Start from the God of Death and break through the world.

Chapter 1117 Awakening of the Red Origin
Over the past ten years, Lu Li's skills in worm larvae have become even more advanced, and his efficiency has increased significantly. He has also explored more than a dozen rooms.

Unfortunately, Lu Li's luck seemed to be not very good, and he did not find anything extraordinary.

The ruins were terribly poor and excessively clean. He hadn't even seen a single medicinal herb, let alone divine weapons, magic pills, or elixirs.

There are many reliefs on the high walls of the room, which seem to be narrating some history. Unfortunately, Lu Li's perception is limited now. In addition, it is dark here and his eyesight can only see things within a few meters in front of him. He is completely unable to know the content recorded in the reliefs.

Just as Lu Li was feeling frustrated, he lurched forward twice. Without paying attention, as he turned, the red source he was dragging bumped into something, making a sound like wood. Then, with a creaking sound, Lu Li felt something about to fall to his side and behind him.

Lu Li immediately mustered all his strength, dragging the red essence aside with his mouth, narrowly avoiding letting it get hit.

Because they are now a paste of true spirits, with only some essence remaining, they are actually different from illusory souls; they can be considered as real, existing matter.

In addition, they were already extremely weak. If they were hit, the paste would become even more complicated, and it would be even more difficult to say whether they could wake up. Therefore, Lu Li dared not let the red source be hit.

After leading it away, Lu Li finally had the mind to explore. After turning around and fiddling around a couple of times, he was pleasantly surprised to find that what had just been knocked apart by the red source was actually a bookshelf with some books on it.

Lu Li crawled over, moistened the pages with his sticky essence, and carefully turned them. The pages were of extraordinary quality; they had weathered countless years of wind and rain, yet they were still intact and could be turned.

Lu Li was stunned as soon as he turned to the first page, because he could read the words on it.

To be honest, although Lu Li had seen the book, he didn't expect to gain any more information, because unlike reliefs and murals, writing is difficult to understand if you haven't studied it.

The world is vast and diverse, with countless worlds and civilizations of all kinds. Apart from derivative worlds with similar underlying templates, he doesn't know of any naturally existing original world that speaks the same language as other places.

The language of World Zero and World One is the same because they are so large. They also communicate frequently. Moreover, the Divine Martial Continent was originally World 81. He had heard some legends in the world that World 81 originated from the former World 1, and that the former World 1 and World Zero were merged.

Therefore, tracing back to the source, the present-day Divine Martial Continent and the Primordial God Realm are essentially one family, and they use the same language, so it's not surprising.

In other native worlds, not a single language is exactly the same, and explorers must spend End Coins to learn it when they enter.

Lu Li was surprised that he could understand the words in the book because he discovered that the script was an ancient script form that he was very familiar with. This script form was essentially a Chinese script, but the differences in the script form were quite significant. Without careful study, it would be impossible to understand it at a glance.

Just like a normal Chinese person can understand simplified Chinese characters and even has the ability to convert between simplified and traditional characters, but if you ask him to look at seal script directly, he most likely won't understand it.

The book in front of Lu Li was just like that. The language inside belonged to the Chinese language he knew, but it was a special kind of script that was very obscure and could only be understood by people who had studied it.

But he could understand it because someone had taught him this script. When he was a child, he was browsing his master's study and reading those 'wuxia' and 'xianxia' novels, which used this script. His master held him and explained it to him word by word, teaching him the script.

Years later, Lu Li had long regarded his childhood memories as childlike fun. Who would have thought that he would see familiar characters in an ancient secret realm of an unknown world where he had survived a great disaster and fallen in?

Lu Li was filled with emotion and silently thanked his master. If it weren't for his master's teachings, he would be illiterate now.

He calmed his excited heart and began to read the book. He found that it was a light reading material, which did not surprise him, because he had seen a bed when he was exploring the room, so it might be someone's residence.

Lu Li looked at the book for a while, then slowed down his turning of the pages. He was feeling very strange right now. If he had a complete true spirit or physical body, his expression would definitely be odd.

He read quickly and finished half of the book in no time, but he discovered that the book was actually a chivalrous novel, and in terms of writing style and sense of the era, it was very similar to some books he had read before.

Suddenly, an absurd thought popped into Lu Li's mind: Could it be that he... was sent flying back to his hometown?
The idea only flashed through his mind for a moment, and he felt it was too unrealistic. There are so many worlds in the Ocean of Worlds, could it really be such a coincidence that he was randomly swatted away at the brink of death and ended up in his birthplace?

Lu Li put down the book and started flipping through other books. Two of them were novels, but the other one was a cultivation manual.

Lu Li glanced through it and was surprised to find that this cultivation technique was actually quite sophisticated. In his current eyesight, this book could be considered an epic-level cultivation technique, not some kind of deceptive stuff. If one practiced it according to the instructions, even a mortal with the talent could obtain extraordinary power.

Lu Li was thrilled, because this confirmed that the ruins might have indeed belonged to a certain cultivation sect in the past, and that he might actually be able to find divine objects here, but he was just unlucky and had not found them yet.

He was extremely weak, and the situation inside the ruins was strange, with no spiritual energy whatsoever. As a result, he could hardly recover his strength and could only rely on absorbing the red source of energy beside him to repair his own mess.

If there were any miraculous elixirs, they would be of some benefit, providing him with some spiritual energy so that the dried-up spiritual seeds in his body could be revived.

Yes, Lu Li discovered that the only thing on his body that wasn't broken was the five spirit seeds.

The End Seed was originally stored in his storage space, but in the end, his Pioneer Mark was shattered, and this Seed seemed to have been knocked out at that time, and it was embedded in his body, surrounded by the other four Seeds.

