Chen Cang's Blood Prison Contract had, in terms of procedure, been basically completed at that time.

It was just that the newborn giant sphere, which had not yet given birth to the moon infant, contained only a faint trace of spiritual consciousness that was completely incapable of responding to that Blood Prison Contract.

Thus, the entire "contract" was effectively stuck on the final step requiring the moon infant's signature.

To put it bluntly, the moon infant hadn't even been born yet at the time, so how could it possibly sign!

However... after the Witch Gui Jiang Ye succeeded in seizing the body, the situation changed.

The Witch Gui Jiang Ye very smoothly completed the final step of the Blood Prison Contract.

Of course, he himself was somewhat hesitant.

After all, Chen Cang's Blood Prison Contract ability was beneficial to Chen Cang.

It meant that from then on, the moon infant would be inseparable from Chen Cang's blood.

If Chen Cang died, the moon infant would permanently lose its most important nourishment and would soon be forced to follow Chen Cang in death.

If it were truly a fully born moon infant with terrifying power,

it would probably never accept Chen Cang's Blood Prison Contract under any circumstances.

But at this time, the moon infant hadn't even been born yet.

It probably even had to rely on Chen Cang for the very act of "being born"...

So from this perspective, one could indeed understand this "moon infant" as Chen Cang's destined opportunity.

As for the Witch Gui Jiang Ye, on the matter of whether to establish the Blood Prison Contract with Chen Cang, he had a choice.

In the end, Jiang Ye still chose "yes".

Although choosing "yes" meant the born moon infant would inevitably be restrained by Chen Cang,

for the Witch Gui Jiang Ye, it actually didn't matter much.

After all, the Witch Gui was a conscious soul body that could change physical forms at will.

Moreover, he had already implanted a Heart Demon Nest within both Chen Cang and the moon infant.

So strictly speaking, the restraining relationship between Chen Cang and the moon infant didn't affect him much.

In fact, this relationship was equivalent to—

one of the two toys in his hand calling the other daddy.

But toys, in the end, were just toys.

Thus, having thought this through, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye, on behalf of the unborn moon infant, signed the final step of the Blood Prison Contract.

The moment the contract was fully formed...

the Witch Gui Jiang Ye immediately felt as if an additional surge of energy had been injected into the entire "malnourished" giant sphere.

At first, that energy was quite gentle, nourishing the weak life within the giant sphere.

However, when that weak life began to explosively release terrifying vitality and even more massive energy...

a portion of the vitality and energy it erupted with was siphoned away!

The Witch Gui Jiang Ye clearly sensed...

that portion of energy was being distributed to Chen Cang!

That was also the exact time when the Cheng Lin version of Jiang Ye, linked by Pain Sharing with Chen Cang, felt the originally crushing pain transform into an expansive agony, as if his body was about to explode from the inside out...

Later, the Cheng Lin version of Jiang Ye entered the Blood Pool, and this pain slowly eased.

However, what the Cheng Lin version of Jiang Ye didn't know at the time was...

after he entered the Blood Pool, that "pain relief" effect was also equally shared with Chen Cang through their Pain Sharing link!

So perhaps in essence...

the effect caused by the Blood Pool Water was itself a form of pain?

It was just a kind of pain that couldn't be perceived?

Anyway, Chen Cang at that time, who had almost been burst apart by the energy transmitted from the moon infant's birth,

then had a peculiar energy flow into his body, like a frog being slowly boiled in warm water, soothing the pain of being exploded by energy and also calming that terrifying energy within him...

And so, under the effect of Pain Sharing, Chen Cang indeed safely passed through the crisis brought by signing the Blood Prison Contract with the moon infant.

Simultaneously, he began to feel filled with power.

The Giant Toad's long tongue that had been crushing him, rendering him utterly helpless, no longer seemed terrifyingly unstoppable.

Chen Cang merely stretched his body and struggled fiercely a few times...

and that bluish-grey long tongue that had seemed about to strangle him swiftly retracted like a startled mouse.

Not only that, but an inexplicable force violently flung both Chen Cang and the giant sphere on the verge of rupture outward.

In an instant, Chen Cang and the swelling, near-bursting giant sphere were flung together into the Misty Forest of Oddities.

The moment the giant sphere landed with a "thud", it completely cracked open...

Like a hatching egg, cracks rapidly spread across the entire surface of the giant sphere.

And from those cracks flowed out a water-like substance resembling ice.

Or rather, resembling a colder, denser mist.

