Although spirit energy could be used to strengthen the vitality of the fetus during its developing stage or even completely isolate mana from contacting it, this method wasn't exactly optimum.
After all, if there were no contact between the fetus and mana, no mana compatibility would develop at all. As such, the baby may be born healthy, but it would lack talent in the field of mana.
Vaan didn't doubt that the potential of spirit energy wasn't any less than mana and may even exceed it in some areas. As such, it was possibly fine for infants to be born talentless in mana and focus on spirit energy cultivation.
However, he couldn't quite approve of such a direction.
Vaan wasn't a parent, but he felt that children shouldn't be deprived of such talents. After all, children were innocent; they didn't ask to be born in this world. They were given life due to the choices of their parents.
As such, allowing children to be born with disabilities would be quite cruel to them.
Even if reproduction was required for the survival and continuation of Pangean Humans, he believed that all children should be equipped with the necessary talents at birth so they could at least have the option to choose their own path.
Furthermore, even if spirit energy cultivation wasn't inferior to mana cultivation, all worlds eventually converged with Chaos, which was centered around mana.
As such, mana compatibility was essential for living, regardless of whether people could manipulate mana or not.
Of course, Vaan had already figured out that anyone could use mana. He himself was living proof since he had successfully cultivated mana in his Upper Dantian. The only difference was that he cultivated with pure mana.
After all, Gehenna's mana was unsuited for men unless it was at a certain level of purity. Due to its nature, it would conflict with the testosterone in men yet tolerate the estrogen in women.
In the concept of duality, the Gehenna's mana would be considered yin, which aligned with women. On the other hand, men were yang. As such, they needed mana of yang nature.
In the vast multiverse of Chaos, Vaan believed there were many realms with mana of yang nature. Gehenna just wasn't one of them. The nature of its mana may have even been affected by the strong influence of Thanatos's Death Law or the seemingly bottomless death energy sealed in the Sea of Darkness.
Nevertheless, on the matter of fertility, life energy was essentially the perfect choice for protecting the vitality of the fetus.
Not only would life energy ensure the healthy development of the fetus, but it may even evolve the fetus's mana, allowing a baby to be born with much greater mana compatibility.
Of course, it was unrealistic to use life energy to produce every perfect birth.
However, even wood-attribute mana and light-attribute mana were possibly better alternatives than spirit energy. After all, they could also boost vitality and nurture life.
That said, even these options were not without their cons either.
After all, using wood-attribute mana or light-attribute mana to interfere with the normal mana interacting with the fetus could cause all infants to be born with wood-attribute or light-attribute affinities only.
As such, it shouldn't be a necessity to rely solely on these methods.
Nevertheless, there was a more fundamental problem that caused Pangean Humans to have such a high miscarriage rate and low reproduction. Pregnancy healthcare was simply undeveloped.
When Vaan compared the Celestial Kingdom's knowledge with the surface world's knowledge on the matter, he realized the surface world's development into pregnancy healthcare was practically non-existent.
Since people living on the surface had always been struggling for survival, they did not have the privilege of living in a prosperous age where they could focus on quality-of-life improvements like the Celestial Kingdom.
Who would normally think that a pregnant woman's diet, habits, living environment, and even mental state could affect the development and well-being of the baby in her belly?
Most people wouldn't have the time or luxury to consider what they should eat and do when they were struggling to put food on the table each day.
Nevertheless, the UN was becoming increasingly wealthy and assimilating the knowledge of the Celestial Kingdom. Most common problems like the fertility rate would eventually be resolved.
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With the world's direction and development on track, Vaan found some time to return to Sunpeak City and spend quality time with his women.
However, considering the rapid development of the UN, everyone with managerial or government positions found themselves swamped with work every day. They barely had time to even cultivate.
As such, at the time of Vaan's arrival, only Dahlia seemed to be the most available. Even though she really wasn't, she was overjoyed by his visit and postponed her busy schedule with real estate matters to make time for him.
The moment Dahlia heard the news from her assistant, she quickly ran downstairs and dived straight into Vaan's arms.
"I miss you so much, Vaan!"
"Mm, I've missed you too, Dahlia."
Although it hadn't been two weeks since they had last met, the amount of time they had spent together in the past month may not have even exceeded two hours.
In the future, there might even be fewer opportunities to meet due to increasing work.
As such, Dahlia couldn't help but act passionately from the get-go, heavily breathing in Vaan's manly scent to refill her Vaanergy. However, her indulgence with his scent seemed to make her drunk on it. Her face was flushed, and her body heat increased.
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