Chen Changqin had clearly noticed the situation inside as well. Her face drained of color as she cried out, "There's someone inside—there's actually someone!"
Lin Heng's pupils contracted sharply. His Dao Eye opened fully, and the Dao Trajectory within his left eye frantically issued warnings!
It really was Imperial Dragon Qi, identical to the righteous qi on Jiang Jingyi's body.
Literary Emperor? He was the Literary Emperor!
Those people were actually reviving someone in this way...
Lin Heng sank into deep suspicion, then immediately realized something was wrong. Had those sages of past generations emerged this way too?
But they had been molded from the bones in the Bai Clan's ancestral land.
Why did the Literary Emperor instead have to be nurtured with this Eternal Mulberry?
Lin Heng circled the trunk, examining it from every angle without acting rashly.
After thinking it over, he more or less guessed what was going on.
The Literary Emperor's Literary Path inheritance... he understood now. They were using the Eternal Mulberry to devour Dao fruition and convert it into nourishment, gestating within the tree an entirely new lifeform that carried the Literary Emperor's memories and bloodline.
Whether Jiang Wu was a puppet had yet to be definitively determined, but the Jiang Zhao before him could absolutely not be the Literary Emperor.
"Lin Heng, what do we do?" Chen Changqin turned to look at him. "Destroy it?"
Lin Heng stared at the embryonic sac and clenched his fists, somewhat hesitant.
It wasn't that he didn't want to destroy it. Rather, this Eternal Mulberry was itself a Primordial Spirit Wood. It had absorbed Dao fruition for who knew how many years, and the energy it contained had basically all been plundered from this continent.
If he destroyed it rashly, how great would the backlash be? Would