Chapter 410: Mom Gave Birth to Me Again

This mutated version of Jiang Ye had been in a state of blurred consciousness ever since being enveloped in the shadow phantom’s form.

Previously, when his consciousness was hazy, he hadn’t felt anything particular.

But now that his awareness had returned, he could clearly sense—

His condition within the shadow phantom’s form was truly miraculous.

Although his consciousness had recovered, he couldn’t sense his own body at all.

It was as if he were merely a wisp of a wandering soul, without physical form.

Or perhaps his body had been “assimilated” by the shadow phantom, also transforming into a “void” state.

This void state felt as if it were sealed off by something, separated from the outside world by a membrane, unable to interact with anything.

The overall sensation was even somewhat similar to his [Observer] clone.

So when that enormous shadow phantom hand reached toward him, his perception became especially distinct—

He still couldn’t feel his own body, naturally experiencing no tactile sensations whatsoever.

Yet there seemed to be an invisible suction force coming from outside the shadow phantom’s form.

Dragging his entire being away from the shadow phantom!

Damn it, this feeling was like…

Him, a fetus in the womb, being born?

It was a very bizarre sensation, inexplicably causing Jiang Ye some panic.

He was worried that if he were truly pulled out of the shadow phantom’s form, he might just drop dead on the spot?

What the hell?

If this mutated clone had remained unconscious, Jiang Ye wouldn’t have felt anything even if it died.

But the problem was, he had just sacrificed three light clones to awaken this mutated clone.

Deep down, Jiang Ye even felt this mutated clone was like a reincarnation from dirty earth of those three light clones.

He really couldn’t bear anything happening to this mutated clone.

However…

This clone still couldn’t move, completely unable to resist!

And so, under that violent suction force…

He was “born” just like that.

Arriving into the world, yet unable to even cry QAQ

But Jiang Ye quickly discovered he hadn’t died on the spot.

And to some extent…

It seemed he hadn’t actually been “born”?

It seemed he was still inside “Mom’s” “womb.”

It’s just that this “Mom” seemed to have shrunk one size?

Hmm…

Looking again at the completely hollowed-out shadow phantom that remained only as an outline…

Jiang Ye understood!

He had misunderstood Mom Shadow Phantom!

The shadow phantom hadn’t actually abandoned him completely.

Instead, it had divided its own shadow phantom form into two parts.

One part still enveloped Jiang Ye’s mutated body.

The other part remained only as an outline, with an empty interior.

This feeling was like…

Jiang Ye wasn’t a directly born mammal, but an egg, still protected by its shell.

However, judging from the shadow phantom’s condition, a more accurate description would be—

Jiang Ye hadn’t been directly born, but still had Mom’s uterus protecting him…

To be honest, Jiang Ye felt quite moved deep down.

Although he knew the shadow phantom still cared about him at this moment, it was definitely because of the Guiwen Master.

After all, the Guiwen Master completely countered him.

However, what Jiang Ye didn’t know was…

At this moment, the shadow phantom was completely fucking baffled!

His form had often been used to nurture monsters in the past.

Previously, releasing monsters from his form had always been very smooth.

Without any “complications.”

But this time…

When he released Jiang Ye’s mutated body…

How come most of his own form got dragged out with it?!

This was his body!

Why did it feel like half of it now belonged to Jiang Ye?!

This feeling was very unsettling, making the shadow phantom panic internally. He quickly stuffed the “born” Jiang Ye back into his “womb”…

It’s fine, must have been the wrong birthing position earlier.

Let’s try giving birth again!

Then, Jiang Ye only felt himself being stuffed back into the shadow phantom’s form, followed by a familiar suction force pulling him away from the shadow phantom… řà₦ộ฿Ёs̩

Well, then, he left again taking “Mom’s womb” with him.

Well, not a big problem, he was still staying inside “Mom’s womb.”

It’s just that Mom’s womb no longer belonged to Mom.

At this point, Jiang Ye felt completely at ease, no longer afraid of dying.

At the same time, through the shadow phantom’s reactions, he vaguely realized—

Could it be that he had been wrong?

It wasn’t that the shadow phantom actively wanted to protect him…

But rather that when he was pulled away from the shadow phantom, he would naturally take part of the shadow phantom’s form with him?

Gasp… Could such a good thing really be true?!

So could it be that…

On the surface, it seemed he was parasitizing within the shadow phantom’s form, without even the right to move autonomously.

But in reality, while staying in the shadow phantom’s form, he was sucking the shadow phantom’s blood?

