The Food God, upon hearing Li Rouhua's story, felt suffocated.

In the ancient times of Immortal Path civilization, it was truly difficult for the Cultivators at the bottom.

Class solidification protected the high and mighty families.

Even if a family's child had potential, it wasn't enough; the father still had to go out and earn money, or else the mother would be drained by the child!

Two lives lost from one corpse.

During that era of Innate Spirit Root cultivation, the people struggled to survive amidst hardship; countless fathers went out to earn money while their wives were pregnant.

Who knows how many tragedies ensued, either the mother perished along with the child, or the father died earning money outside.

A small Cultivator in the Five-Body Realm could even invent a new Talisman, showing how extraordinary Xu You's talents were.

If such a person existed now, planting a Celestial Spirit Root, they would soar immediately.

Such a person could only be matched by the talents of the No-Life Whale!

After all, the No-Life Whale was also an ancient Mortal, without a Spiritual Root, and was said to have accomplished many astonishing innovations while still a Mortal, which led the powerhouses of the No-Life Sect to freeze them and revive them in this era.

Additionally, her achievements were impressive; in just a century, she single-handedly pioneered the Shadow Crocodile Forging Technique, hoping to ascend to a cursed level akin to Xin Xichen.

But more often than not, Mortals without a Spiritual Root, like Xu You, die in a mere Five-Body Realm.

"My condolences." The Food God offered a handkerchief for her to wipe her tears.

Li Rouhua covered her face, sobbing, "Xu You is gone, and later other Cultivators heard the news, barged in, and took away the resources prepared for the child. I had no resources left... my child was miscarried."

The Food God silently sighed.

"This damned world, because of the child, should never have been born, should never have been born..."

"My child cannot be lost; it was Xu You's last gift to me."

Her words were laced with sobbing, like a neurotic madwoman, "So... so I used Xu You's Talisman to stitch the child's brain flower back onto my stomach."

She lifted her belly, turning around in place, revealing dense embroidery and scars, both horrific and terrifying. "After the child was stitched back, it returned, and I became pregnant again."

The Food God, hearing this, could almost confirm this must be the original Mother of Non-Life.

Thus, he called out, "Mother of Non-Life, I've found you."

These four words fell.

Li Rouhua, with a tear-streaked weary woman's face, dazed, "Who are you calling? Is there anyone else here with us?"

"Don't you remember who this is?" the Food God shouted, "No Life, No Life, No Life!!!"

With each sentence striking Li Rouhua.

This woman shook her head, seeming to ponder something, at times in pain, at times in sorrow.

The whole world seemed to change.

The crowd on the street, the overcast sky, everyone changed faces, as if the whole city had crossed into another region.

...

On the other side.

Still interrogating, the Cursed sensed the mark left on the Food God changing, "That Meiling Fish guy has been found."

"We are very lucky, out of thousands of Cultivators, this one happened to contact us; it wasn't by chance after all." Phoenix Yi smiled slightly, "He is the first to be found, quite capable indeed."

The Cursed said solemnly, "That guy is waking up the owner of this tomb; the tomb's owner is still in a deep sleep, constantly looping the city in their memory."

Looping memory, the start of one's dream, the obsessioned dream, it's easier to awaken.

"With his shout, it triggered the childhood memory of the Self-Transformation Realm, [Dream] might not wake up, but could jump to another node." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"The entire city has been re-transformed."

"All characters are turning into another fragment in her memory."

The two glanced at each other and suddenly disappeared from the scene.

...

A moment of dizziness.

Upon regaining consciousness, found the Mother of Non-Life aged by another decade.

In the room, she held a whip, continuously striking the child:

"You are the only Treasure your father left in this world, you must study hard to be worthy of your prematurely deceased father, make him proud!"

"Gone, gone, all gone!!!" she yelled, "It's all because of you! You bear your father's dreams, do you know!"

Splat!

Splat!

The whipping continued, the child hung by the beams.

The scene shifted, the dream became increasingly chaotic.

She knelt on the ground, holding a young man and weeping bitterly, "My son, my son, everything will be alright, everything will be alright."

Helpless, she stitched the child up again, "My son, you're a failure... I will find a smarter child."

This time, she kidnapped other people's children, sewing them into her belly just like her own.

She believed other smarter children would enhance her child's wisdom.

She inexplicably became pregnant again.

Time and again, she bore the child, raised it, cultivated, grew stronger, only to die in the process and be stitched up again for another pregnancy.

She couldn't remember how many times she had been pregnant.

She finally started to understand the truth: cultivation is a high-stakes gamble, every Realm is a single-log bridge that can lead to downfall.

Previously, she and Xu You had won gamble after gamble, but no one can win indefinitely, thus they ultimately lost miserably as partners.

The only way to win: life must be able to restart! Keep trial and error!

So, my child, your mother is your greatest support.

When the child died, she chose to retrieve it back into her womb for re-nurturing.

Initially, her children were of Lower Grade Spiritual Roots. Later, with the legacy of each child accumulating more before death, she birthed Middle Grade, and even Upper Grade Spiritual Root children, and they joined the Sect.

Moreover, she began stealing children from Major Sects and Major Sects, sewing their brain flowers into her belly, attempting to enhance aptitude.

Crack!

This city completely morphed, hundreds of years later.

The reincarnated children, with continuous mutation, finally possessed Innate Wisdom, born knowledgeable as babies, astonishingly reached Three Elements Realm in mere decades, becoming Overlords of areas.

But they still perished.

At this point, Li Rouhua went mad, hugging the corpse in the pool of blood and weeping bitterly, stitching it up stitch by stitch, "You are... you are... our love, you will definitely win, fulfilling your parents' dreams."

The Food God's scalp tingled: "This scene is truly eerie."

He didn't know how to describe it, only suddenly thought of a poem.

A loving mother's thread in hand, turned into clothing worn on the body.

Meticulously sewn to the point of death, fearing the delay of return.

And subsequently, the Food God witnessed an even more horrifying scene.

Each child sewn in became increasingly bizarre, with more pronounced Innate Wisdom.

The latest child, he saw transformed into a twisted black child's face on the woman's belly, extending limbs from the navel, as if embedded onto the stomach.

The baby on her belly cried out in terror: "Mother, mother, I don't want to go out, I don't want to go out."

"Alright, alright." The mother was already somewhat deranged, "Then Mother shall do it herself."

The child remained in the belly, refusing to come out, cultivating inside.

And Li Rouhua, riding on the prestige of her child who refused to take birth, with unparalleled Combat Power, overturned the Dynasty, and set flames of rebellion across the Nine-State, intending to flatten this damned world.

In the sky, a belly-heavy mother, leveraging the unrivaled Demon Infant within her, fought against powerful Cultivators one by one.

The Food God watched that scene:

"This woman is insane, her obsession in life is astonishingly terrifying..."

The greatest despair is often not born in those who have always borne suffering.

Because they have suffered since childhood, they have a high tolerance for suffering.

With nothing, what can they lose? When a person has nothing, no despair is real despair.

Those who experience the greatest despair have often once struggled in despair, and finally embraced the happiness of spring snow, possessing life's true love, a beautiful family, after bitterness came sweetness.

But then all the beauty was shredded piece by piece.

Only those who have seen the sunlight can experience the immense gap and unprecedented despair.

This woman possesses history's rarest, most intense terrifying obsession.

Crackle, at this moment, Phoenix Yi and the Cursed tracked the mark and arrived, witnessing this horrid scene of mother and son, instantly realizing something:

"Is this the truth of the Emperor of Longevity and the Mother of Non-Life?"