A Showdown with Secretary Bai

According to Shen Ling Shuang, the Shelter had never intended to research the continuation of life. It had all been a coincidence.

Qiu Tu had already known that First Order Calamity Descendants strengthened their bodies, while Second Order Calamity Descendants reshaped theirs.

What he had not known was that Third Order Calamity Descendants could leave their bodies behind and exist directly in the Real World and the Boundless Mind Sea as Spiritual Bodies.

And in that state, some more open-minded Third Order Calamity Descendants had once engaged in relations while in their Spiritual Body forms.

At first, the two Third Order Calamity Descendants had thought it was interesting. Besides, they could not get pregnant that way, so they went ahead and did it.

But who could have expected it? Not long after returning to her body, the female Third Order Calamity Descendant was shocked to discover that she was pregnant.

Or rather... her body was not pregnant, but her soul was.

That might have sounded utterly contrary to intuition and common sense. How could a soul become pregnant?

In truth, because Third Order Calamity Descendants possessed sufficiently powerful mental strength, their souls had already taken on fixed forms, no different from physical bodies.

That female Third Order Calamity Descendant discovered that her soul's belly had swollen, beginning to nurture a new life, while her physical body showed no reaction at all, as though everything were fake.

The discovery terrified and shocked her, so she reported it to the Shelter overnight.

The Shelter had long been researching the secrets of the Boundless Mind Sea and Spiritual Bodies. Once they discovered her extraordinary case, they immediately began their investigation.

And it was through that research that the Shelter uncovered the essence of life's birth in the Cataclysm Era—souls were born before bodies,