After hearing Tian talk about the blood of the demons and dragons, Jing He had almost expected him to say this. Hearing it out loud though … his cheeks couldn’t help but flush. He had always been easily embarrassed and now being told about his own wedding and the child he would have with the man he loved … naturally, the reaction was the same.

He took a moment to calm down and finally couldn’t help but question this more. “I naturally want to marry Qiu Ling and give him a child but … is it certain that this will be the reincarnation you are looking for?”

His bloodline was already cursed and, come to think of it now, he suddenly felt that maybe there was more to this. If the child of a god with a demon or dragon gave enough of a possibility for Tian’s child to be reincarnated, then he wouldn’t need to be so worried about this. In fact, it likely would have happened long ago and wouldn’t have taken three hundred thousand years to even become likely.

No, this relationship between him and Qiu Ling had to be a special opportunity for Tian and that was probably the case because he was part of the Heavenly Family. Come to think of it, wasn’t the title of ‘Son of Heaven’ granted to every crown prince because of this? He had once thought that it should be Xing who was reborn in their family but it made more sense for it to be the child Tian and Xing had expected at that time. Yes, just as those words suggested, it was literally Tian’s son who was supposed to return in the form of a Heavenly Emperor’s child.

Thinking about this more closely … the curse on this bloodline heightened the chances of this happening. After all, the immortal races didn’t have many children over the years and if Tian truly let everything play out naturally, then chances were that in those three thousand years, only a handful of people would have been born. But with the curse which took many lives prematurely … the chances of his son’s reincarnation appearing were much higher because each of those children meant that another one could be born.

Jing He’s mouth suddenly felt dry. He gulped, his hands trembling as he tried not to make any assumptions. “What if the child isn’t your son’s reincarnation? Will they … will you kill them?” It seemed like a foregone conclusion but he needed certainty. After all, this was the child he’d have with Qiu Ling. Even though it was far in the future, he already knew that he naturally didn’t want to lose them when the time came.

“They will be.” Tian had absolutely no doubt about this. “You are only a few generations removed from Xing and even in terms of the state of your soul, you are very similar. That makes you the perfect vessel to have this child.” Yes, his lover was not the perfect candidate. A demon or half-blood of older age would have been preferable but … this was acceptable. “Not to mention that while I may be unable to influence fate more than others, I can at least see it.”

Jing He’s gaze flickered. “So you have foreseen this?”

“I have seen that you will have a child and I can see that my son’s reincarnation is imminent.”

Hearing this, Jing He slowly relaxed. If he could have this child with Qiu Ling, he would naturally not have anything against it, no matter who that child’s soul belonged to in the past. He wanted to give his lover the family he desired, after all. This had never been a question. At most, he felt a little odd hearing that it wouldn’t take long for this to happen.

“Is it imminent?” He lowered his eyelids, feeling a little confused. Right now, he was in such a state. Even getting married seemed like something that would only happen far in the future. To have a child soon …

Tian sighed though when he heard him repeat his words. “Imminent if compared to the more than two hundred thousand years I have waited.” In fact, he knew very well that several more years would pass before this could come to be. These two were in no state to have a child right now and … well, it wasn’t easy for a god to have the child of someone with demonic blood.

He didn’t mention it but he could sense that this child would not be deliberately created but instead conceived. He wasn’t sure if this circumstance made Yuan’s reincarnation more or less likely but he was well aware that trying to change fate seldom had a good outcome. Usually, you would make things worse if you tried. Wasn’t that how his people had found their demise?

The immortal races called him ‘Heaven’, often believing that he was in charge of fate. The truth was … there was no such thing. He was a victim to the whims of fate just like anyone else. At most, he had the ability to see the lines of fate as they crisscrossed in this world, allowing him to subtly change the odds for the better.

Yes, just as Jing He had thought, that curse he created had not just been to punish the Heavenly Family. It had been carefully calculated to give him a higher chance to regain what he had lost. But the only reason he was able to place it without drawback in the first place was because the Heavenly Family had cost the life of his child so this curse could be considered their karma. Of course, this also meant that after this current crown prince of the Nine Heavens gave life to his child’s reincarnation, he had to retract the curse to ensure karma would not turn again and threaten the family he had just regained.

Tian narrowed his eyes when he thought of that but he didn’t mention any of those thoughts. Either way, Jing He had no need to know those things as long as he obediently allowed his soul to be healed and returned to marry the man he loved. He just needed him to have that child. He didn’t need him to understand too much.