Once Kuize's fingertips had fully entered Ye Chen's half-real, half-illusory forehead, the latter's nascent soul instantly transformed into a fountain of energy, continuously spraying forth dazzling, piercing soul-light!
Rushing—!
At the same time, Kuize widened his eyes, held his breath, and meticulously stirred his fingers within Ye Chen's skull, as though striving to locate the ultimate prey hidden deep inside!
"..."
Yelun stood silently to one side, like a father watching his own child being placed on an operating table, able only to patiently await the doctor's treatment and verdict.
And so, amid Yelun's silence and Kuize's search, time slipped away second by second.
Several minutes later.
When his fingertips rotated to a particular point within the infant's skull, a strange flicker suddenly crossed Kuize's formerly expressionless face!
His deep-set gaze sank, and his soul-fingers abruptly clenched tight!
Something tiny was precisely fished out by Kuize's fingers!
"Hah!"
Seeing this, Kuize swiftly drew a deep breath before gently pulling his arm outward!
Screech—!
Then, something pitch-black as mud and slender as a needle was drawn out of the infant's skull between the man's fingers!
Yelun focused his gaze and found its outline exceptionally bizarre. It resembled both a tender sapling and an elongated maggot, constantly writhing, struggling, and resisting at Kuize's fingertips!
And after it was seized by Kuize and dragged into the outside world, the soul-light erupting from Ye Chen's body was instantly stained with murky blackness. Even the light within the Prayer Hall dimmed by several degrees, as though the emergence of this eerie thing had suddenly contaminated everything with darkness!
Without a doubt, this was the soul embryo Havijordan had once left within Ye Chen's soul!
In the distant future, it would be precisely because of this thing's growth and awakening that Ye Chen would ultimately be