Chapter 376 - Nine Immemorial Paths (1/2)

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Yan Zaizen looked at the egg. It was jet black, oval, and the size of a baseball. It had a hard-scaled shell that seemed like a dragon's with creases forming hexagonal shapes. The shocking thing was that it had no soul fluctuation or life force. It was a dead egg.

”This is…?” Curiosity overwhelmed his previous pain and exhaustion. His heavenly, soul, and dao energy receded back into his body, allowing him to regain his original appearance outside of a little paleness.

”This is my daughter; this is your daughter.” Her words were matter-of-fact.

”...my daughter?” Frowning, Yan Zaizen felt a headache. He was slightly looking forward to a physical relationship when he saw Saphira transform into a human, after all - he was a male. Even if Pinaka occupied his heart, that didn't mean he didn't have thoughts of others. In fact, he would dream of the day he claimed a body for her and the things he would do.

'Hehe.'

His mind wandered slightly as he refocused, ”it's a dead egg?” Even if he placed a portion of his soul, cleansed or not, it would still be a dead egg. Instilling lifeforce into it wouldn't change much.

The lifeforce that a newborn child requires is far from standard lifeforce. It is an intermixing of soul, life, yin and yang, blood, bone, flesh, growth, decay, the five elements, lightning, and various other laws to produce something called a Natal Force. A unique lifeforce produced by mothers, bestowed upon their child during childbirth. It's why giving birth to a new body was incomparably difficult.

Even Yri couldn't avoid this. Her fresh body was likely a clone of herself, which meant, by all purposes, she gave birth to herself. If not, the alignment of the body and its growth would be incomplete and hellish, inducing all sorts of soul, life, yin-yang, or the other myriad laws mutations.

This was how mutants were created.

Saphira seemed to see through Yan Zaizen's thoughts as she asked, ”Have you found something odd about my demeanor? My disposition, my voice, or aura?”

Yan Zaizen immediately inspected her again to realize that she had a very maternal disposition. He had noticed it before, and it was why he thought she was the All-Immortal Dragon. A being who he thought carried a child to term for tens of billions of years, constantly nourishing it and thereby changing on a fundamental level.

”You've been nourishing Natal Force?” Yan Zaizen inquired. To nourish Natal Force in herself, long enough to change her aura and disposition, Yan Zaizen couldn't help but feel some praise in his heart. It was like having a mental parasite constantly influencing who you were and your actions. You would act like a mother even though you weren't with child by instinct alone.

If she did, it made sense why she was deemed by a Seer to be in a weakened state. All her energy would be devoted and imbued within that Natal Force, causing a severe deficiency of her own strength.

Saphira replied with a slight nod. She had indeed nourish Natal Force and not just any normal type, but one that could give life to a dragon. Unfortunately, a dragon, especially an All-Immortal Dragon, was different. It was exceptionally difficult to give birth.

That's not completely true. It was difficult to give birth for second generation All-Immortal Dragons. They were a combination of a Yaoguai, All-Father Dragon, Lord of Dragons, and another existence. Their mother didn't have the Lord of Dragons or the other existence inherent in their bodies.