Magistrate Yan Jingsi's face still bore a look of utter astonishment, and his eyes seemed to harbor a trace of lingering unwillingness.
Yet at this moment, his physical body had already perished; even with such reluctance, he could not tear open the ewe's belly.
The belly of an ewe was a natural realm of reincarnation. With his current strength, had he fallen into reincarnation just then, he could still have executed a nascent soul detachment and torn open the ewe's belly to escape.
Yet escape was also death; he had already entered the sheep's womb, and even if he tore open the ewe's belly, upon emerging he would discover that he was still a sheep.
Besides, his physical body had already perished at Chen Shi's hands.
Chen Shi drew a stack of talisman paper from his sleeve, thumbing through it to find an inducement talisman.
When the delivery day arrived for certain pregnant women who could not give birth, an inducement talisman must be used.
Grandpa had once told him that this was probably because reincarnation had a time limit and could not be dragged out too long. Dragged out for too long, past the appointed time, the reincarnating soul would fail to anchor in the womb, and missing its rebirth, it would return, resulting in a stillbirth upon delivery. Therefore, when the delivery time arrived, if labor did not commence, it had to be induced to prevent the fetus from dying in the womb.
Yet this theory had never been verified, and Chen Shi did not know whether it was true or false.
When Grandpa told him about it, he merely recounted it as a bizarre legend.
Chen Shi pasted the inducement talisman onto the ewe's belly, only to hear a human voice come from within the sheep's belly,