Chapter 141: After Knowing All the Truth

And at the moment Zhong Minglan recalled this, Shen Qingli also realized where the problem lay!

There's still Su Chacha's aura on my bones.

Shen Qingli focused her mind with the Vermilion Bird Primordial Divine Fire, forcing out that wisp of Su Chacha's aura that clung like a bone‑worm.

A very weak wisp of aura……

Pure white, like a clean lotus petal.

It looks harmless and frail.

Di Jin even frowned, "I didn't notice it at all."

"It's hidden deep; the Five‑Element Phoenix Immortals helped me purge it, but they couldn't cleanse it completely." Shen Qingli stared at the pure white wisp, "Is she still not dead?"

That day, in front of the Shen Clan Altar, she hadn't sensed Su Chacha's soul at all, and thought Su Chacha was too weak, that her soul and body had been burned to ash together!

Now it seems, that's not the case!

"Let me see." Di Jin reached to take that lotus‑petal wisp.

But Shen Qingli wouldn't let him move, "Don't startle 'her'."

"Huh?" Di Jin frowned, and seeing Shen Qingli actually take that wisp of aura back, he was even more astonished, "Why are you keeping it?"

Shen Qingli sneered, "Since she's not dead yet, I'll naturally keep it—don't startle the snake, it'll be useful later."

Di Jin instantly became interested, "Older sister, what are you planning to do?"

"I don't know yet." Shen Qingli had an idea, but needed an opportunity.

But for now, she needed to prepare first, "Li Li, come over."

"Ng—" The feign‑asleep Jiu Li leapt onto Shen Qingli's shoulder.

Shen Qingli pulled it into her embrace, and it innocently glanced at Di Jin with a little expression that said, "It wasn't me who started it."

"Let me see your devouring power." Shen Qingli rubbed Jiu Li's silk‑smooth fur—this feel……

"Li Li, has your fur grown back after shedding?" Shen Qingli stroked Jiu Li from head to toe, then kneaded its little belly—really smooth! So fluffy~ so soothing, healing.

"Ng—" Jiu Li obediently rolled over its belly, just like a tiny kitten, comfortably narrowing its round eyes, "I don't have any."

While speaking, it didn't forget Shen Qingli's request; its two round paws had already opened, releasing a cluster of black light, the same color as its paw fur, invisible unless you look closely.

"Na—" Jiu Li extended its paw toward Shen Qingli.

The weak devouring power made the stray hairs that had fallen on Shen Qingli's cheek lift and float.

Di Jin naturally reached out to smooth the stray hairs, tucking them behind Shen Qingli's ear, while his other hand poked at Jiu Li's cluster of black light.

Shen Qingli grabbed his wrist in one motion, "Be careful! You're all grown up, yet you're still all hands and feet, touching everything?"

Jiu Li really wanted to say, "A Li, didn't you forget? He just instantly brought us to the old nest of the Fragrant Fragrant Vine."

Actually, it also wanted to say, that the most fragrant section of vine was torn apart bare‑handed by that certain lord who pretends to be harmless to humans and beasts!

So, what effect could this tiny cluster of devouring light it can muster have on him?

But it didn't dare say……

Di Jin obediently pulled his hand back, "I'm just curious."

Jiu Li puffed out its cheeks, about to lose control~

However, Shen Qingli's worry wasn't excessive, after all, in her view the other end of the devouring connects to a black hole! She instinctively felt that once you go in, there's no return.

But this cluster of Jiu Li's seems not to connect to a black hole.

"Huh?"

Shen Qingli extended her sense and carefully felt—indeed, it's not connected!

However, there's faintly an aura similar to that of a black hole.

She unconsciously closed her eyes and felt carefully.

Although she hadn't re‑entered the Mustard Seed Sumeru state, she had another epiphany.

She sensed that Jiu Li's devouring power is indeed similar in essence to a black hole, yet not the same.

Jiu Li uses dark matter as its power source, activating a program that follows black‑hole‑like operational rules to devour those black vines and make them its own.

While a black hole forms naturally, it is the vortex created when an aging, luminous, hot star in the universe shrinks and collapses.

'The essence of life is survival; stars are actually huge living beings. Facing aging and death, they instinctively want to keep living, so they frantically absorb surrounding energy, hoping to survive longer.

But in fact it is still dissipating; no matter how much it devours, one that has already reached the end of its life cannot be rejuvenated. Indeed, the faster it devours, the faster it disappears. Because frantic devouring itself consumes its own 'lifespan' even more.'

Thus, death is irreversible.

At that instant, Shen Qingli felt the Immortal‑Demon Transformation Technique, which she had long failed to progress in, activate on its own!

Before this, she had comprehended the first three levels of the Immortal‑Demon Transformation, and her mental cultivation had greatly increased!

Even the reason she could resonate with Star Image Mountain and grasp the primordial source of the universe was because she had understood the core principle of the third level of the Immortal‑Demon Transformation.

Now she has also comprehended the core principle of the fourth level of the Immortal‑Demon Transformation Technique—death.

Life is the instinct of living beings.

Death, however, is a hurdle that every living being cannot cross.

But Shen Qingli has died, so she can face it calmly; yet she also fully understands the meaning of life, so she can empathize with those 'stars' that refuse to dissipate and are frantically devouring.

Thus, Shen Qingli, who by mastering the primordial source of the universe could already sense and resonate with all cosmic spirits, also caused the three great black holes she had previously guided to tremble!

"Hum."

"Hum."

"Hum!"

Amid the surging energy of the three great black holes, Shen Qingli felt as if she had entered them; her whole body instantly generated a frantic devouring power.

Jiu Li's fur stood on end instantly, the black light on its claws swallowed by Shen Qingli, and its tiny body was about to be swallowed too.

Fortunately, Di Jin was quick‑handed and grabbed its throat in one swift motion!

"Huh!" Jiu Li really wanted to say, "Can you not choke my throat every time? I'm not the little white flower in an overbearing CEO novel, and this person also isn't one of those forced-love overbearing CEOs!"

Ah!

Let go quickly~

Going to choke Li to death!

Suddenly, it was released.

It turned out Shen Qingli had opened her eyes.

Di Jin no longer had time for it, 'How?'

'I understand.'

Shen Qingli opened her palm, a mass of vortex-like light gathered again, and a terrifying devouring power arose!

Jiu Li hastily crawled away, lest it be sucked in again, lest its fate's throat be choked again! Excessive~

'Let me get more familiar with it.' Shen Qingli felt she still couldn't control this devouring power as well as Jiu Li could.

'Alright, I'll stand guard for you.' Di Jin let her rest easy and cultivate.

Shen Qingli nodded and immediately sat cross-legged to cultivate.

But neither she nor Di Jin realized that at the center of the ancestral land they were in, time flowed much slower than outside.

For them, it had only been a day of work, but ten days had already passed outside.

After confirming she had entered a cultivation state, Di Jin summoned Jiu Li.

'Oh, what do you want?' Jiu Li asked weakly.

'Pick up things.' Di Jin took out a piece of pure black scale and held it to Jiu Li's nose.

Jiu Li only felt it smelled good, opened its mouth and bit down! Oh my, its iron teeth are about to break!!

Jiu Li's eyes welled up, 'What is this? So hard!'

'The scales of that thing, go find them and bring them back in your mouth.'

??? Jiu Li really wanted to say, 'It's not a stupid dog! It won't do such a stupid thing~'

But its feet moved faster than its brain, it had already bounced out……

Hum! Fine, I'll pick it up! Meow, pah, this Jiu Li can bend and stretch~

However, just as its front paw moved, Di Jin slapped that black scale toward Shen Qingli.