West of Luandu County, Dongfeng Ward, before the dog shed in the rear courtyard of Qixia Teahouse.
Chen Mu suddenly appeared, and the black-furred dog that had only recently given birth immediately rose and bared its teeth.
But the moment it opened its mouth, the strange force of the Hundred Mile Qi Seal appeared. The black-furred dog froze in midair like a mosquito trapped in amber, unable to move.
A Spirit Seed appeared at Chen Mu's fingertips. With a flick of his index finger, it slid easily down the dog's throat and into its stomach.
After a long while, sensing no movement at all from the Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed inside the dog's belly, Chen Mu's expression darkened.
"Was it really impossible?"
Still unwilling to give up, he stuffed one into the mouth of a puppy that had yet to open its eyes.
After a while, Chen Mu recalled the Spirit Seed again with a sour face, tossed down a large meaty bone, and vanished.
In Treasure Offering Ward north of the city, within a two-courtyard residence.
Along with a loud, piercing cry, a new life was born.
The invisible, net-like Prohibition of the City God Dao Field was disturbed. Specks of black, like dust, emerged in midair.
They sometimes gathered and sometimes scattered. At times, they even formed wing-like shapes and slowly flapped, then drifted along the breeze toward the newborn's nostrils.
Chen Mu appeared in a corner of the courtyard. He stared expressionlessly at those invisible black specks.
They were the earliest Yin Nether Insects. Given enough Essence of Three Treasures, they would grow into Yin Nether Silk.
Once they grew further, they would become Yin Nether Insects in the form of long white smoke serpents with human heads.
Looking through the doorway at the newborn infant