The universe lay in pitch-black darkness, while the repressed shrieks within the secret hall had continued for several hours.
"Ah..." Amid a tremendous sound of flesh and bone tearing apart, Li Changsheng's hoarse cry suddenly carried a few notes of delighted pleasure.
At once, the radiance around Tuoluo Heaven's body began to flicker violently, brightening and dimming without cease.
Watching at close range, Tuoluo saw one of Li Changsheng's malformed little feet pull free from the "mud pit" of its heavenly body amid rolling flesh and blood. The other foot was also struggling desperately to emerge.
Yet its expression instantly turned grim, cold, and shadowy, as though it had become an entirely different person.
"My child, Tuoluo Heaven, bite him to death!"
"Devour this mayfly that has taken over a magpie's nest. I shall grant you a heaven-shaking opportunity..."
A woman's voice from a distant emptiness resounded within its body like a demon's whisper.
"Eat, eat..." Tuoluo muttered as if sleepwalking. Its eyes abruptly bulged white, while its mouth tore open with frightening speed, savage and sinister, occupying most of its face.
At this moment, this half-baked Tree Connecting Realm being had actually fallen uncontrollably into a "guǐtai," transforming into some indescribable kind of existence.
That mysterious Heavenly Mother possessed Buddha, Dao, and guǐtai forms. Controlling the "Nine Sons Heaven children" in the bait-cage grounds could not have been easier for her.
In her Buddha and Dao forms, her control over Nine Sons Heaven was still relatively normal, taking the style of patient instruction and repeated brainwashing. But once she shifted into her guǐtai form, she immediately wanted to eat people.
This was Tuoluo Heaven's first time being remotely controlled by the "Heavenly Mother" and entering a guǐtai, so it naturally knew nothing of it.
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