In the courtyard, all manner of colors flowed and shifted.
Qi Yuan squatted on the ground, seriously watching the ants below.
The ants emerged in droves, carrying bread crumbs back home.
A wedding dress stood quietly within Qi Yuan's shadow, silent and still.
"Cousin, are ants really that interesting?"
A childish voice rang out.
A plump young matron walked over, her heavily swollen belly jutting out as she looked at Qi Yuan with an especially complicated gaze.
"That depends... on who's watching the ants with you." Qi Yuan did not raise his head. He continued watching the ants, learning the story of every single one.
"Xiao Fang, don't learn from your cousin. When you grow up, you're going into business." The plump young matron rubbed her belly as she spoke.
From within her large belly came a childish, dissatisfied voice, full of resistance.
"I don't want to do business. I want to cultivate!"
Clearly, the one who had spoken to Qi Yuan earlier was the... embryo inside the young matron's belly.
That was right. Children in this ancestral land developed quickly. Even embryos possessed consciousness and could speak.
Thus, Qi Yuan, who at three years old was still watching ants, playing with mud, and playing house with the wedding dress, seemed especially unusual.
"Fine, cultivate. My Fang'er will surely become a god and progenitor in the future." The plump young matron smiled happily.
About the time it took for an incense stick to burn passed.
Embryo Qi Fang's eyelids twitched. "Strange. On this timeline, my cousin should have died young... Why is he still alive?"
Qi Fang had been reborn, returning to his childhood.
In the future, he would leave the Sky Dragon Firefly Seat and become a progenitor-level existence.
He would stand only one step away from a true