Chapter 2931: Artificial Offspring Specification

If this were one of the old Full Moon Garden missions, this kind of behavior would have already triggered a restart by now, wouldn't it?

Fu Qian's actions were simple. Since he had promised the Old Doctor he would accept treatment, he still had to take this "medicine."

It was just that the method of administration had changed slightly—switching from intravenous injection to oral.

Yes, Insight.

The eldest son's Ribbon still wasn't the limit. The academic leader had another testing tool lined up.

And no matter how he looked at it, it was a tool he couldn't afford to waste.

He already knew the Blood Nova was likely the root cause behind the twisting of the Offspring concept, but he couldn't confirm exactly how Annalise had twisted it back then.

So why not just take a scoop of the Blood Nova and have a taste?

As long as he found the critical point, Insight was always a worthwhile attempt... even if it carried risks.

Besides that, Fu Qian actually had another motive. During the very first mission of his career, blood transfusion had been judged by the Warehouse as an absolute predetermined death condition. Why?

Poisoning? That would have been a bit too fast.

Back then, the moment the Old Doctor opened the valve, the mission failure judgment had appeared. In Fu Qian's view, the act of that first drop of blood entering his body must have brought about some conceptual change—one that the Warehouse could not accept.

That was why it had reacted so rigidly.

And precisely because of this, Fu Qian was very curious about what would have actually happened if the blood transfusion had succeeded during that mission.

Under this alternative method of taking the medicine right now, he wondered if Insight could bring him a few answers—

[Artificial Offspring Specification]

[Designated as Annalise's Offspring.

All traces consolidated by this name on the transcendent level may be reflected upon you.

Annalise discovered the main body of the Offspring concept in the Bottom Layer of the Dream, sculpted it using the Law, and obtained her own Crimson Moon.]

...

This title's tone felt rather peculiar.

Amid his hopeful anticipation, the answer was revealed almost the very next moment, making Fu Qian sigh in amazement.

The good news: after the upgrade, the expansion of the Insight slots was even more substantial than it had seemed. After Night Demon filled the vacancy left by Etched Intellect, there was actually still room to accommodate this new harvest.

Ultimately, "Artificial Offspring Specification" didn't require him to replace any existing skill; it was added directly on the spot.

The bad news: this direct addition seemed even more nakedly glaring than Night Demon. It was undeniably a negative skill.

Directly designated as Annalise's Offspring? Was this retribution for running around playing a member of the Blood Clan and ruining their image earlier?

Relying on his ongoing research into bloodline inheritance, Fu Qian believed there was no issue with his understanding of the skill's effects.

He didn't even need red eyes; did this just directly slap a Blood Clan label on him?

Even his earlier question—why the blood transfusion was classified by the Warehouse as a predetermined death condition—seemed to have found its answer because of this.

Was the Old Doctor's behavior fundamentally helping Annalise complete a "blood bestowal"?

The moment that first drop of blood entered his body, his identity would undergo a fundamental change, transforming him into a member of the Blood Clan?

Under those circumstances, it seemed forgivable that the Warehouse would react so intensely.

And just as he had guessed earlier, the IV drip didn't bring about poisoning, but a conceptual change.

As for the Warehouse, it absolutely would not allow its administrator to suffer that kind of contamination. As for why the effect was so potent?

It was one thing that he couldn't resist it back then, but to think the grand Mechanical King of the Abandoned Prison would fall for it too?

It wasn't surprising. On one hand, the most important factor was the mechanism of Insight.

Just like what was said when he acquired "Night Demon," the core of this behavior called Insight lay in a proactive embrace—which meant willingly dropping his firewall during the process.

This was even one of the potential risks of using Insight mentioned earlier.

On the other hand, the substance the Old Doctor dripped into his veins could no longer be simply described as "blood."

What dripped in through the needle could, to some extent, be considered the physical manifestation of "Offspring."

Although the introduction for Artificial Offspring Specification was brief, it contained a massive amount of information.

For instance: "discovered the main body of the Offspring concept in the Bottom Layer of the Dream."

This sentence essentially directly validated his guess about the Umbilical Cord. That thing really was "Offspring"?

A visible, tangible authority?

At that moment, Fu Qian deeply felt how unprecedentedly concrete the transcendent world was. Then, could the blood flowing out of the Umbilical Cord also be considered a coagulation of a concept?

Paired with his proactive Insight, it was no wonder it could achieve such an effect.

Additionally, there was another very important point in that sentence. The Bottom Layer of the Dream didn't sound like some small realm created by Annalise, but rather a place that had always existed?

She just found this place and discovered "Offspring" inside?

Putting it that way, Annalise's indulgence in the dream didn't seem so hard to empathize with anymore.

It wasn't a matter of losing her drive to playthings; there were actual, genuine returns.

Of course, more importantly, the core question mentioned earlier had an answer: exactly how did Annalise redefine Offspring?

"Law"—a somewhat special yet entirely logical word had conspicuously appeared here.

...

As expected. He knew there was a reason the White Tower Codex could attract Annalise's gaze.

At that moment, Fu Qian let out a long inward sigh.

The relationship between the moon and the Law wasn't simple; this was a concept he had actually grasped a long time ago.

He had reasoned long ago that the True Word Notebook in Annalise's hands, and even the Abyss Notes in Su Gao's hands, seemed to possess a certain essence of law.

And an even more glaring piece of evidence was none other than the Witch's Starry Sky Barrier.

The First Generation Dark Moon had once brought the Core of Law to that world, relying on it to paint the False Starry Sky and place the entire planet under its protection.

Looking at it now, one could say these things shared deep historical roots.

Before Annalise fell, she had already been capable of performing refined operations using the Law, just like the First Generation Dark Moon.

And her gains were equally staggering. While changing the definition of Offspring, Annalise even acquired her own unique symbol—the Crimson Moon.

A symbol distinct from the traditional concept of the moon, giving her a sharp contrast against the Primordial Moon.

Even after her complete fall, this symbol had remarkably been preserved until now... It was nothing short of an astonishing feat.

All in all, with one bite of Insight, another critical node in the Chronicles of the Moon had been cleared.

Of course, this wasn't a reason to celebrate a tragedy; at the end of the day, it was still a negative skill—

As he was defined as Annalise's Offspring, "Professor Fu's Mother"—one of the Red Moon's two major Anchor Points right now—would undoubtedly collapse in an instant. He had been viciously backstabbed in that cognitive tug-of-war.

The time left for it was truly running out.

[SAN Value -1]

There was even more bad news.

Without any warning whatsoever, Fu Qian lost 1 point of his SAN Value.