In the Boundless-Measure realm of the Twelve Immortal Realms.
Ascending into the ancient Immortal Domain, only the Everlasting Ying Clan stood proudly here!
At this moment, the divine light of the grand array within the Ying family's Void Palace of Ganping blazed brilliantly.
The head of the family, Ying Zhedao, stood with his hands behind his back, facing away from the hall entrance and gazing up at the azure sky. The elders wore solemn expressions as they stood closely behind him, surrounded by dozens of ancient stars spinning across the eight directions of the array.
Inside the hall, chaotic mist swirled densely.
A Ying family midwife was delivering a child for a woman.
The woman was encircled by various divine inscriptions and formation patterns, which were kept operating at full tilt by the Seventh Elder, Ying Qingyu, and ten maidservants.
Nearby, the source essence of the Holy Spirit was vanishing like a rushing torrent, filling everyone with extreme anxiety!
At last, a faint trace of Profound Yellow breath mixed with primordial chaos flickered in the air, gradually growing denser.
Profound Yellow breath pervaded the heaven and earth, surrounded by immortal melodies and brilliant Dao principles.
The infant was about to be born!
Outside the hall, the elders were also bathing in the auspicious blessings.
"Hahaha! As expected of Hongyi's child, another monstrous talent born to eldest brother's family! Hahaha!"
The First Elder of the Ying family, Ying Qingliu, sensed the changes in his own divine body as he "greedily" absorbed the Profound Yellow breath in the air.
The Third Elder, Ying Laiwu, remarked, "Indeed, it's just a pity that his grandfather, Fubai, is far away at the Heavenly Pass..."
At this, the Sixth Elder, Ying Nanshao, chimed in hastily:
"So what? Where was he when Hongyi was born? Besides, with the likes of us here, we will never let anything happen to Hongyi and her child!"
"Be that as it may, little Hongyi's actions defy the heaven and earth's yin and yang, seizing the fortune of all creation! The slightest misstep would lead to utter destruction!"
"Which father wouldn't care? I'm afraid that outside the Heavenly Pass..."
The Fifth Elder, Ying Xun, tried to smooth things over. Space fluctuated around him as divine light gathered, his gaze drifting into the distance.
The Eighth Elder, Ying Yawan, rested her slender fingers upon a jade sword and said sharply:
"Regardless, this is a crucial moment. We must not let Sister Hongyi be distracted!"
"Hmph! I'm really looking forward to that brat's future! Don't let this old man down!" The Fourth Elder, Ying Xiaoyu, curled the corner of his mouth upwards, though his gaze stared fiercely at the heavens.
Before long, Ying Zhedao, the head of the Ying Clan, waved both hands, his left hand grasping an unknown flame.
The elders channeled their profound arts, their mighty presences surging as if welcoming the arrival of something momentous.
Inside the hall.
Accompanied by an instinctive cry, the infant was born.
The Seventh Elder, Ying Qingyu, and the ten maidservants all heaved a sigh of relief.
The midwife, however, dared not relax.
Using her spiritual energy to cradle the infant with her left hand, she waved her divine arts with her right to calm the breathing of the woman on the bed, before changing the woman's robes.
Only then did she smile and present the baby:
"The young master's form is like uncarved jade, his bearing like a white lotus, his divine face so handsome he could be an exiled immortal. Congratulations, Lord!"
Normally, a newborn's skin would be deeply wrinkled, but the baby in the midwife's hands had smooth, supple skin and an adorable, well-behaved demeanor that aroused tender affection.
The woman took the baby boy, channeling spiritual energy in her hands to carefully nourish the infant's body with divine essence.
The smile at the corner of her lips added a touch of enchanting beauty to her face.
The Seventh Elder had no time to look at the baby. She popped a pill to restore her spiritual power and said,
"Hongyi, you must rest well. With us here, put your mind completely at ease!"
The woman gave no reply, simply gazing quietly at the infant in her arms, her eyes overflowing with tenderness.
The various arrays spun silently.
Two hours passed, yet the heavenly tribulation everyone anticipated still failed to appear.
Today was exceptionally tranquil!
The people outside the hall had long since put away their stances.
"What the hell, is this oath-killing tribulation afraid of my Ying family?" Seeing no reaction from the sky after all this time, the Sixth Elder grew anxious.
Yet Ying Zhedao suddenly knitted his brows, as if sensing something.
"Second Elder, hurry and wake the Three Ancestors of the Imperial Tribulation!"
"Hongyi's little fellow is not right."
With that, he strode quickly toward the interior of the hall.
The Second Elder, Ying Ze, wasted no time and directly utilized his divine arts to depart.
The remaining elders snapped out of their shock and turned to follow Ying Zhedao into the hall.
Though residual chaotic mist lingered inside, the elders could not detect the infant's presence without using their divine sense!
Moreover, without any prior heavenly manifestations, immortal melodies had echoed instead!
A prodigy! What a freak of nature!
"...Where is this?"
