"His name will be Mo Shen." The Demon monarch, Mo Wudi told his wife, Gu Xian'er.
"Mmmh! Mo Shen..." Gu Xian'er said as she looked at her baby. "His name is indeed fitting."
"It would have been good if he were born as a normal baby." Gu Xian'er said with a sigh.
Gu Xian'er had just given birth to her first baby. It was a happy thing since she had been pregnant for him for the last 1000 years. In the cultivation world, babies are usually born after 1 - 10 years of pregnancy, depending on the innate talent of the baby.
It was only once in ten-thousand years that a baby will be born after 100 years of pregnancy. It had happened twice since the known history of the Dao Universe, and they were both born within 300 years.
Gu Xian'er had been pregnant with Mo Shen for the last 1000 years. It was the rarest thing since the history of the universe. And unlike other babies born after 10 years of pregnancy, there was no natural phenomenon on the day of his birth.
Although there was no phenomenon, how could the child born after 1000 years of pregnancy be normal. Mo Shen was born with Demon bones and Ancient god heart and blood.
The Demon bones were a sign of supremacy to the demons. Only the first ancestor of the Eternal Demon Empire had demon bones.
Only with a treasure like demon bones can one reach the Origin Dao realm in the Dao Universe.
There were 16 known cultivation realms: Origin realm, Core formation realm, Void realm, Soul formation realm, Immortal soul realm, Divinity realm, Void Immortal realm, True Immortal realm, Heavenly Immortal realm, Empyrean realm, Origin Dao realm, Universe Dao realm, Universe Lord realm, True Emperor realm, Sovereign realm and Immortal Soveregn realm.
Since ancient times, there were only 2 people to have reached the Origin Dao realm. They were the ancestor of the Eternal Demon Empire and the ancestor of the Ancient God Empire.
It was said that it was because the demon ancestor was born with demon bones in his chest that he was able to breakthrough to the Universe Dao realm. And the god ancestor was born with 90% Ancient god blood.
It could be said that Mo Shen was born as a universe treasure trove. If news of it got out, the major forces in the Dao universe would come for him.
Mo Shen was born with complete demon bones, that is to say all the bones in his body were demon bones. All his blood was also Ancient god blood combined with his ancient god heart.
Even if all those top forces were able to divide him into 100 pieces and they get 1 piece each, they will be very satisfied.
There were 7 supreme forces in the Dao Universe. There were the 4 empires and 3 sects: Eternal Demon Empire, Ancient God Empire, Limitless Soul Empire, Spiritual Beast Kingdom, North Sword Tower, Pure Jade Palace and Heaven Secrets Pavilion.
In the past, the Eternal demon empire and the Ancient god empire were the strongest. Things changed around 1000 years ago when it was revealed that the bones of the demon ancestor and the full corpse of the Ancient god ancestor were in the Demon empire ancestral land.
That time, 5 of the other 6 forces led by the Ancient god empire and about 5 other top forces, just below the supreme forces launched an attack on the Eternal demon empire.
The Empire suffered heavy losses. They lost around 20% of their powerhouses who had reached the Heavenly Immortal realm.
In the Dao universe, there was presently no one who had reached the Origin Dao realm. The top powerhouses currently were only in the Empyrean realm. Each Supreme force only had about 5 of such people. The stronger ones like the 2 top empires had 15 of such powerhouses on the surface, no one knew how many they really had.
In the war, the demon empire lost 2 of such people and a number of Heavenly Immortals.
As Mo Wudi and his wife were discussing what to do, they felt some energy fluctuations at the empire's gate.
"He's already here so fast." Mo Wudi said with a grim expression. He already knew who had come. It was Gu Jing, the monarch of the Ancient God empire.
1000 years ago, the reason the war had stopped was because they discovered that the ancestral land could only be opened by someone with the royal bloodlines of the demon empire and the God empire and has reached the Void Immortal realm.
Gu Xian'er was an illegitimate daughter of the former monarch of the ancient God empire, and she was already married to Mo Wudi.
They decided that their child would be betrothed to Gu Jing's grand-daughter that will be born after the war. The purpose was to control the child so when he is strong enough to open the ancestral land, most of the benefits will go to the Ancient God empire.
Mo Wudi looked at the child and sighed. Then claws stretched out from his fingers and he dug into his heart, bringing out a drop of blood essence.
After the blood essence came out, his face paled white. Losing a drop of blood essence was a heavy loss to a cultivator. And he had already lost a drop earlier during the war.
"Brother Wudi you..." Gu Xian'er was about to say something, but she stopped and sighed. She knew what he wanted to do.
Mo Wudi used his blood and made some hand seals to draw an array. A few seconds later, the array went into Mo Shen's body.
"This array can only seal the aura of his demon bones, God heart and blood for a quarter of an hour. I have to send Gu Jing away within that time or our child will be in danger." Mo Wudi said as he sat down and swallowed a pill.
Although the pill could not replace the blood essence, it could bring some colour to his face and temporary restore a large part of his strength so Gu Jing will be wary and not take action.
