Kun Hai was introducing the local treasures to Xi Xi when he saw his wife bend over and a piece disappear, then bend over again and another piece disappear. Seeing the corners of his wife's mouth turn up, he couldn't help but smile too. But then he was suddenly scolded by his wife, leaving the whole Kun Hai completely dumbfounded.
"I... I didn't mean to hide it from you, it's just that... I didn't intend for you to carry the Kunpeng cub, after all, your beast form is so small, it's simply impossible!"
Impossible? Of course, it's impossible to give birth to a Kunpeng with such a massive beast-like form!
Precisely because it seems impossible, there's no need to go to the trouble of discussing it!
"Moreover, I've only heard my two great-uncles mention the concept of tribulation lightning. There were only one or two such cases a hundred or two hundred years ago. As for later, they are very rare!"
"Why are there fewer?" Isn't the tribulation lightning a common occurrence? Xi Xi was puzzled.
"The reason for the tribulation is that Kunpeng is a divine beast, which is not tolerated by the Beast God, hence the tribulation! But precisely because of this, the trials that female Kunpengs face when giving birth are unimaginable to other races!"
"All souls perish under the lightning tribulation; less than 30% survive with their mothers and children intact. The death of a female also takes the lives of several males. After several cycles, the population dwindles! Eventually, no female was willing to bear offspring anymore, since no one wanted to be struck dead by lightning!"
"Therefore, in order to maintain the continuation of the clan, our clan's chief shaman researched a method to induce childbirth, which would bring the offspring out before natural childbirth, thus deceiving the heavens and avoiding the arrival of the lightning tribulation."
"Wouldn't that result in a premature baby?" Xixi exclaimed. For example, Kunpeng himself was a premature baby, so he was weak in his childhood and was once thought not to survive!
Kunhai smiled and continued, "This is the brilliance of my clan's chief priest. He forced the birth just one day before the tribulation of lightning, so that it would not affect the development of the cubs and could also ensure the safety of the females. However... it is against the way of heaven. The descendants of later generations have never had the glory of the past, and they have died out generation after generation, until now... only I am left!"
So, it's still the premature birth's fault!
Xixi silently grumbled to herself, but couldn't help feeling that the Beast God was being too harsh on the Kunpeng clan.
One child per birth is bad enough, but a three-year pregnancy is also bad enough. Childbirth is difficult for females, let alone for a Kunpeng of this size. To even bring down a lightning tribulation, causing countless female Kunpengs to die on the spot, it's no wonder that such a race has been wiped out!
But Xixi thought again, in the world of cultivation, what countless cultivators pursue throughout their lives is precisely the tribulation of lightning.
Didn't they know they would die under the lightning tribulation?
Even though they knew it, they still cultivated diligently for decades, just to pursue the slim chance of ascending to immortality under the tribulation of lightning!
Moreover, the number of lightning tribulations received by people with different aptitudes is also different. Only those who are blessed by heaven and have high hopes for them can receive eighty-one lightning tribulations and then ascend to become gods!
Many more people don't even get to experience the tribulation of lightning before their lifespan ends, leaving them with regrets!
As Yuanmeng just mentioned, the number of lightning tribulations corresponds to different aptitudes of cubs. Therefore, two seemingly unrelated things may very well be based on the same principle!
That is, the so-called tribulation of lightning is both a test and an opportunity!
The Kunpeng ancestors researched a method to induce birth, thinking they could escape death, but little did they know that they were cutting off their own opportunities!
After all, if the method of inducing birth was effective, why would the species be on the verge of extinction?
"However, I still have one question," Xixi transmitted her voice to Yuanmeng, "that is, I gave birth to over a hundred Kunpeng cubs in this pregnancy. They all share the same father and mother and are blood relatives. How can they reproduce with each other?" Then... wouldn't that be inbreeding?
To this, Yuanmeng simply said: "In this way, the bloodline is even purer!"
Xixi: "..." In China, only beasts care about bloodlines! Well, beastmen, their nature is... never mind, this is not a question to be explored in depth!
Alright, having ruled out the possibility that Kunhai maliciously concealed the truth, the question now comes full circle: should we swallow eight more Pregnancy Pills?
In terms of physical defense, she, a mere hamster, is certainly no match for Kunpeng; as for the birthing location, no one knows where she will give birth, but it certainly can't compare to this underground palace!
In terms of breeding capacity, let alone a hundred, she couldn't even breed one!
But isn't the answer to this question obvious?
She can't possibly give birth to a little Kunpeng and then let him follow in his father's footsteps, growing up all alone and dying alone, without even finding a mate!
Therefore, she must give birth, and she must give birth to a whole litter, the kind that directly continues the lineage!
After all, no matter how many treasures the underground palace has, it's only enough for her to have one child!
So, without any hesitation, in front of Kunhai, Xixi swallowed eight pregnancy pills in one go.
Seeing Xixi frown as she swallowed it whole, Kunhai scratched his head in confusion. "Xixi, are you... hungry?"
That shouldn't be the case. Didn't she just give birth? She spent the afternoon with Liao Zhu, but there was no animal mark on Liao Zhu's neck, which means they weren't even officially married yet! What kind of pregnancy is this?
"Wait, what are you eating? A pill? A Rejuvenation Pill? But didn't you already take one right after giving birth? Or... is it some other kind of pill?"