Chapter 1222 - An Additional Curse (1/2)

Qiu Ling stared at her in a daze. ”Jing He never mentioned that.”

Bai Fen lightly shook her head. ”He doesn't know about it. That was something we did not want to burden him with.” She kept quiet for a moment and then reached out, taking Qiu Ling's hand. ”I know he is still on his trial but since we're talking about it, I will tell you the whole truth. In any case, you'll get married someday and might also have a child. You have to be prepared for what's to come.”

Qiu Ling lightly furrowed his brows. Somehow, he didn't like the way the sounded. ”What whole truth?”

”You are the dragon king so I don't need to tell you about Tian's curse. But one thing that you might not know is that additionally to the curse put on the three immortal races, he also cursed the Heavenly Emperor's family line directly. After all, those were the people that hurt Xing the worst.”

Qiu Ling's expression immediately turned grave. ”Does this have to do with the other child and with Jing He? He wouldn't be in danger, would he?”

Bai Fen shook her head. ”No, at least not anymore. But there was a time when things were different. That is also why his father clings to him so much. You have no idea how hard it is to actually get a child to a.d.u.l.thood as the Heavenly couple.

”Back then, when Tian and Xing were living among the gods, our race was not monogamous. The Heavenly Emperor had many wives and many children so naturally, he did not care about all of them as much as he probably should have.”

Qiu Ling nodded. This also wasn't new to him. While he hadn't actually known the story of Tian and Xing thanks to his less than stellar upbringing, he had at least had a general understanding of the history of the dragon race. And with them, it had been the very same. In fact, outgoing as they were, the dragons had probably engaged in this type of practice even more. It had probably been a bit similar to how the demons still lived today just with a few more rules attached so that it didn't end up in utter chaos. But a man or woman with several partners definitely wasn't something that was only seldom seen. Big families were the norm instead. It seemed it hadn't been that different with the gods.

”Xing was one of the unfortunate children. His mother was not really loved and neither was he. His father more or less abandoned him and did not care about what happened to him. But his first wife, the Heavenly Empress from back then, did care quite a lot. She made his life hell, both before he met Tian and after.

”It might have been meant as a reminder to never let something like this happen again but with this curse, the children of the subsequent generations were fraught with bad luck until the day they finally came of age.”

”But there's only ever one child, isn't there?” Qiu Ling had actually heard of that part. If anything, he would've thought that this was already the most that Tian would do but apparently, he had thought wrong.