novelraw Chapter 329 - 175: Shedding the Old Shell, Living a Second Life
Chapter 329 - 175: Shedding the Old Shell, Living a Second Life
Half a year later.
In the deathly silent cavern, it was only the Jade Marrow Mountain in front of him, nearly devoid of Spiritual Qi, that emitted a faint light. The surroundings were empty and desolate, with a spreading green hue, exuding an eerie aura.
In this man-made Earth Vein cavern, at this moment, it seemed covered in the dust of history, completely devoid of any trace of life, even the air was tinged with a hint of solitude and emptiness.
Crack, crack!
Just then, a slight sound emerged, so faint it was like a needle falling to the ground, yet in this absolutely silent environment, it seemed rather startling.
The gentle sound was like the crackling of a surface, suddenly connecting into one sound, echoing like a thunderclap throughout the cavern.
The vibrating sound continuously transmitted, becoming more and more rapid, the frequency increasing, unconsciously bringing a hint of life and vitality to the deathly still cavern.
On the ground, the giant cocoon wrapped in countless white silk threads suddenly burst open, unraveling segment by segment. A figure sat cross-legged, tall and motionless as if dead, completely devoid of any movement, even the breath had stopped.
Suddenly, the body hunched forward, the spine arched high, forming a large bulge gradually, and within that bulge, faintly visible was some movement, as if something alive was trying to drill out, writhing under the skin, struggling, with a vague outline of small feet and hands visible.
Is there something alive inside this human body?
Crack! Crack!
Accompanied by a series of crisp sounds, the ribs on both sides broke off directly from the spine, becoming identical on both sides, at the arched spine, a thin crack appeared.
Suddenly, a pair of small baby hands reached out from inside, white and plump, stained with blood, pulling apart the cracked spine from the inside.
When it opened to a certain extent, the man’s back directly split open like a zipper being torn from the middle, as if some kind of moth or butterfly was emerging from a chrysalis.
The cocoon shattered into a butterfly, the tall body was just a cocoon shell, and a small baby crawled out bit by bit.
The entire process was extremely terrifying, especially in this Earth Vein cavern, making it even more shocking.
The chubby white baby body, with blood stains of the swaddling cloth, slowly crawled out of the adult body, squeezing down through the crack in the back, as if the original body was just a decaying shell, and the crawling out baby’s body was the true self.
Or perhaps a parasite matured inside the original body, now tearing open the host’s body to achieve its true form.
The white baby crawled on the ground, exerting both the white little hands and feet simultaneously, visibly not yet accustomed to coordinating its limbs, somewhat shaky and staggered, leaving a clear trail on the ground.
The chubby baby, ignoring the blood stains on its face, crawled all the way to the figure sitting cross-legged on the ground, arriving in front of the Jade Marrow Mountain, cautiously climbed up, sat down beside the lifeless body.
"What a wonderful ’journey’..."
The chubby white baby that crawled out was Zheng Yi after transformation, through the conversion of the "Celestial Human Rebirth Skill," leveraging the entire metamorphosis process of the Feathered Silkworm, he shed his past body, becoming a whole new individual.
And the information of the Celestial Human Rebirth Skill was contained within the cocoon of the Ascension Immortal Silkworm. Once refined, it immediately released, being received by the host.
Undeniably, Zheng Yi found this magical transformation akin to living another life incredible.
When Zheng Yi found the Ascension Immortal Silkworm, he had various conjectures about the whole Celestial Reincarnation method; never did he expect the process to be so bizarre. It was as though his entire being had been stuffed back into the mother’s womb, returning to the Innate state of amniotic fluid, completing a reincarnation in a hazy, muddled trance.
No wonder it was named Fetal Transformation and Shape-shifting here; it indeed borrowed the metamorphosis of the fetus to alter the body, turning decay into magic.
He never imagined that refining the Ascension Immortal Silkworm would bring about such an indescribably marvelous change.
An experience so incredible that few would dare believe it even if told.
Turning Houtian into Innate, shedding the old body to shape a new one!
This miraculous transformation was indeed too profound, making it somewhat hard to accept.
Though with notes left by Yi Qing Zi and the memories of the souls of three cultivators from the Profound Spirit Realm, Zheng Yi pieced together some information, but these people were not personal experiencers of the Secret Immortal Sect from back then, much remained mere speculation, not detailed.
One clear point was that they had never witnessed what the metamorphosis process of the Ascension Immortal Silkworm entailed.
After all, a thousand years had passed since the fall of the Secret Immortal Sect, and the records of the Ascension Immortal Silkworm and Celestial Human Rebirth Skill had long turned into repeated legends across generations, with no true witness to such a metamorphosis.
Thus, the gap between reality and imagination was an inevitable fact.
However, for Zheng Yi, what mattered was achieving the goal. Now it seemed that everything had indeed come to a state of Perfection.