168: Chapter 168 The First Appearance of Pangu

The white room was very clean.

So clean it didn't look like a place where a person lived.

There were no seams on the walls.

There was no dust on the floor.

There wasn't even a hint of the scent of human life in the air.

Only the sound of needle and thread.

Stitch.

Stitch.

A woman sat beside a crib, her head lowered as she knitted a sweater.

The sweater was gray.

The stitches were a bit crooked.

Last winter, Liu Cuilan had also knitted one for Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng wore it once.

The cuffs were half a section too short.

Liu Cuilan had scolded herself for a long time, saying she was getting old and her eyesight was failing, and that she would definitely knit it longer next time.

But Jiang Feng never threw that sweater away.

The woman looked up.

Her face looked even more like Liu Cuilan's now.

The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.

The habitual way she pursed her lips before speaking.

Even her habit of gently biting off the yarn with her teeth when it knotted was identical.

“Xiao Feng.”

She smiled slightly.

“It's cold outside, come and try on these clothes.”

Li Yan stood at the door, his skin crawling with goosebumps.

“This thing even steals domestic small talk?”

The Dragon Girl bared her teeth.

“She is not Grandma.”

Zero Seven didn't speak.

She stared at the four corners of the white room.

There were no formation patterns there.

No Laws.

No energy fluctuations either.

Only densely packed records of titles.

[Mama.]

[Niang.]

[Mother.]

[Mommy.]

[A'niang.]

Countless titles were stacked within the walls.

Like an invisible web.

Zero Seven's voice was tight.

“Mr. Jiang, this isn't an ordinary rule zone.”

“This is a Title Source Zone.”

“It doesn't rely on attacks.”

“It will directly rewrite your cognition of the word ‘Mom’.”

The woman put down the sweater and gently patted the crib.

The crib was empty.

But Jiang Feng heard an infant crying.

Very soft.

Very close.

As if it were crawling out from the depths of his own memory.

The woman said, “The first time you called out ‘Mom’, it wasn't to Liu Cuilan.”

“At that time, she hadn't even held you yet.”

“You were here.”

“You heard my voice first.”

The white walls lit up.

Images emerged.

An infant lay in a blue light pool.

He didn't cry.

A row of faceless nurses stood around him.

They lowered their heads to record.

[Pangu No. 1 embryo stable.]

[Maternal awakening program prepared.]

[First title implantation beginning.]

Then, a voice sounded.

“Xiao Feng.”

The infant in the images opened his eyes.

The woman looked at Jiang Feng.

“Do you see?”

“The one you heard first was me.”

“Liu Cuilan was just a later caregiver.”

Li Yan cursed on the spot.

“Bullshit!”

“Opening your eyes means recognizing someone as your mom? Then a hospital light bulb is your biological father?”

The Dragon Girl nodded seriously.

“Light bulbs don't make pork ribs.”

Jiang Feng watched the images, not laughing.

He took a step forward.

Blue words surfaced on the white floor.

[Thirteenth Transition Trial, Question Two.]

[Please confirm the attribution of the first title.]

[If the First Mother is confirmed, inheritance rights to the Original Blue Star can be obtained.]

[If rejected, it will be considered as defecting from the production source.]

Jiang Feng glanced down.

“Inheritance rights?”

The woman said, “Yes.”

“All delivery rooms, variable embryos, and maternal source permissions of The First Blue Star can be given to you.”

“You don't have to guard a low-level Blue Star anymore.”

“Liu Cuilan will grow old.”

“Jiang Jianguo will die.”

“The people around you will ultimately be worn away by time.”

“But I will not.”

She reached out and pointed toward the depths of the room.

The wall opened.

Inside was a massive blue astrolabe.

Countless Blue Stars hung upon the astrolabe.

Beside every Blue Star, there was a delivery room serial number.

[Jia-Chen Seventeen.]

[Bing-Wu No. 3.]

[Geng-Shen No. 9.]

[Pangu Variable Cultivation Zone.]

The woman's voice became very soft.

“Come back.”

“You can become the source of all variables.”

“You can have countless homes.”

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

His fingertip pressed onto the line that said “inheritance rights”.

A System prompt popped up.

[Touching original inheritance rules.]

[Plunderable.]

The woman's expression changed.

“Xiao Feng, don't be willful.”

Jiang Feng said, “You call that out quite familiarly.”

His five fingers curled.

“Plunder.”

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundering original inheritance rule fragments.]

[Gained All Attributes: 35 Ji.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 687 Ji.]

The blue words shattered.

The white room shuddered.

A stitch in the sweater in the woman's hand broke.

She looked down at the broken thread, the gentleness on her face slowly fading.

“Why won't you acknowledge it?”

Jiang Feng looked at her.

“My mom's name is Liu Cuilan.”

“She scolds herself for being clumsy when she knits sweaters.”

“You don't.”

The woman looked up.

“I can learn.”

Jiang Feng said, “Even if you learn, it won't be her.”

“You have her memories.”

“Stolen.”

“You have her pain.”

“Stolen.”

“You have the record of my first ‘Mom’.”

Jiang Feng walked to the crib and glanced down.

The crib was empty.

“A record is not a person.”

“A voice is not a mother.”

“A mom is a mom.”

“A factory is a factory.”

Li Yan slapped his thigh upon hearing this.

“Those words are too hard-hitting.”

The Dragon Girl puffed out her chest proudly.

“Master knows how to distinguish.”

The woman stood up.

The walls of the white room began to contract.

Countless titles crawled out from the walls, turning into blue threads that wrapped toward Jiang Feng's throat.

