Chapter 313: The Empress Mother Goes A‑Crazy! Li Li's Soul Transforms

Zhong Minglan also coldly swept her gaze over everyone of Penglai, declaring, "If you think I'm ruthless, come find me for revenge!"

She had long been fed up with this pesky little brat! It's just relying on their weakness, thinking they shouldn't be bothered, what nonsense!

"Abducting my daughter! With my temperament, I could completely wipe you out!"

"It's only because I see you're truly ignorant that I didn't do this, yet you dare blame my daughter? She merely dislikes Cang Pei, who betrayed you—what wrong has she done?"

"……"

Silence—that is Penglai up and down at this moment.

"Master! Master!"

Jiu Ying's voice suddenly came from beneath Penglai.

"Come quick! Come quick!"

With that shout from the nine‑mouth‑big horn, its presence was overwhelming.

Especially at this moment when Penglai is unusually silent…

It hadn't yet noticed Penglai's abnormality; bursting from the soil, it shook off the dirt on its head, its eighteen eyes all gleaming.

Such a huge beast, yet it gave off a sneaky, shifty vibe—Shen Qingli felt a bit embarrassed.

"What's going on?"

Shen Qingli asked in a low voice.

"Get down! Get down!"

Jiu Ying burrowed back into the earth, its voice as loud as ever.

Shen Qingli really didn't want to go, but she had no choice—she couldn't disown her embarrassing beast.

"This! Look quick!"

Jiu Ying pointed at the subterranean world, letting Shen Qingli see.

It had come with Shen Qingli together with Nine Li…

While Nine Li guarded Shen Qingli, it was fine—it just went back to its old trade.

Pah, it just dug up the earth.

It just said there's something down there!

"Star Array?"

Shen Qingli could see that the formation diagram etched here was very like the Star Chart Transmission Array she had encountered in the Wei Clan.

"Can it be destroyed?"

"Can it be destroyed!"

Jiu Ying's eyes sparkled!

"Of course."

Shen Qingli inferred that Cang Pei could let Penglai reach the Three Pure Heavens relying on this formation diagram.

In that case, he's been preparing for a long time!

He probably still has a trump card…

"Then I'll start now!"

Jiu Ying lunged up and started gobbling away!

Shen Qingli was speechless: "How do you eat everything?"

Last time, if they hadn't needed that Star Array, wouldn't it have been gnawed too?

"No." The Queen Mother of the West's voice came in, together with Zhong Minglan; they were both uneasy.

If Shen Kuo weren't busy handling follow‑up affairs, he wouldn't have sensed any danger and would have come too.

"This formation diagram contains a remnant of Jiu Ying." The Queen Mother of the West was astonished. "It's absorbing advanced energy; after it finishes eating here and goes into seclusion to digest, it should be able to metamorphose into an adult Jiu Ying."

"A remnant of Jiu Ying?" Shen Qingli didn't understand. "This looks like a transmission array."

"It's also a devouring array; Jiu Ying is greedy and bloodthirsty, its flesh and scales are the main materials for the sacrificial array. Though the ancient Jiu Ying have long been extinct, this one is a freak. Penglai actually has it in its collection—no wonder it's an ancient immortal island with deep foundations. Too bad…"

In the Queen Mother of the West's memory, Penglai has always been prosperous, its immortals always feeling superior, considering themselves a cut above ordinary immortals.

However, they were also strict with themselves.

During the great calamity, Penglai's Confucian immortals all fought to the very last moment!

Even Cang Pei fought to the death, never holding back.

So although she didn't particularly like Penglai, she also admired them.

"Why not let the Three Pure Xuan Nu take Penglai? It looks like most of its spiritual essence has already been sucked away by her."

Zhong Minglan could feel that Penglai Immortal Island was no longer what it used to be; the grand righteous energy that once could be sensed from afar is gone.

Shen Qingli, however, recalled the words Cang Pei had said to the Three Pure Xuan Nu—her brow furrowed involuntarily.

"Forget it, these are future matters—let's head back?" Zhong Minglan turned, saw Shen Qingli frowning, and reached out to smooth her brow forcibly: "Such a beautiful bride, why furrow your brow? Don't frown, don't overthink—your mother and father are here."

Shen Qingli felt warmth in her heart, her brow naturally relaxing: "Okay."

"Let's go." Zhong Minglan disliked this gloomy place.

"Wait for me!" Jiu Ying gulped down the last bite like a whirlwind, hurriedly clambered onto Shen Qingli, then spotted something in her arms: "Ah, Chubby's dead?"

Shen Qingli glared at it: "Jinx!"

Jiu Ying muttered resentfully: "Its breath is really weak."

Shen Qingli naturally knew, so she had been channeling healing power to Nine Li.

"That won't work; there's a pearl inside its body constantly devouring its vitality—you need to seal the pearl first."

"Huh?" Shen Qingli exclaimed, "A pearl?"

She could sense that Nine Li's vitality was abnormally waning, yet she hadn't detected any pearl.

But she knows that Jiu Li swallowed the dark pearl.

"Not only that, it will also devour its soul—how evil!" Jiu Ying widened its eighteen eyes.

"Where is it?" Shen Qingli tried to capture the dark pearl, and Jiu Ying also said, "It's right inside its head."

Shen Qingli's palm immediately covered Jiu Li's fluffy little head, but in her perception, under the divine pupil's inspection, she found nothing abnormal.

"Oh, it seems to have completely merged with it, so sealing it wouldn't work either—sealing it would be like sealing the chubby dumpling." Jiu Ying instantly thought this was also good! The dead chubby dumpling couldn't be spoken ill of, though it's a bit pitiful.

"Don't rush, let your father have a look later." Zhong Minglan soothed from the side.

Shen Kuo happened to be coming to pick them up, and upon hearing this he asked, "Look at what?"

"Li Li." Shen Qingli handed over the little Jiu Li.

Shen Kuo shook his head, "I've seen it when it was small; it's digesting an evil pearl beyond what its soul can bear, which I cannot cure. I can only seal it, letting it and the pearl temporarily fall into sleep."

He knows this will be a blow to his daughter, so he plans to go back and explain in detail, or perhaps, "A Jin might have a solution."

That guy, it seems he has another identity.

How strange!

We've known each other for tens of millions of years, yet I've never heard or seen him have another identity or abilities.

Shen Kuo, puzzled, suddenly lifted his gaze to the sky...

"Huh?"

Zhong Minglan, who also looked, saw a patch of auspicious multicolored clouds?

They gathered above the Shen family's ancestral grounds?

"Di Jin?"

Zhong Minglan could only think of that.

But obviously not—

Inside the Shen family's clan grounds at this moment.

Shen Yuan, Shen Qingci, Shen Qing Shan and others who succeeded in Nirvana all reverted to human form and appeared before the Shen family ancestral hall.

The multicolored auspicious clouds are a celestial omen formed due to their collective successful Nirvana.

It is also a celestial omen formed from the Shen clan grounds fully merging with the Divine Court.

Shen Qingli had already sensed it: "It's Uncle Eldest, Fourth Brother, and the others."

As for Di Jin,

she had already spread her perception toward the cultivation chamber where Di Jin was.

But, where is the person?

Shen Qingli was stunned!

The person is missing?

When she returned, her divine soul had just seen that big fiancé! And now he's gone?

"I'll go ahead first."

Shen Qingli wasn't sure if she just couldn't sense it, so she immediately flashed back to the Shen clan grounds.

But Di Jin's cultivation chamber indeed had no one.

However, a person cannot simply vanish into thin air.

So—