Chapter 457: Return to the Birthplace. Exterminate the Source of All Evils

Just a moment ago, Zhong Minglan inside the hall still felt a bit embarrassed, as if she were measuring a gentleman's belly with her own petty heart.

Look at Di Hao's subordinates—they immediately sent them over to Di Jin; it seems they really have no intention of splitting this young couple apart, right?

However, Shen Qingli was also wary, having again grasped Di Jin's hand! The feel was icy cold, as if touching a corpse……

Jiu Li had already sensed something off, went to check Di Jin's breath, and exclaimed, 'Oh wow! No breath?'

Yu Jia immediately pecked its little head once, quite painful……

But Jiu Li didn't dare cry out in pain, could only scratch its head to hide the pain while looking at Shen Qingli.

Shen Kuo then again emanated his origin, enveloping Di Jin's divine body, which indeed had very weak vitality.

Shen Qingli also directed an endless stream of vitality toward Di Jin's heart meridian, triggering his obviously self‑protective state that was almost like suspended animation.

But before the father‑daughter pair could improve Di Jin's condition, the outside of Taiqing Dian and the Endless Abyss began to surge! This caused Shen Qingli to no longer be able to attend to so much.

Zhong Minglan, Jiu Li, and Yu Jia also reacted extremely quickly! Instantly they formed an inner layer and an outer layer, rapidly raising a protective shield that placed Shen Qingli, Di Jin, and Shen Kuo at the very center.

Shen Qingli also, amidst the hustle, summoned the Star Symbol Mountain, stabilizing it above the three of them, providing ultimate all‑round protection.

However, her divine sense in the very next moment, following the activation of her 'Little Mushroom' power, 'turned' into a dark world?

'Is this the place I seemed to have entered after destroying Heaven last time while asleep?' Shen Qingli had an impression; back then she felt a sense of returning to the origin, as if being conceived and nurtured.

But since waking from that time, she had never entered that 'place' again, so she merely thought it was a feeling from sleeping too deeply.

Now it seems, perhaps not?

Darkness, she is actually not unfamiliar with.

Whether it is a starless, moonless universe, or the Endless Abyss, they are actually dark worlds.

But the first two feel fairly similar, whereas here it's not quite the same.

It is more like……

'Taiqing?'

Shen Qingli walked slowly within it, finally realizing that this sense of intimacy was very similar to the feeling Taiqing gave her.

Coincidentally, Di Jin at this moment also stepped into a seemingly illusory world.

But unlike Shen Qingli's darkness, everywhere he is is bright.

No, it is more like a snowy‑white, snowy‑white land of extreme daylight.

Bright but extremely cold.

Even the comatose Di Jin lying down had begun to frost over.

But faintly……

He heard someone calling him.

It was his favorite voice.

'A‑Jin!'

'A‑Jin?'

'Di Jin!'

Call after call, as if unceasing.

It made the sleeping him tremble his eyelids slightly.

'Sister,'

Even while still asleep, Di Jin still gave a response.

Engraved in his bones, unwilling to let his sister's calls go unanswered, unwilling to let his expectations go unanswered, it drove him to murmur back, call after call.

But the icy cold and heaviness pressed him so he could hardly turn over, and also made him faintly yearn for his sister to come hug him, to warm his inertia.

But at the moment the thought arose,

he suddenly opened his eyes!

And at this very moment——

Shen Qingli, walking in the darkness, seemed to see a glimmer of light.

She raised her head, stamped her foot for a moment, then she strove upward.

However, no matter how she tried to mobilize her divine power, she could not reach the light source.

But what she did not know——

While she was striving, although dark, it was soft and warm, like a water‑like power, already overflowing into that bright yet extremely cold world.

It allowed the already cross‑legged Di Jin to gradually shed his frost, and this seemingly bright but extremely cold world also gradually grew warm.

The manifested situation was naturally what Shen Kuo, Zhong Minglan, and others witnessed—Di Jin was recovering and self‑healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Jiu Li just stared, saying, 'Wow～ This is as if he'd taken a Quick‑acting Rejuvenation Pill—better in a second? Exaggerated, right?'

'It is rather exaggerated…' Shen Kuo had already taken back his Ice Crystal Source Spirit Flower, staring blankly at the fully recovering Di Jin.

And while Shen Qingli, who held his hand, had not yet awakened, her hand was already tightly gripped by the recovering Di Jin, as if fearing she would leave, and as if clutching something she had long yearned for, a treasure finally imagined into her grasp.

Starlight fell upon the two of them.

Tranquil, yet deeply moving.

Faintly……

'Ong~'

Jiu Li was the first to notice the sign.

'Is a Taiji Diagram being formed?'

Yes, although not yet obvious, one black and one white, resembling an initially coexisting Taiji Diagram, have appeared.

The black one is Shen Qingli.

The white one is Di Jin.

Even the clothes on the two people seemed, at this moment, to be automatically woven by divine splendor into black and white.

Clearly the purest colors, yet they shimmered, making one's heart tremble at the sight.

Zhong Minglan and Shen Kuo, too, at this moment, as if guided, sat cross-legged in succession, their breathing moving with the yin-yang dual poles, then falling silent.

All the vibrations!

All stilled at this moment.

The heavenly gate of Taiqing Dian also appeared at this moment in the sky above the Three Pure Heavens, no longer vermilion and solemn, but one door white, one black, as if the color of the Dao.

In that instant, all the mighty of the Heavenly Clarity Realm! Within the yin-yang dual poles, they glimpsed the Dao's trace in the obscurity, each gaining insight, instantly entering meditation.

Especially the lords within Taiqing Dian felt it most deeply!

Because they actually are those who have attained the Dao to the utmost.

Many were only a hair's breadth from Great Perfection, yet could never advance further.

Before, they, even Di Hao, had always thought it was because they had too much overlap with the Three Pure Heavens, preventing true calm contemplation of the Dao.

Now it seems, perhaps not?

True Lord Yuanwu and Old Yuan Lord stared at each other for a moment, yet forced themselves not to comprehend the Dao, after all they still had to guard the Endless Abyss.

However, it was not needed.

That faint Primordial Taiji Diagram had already spread from Taiqing Dian, covering all of Taiqing, naturally also covering the Endless Abyss.

All beings within! Even the Linjun vines that had indeed been probed here were shocked into motionlessness.

Not only that…

This began with the yin-yang dual poles of Shen Qingli and Di Jin, then sank into the Endless Abyss, spread toward the Linjun vines, and, following the vine to the melon, arrived at the Linjun's lair.

That moment.

Whether it was Di Jin or Shen Qingli.

They both saw that face together!

Shen Qingli had seen it before, so it was fine; Di Jin, seeing it for the first time, was utterly shocked!

But even more panicked than him was the other party, shouting, "You, you how did you come? Get out! Get out!"

The hysterical Linjun screamed, but this time it was not the female voice Shen Qingli had heard before; it was a roar mixed with a male voice.

Shen Qingli frowned, actually not knowing how she could have come here, and though she felt she had come alone, the other side said "you"? Could it be that A Jin also came, but she couldn't see him?

Fearless.

Having come, we are here.

The other party is clearly the true form of the Linjun!

Then, "Go die!"

Shen Qingli unleashed all her power without hesitation!

Real or fake, dream or reality, as long as it's the Linjun, she will strike!

As for whether the other party might be A Jin's mother, she was certain: absolutely not.

She just didn't know if A Jin would hesitate upon seeing that face; no matter, hesitation was fine—she would act anyway.

However, Di Jin showed no hesitation, being as decisive as Shen Qingli, so they exerted force simultaneously!

And then, there was no afterwards.