Chapter 95

A mountain cave.

An infant.

Two 'Zhao Yue'.

One of the Zhao Yue's lower body is almost all blood.

The other one is holding the swaddled infant, crouching beside her.

"Sister, look, her bones are jade-like and ice-clear, her physique is excellent."

"A Li."

The pallid Zhao Yue raised her hand to touch the infant's pale face, but stopped when she saw the bloodstain on her fingertip.

"Take good care of her." she said.

"Sister, don't worry." Zhao Yue earnestly promised.

By now, Shen Qingli confirmed that the person covered in blood was her birth mother, Zhong Minglan. That blood must have been due to giving birth to her.

Shen Qingli instinctively covered her chest; in her previous life, she never knew her life had been so hard, obviously draining her birth mother's vitality.

It was because of giving birth to her that Zhong Minglan died, allowing Zhao Yue an opportunity.

This deadly, malicious scheme, Zhao Yue set it up from the moment she saw Zhong Minglan again.

"Is your meridian uncomfortable?" Shen Kuo's concerned voice sounded.

Shen Qingli lifted her eyes, "Hmm."

"Then hurry up and lie down."

Shen Kuo said while sending healing energy to her meridian.

"It's fine, just relax a bit and it'll be okay."

Shen Qingli raised her hand to stop her father's depletion; as she rose, she could sense her father's aura within her.

During her slumber, her father obviously hadn't spared much consumption; his face had turned noticeably pale.

Shen Kuo, however, still wasn't reassured: "I'll have the clan's physician come take a look."

Shen Qingli didn't object; without a physician's diagnosis, her father surely wouldn't believe it.

The physician's arrival also stirred other family members concerned about Shen Qingli.

Those who didn't come were aunts, sisters-in-law?

After confirming she was fine, they all dispersed, not disturbing her rest.

"Aside from those with missions, everyone else went into secluded cultivation."

Shen Kuo understood that his brothers and nephews, stimulated by their daughter, all went to become stronger.

Shen Qingli blushed, "My situation is special; I can't compare."

One can't all be like her, having truly died once, suffered such abuse, and yet fortunately able to cultivate demonic transformation?

"Never mind them, when do you plan to return to the Bijade Sect?" Shen Kuo asked; he certainly intended to accompany her.

"Now." Shen Qingli said and set off.

Afterward, their party rode the fire phoenix away from the manor.

The fire phoenix soared into the sky, instantly drawing countless gazes.

"That's a fire phoenix, right?!"

"Sure!"

"Is the young master awake? Young master—"

Within the Shen family's old residence, in the Shen family's Longshui City, people cheered.

Shen Qingli glanced in surprise at the myriad lights below, "Coming out at night is too eye-catching?"

She had never before encountered such clan-wide and city-wide celebrations when going out; it was overly enthusiastic.

"Sheng Long Tian now knows that your mount is a pure-blooded fire phoenix; our Longshui Shen Clan is also aware, you single-handedly challenged the Su Nv Sect, and the whole realm takes pride in it."

Shen Qinghao spoke eloquently; he is Shen Qingli's elder brother and the strongest of the younger generation of the Shen Clan. Even though Shen Qingmo has broken through to the Emperor stage, he still isn't as strong as him; he is already a youth at the peak Emperor stage, just one step away from transcending into sainthood.

Besides, he is considerably older than Shen Qingmo; if not for Shen Qingli's arrival, he would, without a doubt, be the Shen Clan's young master. Thus, when they first formally met, Shen Qingli felt subtly uneasy.

Yet Shen Qinghao felt no resentment at losing the young master position, nor any other emotion; while stating these, he also felt honored.

"I actually hadn't planned to challenge the Su Nv Sect," Shen Qingli explained.

Shen Qinghao laughed heartily, "Understood! It's all their fault for provoking you first."

Hearing that, how could it feel a bit off?

Shen Qingli rubbed the fuzzy Jiu Li beneath her palm, feeling she had overthought.

"Yes, they want to kill me; I naturally must counter-kill. Since I've killed, I naturally want to kill them thoroughly."

"Cutting the grass without removing the roots leaves endless trouble; the Su Nv Sect is after all one of the three sects. If we don't destroy the sect's entire foundation, it will bring many troubles to the Shen Clan."

