Daochen hid in the distance and continued watching.
That doppelganger just now was only a mass of energy. These little creatures couldn't tell the difference, which meant they didn't detect life through energy. Could they recognize it by appearance instead?
That meant these creatures had good eyesight.
As time passed, the resentment on the pile of Crystal Cores was devoured completely.
The little creatures ate until they were fat and bloated, then lay on the mountain of Crystal Cores without moving.
Just then, Daochen noticed something strange.
Round bulges appeared all over the larger creatures' bodies, looking like little eggs. They were packed so densely that the sight was enough to trigger a fear of clustered holes.
While Daochen was still puzzling over it,
all the larger creatures took on this appearance.
Daochen stared at it all in bewilderment.
By his understanding of life, passing on one's lineage and reproducing were engraved into every living creature's instincts.
Just then, Daochen witnessed a bizarre scene.
One round ball after another dropped from their bodies.
Gradually, the larger creatures broke apart into individual little eggs, completely losing their ability to attack.
The larger creatures had effectively vanished, turning into little round balls.
There had to be hundreds of millions of them.
Daochen was utterly speechless.
These aren't going to hatch into even more little creatures, are they?
That would be rather terrifying.
Without an absolutely staggering number of Crystal Cores, feeding these little things would be impossible.
But now was not the time to worry about them.
He put away the Crystal Cores, then sealed the area with a formation.
He had no idea whether the formation would work.
But leaving the little creatures here was his only option.
After all, there was nothing he could do about them.
After putting away