The moment the words left her mouth, Bai Lian remained as calm as ever, yet her fading image abruptly halted.
The surrounding cultivators were also startled, exchanging glances; some broke into low murmurs.
"The Sorcerer Fetus reincarnation—how did a reincarnation suddenly appear out of nowhere? Where did such a fetus come from?"
"Madam Xia's Sorcerer Fetus vanished without a trace. Could it have ended up here?"
"That makes no sense. Rumor has it that Madam Xia hasn't even begun to show; aborting it earlier would have made more sense..."
Yu Ci's utterance carried two distinct layers of meaning: one for Bai Lian, and one for the others present.
While the rest were astonished by the mere notion of a "Sorcerer Fetus reincarnation," Bai Lian heard something far heavier—Yu Ci's certainty, which was already closing in on the absolute truth.
Long ago, Yu Ci and Zhao Xiangshan had deduced that the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva intended to utilize a Sorcerer Fetus reincarnation to influence the Heaven and Earth Law System of the True Realm with far greater efficiency, though they had never been able to pinpoint the exact timing.
Now Yu Ci could confirm it: the Sorcerer Fetus reincarnation was happening right here, right now!
Yu Ci's train of thought gradually cleared. Mortals referred to "the Sorcerer Fetus" as the one in Madam Xia's belly, but Yu Ci knew the mechanics behind it were far from that simple.
The lineage originally belonging to Madam Xia and You Can, which had now transferred to Xue Zhi's belly; and the one combining the Great Sorcerer bloodlines of the Su and Tang families, which was already nearing full term in Ge Qiuniang's belly—both were Sorcerer Fetuses.
Yet, leaving aside the one transferred to Xue Zhi, precise intelligence relayed by Zhao Xiangshan indicated