[Activating Title Lock.]

[Depriving reality maternal title.]

[Rewriting address target.]

[Target: Pangu No. 1.]

[Address Transfer: Liu Cuilan → First Mother.]

Zero Seven's expression changed.

“It wants to steal the word ‘Mom’!”

Jiang Feng didn't retreat.

The threads wrapped around his throat.

In the next second.

They all snapped.

[Maternal source pollution immunity in effect.]

[Maternal title lock ineffective.]

The woman's gaze finally turned cold.

“Immunity?”

“You destroyed the maternal source pool and actually took away the immunity rights?”

Jiang Feng raised his hand and grabbed a broken thread.

“Only the source remains.”

He yanked along the broken thread.

The entire white wall was pulled open.

Behind the wall was not a room.

It was a heart.

Blue.

So large its edges couldn't be seen.

With every beat, the cries of thousands of infants rang out.

A line of words was carved on the surface of the heart.

[First Matrix Hub.]

Zero Seven's pupils shrank.

“It's not human.”

“It's the delivery room heart of The First Blue Star!”

Li Yan gritted his teeth.

“Good grief, it really is a factory director.”

The woman stood before the heart.

Her face completely turned into a faceless blue shadow.

Only the mouth still looked like Liu Cuilan's.

“Jiang Feng.”

“You can destroy the maternal source pool.”

“You can also dismantle the original maternal chamber.”

“But you cannot destroy me.”

“The moment I shatter, all Pangu variable embryos will die.”

She raised her hand.

Within the blue astrolabe, countless infant pods lit up.

In every pod, a child was curled up.

Not yet born.

Not yet having opened their eyes.

The Dragon Girl was stunned.

Li Yan's fists clenched, then slowly relaxed.

Zero Seven said in a low voice, “It has connected the embryos to its own heart.”

“To kill it is equivalent to killing these unborn variables.”

The woman smiled.

“Don't you have a bottom line?”

“Come.”

“Kill me.”

The white room fell silent.

Jiang Feng looked at those infant pods.

A few seconds later, he asked the System.

“Can they be detached?”

[Detachable.]

[Requires consuming a portion of plunder gains.]

Jiang Feng said, “Detach.”

The woman's smile froze.

“You—”

Jiang Feng interrupted her.

“Why do you things always think others are as filthy as you are?”

He raised his hand and pressed it against the First Mother heart.

The Zero-er didn't erupt with destruction.

Instead, it sliced into the heart's surface like a knife.

One by one, the blue umbilical cords were detached.

The infant pods fell away.

They floated behind Jiang Feng.

The Dragon Girl immediately spread the Purple-Gold Canopy, protecting those infant pods.

“I'll watch them!”

Li Yan also rushed over, grumbling.

“Don't float around randomly, little ancestors!”

Zero Seven watched this scene, her chest feeling tight.

This man killed gods like swatting flies.

But facing unborn children, he didn't even want his gains.

Jiang Feng's fingers tightened.

“Now.”

“You have no human shield left.”

The woman screamed.

The First Mother heart beat frantically.

Countless blue delivery room doors opened from the Void Realm.

Hands reached out from within them.

Those hands grabbed at Jiang Feng.

[Invoking delivery room permissions.]

[Invoking variable recycling rights.]

[Invoking first title rights.]

[Invoking embryo destruction rights.]

Jiang Feng's gaze turned cold.

“Too much nonsense.”

He smashed a fist down.

No light.

No dharma image.

Only a muffled thud.

The First Mother heart caved in.

All delivery room doors exploded simultaneously.

[Zero-er triggered.]

[First title rights erased.]

[Variable recycling rights erased.]

[Embryo destruction rights erased.]

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundering First Matrix Hub residual rights.]

[Gained All Attributes: 80 Ji.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 767 Ji.]

[Thirteenth Transition Trial progress: Second stage complete.]

[Class advancement analysis: 65%.]

The blue heart shattered.

The woman's body also began to crumble.

She turned into Liu Cuilan's face one last time.

“Xiao Feng...”

Jiang Feng didn't even look.

He raised his hand and squeezed.

“Don't use her face.”

Bang.

The faceless blue shadow exploded completely.

The white room collapsed.

The astrolabe snapped.

Countless Blue Star projections went out at the same time.

The infant pods behind Jiang Feng were protected by the Dragon Girl; not a single one broke.

Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

“If this chapter were sent back to Huaxia, the maternal and child health hospitals would all have to erect a monument for you.”

The Dragon Girl asked seriously, “Are there pork ribs with a monument?”

Li Yan: “Probably not.”

The Dragon Girl's interest vanished instantly.

Zero Seven walked to Jiang Feng's side.

“Mr. Jiang, with the First Mother destroyed, the production line should have stopped.”

Jiang Feng didn't speak.

He looked at the spot where the blue heart had shattered.

There was still one black umbilical cord remaining.

The umbilical cord was not connected to an infant pod.

Instead, it went down.

Leading to even greater depths.

The System prompt only popped up after a long delay.

[Detected the true core of the Original Blue Star.]

[Warning: The First Mother is not the final producer.]

[Warning: Pangu variable bodies are not the first batch of products.]

[Thirteenth Transition Trial final stage beginning.]

[Goal: Enter the bottom layer of the Original Delivery Room.]

From the end of the black umbilical cord came the cry of an unfamiliar infant.

Immediately following that.

A line of blood-red words emerged.

[Welcome to The First Blue Star.]

[The first child produced here is named—Pangu.]