At this moment, the infant had also regained consciousness. Memories flooded his mind; he only remembered that his lower back had suddenly ached as if pierced, and then his vision had gone black.
Afterward, it seemed as though he had arrived in a very strange place, resembling a massive ancient palace.
The interior of the hall lacked any light source and appeared dim. The surrounding cyan walls were crafted from unknown materials, carved with unfamiliar patterns and texts.
There were also some nameless vessels and artifacts decorating the entire hall.
"My head... it's such a mess..."
He felt his memories were somewhat chaotic. Straining to think made his head feel as though it were splitting open.
Next came a pain that caused him to writhe and struggle within the hall.
But suddenly!
His gaze locked onto the very top of the grand hall, upon the main seat where a statue had merged completely with the architecture!
It appeared to be a statue of a celestial maiden, radiating a faint purple glow, matched with surrounding "scriptures" that looked solemn and sacred!
"What... on earth is this?!"
The mutual gaze made his head explode with pain once more. He curled into a ball, floating and swaying in mid-air.
Yet the statue's appearance engraved itself deeply into his memory, and in some mysterious way, an indistinct connection formed between him and the statue.
Abruptly, a ball of light merged from the statue into his shadow-like "body," followed by a forceful surge of all the "scriptures"!
Space! Time! Everything was distorted!
"Ahhhhh!"
Accompanied by a horribly distorted scream, space began to collapse, dragging the shadow in.
The ancient palace emitted a blindingly brilliant light, illuminating a corner of the boundless void, before flashing once... and that corner returned to its original silence.
Back to the present.
The infant had gathered some threads of understanding.
Yet the instant he opened his eyes, the consciousness that had just cleared grew somewhat dazed as he looked at the woman holding him.
What an peerless, epoch-spanning grace!
His mother's lovely eyes drifted sideways, her delicate nose was exquisite, and her cherry lips held a smile. A few touches of pallor outlined an inexpressible allure upon her striking yet refined face.
The woman, too, looked down at the infant in her arms.
He bore an eight-tenths resemblance to her; his innate soul was complete, the five viscera were all present, the yin and yang within his body were balanced, an immortal imprint sat naturally between his brows, and a pair of double pupils perfectly inherited her traits, gazing at her through swirling mists of chaos...
At this moment, the elders walked in.
"Hahaha! The mandate of heaven belongs to my Ying family in this generation! The heavens have eyes, withholding the oath-killing tribulation and even sending my Ying clan an immortal body! The mandate of this era shall undoubtedly belong to the Ying family!"
The First Elder laughed heartily, breaking the silence.
Following this, the maidservants inside the hall curtsied respectfully, and the woman looked over at the sound.
"Mm!? Those are double pupils!"
"Why did you all come in... What double pupils?!" The Seventh Elder, who had just been recovering, cried out in surprise as she watched the elders enter.
"Not only that, look—these double pupils are also entwined with chaotic breath. They must be chaotic double pupils!"
"Good grief! This brat is also a Boundless-Measure Dao Fetus!"
"A Boundless-Measure Dao Fetus!? How many physiques does this kid have?!"
"Sister Hongyi, you..."
...
A group of elders thousands of years old lost their composure one after another like children, growing excited and shouting over one another.
The infant finally processed the situation.
"Huh? How did my past life end? So I've transmigrated?"
"That is utterly absurd!"
Yet this family of his seemed overwhelmingly formidable! Was this a fantasy world? Judging by the looks of it, his talent was outrageously overpowered, too!
Emm... according to standard tropes, there was a high probability he wouldn't be a trash-to-glory protagonist.
Villain trope? Prodigal son trope? Behind-the-scenes puppet master? King of playing it safe? Who knew what his system would be, hehehe... But next, barring any accidents, it should be:
"Ding!"
(...At this moment, there was only the excited clamor of several elders...)
"System?"
"Little System?"
"Check-in!"
"System sister, I want to check-in!"
Well... it seemed an accident had occurred.
The infant was somewhat dazed, wondering why the standard cheat of every transmigrator still hadn't arrived, and repeatedly called out to the system in his mind.
Then, he saw the surrounding spiritual energy continuously pouring into the infant's body.
"This is an innate imperial law!"
First Elder Ying Qingliu's face flushed red as he stared at the "peerless treasure" before him, growing even more ecstatic.
As the spiritual energy continued to pour in, the infant suddenly floated upward!
A cyan lotus bloomed to support him, rotating slowly while exuding a unique spiritual aura.
"An innate guardian artifact!"
"These are the leaves of the World-Purifying Green Lotus! They can cure deep-seated illnesses and shatter disasters, delusions, and evil spirits."
Then, seeing the green lotus spin rapidly, the mark between the infant's brows emitted a white light.
"Damn it! More?"
"Why is there still more?!"
Abruptly once again!
A wave of pressure startled everyone's hearts, causing even Ying Zhedao's expression to turn solemn.
They saw the mark within the infant's body manifest, transforming into a wisp of innate immortal breath!
This merged into the infant's body alongside the surrounding spiritual energy, which had grown so dense it resembled water.
