My Demon Husband Is a Snake

"Much better, Dumpling. Are you alright?" I touched my belly, asking Dumpling.

Although Dumpling was no longer in as much pain as before, he still seemed listless. "Much better, mommy."

"Quickly thank Old Senior Zhang." My heart filled with gratitude toward Zhang Zidao, I thought about doing something to please the old man.

In a milky voice, Dumpling called out, "Old Senior Zhang, thank you for fixing mommy's hairpin and saving both me and mommy."

"Call me Great Grandmaster," Zhang Zidao corrected, dissatisfied.

Xiao Li was clutching her belly, a look of suffering on her face, "Then... what should I do... my belly also hurts a lot..."

"For now... Let the Taoist take your pulse, girl, don't rush. With me here, everything will turn out fine."

Zhang Zidao touched his nose and walked unhurriedly to Xiao Li, taking her pulse, "My dear disciple's body has a natural gift uncommon among regular people. Corpse gu has a hard time getting close, which led to the fetus becoming infected with gu poison, you... this girl..."

"What... what's wrong with me?" Xiao Li worriedly blurted out, and then spat out another mouthful of blood.

Beichen also grew anxious, "Old Senior, why are you hesitating?"

"This girl has good physical constitution too and also possesses the Little Heavenly Eye. Corpse gu can't infect you, but you're just a regular person, not like someone who has practiced Mysterious Art, yet your body's fitness is almost similar..."

Zhang Zidao stroked his beard, falling deep into thought.

Beichen straightforwardly revealed, "My wife has consumed the Snake Lord's Jade Marrow Light Spirit Nascent Soul Pill."

"Wife..." Xiao Li's pale face flushed with a touch of red.

Zhang Zidao sighed, "No wonder then. This elixir consumed by cultivators can even result in the forming of a nascent soul on their own, the corpse gu can't harm her, so it followed the mother's body into the fetus's."

"If we don't keep this child, will Xiao Li be fine?" Beichen's eyes darkened.

Zhang Zidao furrowed his brows, "A fetus infected with corpse gu, how do you suggest we abort it? Even if medication kills it in the womb, it won't leave the body. Surgery isn't possible either; the fetus is too small..."

"Isn't there any other way??" My family's Dumpling, whose body had reacted to the gu poison but was nearly recovered due to the suppression by the hairpin, "How about, I give the hairpin to Xiao Li to wear temporarily to suppress the gu poison outbreak and ease her suffering?"

"If it was useful for her, I would have suggested it myself; it's a Lin Family artifact and useless to her."

Zhang Zidao, with a pained expression, took out a bottle, "Inside are two pills, both concocted from Ginseng roots, initially for my dear disciple. First, let Miss Xiao Li use it to temporarily suppress the gu poison... but remember, only one pill; otherwise her delicate body won't cope."

As Ah San and Ah Si nearly finished filling up the well, wiping sweat off, they approached, "Elder, these Ginseng clothes were meant to replenish your health; why are you giving them away?"

"Indeed, you are facing Heaven's Tribulation soon; you need these heavenly treasures."

It turned out these two Taoists were trading with Yu Longting not for themselves, but to help Zhang Zidao face the Heaven's Tribulation.

Zhang Zidao waved his hand, "I appreciate your concern, but my body has already reached its limits; no medicine will be of any use now."

Limits, that probably meant the peak of cultivation.

This elder looked shabby and unremarkable.

But he had reached the highest point of cultivation among all beings...

"Xiao Li, it's all my fault." Beichen fed Xiao Li a pure white pill as smooth as cow's milk.

After swallowing it, Xiao Li's pain was relieved, and she slumped into Beichen's arms, relieved, "I only wish one thing, that the baby is safe, Brother Chen, it's our child."

"Snake Lord, there's one more for the Lady of the Snake Lord."

Beichen tossed the bottle to Yu Longting, then lowered his pitch-black eyes, tucking the girl's little hands into his own palm, "If we can't save it, don't be too heartbroken; I'll give you many children."