Long before, Mo had used the allegories of the "Yan Fu fruit tree," "fruit," and "insects" to analogize the relationship between the act of walking and the myriad strange and wonderful worlds of Yan Fu to Li Yan.
But he did not explain to Li Yan that the insects were odd and varied in thousands of ways, and the fruits were even more diverse in form.
Feather Stem-Bingzi 128, or rather, almost all fruits from the Bingzi axis, were, in the theory of the "fruit tree," already overripe and even starting to rot and deteriorate.
The lifespan of such fruits had reached its end, and in their prolonged development, the fruits even harbored terrifying beings that not even the Ten Masters would provoke easily. Yet, no matter how powerful these lives were, they would ultimately perish along with the rotting fruits.
This was the Wingless Worm mentioned in the exceedingly prevalent "fruit tree theory" in Yan Fu,