This way, it seemed to explain why Jiang Ye, who stayed within the shadow phantom’s form, could gain such great benefits when the blood realm worm that clearly belonged to the shadow phantom sucked blood?

Thinking this, Jiang Ye felt less resistant to staying within the shadow phantom’s form.

However…

The shadow phantom was going fucking crazy!

He tried once more…

Jiang Ye was “born” once more…

The result remained the same—most of his form was taken away by Jiang Ye!

Damn it!

The shadow phantom was somewhat panicked.

But now, he really didn’t know how to handle this situation.

More crucially, he had separated Jiang Ye because he had things to do.

Seeing that this separated mutated Jiang Ye still seemed unable to move.

The shadow phantom quickly steadied his mind and headed alone toward where the mutated blood realm worm was…

This time, indeed unlike before, he wasn’t repeatedly teleported away.

Because his form was clean, free of contaminants, it had returned to its completely untargetable void state, naturally unaffected by that Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation.

Just like that, the shadow phantom quickly reached the center of the Soul Shepherd Formation.

His void form possessed a unique perspective, allowing him to see at a glance—

Above the entire center of the Soul Shepherd Formation hovered an array disk, round above and square below.

Several figures lay on the ground.

Xu Gou and Peng Gu had completely lost consciousness.

Their original bodies were covered with blood-colored patterns.

But now their bodies looked as if they had contracted albinism that couldn’t see light—completely snow-white, appearing devoid of vitality.

The remaining two half-dead bodies…

One was similarly snow-white all over, but the entire skull had been stripped of flesh, looking horrifying.

The other… was shriveled to the point of seeming like skin and bones—a desiccated corpse!

And the blood realm worm the shadow phantom sensed was precisely on that desiccated corpse!

The shadow phantom didn’t know that the array disk actually represented the Formation Master.

So in his view, there were only four “corpses” here, and one barely living creature—Xiao Bai, who could still manage to sit up.

These people…

The shadow phantom quickly matched them—

Xu Gou and Peng Gu were easy to identify.

That horrifically mutilated body could also be recognized as Yu Mo, who had mutated to have Jiang Ye’s face.

Then that desiccated corpse…

The shadow phantom felt as if his heart skipped a beat.

Instinctively believing that desiccated corpse could only be his son Tao Sheng…

After all, among the people who had been with this group, besides the chubby guy and the old woman, only his son was missing.

So, that desiccated corpse could only be Tao Sheng…

The shadow phantom glanced at the only living creature, Xiao Bai, but didn’t consider her a threat.

His attention quickly focused on the mutated blood realm worm within the desiccated corpse…

But as he moved toward the blood realm worm, he suddenly felt an invisible force!

The next moment, the shadow phantom discovered he had been “teleported” out again!

What??

What’s going on?!

This Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation… was this powerful?!

Clearly his completely void form should be in an untargetable state!

How could the Soul Shepherd Formation still affect him?!

Obviously, the shadow phantom assumed his sudden teleportation was the Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation’s doing again.

But actually…

It was the mutated Jiang Ye, who after the shadow phantom left, was cursing internally—

What? Damn it? Buddy, you’re running off without me?!

Aren’t we supposed to be one entity?!

Do you think that empty-bellied look of yours is attractive?!

He felt quite helpless, but also vaguely realized—

Perhaps he, as the baby, was too heavy a burden, and Mom couldn’t run while carrying him.

So the shadow phantom probably wanted to test whether he would still be affected by the Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation after being released.

Jiang Ye understood, but was also anxious.

He still wanted to see what his precious clone, fused from three light clones, had ultimately become after being drained of blood!

What should he do if the shadow phantom wouldn’t take him along?

However, he soon discovered to his delight—

In his clone perception, there was a clone nearby that didn’t share consciousness with him, moving toward the center of the Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation.

At first, Jiang Ye didn’t understand, thinking it was some Defender player impersonating him.

But he later realized…

That “clone” seemed to be none other than… the empty-bellied shadow phantom!

Oh my god! Just because his mutated clone had taken most of the shadow phantom… the shadow phantom had actually become his clone??

He hadn’t felt this way earlier when inside the shadow phantom’s belly!

Oh, right, when he was inside the shadow phantom’s belly, could he have been in some kind of clone fusion state?

So now that the “fusion was dispelled,” he could sense the shadow phantom clone?

Regardless, Jiang Ye wanted to test it out.

Originally, he thought about directly using clone fusion to return to the shadow phantom’s belly.

But he worried the shadow phantom might notice something off…

So he deliberately waited until the shadow phantom should have reached the center of the Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation.

