The next morning.
The sky was just beginning to brighten.
Ning Zheng climbed out of bed and saw Ning Jiaojiao and Su Yu Niang starting to cook in the kitchen, filling the room with the warmth and bustle of everyday life.
Recently, the two of them had perfected Ning Jiaojiao's Spiritual Root and resurrected her as the Progenitor Dragon. Since then, they had rarely gone out, quietly cultivating and entering a period of explosive growth as two Ghoul Kings.
They were already experts in the One Heart Realm. Every day, they even went to the cultivation room on the mountain to practice, stacking various Enlightenment buffs. It seemed that before long, two genuine experts in the Transforming Self Realm would fully emerge.
The Ember outside Sword Forging Manor had also begun to dwindle.
No matter how vast the Nine Continents world's ecological chain was, after several months of mutual devouring and merging, the creatures had transformed into Demon Ghoul Kings like big fish eating little fish and moved toward awakening. By now, fewer than one in ten thousand remained.
The dwindling numbers were a sign that the progenitors of new species in the various ecological chains were about to appear, living out a second life.
Quite a few passing Ember fish had also grown into bizarre shapes. Some resembled Ning Jiaojiao, the stitched-together dragon—a patchwork creature. One could only say that nature's randomness was remarkably high.
At the dining table.
"Both of us are in the One Heart Realm now. When will Big Brother resurrect?" Ning Jiaojiao asked seriously at the table.
"I calculated it. If we're lucky, he can resurrect, but if he awakens naturally, it might cost tens of millions."
Sun Moon Su Yu Niang stuffed a piece of fish into her mouth and mumbled, "Our Daoist System's