This deep, ice-like "mist" poured out in large quantities from the giant sphere.

Causing the hair trees in that area of the Forest of Oddities, originally pure black, to appear as if frozen.

Visually, it also looked like black hair turning white, transforming from black hair trees into white hair trees.

Moreover, within the giant sphere, this super-concentrated version of the mist seemed inexhaustible, continuously flowing outward, continuously spreading...

The entire process of the giant sphere hatching, the super-concentrated mist flowing out and spreading, lasted for quite a long time.

Until the entire giant sphere, from a colossal entity, seemed to have lost everything...

did the announcement of the "Birth of the Moon Infant" finally ring in Chen Cang's mind.

This system-wide announcement was just a routine notification for other players.

But for Chen Cang, he had personally witnessed the birth of the moon infant...

And that hard-won moon infant, in Chen Cang's view, was quite bizarre.

Such a huge giant sphere, Chen Cang had thought the moon infant born from it would also be a colossal entity.

However, the actual situation seemed to be... 99.99% of that giant sphere was the super-concentrated version of the mist.

The so-called "moon infant" probably didn't even account for 0.01% of the proportion!

And that moon infant, only the size of a finger, clearly hadn't grown a humanoid body either.

It looked like a moon-white glass bead, wrapped in a layer of solid-state mist that was even denser than the super-concentrated mist.

Of course, "solid-state mist" was the understanding of Chen Cang and the Witch Gui Jiang Ye.

If the Zhou Qiming version of Jiang Ye saw that "solid-state mist", he would recognize it at a glance—

that so-called "solid-state mist" was exactly the "Ice Ore" he mined in the mine shaft!

So, the entire mini moon infant was essentially encased in a layer of "Ice Ore".

Chen Cang, filled with curiosity at the time, instinctively reached out to pick up that mini moon infant.

At that moment, Li Si's voice suddenly rang out—

"Don't touch it while wearing your prison watch!"

Chen Cang was startled.

He originally didn't know Li Si, but through the Witch Gui Jiang Ye's introduction, he learned that this suddenly appearing guy was the Li Si who wanted to latch onto his coattails.

This ruthless person, in order to latch onto his coattails, had even willingly fallen from being a Sun Person to a Moon Person!

Of course, this guy was also one of the targets linked to him by Pain Sharing.

Chen Cang initially had quite a favorable impression of Li Si, this "outstanding individual" who knew which way the wind blew.

The key was that the other party actively sought to latch onto his coattails, eagerly offering him benefits. As the beneficiary, Chen Cang naturally couldn't dislike him.

The problem was, that unexpected explosion triggered by the bamboo tube changed Chen Cang's perception of Li Si.

Although Li Si's explanation was barely acceptable,

Chen Cang still suspected this guy had ulterior motives regarding him.

Thus, upon directly encountering Li Si again, Chen Cang's first action was to frown and erase the Pain Sharing mark on himself.

So, the Cheng Lin version of Jiang Ye misunderstood.

Chen Cang erasing the Pain Sharing mark indeed counted as burning the bridge after crossing the river.

But in essence, the bridge he burned was Li Si's.

It was also a direct expression of his distrust and aversion towards Li Si, right in front of him.

He even prepared to completely ignore Li Si's words and continue picking up that mini moon infant.

Fortunately, Li Si continued to advise:

"Moon Person players, fundamentally, are unable to touch Ice Ore."

"If you don't believe me, try it with this piece of Ice Ore."

As he spoke, he threw a piece of Ice Ore towards Chen Cang.

Chen Cang casually caught it, and the moment the Ice Ore landed in his hand, it directly vanished!

Chen Cang frowned, seemingly still unconvinced.

So Li Si threw a few more pieces of Ice Ore at him.

The result was the same: the moment his body made contact with the Ice Ore, it disappeared.

At this point, he had no choice but to believe Li Si and didn't dare to rashly touch that mini moon infant wrapped in a layer of Ice Ore.

Seeing he was no longer fixated on touching the moon infant, Li Si explained to him:

"The prison watch worn by Moon Person players doesn't just control their remaining lifespan; it should also contain a special mechanism related to the mist."

"This special mechanism essentially isolates Moon Person players from the mist."

"Because generally, players without prison watches cannot survive in the mist."

"Players wearing prison watches can not only survive in the mist, but also, when they come into contact with solid-state mist, the solid-state mist disappears."

"This disappearance might share the same principle as their ability to survive in the mist."

