[Xiao Yelin is, after all, surnamed Xiao. Even if he becomes an immortal, he will not truly be considered a member of the Nangong clan.]

The Nangong clan, a divine race with billions of years of history, is too proud. They don't want an outsider to become an immortal and then protect them; they want one of their own to become an immortal!

[—Countless billions of years ago, Nangong and Beiming shared the same lineage!]

They were all descendants of the same True Immortal, but later they split into two major divine races.

However, they have always maintained close contact.

[Two of the major divine races share a legend, which could be considered a superstitious belief, that their common ancestor possessed the sacred body of the "North-South Heaven and Earth Body," unparalleled and invincible!]

Possessing such a divine body greatly increases the probability of becoming an immortal!

Although the Holy Body has upper limits in terms of both value and function, it doesn't prevent the two divine races from believing that the "North-South Heaven and Earth Body" is superior and stronger than other perfect Holy Bodies. Within their respective races, this is called the "Divine Body."

[You understand, the connection between becoming an immortal and having a sacred body isn't that significant. The main factors are whether the Dao Seal is complete and whether it can withstand the Dao transformation required for immortality.]

[But this is a superstition unique to the Nangong Divine Clan!]

[Who cares if it's scientific or fantastical? They just believe it increases their chances of becoming immortals!]

The chance of awakening this divine body is extremely low, and most people's awakened holy bodies are initially quite weak. Furthermore, during subsequent evolution, different branches of evolution will occur depending on each person's experiences and personality.

The creation of a "North-South Celestial Body" is practically impossible; in fact, the entire Nangong and Beichen divine races produce only one such body every tens of millions of years on average.

The reason lies here—

After Nangong Meng advanced to the sixth realm, her Sacred Body increasingly evolved towards the precursor to the "Southern Celestial Body." If all goes well, when she advances to the tenth or twentieth level of the Heavenly Realm, her Sacred Body will become the "Southern Celestial Body."

[Corresponding to her, the young master who emerged from the Northern Underworld Clan possessed a Holy Body that was a precursor to the "Northern Body."]

The two great divine races of Nangong and Beiming haven't had such a wonderful start in tens of millions of years.

Both are legitimate heirs of their families, possessing noble bloodlines and exceptional talent, with the potential to elevate their cultivation to the tenth or more levels, and evolve their sacred bodies into the advanced "Southern Celestial Body" and "Northern Earth Body."

[As long as their sacred bodies cultivate according to the systems left by their ancestors and don't go astray, they can become the most outstanding father and mother bodies.]

What are you waiting for?

[Mating!]

Let those two Kuku have babies.

[A fierce wedding night.]

[Using the finest secret recipes from both Protoss races.]

[Until a super genius with a "North-South Heaven and Earth Body" was born.]

[If we allow that genius to retrace the immortal path left by our ancestors, there will be a great chance of him becoming a true immortal!]

[These are true immortals who belong entirely to their two great divine races!]

"What the hell is this innate sacred body and Dao embryo?"

Therefore, it cannot be said that the Nangong Divine Clan was too stupid. Xiao Yelin did indeed have the potential to become an immortal, but they were unaware of the existence of destiny and were unclear about the future. In their eyes, Xiao Yelin only had a chance, not a certainty.

And the being they cultivate in the future, the one born from the Northern and Southern Heavenly Bodies, also has a chance of becoming an immortal!

To put it in a more realistic way, you have two choices: would you rather your nephew have a 30% chance of winning a billion dollars in the lottery, or your son have a 1% chance?

The Nangong Divine Clan chose option two.

And they're quite shrewd.

Even if Xiao Yelin didn't die, he will return later...

They harbored this thought: even if Nangong Meng were matched with the young master of Beiming, Xiao Yelin would still harbor feelings for her!

[Even after Xiao Yelin advances to True Immortal in the future, the two great divine clans might be able to relax a bit and allow the young master of Beiming to wear a hat (a symbol of kinship).]

[Giving Xiao Yelin and Nangong Meng a chance to reunite, and then having Nangong Meng introduce her child to them... would be equivalent to finding a real True Immortal as a godfather for their future True Immortal!]

Yun Shou: "My God."

The boy was shocked.

He couldn't figure out for a moment who was putting a hat on whom.

He is the young master of the Northern Underworld God Clan. In order to give his son a better environment to grow up in, he had to give his lawfully wedded wife to Xiao Yelin. So he was the one who was cheated?

Or perhaps it's Xiao Yelin, whose woman, with whom he had a mutual relationship, was sexually assaulted by another man, and whose child was even made to call him godfather...

As for whether Xiao Yelin would agree to protect his lover's non-son and help him achieve immortality... that's impossible.

He meant—he couldn't let that happen.

[You were originally wondering why Xiao Yelin didn't kill the young master of Beiming, or simply wipe out the Beiming Divine Clan.]

Because Xiao Yelin wasn't a villain, and the Northern Underworld Clan feared his retaliation, they didn't provoke him after the forced marriage.

[The Nangong Divine Clan has always been shameless, taking advantage of their own goddess being their lover to repeatedly cause trouble, unafraid of retaliation, and just going on and on!]

As for the other party in that divine marriage, the young master of Beiming... he himself wasn't particularly fond of that marriage!

He, like you, wants to be a free and unrestrained ladybug, and doesn't want to be tied down by Nangong Meng.

"To be honest, as a complete bystander, I think he is indeed quite innocent."

What Young Master Bei Ming truly desires is a forest, not to be forcibly bound to a woman by those two families.

[After this divine marriage bond, he definitely can't go out and play around anymore; he'll be absolutely restricted by Nangong Meng, who's a believer in pure, one-on-one love.]

[If I can't go out and have casual sex, my life feels ruined!]

[Even the young master of Beiming once secretly contacted Xiao Yelin: "Brother, I see you're having a tough time too, how about I have a fake marriage with her?"]

"After that, you can take her out to do whatever you want. I'll do mine, and you and she can do his. We might as well put on a show and fool those old guys."

"When the time comes, I'll say your two sons are my sons. You can secretly tell the children the truth, and we'll leave each other's lives alone."

Xiao Yelin, of course, refused. He didn't want his "Meng'er" to have any other man in her reputation, not even the slightest connection to someone else!

Having learned the truth, you've already made your calculations.