"This..." The doctor also felt strange. At least from the pulse, the princess's body was in good health. "Your Highness, please forgive me. I really can't see any problem with the princess's body."

Pei Ji frowned, asked the doctor to leave, and ordered his servants to go to the Imperial Hospital to invite the director.

Xue Huan: "No need to call a doctor, I'm really fine. Look, I have a great appetite now."

He picked up a crystal steamed bun and put it into his mouth.

Pei Ji felt relieved when he saw that she was eating with relish.

At this time, a servant came to report: "Your Highness, a young man named 'Yu Huan' came to visit and said he was an old acquaintance of the princess."

Yu Huan? Was he an old acquaintance of hers?

Xue Huan: "Could it be that Mr. Yu has already seen through my identity?"

Pei Ji: "Please come in."

Yu Huan was brought to the flower hall by a servant, and Xue Huan and Pei Ji stood up to greet him.

Xue Huan: "Last time, you gave me the red string to save me, and I haven't been able to thank you yet."

As he said this, he bowed down to Yu Huan.

Yu Huan: "Who said you didn't say thank you? That meal you gave me is the best thank you gift. I've already accepted your kindness in advance, so naturally I have to repay you."

Xue Huan smiled.

Pei Ji: "I wonder if you have had your meal yet, sir? Why not sit down and eat with us?"

"Okay, that's exactly what I meant." Yu Huan was not polite. He looked at the table full of delicious food and walked over with a smile.

Xue Huan asked someone to bring another pair of bowls and chopsticks.

After sitting down, Yu Huan drank a bowl of porridge and ate several buns. Then he spoke: "Before coming here, I was thinking about what gift to give you. After meeting you, I have an idea."

He took out a small box from his sleeve and handed it to Xue Huan.

Xue Huan didn't refuse. She opened it and found a jade-white seed the size of a corn kernel inside. "What is this?"

Yu Huan: "This is spiritual rice. After cooking, the grains are crystal clear and beautiful. Eating it regularly is very beneficial to both the mother and the fetus. Plant some and use the Spring Breeze Technique to ripen them—"

Before he finished speaking, Pei Ji suddenly said, "Mr. Yu, what did you just say? Fetus?"

Yu Huan: "Ah, isn't Xue Xiaoyou pregnant?"

After these words were spoken, Xue Huan and Pei Ji looked at each other in surprise.

"You mean Huanhuan is pregnant? But the doctor just came to see her and didn't diagnose her as pregnant."

The doctor only said that Huanhuan was in good health. If she was pregnant, how could she have concealed it?

Yu Huan looked at Xue Huan's face again and confirmed that he was not mistaken. She was indeed pregnant. As for why the doctor didn't diagnose it?

"You are a cultivator, and your pulse is different from that of an ordinary person. You cannot use an ordinary person's pulse to judge whether you are pregnant. In fact, you should be the one who knows best whether you are pregnant. Look inside your uterus and see if there is something extra in your womb. That is the fetus. It's just that it's too early to see its specific appearance yet. You will be able to see it after it grows a few months."

After Yu Huan finished speaking, he went back to eating. On the other side, Xue Huan and Pei Ji, who had become prospective new parents, were dumbfounded.

This is really a case of twists and turns, and then there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Pei Ji paced back and forth several times, the surging emotions in his chest still not subsiding at all. He suddenly jumped up, "Hanhan, we have a baby! I'm going to be a father!"

He was so excited and happy, just like a child.

Xue Huan couldn't help but laugh at his influence, but she was still confused and at a loss. She was actually pregnant? This was too fast, wasn't it?

She'd only been married for a little over a month! She hadn't even fully adjusted to her married life yet, and now she was about to become a mother.

Pei Ji was agitated for a long time, and then he noticed that Xue Huan was not in the right mood. He carefully came over and squatted in front of her, holding her hand. "Huan Huan, are you unhappy?"

Xue Huan shook her head. "I'm happy, but I don't think I'm ready to have a baby yet. Now that I'm suddenly pregnant, I'm a little overwhelmed."

Pei Ji put her hand on his face, staring at her with bright eyes, a silly smile on his lips: "Don't be afraid, I will always be with you."

Xue Huan suddenly felt relieved, poked his face, and laughed too.

Yu Huan couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in his teeth when he saw this. Oh, I'm so old. I can't stand the disgusting energy of young people.

He should just enjoy the food.

After the meal, the three of them went to the living room, where the maids served them tea and snacks.

Yu Huan had just eaten his fill, but when he saw the steaming pastries that had just come out of the oven, he couldn't help but pick up a piece and put it in his mouth.

Soft and sweet, it's really delicious.

Yu Huan often travels (wanders) outside, but rarely has the opportunity to eat such exquisite snacks.

Originally, he thought that he was not a person who paid attention to the appetite, but after tasting the food in this palace, he found that it was not that he did not pay attention to the appetite, but that the food he had eaten before was not delicious enough.

After eating two pieces of cake and taking a sip of the fragrant spiritual tea, he felt relaxed all over and couldn't help but relax in the chair.

"Actually, the reason I came to see you this time is because of a matter of great importance to the people."

Xue Huan sat up straight, waiting for his next words.

"The spiritual energy between heaven and earth is constantly decreasing. Do you know why?" Yu Huan asked a question.

Xue Huan shook her head.

Pei Ji sat beside her and massaged her hands. He didn't pay any attention to what Yu Huan said. His eyes were always on her belly, and the smile on his face never faded.

Yu Huan simply ignored him and looked at Xue Huan. "After thousands of years of continuous exploration, I discovered that the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is flowing towards a certain place. To be more precise, the spiritual energy is being sucked there. I call that place a 'spiritual cave.'"

Xue Huan was greatly surprised: "Thousands of years? Could it be that you have lived for thousands of years?"

Yu Huan: "Oh, I seem to have forgotten to tell you that I am actually the ancestor of the Zong family, the world-famous fortune teller."

There was a childish smugness in his expression that made people laugh.

Xue Huan's surprise faded, and she only found it funny. She matched his expression with a startled expression, "No wonder."

Yu Huan coughed lightly, "Let's continue talking about this spirit cave. The spirit cave has absorbed all the spiritual energy. If this continues, within three years, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth will be completely exhausted. By then, we cultivators will become fish out of water.

"Also, I have another guess. When there is no more spiritual energy to absorb from the world, the spirit cave may not stop. By then, what it absorbs is not spiritual energy, but the vitality of all living things in the world!"

Xue Huan thought about it, if there is no life, the flowers, plants and trees will wither, the rivers and lakes will dry up, and people and animals will gradually become weak and even die... Wouldn't that be the end of the world!

Seeing that she realized the seriousness of the matter, Yu Huan continued, "I have made five predictions. The fifth one is—"

Xue Huan continued, "With the five stars in the sky, the spiritual energy is rising, which is a great blessing."

"That's right, the scene of the five stars appearing together has now been realized, but there is still a key step for the spiritual energy to revive that we have to complete ourselves."

"Which step?"

"Break the spirit cave and let the spirit energy flow back."