"This... this is impossible!" For the first time, Ruan Mei's usually composed face showed emotion, and even her voice trembled violently. "How did you find it...?"
Emperor Bug's Jaw.
This was the key to her future slaying of the Aeon of "The Abundance"; the foundation upon which she would create a Propagation Emanator closest to the Aeon of "Propagation"; and the key for her own study of Aeons—and perhaps even becoming one herself.
It was supposed to be a secret known only to her.
Yet now, it had been unearthed, seen through, and ruthlessly laid bare before her, as though she were a fruit fly placed in Morgan's laboratory, with no secrets left at all.
However, something even more despairing awaited her.
Qianyi and the others clearly did not cherish Emperor Bug's Jaw as much as Ruan Mei did.
After Herta took out this fragment of the Propagation Aeon's remains, a Dragon Girl holding a longsword, her black hair flowing like a waterfall, silently appeared at her side. Her presence was as cold and deep as an abyss, killing intent radiating from her entire body.
"Let me destroy it," the Immortal Dragon Ancestor said bluntly.
"You won't absorb it?" Qianyi asked.
"Why would I absorb the filth of this thing?" There was a trace of confusion in the Immortal Dragon Ancestor's voice.
"Propagation" had originally been a part split from the concept of "Immortality." If she, the Aeon of "Immortality," had to reclaim it by absorbing the remains of a dead Aeon, that would be utterly ridiculous.
In fact, if the Aeon of "Propagation" had not still been barely alive, she would have long since reclaimed the concept of "Propagation." Fortunately, the Emperor Bug's current state was no different from death. As long as she completely destroyed its remaining corpse,