Chapter 137: What's Wrong with My Doting on My Daughter?

In the next instant! Nine Li and Shen Qingli were both brought by Di Jin to the center of the ancestral land.

Black vines spread all around, the black mist thick; as soon as they appeared, those black vines rushed at them madly, but upon touching the radiant light leaking from Di Jin, they shattered into ash.

But immediately after, Nine Li was flung out of the light circle.

"Don't!" Shen Qingli jumped in fright.

However—

"Aoo—"

Nine Li gulped down the black vines that had pounced on it in one bite.

"This is……"

Shen Qingli, with a sudden realization, summoned the Star‑Image Mountain.

Soon after, she struck the ground with one palm, and the dark pulse immediately sprouted.

Stellar clouds and the dark realm, both subtly stirred beyond the nine heavens!

Shen Qingli herself also closed her eyes, her spirit wandering beyond the nine heavens!

She had recalled that, when she refined the Star‑Image Mountain and then entered the cosmos, amidst this vast expanse of stars and darkness, there existed a constant presence like a gigantic maw of an abyss.

It is darker than ordinary dark realm! Yet around it swirls a gorgeous halo; from afar it looks like a black hole! Even before approaching, one can sense its tremendous suction and devouring power.

Before, whenever Shen Qingli sensed it, she felt apprehensive and subtly avoided it! But now she intends to 'counter violence with violence' and 'counter devouring with devouring'!

And in the vast cosmos, it is said to be extremely difficult to pinpoint a definite target.

But Shen Qingli is different—she is the master of the Star‑Image Mountain, and she holds the source of the cosmos!

Here, she is like a fish in water……

"Found it!"

Sure enough, Shen Qingli, who had quickly found it, stood before that black hole resembling a gigantic abyssal maw.

Beneath her feet, the Taiji diagram arose in response to her thought.

"Come on!"

Shen Qingli's divine sense stirred!

Her true self also opened her eyes!

At the same moment, Di Jin extremely cooperatively withdrew his divine radiance.

Countless black vines swooshed in, instantly devouring them.

The two's extremely pure aura and energy were enough to drive the black vines mad!

Unfortunately……

Devouring was itself devoured.

At that instant!

All the black vines that had lunged forward, one after another, fell underground and flowed into the black hole.

"Ah?"

Nine Li, turning its head, stared dumbfounded! A Li also hungry?

This whale‑swallowing speed is far more ferocious than it!

"Aoo!"

"Aoo—"

Nine Li gulped down even faster! It had the feeling of wolfing down food, afraid that if it ate slowly it wouldn't get enough.

But no matter how fast it was, it still wasn't as fast as Shen Qingli, so it grew anxious!

"Roar!"

Its eyes faintly reddened, and it spontaneously erupted into battle form.

Shen Qingli sensed it and immediately looked over.

"Don't worry, I'm watching." Di Jin soothed.

Shen Qingli instantly felt at ease, continuing to use the Star‑Image Mountain as an interface and the Taiji diagram as a guide, madly sending these mindless devouring black vines of this place into the bottomless pit of the cosmos!

"Oh?"

The Nine Li that had burst into battle form surprisingly discovered that it had not lost its wits!

The surging violent power within its body had been suppressed by some gentle force!

Nine Li extended its huge claws, subtly comprehending, transforming into a cluster of white light and a cluster of black light; behind it, the Taiji fish diagram immediately arose, and its pair of reddish eyes gradually withdrew from chaos, becoming completely clear.

"Roar!"

Nine Li roared excitedly!

Its gigantic maw, like an ancient ferocious beast, bit toward the black vines that continued to rush at it to devour.

At this moment, its and Shen Qingli's devouring speeds seemed to have evened out.

Finally, the chaotic black vines sensed something was wrong……

"Rattle‑clatter!"

They wanted to run!

They wanted to escape from the mouths and grasp of these two gluttonous giant beasts.

But it was too late; the Nine Li and Shen Qingli, opened wide in devouring, counter‑emitted an unparalleled suction force!

"You like corroding and devouring, don't you?" Shen Qingli's cold, eerie voice whispered, "Then come! Let them all come!"

Shen Qingli activated the Taiji diagram, linking to another black hole! In the vast dark expanse, similar black holes are myriad, each a bottomless pit, as if leading to the abyss of Return to the Void.

"Aoo!"

The black vines faintly let out a miserable cry.

