"The tortoise wins the race against the hare."
Sacred Embryo Li Fan cast aside all distracting thoughts and peacefully began to comprehend the supreme principles of Star Sea that floated around him.
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In the Xuanhuang World.
After a period of cultivation, Wang Xuanba had successfully bred a sufficient number of those Dao First Worms designated by the Emperor.
"The Heaven and Earth Spirit Trees all have their own effects. My little bugs have another marvelous feature, after they devour a tree, the Spirit Tree does not directly die. Instead, it gradually transforms into a worm-infested Spirit Tree. The original consciousness can freely choose to retain or discard itself, or even merge with other consciousnesses in the Dao First Worm Swarm, achieving a kind of doppelganger existence," Wang Xuanba boasted to Ou Shangtian with a sense of pride.