"Especially now that the three sects have joined forces, she can't worry about that much. The Su Nv Sect elders and disciples—if she didn't kill them back then, they will later kill her family."

"So they might as well all just die."

"Rest assured, it's quite thorough; I went to mop up the aftermath."

Shen Qinghao also conveniently delivered the mop-up battle report to Shen Qingli, so she would know the situation.

The people of the Su Nv Sect are either dead or already mining within the Longshui Shen Clan's territory.

"The territory of the Su Nv Sect, we will specifically discuss annexation plans with Qingyun Realm, Shenmu Lin Clan, and Fengchen Jiang Clan. That place is somewhat far from us, so we will exchange some lands with Qingyun Realm and Shenmu Lin Clan, while Fengchen Jiang Clan will exchange materials."

The preliminary annexation plan, Shen Qinghao also handed it to Shen Qingli to look at; she wasn't interested, just glanced over it, yet she thought——

"The Fengchen Jiang Clan is one of the two remaining ancient clans, right?"

Shen Qinghao understood the implication, "Yes, little sister, what do you want?"

Family history, big brother, see if you can get it by exchange.

"No problem, definitely can exchange."

Shen Qinghuang immediately sent a message to his second uncle Shen Yue who was negotiating over there.

"Why do you suddenly want the clan history?" Shen Kuo didn't quite understand.

"I want to see what's different between their records and ours."

Although the Pei clan's inheritance is also very ancient, Jiang and Ji are royal families; actually she most wants to see the Ji clan's genealogy, which once produced a human emperor, but they currently have no dealings, so she can only get the Jiang clan's for now.

"Right, this is the spoils from the Su Nv Sect; Elder Uncle picked some you should like, take a look." Shen Qinghuang then handed another storage ring to Shen Qingli.

"Huh?" Jiuli raised its head, staring at that storage ring.

"Do you have what you want?" Shen Qingli asked.

Jiuli immediately extended its claw, pulling out an egg?

"You want to eat it?" Shen Qingli glanced, couldn't tell what kind of egg.

"Xi Xi eats." Jiuli said flatteringly.

Shen Qingli chuckled, "You want to apologize to it?"

Jiuli immediately smiled obsequiously, but was still ruthlessly rejected by Shen Qingli.

Xi Xi can now come out to fly, that's only out of respect for her, but Jiuli is not allowed to provoke it.

Well, Shen Qingli has been holding Jiuli all along; she absolutely cannot let it "touch the ground."

"This egg, and the one you had before, are both from the Su Nv Sect; Su Yuan said while alive that they came from antiquity. Pei Heng has appraised them, they are indeed ancient, so they are the reward for first place." Shen Kuo explained.

Two ancient eggs...

Shen Qingli activated the Taiyi Dark Pupil.

As soon as Shen Kuo saw her black-purple strange pupils, he immediately thought of the giant eye that observed the slaughter of the Hunyuan Sect.

She had also activated it while in the air above the Su Nv Sect, just not enlarged in the sky.

But some observant people surely still noticed the similarity.

"Huh?"

Shen Qingli was surprised.

"What did you see?"

"There really is something, and it seems alive."

Shen Qingli originally thought that after so long, the egg must be dead, but she didn't expect it not to be.

"Can Xi Xi eat it?" Shen Qingli asked Jiuli again.

Jiuli nodded, "Can!"

"Are the two different?"

"Of course they are."

Shen Qingli understood.

She then let Xi Xi try eating in the space.

As for other things, Shen Qingli is also interested in the Su Nv Sect's techniques and secret arts, and has already sat down to study them carefully.

If there's anything she doesn't understand, she'll ask Shen Kuo or Shen Qinghuang, and the three of them discussed all the way to the Bijade Sect.

Familiar place...

But Shen Qingli didn't go down immediately; she again slightly activated the Taiyi Dark Pupil, looking toward the Bijade Sect.

Suddenly! She locked onto a spot: "Xi Xi, there."

The little fire phoenix precisely flew down, into the cave—

Indeed, the arrangement matched exactly what Shen Qingli had seen in her dream.

And as soon as she landed, she heard a voice: "My flesh can be given to you, but you must take good care of her."