Shen Qingli was somewhat surprised; this thing indeed had a spirit! It was probably not very smart, its reaction rather dull.

She wanted to see what this thing was! It dared to occupy her Changshui Shen ancestral land and even bully the Ancestor Phoenix.

Thinking of this, Shen Qingli unleashed her full power, summoning another black hole; her voice like an Asura, she shouted, "All of you, go die!"

She had said she would avenge the Ancestor Phoenix!

At that time, the Ancestor Phoenix still thought she wouldn't be a match, after all, even It found her a troublesome nuisance.

How to put it, these black vines have extremely strong reproductive ability and cannot be exterminated; It could only suppress and seal them, so It naturally wouldn't think Shen Qingli had a way to deal with them,

but the black vines never imagined there would be a black hole's devouring power surpassing their reproductive ability! It panicked, desperately shrinking, trying to sink deep underground.

Thus…

Di Jin seized it!

"So it was here."

A stinking black vine, writhing like an earthworm, was truly unlike other vines.

Its whole body seemed covered with a layer of scales, emitting a cold, faint glow.

Di Jin's long eyes slightly raised, his black pupils seeming to leak a substantive chill.

In an instant, the writhing black vine froze!

Suddenly, it let out a sharp cry, "It's you!"

"Scum, you really are immortal." Di Jin's jade-like fingertip sliced down!

Five strands of light of varying hues, blades piercing the vine's scales, directly cut it into five even segments, the cuts extremely smooth and flat.

The black vine let out a miserable scream, "No—"

"You must die too!" the black vine roared heart-rendingly.

The five segments suddenly expanded, attempting to self-destruct and take Di Jin with them.

"Hah." Di Jin coldly smiled, his five fingers like mountains, instantly striking down!

"Boom!" The black vine exploded, a foul stench spreading everywhere, thick ink-black light spraying upward.

Hearing the commotion, Shen Qingli flashed over instantly, "Ah Jin!"

As soon as she arrived, she saw Di Jin flung away by the black radiance, Shen Qingli immediately embraced him around the waist.

"I'm fine, send away these remnants; don't let them escape into the spacetime turbulence."

Di Jin knew well that these things had extremely tenacious vitality; for them, the fractured spacetime turbulence was a unique, perfect escape route.

"All right." Shen Qingli summoned a black hole, quickly devouring those black radiance, though it was extremely foul and nauseating.

To prevent any escaping fragments, Shen Qingli focused entirely on devouring! Her perception expanded unprecedentedly; between heaven and earth, even the drift of a speck of dust was sensed by her.

Di Jin raised his eyebrows, never expecting his simple reminder to "force out" Shen Qingli's greater potential! She actually entered the mustard-seed Sumeru state on her own.

This state is extremely rare even for gods.

In this state where one almost incarnates as heaven and earth, mustard-seed dust, it is easy to comprehend the Dao and grasp the rules.

At this moment, Shen Qingli was almost any existence in heaven and earth!

She was dust, soil, air…

Thus any trace of foul black vine fragment could not escape her "Dharma eye."

Moreover, she had invisibly penetrated this primeval ancestral land, gathering into space, the cosmos, and even the Shen clan ancient manor beyond the ancestral land; thus—

She also saw three people arriving on cranes—not people, but immortals!

In the dark, Shen Qingli could tell these three were no longer human, for they were wrapped in a light unlike others—that was the light of rules.

"Who!"

The three successively sensed someone spying on them.

However, even if they were immortal emissaries, they could not see Shen Qingli in the mustard-seed Sumeru state.

"Nobody?"

The three were puzzled for a moment, then looked back at the black formation disk in their hands.

"Hurry up and activate it."

"All right."

The three joined forces, pouring immortal arts into it!

Within the black formation disk, a divine spirit phantom gradually appeared.

Black Tortoise!

Shen Qingli recognized it.

"Hmph!"

"With Your Majesty's spirit presence, what is a mere Vermilion Bird Palace divine edict?"

"Go die!"

The three activated the formation disk, rolling it toward the nearby vermilion scroll.

As it turned out, it had already been guarding above the Shen clan.

That is why Shen Qingli and Di Jin could enter the ancestral land with peace of mind. However…

"Die?"

"You will die."

A resonant, stern rebuke came like thunder to the ears! Overbearing to the extreme.

"Her Majesty the Empress!"