Mo Wudi was originally stronger than Gu Jing, but during the war, Gu Jing and about 5 other Empyreans ganged up on him. His life origin had also been injured making it impossible to recover to his peak without a long period of seclusion.
He had recovered partially, but after using up a drop of his blood essence, his condition became even worse. So he had to put up a strong front at least.
"Gu Jing, what did you come to my palace to do. Do you think you alone can defeat me?" Mo Wudi said as he stepped into the space above the demon palace.
The other man has a long light golden hair, similar to Gu Xian'er. It was a symbol of the God race.
His expression remain unchanged even though he knew he couldn't defeat Mo Wudi alone. "I'm not here to fight. I only came to see my grandson-in-law." Gu Jing said with a cunning smile.
"My son was born about an hour ago, and his grandfather-in-law already came to see him. How caring you are." Mo Wudi said in a mocking tone.
"Oh! So it's a boy. Very good." Gu Jing said with a happy smile, ignoring the rest of Mo Wudi's words. "Let him come to my palace to spend some time with his fiancée."
"Hmph!" Mo Wudi snorted and released his aura pressing down on Gu Jing. "I knew you didn't come here with good intentions. We have already sworn an oath with our cultivation that only when the boy is 20 can he marry your grand-daughter. If you want to do anything, don't blame me for using force.
"Gu Jing took a few steps back after being embraced with Mo Wudi's aura.
"Hahaha!" Gu Jing let out a sly laugh. "Brother Wudi, we will be family in the future, there's no need for being violent. I will come to take him in 20 years."Gu Jing turned around to leave but the paused in his steps. "But seeing as his birth didn't trigger any phenomenon, he doesn't seem to be as talented as my grand-daughter who triggered a 9 star phenomenon. I hope he can reach the Void Immortal realm within 10,000 years otherwise, I'll have to force him.
"A 9 star phenomenon was for those heavenly prides that they were pregnant for over 100 years. She could be regarded as the most talented person in the Dao universe presently.
Mo Wudi looked on coldly without retorting. He was quite worried that Mo Shen might even reach the Void Immortal realm within 100 years.
In ancient times, the two most talented cultivators, the ancestors of the two top empires only reached the Void Immortal realm after cultivating for about 1,000 years.
Immediately, Mo Wudi returned to his palace and met up with Gu Xian'er. "Let's start." Mo Wudi quickly said.
The two of them sat on the floor and dug into their hearts, digging out almost all of their blood essence, leaving only 1. Then they started to form hand seals similar to the one Mo Wudi formed earlier on.
They wanted to use the combination of their blood essence to seal Mo Shen's demon bones and ancient god heart. No matter how strong the resistance was, the seal could last for at least 10 years.
It was enough time for him to send their baby out to a hidden place where the other forces couldn't reach. The array increased in size till it covered the room, then it began to shrink and move towards Mo Shen.
Just as if was about to enter Mo Shen, the array stopped in front of him and it separated, turning back into different blood essences that flew back to his parents' bodies.
"What happened? Did it fail? Is his innate talent too strong?" Mo Wudi said with a dejected expression.
All of a sudden, a drop off blood flew out of Mo Shen's body into Mo Wudi. It was the drop of blood essence he had first used to seal Mo Shen temporarily.
Seeing this, Mo Wudi turned white in fright, afraid that Mo Shen's aura will attract Gu Jing who had not gone far.
Fortunately, his fears were uncalled for as he couldn't sense the two dominant auras in Mo Shen.
It was as if Mo Shen had seen through their intentions and decided to hide the aura by himself.
Another drop of blood came out of Mo Shen's body. It was golden in colour, different from Gu Xian'er's light red blood and Mo. Wudi's dark red blood. It was just a normal drop of blood, not a blood essence.
The blood entered Mo Wudi's heart immediately.
"What?" Mo Wudi almost screamed in shock. "His blood is mixing with the other 9 blood essences to form a new blood essence."Mo Wudi immediately sat on the floor, assisting the process to continue. In a few minutes, a new blood essence was formed. The remaining energy in the blood spread around his body, healing all his past injuries.
After a while, he stood up and looked at Mo Shen in thought. "Our baby is too amazing, we really cannot keep him in the Dao universe."
Gu Xian'er held Mo Shen in her hands and a few drops of tears dropped from her onto his face. Mo Shen stretched out his small fingers and wiped the tears away from her eyes, as if telling her:
"Mommy, I understand."
"At the end of the day, we still have to send him away." Gu Xian'er said sadly.
"Mo Fan." Mo Wudi called out to the door of the room as he made up his mind.
A young looking figure walked into the room. His name was Mo Fan. He was a trusted subordinate of Mo Wudi and had reached the True Immortal realm. He was one of the top geniuses in the Demon Empire who had reached the Void Immortal realm in less than 5,000 years. He had been personally trained by Mo Wudi, and in a sense could be called Mo Wudi's disciple. In summary, he was the perfect candidate to go with Mo Shen.
Mo Wudi explained everything about Mo Shen to him. "We'll be sending him to one of the 3000 lower worlds at random, and you'll be going with him."