The Black Cat thought it over for a few seconds.
He had never heard of anyone putting a newborn child back into its mother's womb. Neither ancient myths nor wizards' tales contained anything so contrary to reason.
And even if he set that aside,
sending Yan Hua into the Six Paths of Reincarnation was hardly a wise choice. She had not left enough of a mark on this world for Reincarnation to recognize her fully as one of its own. In other words, she was incomplete from birth, and even if she entered Reincarnation, she would struggle to be reborn as a whole being. Forcing it would only cause her Spirit Matter to dissipate through successive cycles until she dwindled into a wisp of Spiritual Essence. This was hardly unheard of. Wizards had observed—and conducted—many similar experiments. When beings from the Small Thousand Worlds were reincarnated into the Great Thousand Worlds, for instance, very few succeeded.
The Black Cat shook his head, casting those dangerous ideas from his mind.
If there was no going back,
then he would have to find a way forward.
The Shadow Cat's analogy reminded him of another story.
Journey to the West.
In chapter fifty-three, Tang Sanzang and Zhu Bajie drank from the Child-Mother River and became pregnant. They were told they would give birth in three days, but Sun Wukong eventually fetched water from the Fetus-Falling Spring and saved them from the ordeal.
Under ordinary circumstances,
a child born after only three days in the womb would inevitably be underdeveloped. Yet the people of the Women's Kingdom showed no such signs. In other words, the Child-Mother River's water not only caused pregnancy but could produce healthy babies. Of course, it was more likely that the world of Journey to the West was so rich