Wu Tian had yet to decide his path, but he figured he had time to decide since he had yet to break through anyway and it didn't seem to be happening soon. He sighed as he marveled at his situation. He saw Li Er approach him with and asked, "Want to spar?"
Wu Tian looked at him strangely; it was rare for the steady Li Er to take the initiative. Wu Tian nodded and followed Li Er; it was rare that someone asked to spar.
The other kids were curious and Er Gu couldn't help but ask Jian Li, "did Li Er make some progress? He wants to spar with the boss." Jian Li shrugged, even he was baffled.
Wu Tian leisurely followed Li Er into the formation and stood on one side, he patiently waited for him to make a move. Lier had always been one with few words so he without any nonsense he immediately began, he stomped on the ground, conjuring an earth armor that covered his body.
Wu Tian was a bit startled, he hadn't seen this before. He watched curiously as Li Er then made an incantation and earth spears rose and flashed menacingly towards him. He marveled inwardly that Lier had indeed made great progress, but so had he. In his eyes and through his world sense he could clearly see the trajectory of the earth spears, so he leisurely moved his body, casually dodging the earth spears as they hurtled harmlessly past him.
Lier wasn't discouraged as he waved his hand and a few earth spears rose from beneath Wu Tian who leapt effortlessly away from them, then with a twist of his body he vanished and appeared next to Li Er.
He extended a finger and pocked at Li Er's forehead, and the formation appeared and blocked his finger showing that it had been a serious strike. Wu Tian felt the formation at his finger and had a feeling that perhaps he could puncture it. he then removed his finger and looked at Li Er who had a wry smile on his face. "You monster."
He looked at the other kids and saw them nodding in agreement to Li Er's words. He laughed and defended himself, "that's just because Li Er didn't use a magic tool. You know that cultivators mainly fight with their magic tools, their strength is reduced by more than half without them."
They nodded in agreement and Jian Li couldn't help but say, "even so, Li Er lost too miserably right?"
The others laughed and Li Er gave him a stink eye, which Jian Li pointedly ignored. Suddenly, Wu Tian focused on the entrance into the courtyard and indicated for the others to follow him.
They seemed used to this and just as they exited the courtyard, they saw a maid hurrying to their courtyard. She was a bit surprised to see them waiting for her but she quickly came to Wu Tian and addressed him, "Young master, the madam is asking for you."
Wu Tian nodded and said, "Thanks Ruo Lan." He then urged the others and sped up towards the main courtyard. He found his parents waiting for him with his mother on the bed. He felt worried thinking that something was wrong, so he instinctively inspected her aura.
He saw that she was allright and heaved a sigh of relief, but then he noticed that the aura that had been entwined with hers was slowly unentwining with hers, this meant…; he looked at his parent , stunned.
Lin Qing smiled at him and said "Yes, your sister is about to born. Given the amount of time she has spent in the womb there are sure to be heavenly signs that appear. It may attract curious people and cultivators, and some may even have malicious intent. Your father has placed the guards outside but you and the kids need to man the formation I built. With you manning it, it should be able to at resist a golden core expert for some time. I just hope the heavenly phenomena isn't too grand"
Lin Qing couldn't help but sigh, usually, parents hoped that their children would be outstanding and extraordinary but this could be a double edged sword. If one was too outstanding, they were bound to attract envy and covetousness.
If her child was outstanding and had grand heavenly signs, people would definitely come to investigate. If they had good intentions, all would be well. But if they coveted her child's talent or were envious, then her family might meet a miserable fate.
Lin Qing felt her contractions get stronger so she sent Wu Tian to secure the formation. Wu Tian arrived at the central formation plat. This was a formation Lin Qing had built with the resources she had traded from Duanmu Lin. with her manning it, it could resist cultivators at the middle of the golden core realm.
Ordinarily, Wu Tian shouldn't have been able to man the formation since he had no cultivation but the formation utilized spirit stones and only required divine sense which he didn't have but compensated with world sense.
He started the formation, and paid attention to the situation in the waiting room. He didn't dare extend his focus into the delivery room, he had been raised too well for that. There was a stillness in the atmosphere, as if in anticipation of something then suddenly, the sky brightened darkened all of a sudden.
Bright stars shone all over the sky and heavenly music resounded all over the firmament. Silhouettes of Fairies and deities danced about in congratulations, and a phoenix chirped domineeringly in the heavens. The heavenly signs spread out without limit, covering tens of thousands of kilometers and visible for more.
Cultivators in the vicinity were startled; discussions could be heard occurring everywhere "what are these signs, could there be a treasure being born. Or a natural spirit." Most cultivators excitedly ran towards the vicinity of the signs, cautiously searching for the source.
In the clear sky sect there was a commotion since the signs were clearly visible from their sect. hearing the commotion, Duanmu Lin who was meditating on the sword art felt disgruntled. What could possibly have riled up the sect so much, if the skies fell there were people to hold them up.
He made his way outside and was stunned as he saw the darkened sky and the heavenly signs. Looking at their direction of origin, he thought of that mysterious family. He immediately flew up and summoned his sword, upon which he jumped and spurred towards Wu Zemin's home. shooting off at breakneck speed.
Meanwhile Wu Tian tensed as he felt the inklings of danger settle on their family. The moment he saw the heavenly signs he immediately felt that it would be bad. He extended his world sense, trying to sync with the world and reduce the signs but he felt it was a bad idea. It might affect his sister being born.