Buzz!
As the seed gradually withered, wisps of dark light slowly spilled from within it.
At first, the dark glimmers were nothing more than ordinary rays of light.
But once the Mandala Flower seed encasing them had withered into dry flakes, the glimmers began to twist and spiral, joining together in pairs like strands of a gene chain before spreading in every direction.
The Mandala Flower seemed quite astonished by the sight.
It reached out several branches and used its most tender shoots to immerse itself completely in sensing these strange and unfamiliar Law Powers.
After a long while, it seemed to discern something about these laws.
"Doomsday collapse and extinction. The hereditary information of an alien race's body. A new husk that devours and evolves."
After distilling the information into its bare essentials, the Mandala Flower realized that this so-called Nine Underworlds Crystal was the remnant of a civilization that had fled into the depths of space after its world was destroyed.
Since they had yet to master deep-space exploration, they had no choice but to engrave the hereditary information of their bodily structure onto this mysterious crystal.
In other words, this so-called Nine Underworlds Crystal contained the basic information for constructing the bodies of an entire species, formed from countless fundamental genetic laws.
The Thousand-Headed Worm King was overcome with excitement.
"Wonderful, wonderful..."
Countless heads murmured in delight, and some even teared up.
"My immense sacrifice to uncover this secret was well worth it. How fascinating. Even after their world was destroyed, this civilization thought of a way to cling to life. They engraved their hereditary information onto this crystal and let it drift through the universe like a seed, hoping they might one day be revived?"
Looking down haughtily, the Mandala Flower murmured with a hint of