"Yes, if someone with exceptional human talent appears in Changpan Valley, and their normal cultivation ability is enough to reach the Heavenly Connection period, then the eggs they nurture will at least have the potential to grow to the level of a Four-Winged Angel." said the celestial maiden Guanghui.
"Those Meat-Winged Monsters like Jia Liuyi, Flaming Six Wings, and Wu Bayi, the reason they have so many wings is because they have stripped the potential from rare human talents?" Xiang Beifei asked.
"Yes, that’s the reasoning." replied the celestial maiden Guanghui.
Xiang Beifei frowned.
On the other side, Jiang Feng hesitantly asked: "Beifei, does that mean, if this demoness had not been born, the girl she parasitized through normal cultivation could reach the demoness’s strength—what you mentioned as the late orifice transforming stage?"
Xiang Beifei nodded slightly.
Uncle Liang and the others grew angrier the more they listened.
They had witnessed the power of the late orifice transforming stage, back when the celestial maiden Guanghui acted in earnest, it was akin to a deity’s power, able to cover the sky with a single hand and destroy the entire Changpan Valley with one palm.
The foundational talent to deploy such power, unexpectedly, came from humans!
Previously Changpan Valley was deceived into thinking their lifespans were short, and it was only because of the moonprint’s benevolence that they could cultivate, so every human in Changpan Valley obediently submitted to the Divine Lord. But now they understood that all Meat-Winged Monsters relied on the moonprint to strip their talent!
Without humans from Changpan Valley, there would be no Meat-Winged Monsters!
Uncle Liang, furious, couldn’t help but grab his smoking pipe to strike the celestial maiden Guanghui.
Xiang Beifei fell into contemplation, and after a while, he waved his hand, presenting tens of thousands of moonprint Gu Worms densely before him.
"Beifei, why do you still retain these things?" Jiang Chuan asked disgustedly.
"I think they still have some use."
These Gu Worms were extracted by Xiang Beifei from the villagers’ arms in Changpan Valley, but he did not destroy them. Instead, he kept all of over ten thousand moonprint Gu Worms.
"Shouldn’t these things be burned away? What use could they have?" Uncle Liang asked angrily.
Jiang Shan vaguely understood what Xiang Beifei intended to do. He was more rational and spoke up: "Beifei, are you planning to use these egg worms to infiltrate the Moon God Palace?"
Xiang Beifei examined these Gu Worms. Because they were separated from humans and lacked the nourishment of Spiritual Power, these moonprint Gu Worms had withered. But they had not directly died, as the egg’s vitality from the Infernal Spirit of Yellow Springs was still very strong. Xiang Beifei only needed a bit of power to keep them in a half-alive state.
The celestial maiden Guanghui was quite surprised when she saw thousands of eggs; she hadn’t expected Xiang Beifei to peel these eggs from humans.
"How is this possible? How could you achieve this?"
She herself was hatched from humans, well aware of the consequences when eggs leave human bodies. With the frail physique of Changpan Valley humans, once the moonprint was removed, it was a dead end!
Yet so many eggs here indicated all humans in Changpan Valley had already freed themselves from moonprint Gu Worms’ control.
The celestial maiden Guanghui glanced at Uncle Liang and others’ arms, confirming her thoughts; she realized these humans had freed themselves from moonprint’s control!
She became increasingly shocked!
Xiang Beifei’s strength being higher than hers could be accepted; after all, humans naturally do not lack talent. But even Wu Bayi dared not claim the ability to remove all moonprints from human arms, allowing them to jump around alive.
Who exactly was this human?
The celestial maiden Guanghui began to feel very uneasy, recalling that she revealed various secrets under some mysterious force, as well as the Crystal Core aura left from Flaming Six Wings’ defeat, gradually realizing this human was far more terrifying than she imagined!
Xiang Beifei disregarded what the celestial maiden Guanghui was thinking and simply said: "I know these eggs are only dormant. You wake them up."
The celestial maiden Guanghui resisted but couldn’t refuse; she extended her hand, turning the Yellow Springs water into streams of Spiritual Power, falling on the tens of thousands of moonprint Gu Worms.
Those once half-alive moonprint Gu Worms gradually began to revive under the stimulation of similar forces, gradually emitting pure and sacred white radiance that seemed like some elegant holy insects, harmless to people or animals.
Uncle Liang and others saw these thousands of Gu Worms revert to their original shapes and couldn’t help but frown repulsively. They had lived alongside these things for most of their lives, once wholeheartedly guarding them, now wanting to slap themselves in the face in disgust, as much as they loathed them.
Yet everyone wisely kept silent, only waiting to see what Xiang Beifei intended.
"According to your experience, you pick out the eggs with the greatest potential and classify them?" Xiang Beifei said.
Being a Meat-Winged Monster herself, the celestial maiden Guanghui was naturally familiar with her kind. These eggs varied in growth, determined by human talent; human talent was different.
Most humans didn’t have particularly high talent, many only reaching the Meridian Opening stage in their lifetime, with such talent producing eggs that wouldn’t hold high status in the Moon God Race.
Of course, a smaller portion of human talent was indeed outstanding.
The celestial maiden Guanghui quickly selected more than seventy eggs from the tens of thousands, saying: "These fifty-one eggs, if matured, have the potential to reach the God Refining period, and these twelve eggs could reach the orifice transforming period."