What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

This is the Achilles' heel of all those who have attained the Dao.

It is also the obstacle that has trapped them in the early stages of Dao Integration for countless years, preventing them from making any further progress!

Upon hearing that Ye Jia had broken this ironclad rule, Ji Du's composure crumbled instantly, and a greed that could burn rivers and boil seas surged in his eyes.

"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?" Rama spread his hands. "So, the opportunity is right in front of us, and the gate to the boundary has been completely sealed off. The meat's already rotting in the pot; don't you want a share?"

Rama pointed in the direction Ye Jia had left, his tone blatantly seductive.

"That woman definitely has a secret. Don't tell me you didn't plant anyone in her hideout. Just use your secret techniques and reveal her hand!"

Jidu fell silent.

The sea breeze ruffled his blue robe, and he lowered his eyes, his thoughts spinning rapidly like a roulette wheel.

If the bloodline enhancement is real...

For this, it would be worth it even if it meant destroying the entire Demon Realm, let alone exposing a single pawn!

He slowly raised his head, and a chilling, sinister smile appeared on his refined face.

"Brother Rama, since we've come this far," Jidu said, tucking his bone fan into his lower back and quickly forming an extremely strange hand seal, his fingertips emitting a dark, eerie light. "Then let's open our eyes together."

As the hand seal took shape, an extremely thin line of blood split open between Ketu's brows, and a drop of demonic blood, shimmering with an eerie light, floated out, instantly transforming into a phantom black cicada no bigger than a fingernail.

With a flap of its wings, the black cicada traversed endless spatial laws and directly resonated with someone in Ye Jia's lair.

……

The cold moon hangs in the sky, its crimson light like blood.

On the suspended terrace outside the top floor of the White Bone Tower, the sea breeze, carrying a salty and menacing aura, howled past.

Bai Chan was clad in black armor, his arms crossed, his palms resting on the hilts of two short swords at his waist. His long, silver-white hair was torn into disarray by the gale, and his usually resolute eyes now churned with an overwhelming sense of defeat and irritation.

More than two months have passed since the human boy was kidnapped and the Demon Ancestor gave chase in anger.

As the commander of the guards, I failed in my duty to guard the area. When Lord Ye Jia returns, I will definitely be punished.

But that's really nothing.

What truly broke Bai Chan's heart was Lie Yuan's incredible, fate-altering destiny!

"So close... that should have been mine!" Bai Chan gritted her teeth, a hint of blood rising in her mouth.

If only I had been able to get close to Young Master Lin back then, and refined my mixed bloodline to the level of the Ancestor, with my comprehension, I might even have had a chance to touch the elusive threshold of the Dao Integration realm in the future.

But now, it's all ruined.

Just as she was filled with resentment and cursing the crazy girl who broke her out of prison over and over in her mind, a strange ripple suddenly appeared in the thick black void in front of her.

With a "clang," Bai Chan's twin swords slid out of their sheaths.

Before she could unleash her inner energy, a dark afterimage the size of a fingernail pierced through her protective demonic energy.

"What is that—"

puff!

The illusory black cicada ignored all defenses and, with an extremely ruthless attitude, pierced straight into the white cicada's brow!

boom!

It felt as if a ton of explosives were detonating simultaneously in Bai Chan's mind.

The twin swords clattered to the ground. She clutched her head tightly with both hands, letting out a bloodcurdling howl like a wild beast on its deathbed, and her knees slammed heavily onto the stone slab.

Deep within the sea of ​​consciousness, a black seal that had been suppressed for tens of thousands of years shattered with a deafening roar.

Countless memories flooded her soul like a tidal wave.

"I... am not Bai Chan."

"I am... Meigu, the Left Envoy of the Shadow Division under Lord Kedu!"

Twenty thousand years ago.

By order of Jidu, she voluntarily withdrew from her seven emotions and six desires, and was implanted with the mother insect of the [Thousand Illusions Without Shadow], which altered her entire past, allowing her to infiltrate Yejia's territory as a low-ranking refugee.

Step by step, he fought his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, eventually climbing to the position of commander of the Night Guard.

This nail was buried so deep that even she herself firmly believed that she was Ye Jia's most loyal fanatic.

Now, the host has awakened the dormant Gu worms.

"Buzz—"

The black cicada trembled violently within her mind, emitting a continuous, piercing cry. It was forcibly demanding her memories from the past hundred years.

The white cicada was utterly powerless against this absolute suppression.

The secrets about Lin Yuan's appearance, his heaven-defying divine technique to elevate the bloodline of the progenitor, Lie Yuan's miraculous transformation in just a few months, and even Ye Jia's explosive increase in cultivation due to this human.

All information, like an invisible ripple, spreads wildly outwards along the threads of unseen laws.

The entire process lasted only three breaths.

Once the information transmission was complete, the black cicada exploded into a cloud of ashes in the sea of ​​consciousness.

"puff--"

The white cicada raised its head and suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood.

The once high and mighty commander of the Imperial Guards collapsed like a rag doll in a pool of blood, unconscious.

……

Inside the majestic main hall, hundreds of gold and jade scrolls recording the names of those who ascended from the lower realms were scattered haphazardly on the floor.

Ji Bai sat upright on the large main seat made of Nine Heavens Mystic Jade, his face so gloomy it could drip water.

The transcendent aura she possessed upon entering the Dao Integration Realm had vanished, replaced by a suffocating, manic pressure.

In the center of the main hall, Su Qingluan knelt on one knee, biting her lip tightly.

"You dare to play tricks on me?"

Ji Bai's voice wasn't loud, but it made the defensive array on the dome of the main hall buzz.

"Over the past three years, a total of 412 people have ascended to immortality in the entire lower realm. I used the Heavenly Mirror to examine the aptitude, destiny, and past of each of them."

"There is no cultivator named Lin Yuan at all!"

Ji Bai's figure blurred, and he instantly appeared in front of Su Qingluan, looking down at her with undisguised suspicion in his eyes: "Are you sure he really came to the Spirit Realm?"

Those divine arts that could fundamentally transform one's spiritual roots were, for a Dao Integration Realm expert like her, a heaven-reaching ladder to the next realm. If this girl were to fabricate such an art to amuse herself, she would make sure the hundreds of thousands of people in Tianshuang City experienced what the Nine Nether Hells truly meant.

"Master, you have the best judgment!"

Su Qingluan met that terrifying gaze without flinching, her tone resolute.

"That day, the array roared, and white light pierced the sky. I personally witnessed him stepping onto the interdimensional teleportation array and leaving!"

"I stayed in the mortal realm, cultivating with my life on the line, all so that I could ascend to the Spirit Realm and find him. If I have uttered even the slightest lie, may I be struck by five thunderbolts and have my soul annihilated!"

She spoke with absolute confidence, without a trace of falsehood.

Ji Bai stared at her for a full ten seconds.

Under the scrutiny of a Dao Integration Realm cultivator's divine sense, no one can conceal the fluctuations of lying.

If they didn't lie, how could a living person just vanish into thin air?

Anyone who wants to cross realms, even if they are a genius, will be instantly reduced to ashes by the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation if they do not consume the Transcendent Pill from the Spirit Realm Guidance Platform, leaving absolutely no trace.

unless……