"Ah—"
A scream rang out from far behind in the Dark Life Forest, full of panic and terror, startling flocks of big-bellied birds from the trees.
Xu Xiaoshou knew what Yue Gongli was screaming about.
Looking down at his own belly, swollen once again like a "pregnant belly," even he wanted to scream.
"Get lost!"
Another Sword Thought slashed down, and the Dao Infant vanished.
Along the way, Xu Xiaoshou had no idea how many times he had manually aborted himself.
He could tell that the repeated swollen bellies were no longer the original intention of the will he had previously sensed within the Dark Life Forest.
Rather, after entering deep into this living forest, its rules and residual power had exerted their influence, and thus it had happened as naturally as water flowing into a channel.
Like planting melons and reaping melons, planting beans and reaping beans.
If one dared venture deep into the living forest, there would naturally be consequences.
Even though that will had retreated into the deepest reaches, and the gray-black boundary had shrunk again and again... it was too strong! Stronger than the remnants left behind by an 80%-complete Life Dao Disk, its "power of reproduction" was far beyond that of an ordinary Semi-Saint of the Upanishad, even stronger than Xu Xiaoshou's! "Perhaps..."
"This already involves the 'Transcending Dao Transformation' mentioned by Godslayer Official Ran Ming—it is absent, it transforms into the Dao, and it is forever present?"
"The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant transformed into this Dark Life Forest?"
"That was it. As an ancestral tree, perhaps it had such ambitions, such talent, such daring, and such intelligence. It was within the Ran Ming Ruins, yet it also wished to lay its hands on the Godslayer Official's inheritance?"
That leap of imagination was a little too