Chapter 461: with translation of chapter title

Without any real skill, how could they have come to the Qilin Lord's lair?

Having come, they must be here to resolve the issue here.

It's just a climbing vine; what's so impressive about it?

"Force!"

"Destroy!"

The young couple, joining forces for the first time while clear-headed, more fully displayed their strength.

With a "crack, crack" shattering sound, it followed.

The huge vine, facing their strength, was utterly unable to resist and was directly sealed and crushed to oblivion.

What even Di Hao didn't expect was that the Qilin Lord's main vine, shattered by their joint effort, did not regrow.

He watched for a while, confirming it truly wasn't growing again, yet he stopped the young couple from continuing their destructive action.

"Impossible!" Di Hao shouted.

Shen Qingli turned her head, looking at him in incomprehension.

Di Jin, on the other hand, asked as if not surprised, "Willing to speak?"

"Come in." Di Hao had them return to the cave, but he himself did not retreat inside; instead, he formed a hand seal before them.

Although the scene before them hadn't changed, it now presented a clearer, more distant view! It let Shen Qingli and the others clearly see that beyond the faint green mist surrounding the Qilin Lord's vine lay a dim, murky world.

No stars.

No sun or moon.

Just an expanse of chaos?

"Over there, the Chaos Realm?"

Shen Qingli asked sharply.

"Yes."

Di Hao withdrew his divine power, his face slightly pale.

Given his current state, he could no longer freely use his former divine abilities.

Shen Qingli immediately handed him a pill; Di Hao was about to refuse, but he discovered this small pill's spiritual energy was extremely pure, seemingly still useful to him.

With a mindset of giving it a try, he swallowed it, and indeed it had therapeutic effect.

This daughter-in-law...

Indeed, not to be underestimated.

"Still dare to look down on my sister?"

Di Jin at that time snorted and inquired, knowing that a son knows his father best; he was all too aware of how shocked Di Hao actually felt inside!

"Not dare." Di Hao, unusually not retorting, also thanked Shen Qingli: "Thank you."

Shen Qingli directly asked, "You stopped us, could it be because although the Qilin Lord is utterly evil, it also helps the Three Pure World resist chaos?"

"Not bad." Di Hao nodded again, "You're very smart."

"Of course!" Di Jin readily agreed, "You stubborn blockhead!"

"Can you speak properly?" Di Hao was at a loss; could this brat quiet down a bit?

Di Jin sneered, but ultimately didn't speak again, allowing Di Hao to continue: "Such beings as the Qilin Lord are not of the Three Pure World, but natives of chaos."

Its lifespan far surpasses ours, even exceeding that of the candle monsters. Yet it cannot live in chaos, or rather, it despises existing in chaos.

Because chaos makes all beings dwelling within it dull, chaotic, and senseless, until they become chaotic entities like chaos itself—or, in other words, they are actually devoured by chaos.

"So, does it want to squeeze into the Three Pure World to live? It's too big for that—it can't get in!" Xiao Xiao of the Nine Li had big doubts in her little head.

"No, it wants to devour the Three Pure World and use it as a core to resist chaos's disorder." Di Hao spoke the Qilin Lord's true purpose.

"Is this why the Three Pure Heaven's spiritual energy is depleted and why it rebels against slaughtering the divine realm?" Shen Qingli wanted to know the full, more detailed truth.

"Not bad." Di Hao also gave her the answer she wanted: "Even though the Qilin Lord has been sealed, over these years, because the ancient heavenly deity clan did not obey the cloud spirit's command, they secretly recorded matters related to her, allowing the Qilin Lord to gradually awaken."

"What does that mean?" Di Jin visibly showed emotional fluctuation, because he and Shen Qingli both thought of that face! Could it be...

"Just as I explained for stopping you, although the Qilin Lord is utterly evil, it cannot be killed. Once killed, chaos will gradually coalesce and ultimately devour the Three Pure World."

"Before the Qilin Lord found the Three Pure World, ancient deities like Pangu and Huaxu Shi fell, mostly to resist chaos for the Three Pure World; a small portion instead broke away from the Three Pure World and went into chaos."

"Di Hao explained leisurely, and added: 'But to survive in chaos, one must sever ties with the Three Pure World's karma; in fact, it is also to break free from the Three Pure World's rules, otherwise one can never leave the Three Pure World.'"

"This, is the whole truth."

"You, what you've always wanted to know, is this."

"The last two sentences, Di Hao said while looking at Di Jin; he had always known this kid needed to figure out for himself how this world really was."

"But if one's strength is insufficient, seeing this scene will only shatter their Dao heart."

"As it stands now, this lad, his wife, and these little beasts are all steadfast in will."

"Even if shocked and emotions hard to restrain, they all steadied their Dao hearts."

"However, Di Jin's point was: 'You still haven't made clear why recording her would instead cause the Qilin Lord to awaken.'"

"Because she used herself to seal the Qilin Lord, or rather, she turned herself into the Qilin Lord, using her will to suppress its desire to devour the Three Pure World, and using her wish to compel it to guard the Three Pure World here."

"But though the plan was sound, carrying it out was not easy; she first had to let the Qilin Lord consume her, thinking it could turn her into a puppet, unaware that she was using herself as bait, and when the two fully merged, she immediately sealed herself."

"But still something went wrong; she likely could not control the Qilin Lord, so she hastily sealed herself! Before that, she erased all records concerning herself."

"However, divine spirits, especially one of her stature, will revive whenever someone thinks of or remembers her. But the her who revives and survives again is evidently no longer her."

"While Di Hao related all this in a calm voice, no one knew how unable he was to accept it when he learned of his wife's decision."

"He had stopped 【it】 before."

"He wanted to come himself."

"He also tried to destroy the Qilin Lord."

But in the end, he was defeated by her gentleness.

She said, she also wanted to sleep like this, embracing him and their child.

She said, for her, this is not a tragic ending, but what she wished.

She also said, if one day she still failed, unable to restrain the Kirin Lord's greed, then please kill her.

As for resisting Chaos, he can only be asked to think of another way; all she can do for her people, husband, and son is this.

And the Kirin Lord awakened again, having already been restoring his nature and drawing the spiritual energy of the Three Pure Ones, which made Di Hao realize that his wife had perished, and what was now reviving was not his wife.

Moreover, the Kirin Lord's revival speed—that is, the speed of his wife's death—was even faster than the worst scenario he and his wife had imagined!

"Now, I will go be with her. I will take the Kirin Lord away completely, but from now on, resisting Chaos is up to you.

"Di Jin, you are now the Lord of Supreme Purity; you should have understood this when you gained my power." Di Hao looked at his son before him, who could already meet his gaze eye‑to‑eye and was about the same height as him…

All that can be said is that beings like them, the stronger their ability, the greater their responsibility. He once tried to beat this brat to death, so that Chou Xiaozi would become an ordinary living being, merely one among countless beings.

But Chou Xiaozi still returned to his place.

Furthermore, with a growth speed beyond his expectations, he took his father's place.

Faster than the Kirin Lord's revival speed, in the end he still caught up.

However, Shen Qingli asked, "If we could completely seal the Kirin Lord's consciousness, preventing it from devouring the spiritual energy of the Three Pure Ones' World, would it still be able to retain its ability to resist Chaos?"