Chen Shi worried about the mental state of the Sui he had captured. It neither communicated with him nor went mad and caused trouble, simply sitting on the divine shrine and helping him cultivate.
The evil spirits he had captured in the past, even the Three Ghost Kings, had struggled and resisted for a long time before resigning themselves to their fate and obediently sitting on the divine shrine. Even when trained to be very well-behaved, they never proactively helped him harmonize his qi.
Yet the chubby baby ate whatever incense was offered, cried and fussed neither when it was withheld nor given, and helped him refine qi in its spare time.
If he needed to deploy it as a ritual object, it offered not the slightest resistance.
It even helped Chen Shi restrain his sword qi. With its assistance, Chen Shi felt the power of his sword qi surge and found it far more effortless to control.
"From now on, your name is Little Jujube." Chen Shi chose a name for the chubby baby.
Date Tree Godmother offered no resistance, seeming to have resigned herself to her fate.
Chen Shi mobilized his true qi, treating Little Jujube as his divine embryo, and attempted to drive it.
His divine embryo was not a divine embryo in the normal sense. A normal divine embryo typically only possessed the function of harmonizing qi and balancing yin and yang, whereas Chen Shi's divine embryo tended to be an evil spirit that retained its evil abilities after being deployed in a ritual.
Little Jujube had formerly been a godmother and remained in an evil spirit state. Driven by him, a towering date tree immediately manifested behind Chen Shi, its branches twisting like coiling horned dragons, hung with date fruits the size of human heads