"Because they cannot contact the mist, they are not harmed by it; and because they cannot contact the mist, the moment they try to touch it, that mist disappears..."

This situation was also understood by the Zhou Qiming version of Jiang Ye while mining in the mine shaft.

Under Li Si's explanation and demonstration, Chen Cang had no choice but to accept this setting.

However, what he couldn't understand was—

"Then according to this setting you described, you, also wearing a prison watch, should also be unable to contact Ice Ore."

"So why can you so easily take out Ice Ore and throw it to me?"

Li Si then raised his hand to demonstrate for him—

His raised right hand suddenly transformed into a mass of black mist.

In the blink of an eye, the black mist solidified, taking the shape of human fingers, though they looked darker in skin tone, like wearing a pure black glove.

He explained: "Because I've refined a Hidden Hand."

Chen Cang stared at that black hand and asked directly: "Is this a talent skill?"

Li Si shook his head: "No, it's a Glyph Pattern Ability."

Upon hearing this, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye keenly spotted the blind spot, conveyed it to Chen Cang, who immediately questioned:

"And as far as I know, Sun Person players cannot possess Glyph Pattern Abilities."

"So, in this short time since you fell to become a Moon Person, you've already acquired such a special Glyph Pattern Ability?"

Li Si raised an eyebrow: "Correct. Actually, it's not that difficult."

"In the Land of Exile where Moon Person players survive, there exists an item called the Exile Fruit."

"Moon Person players consuming the Exile Fruit can awaken a Glyph Pattern Ability."

"However, the Glyph Pattern Ability they awaken using the Exile Fruit is random."

"What they don't know is that in the Qiankun Land, some Sun Person players take pleasure in cultivating Exile Fruit."

"Some of the Exile Fruit nurtured by these Sun Person players can awaken fixed Glyph Pattern Abilities."

"And I directly consumed the Exile Fruit corresponding to the Hidden Hand Glyph Pattern Ability."

This... was indeed true.

Li Si even consumed the Exile Fruit right in front of Jiang Ye when he fell to become a Moon Person.

It was just that Jiang Ye at the time didn't know his Exile Fruit was special.

Thinking about it now, Jiang Ye suddenly realized—

Players like Li Si, who actively fell from Sun Person to Moon Person, possessed resources and foundations far beyond what ordinary Moon Person players could compare to.

For example, the Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh, his private asset from when he was still a Moon Person player;

for example, all his accumulated resources, various items, and talent skills after becoming a Sun Person...

These were probably enough to crush ordinary Moon Persons, even the elites among Moon Persons!

Simultaneously, Jiang Ye also realized...

Those Sun Person players who took pleasure in cultivating Exile Fruit shared similarities with the later-era "monster raisers".

While he was sighing inwardly, Chen Cang, bearing the Protagonist Halo, didn't show any courtesy to Li Si at all, directly asking:

"Is that so? Then you should still have Exile Fruit named Hidden Hand, right?"

Unfortunately, Li Si disappointed him again:

"My apologies, that special Exile Fruit is extremely rare even among Sun Person players."

"I only had that one piece, and I've already used it on myself..."

As he spoke, Li Si's gaze subtly fell upon the mini moon infant.

His meaning was quite clear—

Now, only he could pick up that moon infant encased in Ice Ore.

But Chen Cang, made arrogant by the Protagonist Halo, couldn't accept this situation.

He wished he could force Li Si on the spot to find a way to transfer this Glyph Pattern Ability to him.

Fortunately, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye told him at that moment: "Actually, you don't need to physically touch it. This mini moon infant will choose to follow you on its own."

So Chen Cang put on a show right in front of Li Si—

He didn't bend down to pick up the mini moon infant.

Instead, he simply crooked a finger in the direction of the little moon infant.

And the little moon infant really did automatically fly to his side.

Li Si, with black cloth covering his eyes, clearly "saw" this scene as well.

His face, with eyes covered, rarely showed obvious shock.

And from his shock, the Witch Gui Jiang Ye guessed something, couldn't help but sigh inwardly—

This mini moon infant, born accompanied by a system-wide announcement, was absolutely a creature of a troubled fate!

The Witch Gui Jiang Ye's Heart Demon Nest...

Protagonist Chen Cang's Blood Prison Contract...

And the scheming Li Si, with his missing mechanical eyeballs...

A moon infant, just born, already had inseparable, close connections with three people...

Who could say if this was fortune or misfortune?