"What do you mean?" Zhang Chen could not understand why Xing Shi would make such an absurd proposal.
"I met Xing Tian in the Quicksand Maze. When I bit off nearly half of his Sand Mercenary Doppelganger, I injected a small thing from my eater's belly into the point where his consciousness connected to it. As long as he is within ten thousand meters, I can pinpoint his location. This man's devouring ability is completely different from either of ours. It matches the records Father Emperor left behind exactly. As long as I devour him, the eater's belly within me will perfectly merge with Xing Tian's special eater's belly. The two will become one and evolve into an independent world."
Zhang Chen listened to Xing Shi's description with a look of surprise, pondering inwardly, An independent world... It seems Xing Shi has not elevated his own eater's belly to the level of an independent world. But that makes sense. He did not follow the path of the Body Devouring Heart Sutra. Instead, he comprehended his own Devouring Path through the contents of the second volume. He is different from me.
"How about it? Tempting, isn't it? The fundamental difference between us eater ghosts and other creatures is that we possess an eater's belly independent of digestion. An eater ghost grows alongside the expansion of that belly, and every eater ghost knows that once they become powerful enough, the eater's belly within them will have the potential to form an independent world. At that point, all that is needed is the right opportunity to achieve it."
"You knew about this from the beginning, didn't you? Why tell me?" Zhang Chen raised the most fundamental question.
"Because I believe the two of us are more likely to cooperate than any of the