Inside the cave abode.
Following Ren Ye's line of thought, Ai Fei knitted her brows slightly. "If your conjecture is right, then wouldn't that mean the Eldest Princess... could have been refined into a Dharma Body by her own mother, Consort Jing?"
"Exactly." Ren Ye nodded emphatically and added excitedly, "If this Secret Method, Three Origins Returning to One, requires destiny as a supplement, then Big Fat Dragon's grave illness happened to coincide with Consort Jing's pregnancy. So, could she have been planning to seize Big Fat Dragon's destiny first, then use the Secret Method to refine the daughter she was carrying into a Dao Body?"
"That would fulfill all the prerequisites for refining a Dharma Body you mentioned. First, the Eldest Princess was Consort Jing's child, so they naturally shared a bloodline. Second, they were the same sex, so there was no possibility of one breath transforming into three old grannies or three old geezers. Third, she herself was pregnant and was a Fourth Grade Supernatural Ability User, so she could absolutely erase the baby's intelligence before the fetus took shape, then split off her soul to occupy that unborn body."
Listening to Ren Ye, Ai Fei frowned. "Well reasoned, but I have a question."
"What question?"
"If Consort Jing conceived a child with Emperor Wanwu, that child would naturally have imperial blood too," Ai Fei said, her reasoning rigorous. "In other words, after the Eldest Princess was born, she would also possess imperial destiny. Why would Consort Jing go to the extra trouble of seizing Big Fat Dragon's destiny?"
Ren Ye slowly rose and walked a circuit of the room with his hands behind his back. Suddenly, he shook his head. "Perhaps... because it wasn't enough."
"Exactly," Fenglin immediately agreed. "Though a newborn imperial daughter enjoys Heaven and