Then he used clone swapping.

This way, he could blame the clone swapping on the Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation!

And his mutated clone would conveniently arrive painlessly at the Soul Shepherd Formation center.

But arriving at the center was useless.

His body couldn’t move at all, completely unable to pick up the well-fed mutated blood realm worm from the desiccated corpse.

Jiang Ye’s left hand could still move, though.

But what use was just a left hand that could move?

His fingers wouldn’t automatically transform, couldn’t even reach…

Huh??

Just as he thought this and struggled to extend his left hand fingers.

A miraculous scene occurred!

The shadow phantom that originally enveloped Jiang Ye’s mutated body actually extended a shadow phantom hand in the direction his left hand was struggling to reach!

Although this hand couldn’t be called “giant,” it was considerably larger than a normal human hand.

The key point was… it could move!

Only now did Jiang Ye realize again…

Perhaps he hadn’t just left the shadow phantom’s belly.

It seemed his mutated clone with restored consciousness could barely control this portion of the shadow phantom form that belonged to him?!

Without worrying about whether other parts could move, Jiang Ye quickly extended that void left hand toward the desiccated corpse’s fingertips.

However…

Even though he had already touched the desiccated corpse and the blood realm worm.

He didn’t feel any tactile sensation.

As if he had truly become a ghost, separated from the “living” by the boundary between yin and yang, unable to touch!

But soon, he noticed again…

Although he couldn’t touch the mutated blood realm worm.

That blood realm worm seemed able to sense him!

Soon, that tiny speck of a blood-colored worm actively burrowed into his shadow phantom form.

And this sensation of nurturing worms within his body…

Was actually quite similar to being parasitized by the Luminox Larva?

But this worm was even smaller than the Luminox Larva, almost invisible to the naked eye.

Besides, it didn’t carry coldness, and after entering the shadow phantom form, Jiang Ye faintly felt very comfortable.

While experiencing this, he noticed again—

The shadow phantom that had just been teleported out was struggling to come back this way.

Jiang Ye actually didn’t want the shadow phantom to know he had taken the blood realm worm.

He thought, should he use clone swapping again to deceive the shadow phantom?

Better yet, make the shadow phantom think someone else stole the blood realm worm?

But upon careful consideration, this wouldn’t work at all.

From the shadow phantom’s precise movement toward the mutated blood realm worm’s location, it was clear—

The shadow phantom itself could sense where the blood realm worm was.

Even if he ran away now, the shadow phantom could probably follow the blood realm worm’s scent to find him.

Thinking this, Jiang Ye decided to use a different method to deceive the shadow phantom—

When he sensed the shadow phantom was getting close to the Soul Shepherd Formation center again.

Jiang Ye performed a clone fusion!

Thus, the entire shadow phantom form containing the blood realm worm returned to the shadow phantom’s belly…

At this, the shadow phantom’s rushing form suddenly stopped.

Although he had no facial features to show expression, clearly, the shadow phantom was baffled!

What’s going on?

Why did the portion of form he had separated out earlier actively return?

Could it be that this portion of form couldn’t leave him for too long?

The key question was, why did the mutated blood realm worm also directly return to his form?

Was the mutated blood realm worm this powerful? Had it evolved spatial abilities??

For a moment, the shadow phantom was indeed deceived.

But he wasn’t actually stupid, soon feeling something was wrong.

So…

He gave birth to Jiang Ye again.

An outward suction force assaulted Jiang Ye once more.

But this time…

The moment he sensed the clone fusion effect being dispelled.

He immediately used another—clone fusion!

But Jiang Ye’s clone fusion had a cooldown.

Previously, he could use it seemingly without cooldown mainly because he had multiple clones.

When Clone A’s skill was cooling down, he used Clone B’s skill.

Thus creating the illusion that skills had no cooldown and could be used freely.

But now he was in a pitiful state…

In this forbidden zone, only this one mutated clone remained “alive.”

The skill cooldown problem became apparent again!

Clone fusion failed!

Jiang Ye was violently pulled out again, along with most of the shadow phantom…

At this point, the shadow phantom naturally sensed—

His mutated blood realm worm wasn’t nurtured in the portion of form belonging to him, but was swimming within the shadow phantom enveloping the mutated Jiang Ye!

What?

How could this be?!

If the shadow phantom had a face, it would probably be as black as coal by now!

How could the mutated clone his son sacrificed his life to create end up benefiting Jiang Ye?!

The key issue was, how could half of his form be given to Jiang Ye!!

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