At this moment, an ancient suspended wooden coffin was housed within a forbidden ground of the Ying family.
"Immortal intent?!"
Outside the coffin, the newly awakened Third Ancestor of the Imperial Tribulation suddenly sensed something. Grabbing the Second Elder, he instantly appeared within the Palace of Ganping.
Second Elder: ⊙_⊙!!!
The Third Ancestor, however, grasped the situation at a single glance.
With a wave of his right hand, he struck an imprint that surged into the infant's body, and then channeled an incantation that landed upon the infant's brow.
At that moment, the wisp of innate immortal breath within the infant split into a thousand threads, continuously forging the infant's bones, coursing through his entire body before finally gathering back between his brows.
First stage of Bone-Forging, level one!
...
First stage of Bone-Forging, great completion!
First stage of Bone-Forging, Extreme Realm!
"Hiss—!"
All the elders drew in a sharp breath of cold air, completely forgetting to pay their respects to the Third Ancestor.
"Forging bones with immortal breath!? What the hell! Is that even allowed?!"
Certain elders were already cursing aloud.
"Hahahaha! Though I was not born in the era of the mandate of heaven, I truly feel sorry for the proud talents of this era! This is bound to be the nightmare of this era! Hahaha!!!"
While other elders... had probably gone mad.
"Contend for the mandate of heaven? Damn it! You still call that contending for the mandate of heaven? You're going to let those little punks outside contend for the mandate of heaven against this fellow?"
"My grandson possesses the aptitude of an immortal!!"
The First Elder's eyes were moist and already completely red.
...
"This! This... can probably be considered a special talented physique!"
"A perfect immortal bone! Among three thousand physiques, it must at least rank in the top hundred!"
Clan Head Ying Zhedao was equally shocked.
Using immortal breath to forge the foundation of Dao!
Not to mention that this kid himself possessed an innate immortal body, just this skeleton alone—he possessed the qualifications to become an immortal!
When the infant's aura stabilized, the Third Ancestor of the Imperial Tribulation casually tucked the World-Purifying Green Lotus leaves into the infant's body as well.
Reaching out to catch the baby, the rest of the crowd finally snapped out of their daze and bowed in greeting.
At this moment, the mark on the infant's forehead was enveloped by a green lotus pattern, adding an extra touch of an aura untainted by the mortal world.
"An innate flawless Profound Yellow Immortal Body, not bad! Not bad!" The Third Ancestor of the Imperial Tribulation uttered two words of praise in succession.
Those with immortal bodies either perish or become immortals, leaving no other paths!
"Though this Boundless-Measure Dao Fetus and Chaotic Double Pupils are no different from innate traits, this must be your Dao karma, right?"
As he spoke, the Third Ancestor of the Imperial Tribulation looked at the woman on the bed.
"The great era has begun; I merely seek a sliver of survival," Ying Hongyi explained.
This was the first time the infant had heard his mother speak. Her voice was not loud, devoid of melodious etherealness, yet clear and filled with doting affection.
"Haha, this is the Ying family!" The Third Ancestor's tone was affirmative and unquestionable.
The Everlasting Ying Clan, let alone in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, could easily protect someone even across the entire Twelve Realms.
"This child is the fortune of our clan!"
Ying Hongyi smiled and said nothing more.
"Yet, strangely..."
The Third Ancestor continued, "Is this child yours?"
Infant: (||?_?)
The infant was once again dumbfounded.
Huh? What does that mean? This old man is asking his mother with a calm expression: Is this child yours?
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"I came out of my mother's... belly, how could I not be hers?!"
《Reborn as Whose Kid?!》
Waiting online, it's rather urgent!
?_?
"This child defies conventional logic; even I cannot sense his aura."
"Yet just now, I could tell he possesses extremely pure Ying family bloodline! And that bloodline traces its lineage solely to you!"
Only then did the infant let out a sigh of relief, but immediately afterward, he fell silent again.
"Meaning, I was birthed by my mother all by herself?"
Is this place so absurd?!
"So I basically don't have a father, or else my mother severed everything about herself and that father completely while she was pregnant with me!"
"Clan feuds? An epoch-spanning ill-fated romance?"
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[Realms: Blood-Moving, Five Viscera, Bone-Forging, Aperture-Opening, Spirit Transformation (also Entering Divinity), Gathered Spirit Sea, Condensed Spirit Palace (Origin Mansion), True Spirit Transformation, Treading Divine Bridge, Return to One (Dao Integration), Divine Fire Ignition (Nirvana), King and Marquis (Heaven-Reaching), Heaven-Human, Void God, True God, Heavenly God, Quasi-Saint, Saint, Saint King, Great Saint, Saint Lord, Mystic Venerable, Origin Venerable, Heavenly Venerable, Great Heavenly Venerable, God Venerable (Creation), Dao Venerable (Transforming Zhou), Supreme (Hunyuan), Quasi-Emperor (Immortal), Great Emperor (Immortal Terrace)...]