Bo Jichen's purple pupils narrowed, and his voice deepened: "You know about devouring?"

Jiang Si ignored his question, raising her index finger from her clenched fist: "One..."

Bo Jichen moved his hand down to his lower abdomen, turned it around, and put it behind his back. "Jiang Si, let's discuss this again."

“Two…” Jiang Si raised her middle finger.

"We're all family, why tear each other apart? I've gone to so much trouble to cover your tracks, you can't just turn your back on me like that..."

"three!"

Before Bo Jichen could finish saying the word "bridge," Jiang Si raised three fingers and then struck him, aiming straight for his lower abdomen.

She wanted to see what kind of species this non-human female was, that her belly could be so flat and so small when she was pregnant.

Bo Jichen was surprised that she would actually make a move, and he retreated repeatedly, with hard ice rising up in front of him.

Jiang Si didn't take the hard, thick ice in front of her seriously at all. She changed her fist into a palm and slapped it onto the thick ice.

With a crack, the ice blocking her way was smashed in two.

Jiang Si walked through the ice, her eyes sharp and her movements swift.

Bo Jichen was forced to retreat, but suddenly a bunch of green, thorny branches grew behind him, blocking his way.

He quickly moved to the left, and suddenly green, thorny branches sprouted all over the left side as well. He moved to the right, and suddenly green, thorny branches sprouted all over the right side.

Behind, to the left and to the right, there were thorny green branches. There was only one path in front, but the people blocking that path were even more vicious than the green branches beside them.

Bo Jichen's hand, hanging at his side, clenched slightly, and a nearly meter-long ice blade appeared in his hand: "My darling, is it necessary to draw blood?"

Jiang Si pointed at him with the willow branch in her hand like a sword: "Ice-type superpower, materializing mental energy, and it can also devour. Dude, you're amazing."

“No problem, no problem,” Bo Jichen raised the ice blade in his hand, turning passive into active: “You know about Devouring, and you’re not bad either, you’re quite powerful.”

"Bang!"

The willow branches and the ice blades collided.

Lightning melts ice and water.

The ice blade in Bo Jichen's hand melted instantly.

Bo Jichen reached for the ginger shreds with his empty hands.

With a loud bang.

A blue lightning bolt ripped through the sky, accompanied by blue thunder, and struck down towards Bo Jichen.

In an instant, Bo Jichen's body was surrounded by blue flames.

Jiang Si stood in front of him, watching him burn in the flames, and sneered, "Buddy, do you think I was joking when I said I wanted to kill you?"

Bo Jichen was burned by the blue flames, letting out a muffled groan. His standing body fell to the ground, his hands still protecting his stomach.

Jiang Si stepped forward and looked at Bo Jichen in the flames. The camouflage paint on his face was gone, revealing his beautiful appearance.

With a hiss.

The sound of a combat suit tearing rang out.

Jiang Si's gaze focused on Bo Jichen's lower abdomen.

Its lower abdomen protrudes slightly.

That one spot caused its combat uniform to crack.

Jiang Si stared at the small protrusion on its lower abdomen, puzzled.

Why is it so small?

The protruding point.

What species has such small offspring with such round heads?

The smallest premature baby born in ancient China weighed 268 grams, smaller than the palm of a hand, but it's impossible for them to have such a small and round head.

Could it be that a non-human female species like him, whose offspring cannot transform into humans?

Yes, if it were a person, there would be nothing shameful about Bo Jichen openly admitting it.

Moreover, he was the empress, born as the heir to the empire.

That's not right either.

She was the Empress, the Empress who commanded the capital's guards.

His Majesty loves him deeply, and Agares is his student.

Logically speaking, no matter how many aliases he has, he should be able to handle them all.

His presence at the military training ground indicates that His Majesty is unaware of his affairs, nor is Agares.

Judging from his expression, it seemed he had known all along and had kept it from His Majesty.

He asked her what species she was, but refused to tell her what species he was, which shows that his non-human female species is very rare.

He was unsure of what kind of life form he possessed, which is why he concealed it from His Majesty.

Jiang Si reached into the blue flames to touch Bo Jichen's protruding belly.

"roar!"

A deafening roar echoed through the forest.

Jiang Si was startled. Her hand, which hadn't yet touched his stomach, turned in another direction to brush away the blue flames on his body.

Unexpectedly, the ground beneath my feet began to shake.

The surrounding trees were shedding their leaves.

Cracks appeared on the ground where Bo Jichen lay.

Jiang Si reached out to grab Bo Jichen.

Bo Jichen rolled away, avoiding Jiang Si's hand.

It rolled into the crack in the ground.

Jiang Si rushed towards the crack in the ground, but the crack closed right before her eyes, as if it had never opened at all.