Apart from the End Spirit Seed, the other spirit seeds had already been irrigated to the point of maturity. Lu Li could even see the towering World Tree and the innate gourd vine using a special method of internal observation. But now, in the center of this lump of mush, there were only five withered seeds.

He didn't know exactly what happened back then, but perhaps it was because the power of the spirit seed nourished him or resisted a part of the destructive power that he miraculously survived.

Putting everything else aside, Lu Li felt that if the Primordial Spirit Seed could be reactivated, he might be able to recover some of his condition.

Lu Li continued to explore the ruins with the red essence in his mouth. Three years passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, after Lu Li's constant nurturing, something surprising happened: the ball of red essence he was holding actually began to pupate.

He immediately increased the intensity of his black essence transmission, ignoring the fact that his own lump of paste was shrinking and he was even starting to lose consciousness.

Fortunately, the red source of energy was quite resilient; after a while, it swayed twice and then spoke, "Where is this..."

"I don't know either. I'm Lu Li. Who are you?" Lu Li said. They were both a mess right now, so their voices were very different, and he couldn't tell who the other person was.

"We're not dead..."

The red source was still somewhat delirious. After saying a sentence, it realized that its voice sounded strange, so it explained, "I am Lu Xueqing."

She looked around and found that she could not perceive anything. Her vision was only about one meter. All she could see was a black mass that blended into the environment, like a black slime cocooning on the ground. "How did you become like this? Where is Senior Sister?"

Her memory was still not very clear. After piecing together the fragments, she remembered that there seemed to have been three of them together before.

"I don't know... Maybe she was blown to an unknown world like us. I hope she didn't die."

As Lu Li spoke, he was also somewhat emotional. It was already a miracle that he and Lu Xueqing hadn't died. Moreover, he knew in his heart that he had unconsciously absorbed Lu Xueqing's essence when he woke up, while his senior sister was alone and most likely in grave danger.

Lu Xueqing fell silent upon hearing this, while Lu Li was very excited. He had been alone in these ruins for many years, and the loneliness was driving him crazy. Now he finally had someone to talk to, so how could he not be happy?

So he started talking to Lu Xueqing at length, including his knowledge of the ruins.

"You mean you can read the characters on these ancient books in the ruins? And they're the same as the ancient script in your hometown?"

Lu Xueqing seemed to understand something upon hearing this. "From a probability perspective, the possibility that this is your hometown is practically zero. But for us cultivators, there is no probability, only cause and effect and destiny. Since we have survived this great calamity, this place may really be your hometown."

"Sigh, it's pointless to talk about it now, whether it's true or not. We two pupa beings don't know when we'll be able to get out."

Lu Li sighed. He had imagined returning to his hometown, but he never expected it to be in such a 'triumphant' way.

Seeing Lu Li's melancholy tone and the inexplicable sadness emanating from him, Lu Xueqing couldn't help but wonder what kind of person Lu Li was before entering the space.

After a long while, Lu Li finally composed himself and spoke first, "Let's try to see if we can heal you. I think I woke up after absorbing your source power, so I've been channeling my dark source power into you. I believe our powers are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining, and using complementary elements might be able to help us recover."

Upon hearing this, Lu Xueqing hesitated for a few seconds, wanting to move her body a little. However, she found that she was basically unable to move. Whenever she tried to manipulate this sticky body, intense pain would surge through her body, almost driving her to the brink of collapse. Even if she gritted her teeth and persevered, she could only move slightly.

On the other hand, she saw Lu Li excitedly waving his arms and legs because she had woken up. The lump of paste was like a black slime, crawling around on the ground and making all sorts of human-like movements with it, which was quite funny.

But she also knew that Lu Li, like herself, was injured by the power of that shadow, and there must be a dense network of thread-like forces within his body. Even if he was slightly better, he could only move, and the pain he felt when moving would definitely be greater than hers.

Even under such dire circumstances, Lu Li not only didn't take advantage of her, but also dragged her through the ruins for over twenty years. It's hard to imagine what it would be like to be dragging someone along while enduring such extreme pain.

The situation here was unclear, and it was unknown whether there was any danger. Under such circumstances, Lu Li neither ate her nor abandoned her. Instead, he endured the pain and carried her for more than 20 years, which moved her somewhat.

For a moment, the pride that had been in his heart was suppressed, and he ultimately did not let the words of refusal slip out.

"Then let's give it a try..."

From the outside, she doesn't appear to have eyes, but if she did, her gaze would certainly be gentle.

"I've been waiting for you to say that. They say people from the martial arts world don't stand on ceremony. We've been through thick and thin together. Don't be shy later, I'll suck you in, and you suck me in hard!"

Lu Li said heartily, in a great mood.

Lu Xueqing: ...

Seeing that Lu Xueqing neither answered nor refused, Lu Li crawled over, pressed himself against the red source of energy, and gently 'inhaled' it.

The red essence surged into his body, instantly invigorating him. From the outside, the edges of Lu Li's pitch-black essence became much smoother, no longer rough and prickly.

Lu Xueqing's red essence was flattened again after Lu Li took a bite, indicating that she had consumed a lot of energy.

"Suck me!"

Seeing this, Lu Li urged her on, fearing that Lu Xueqing would faint again because of his bite, and then he would have to live a lonely life with her in the ruins again.

Lu Xueqing sensed her own condition and didn't dare to hesitate. She circulated her power and took a breath from Lu Li's dark source. Instantly, the red source became fuller, like a shriveled water sphere becoming round.

"It's working..."

Lu Xueqing exclaimed in surprise, but then she noticed that Lu Li's aura had weakened again, and her heart sank. "How could this be..."

"That's right. It seems we've been damaged too badly. Our origin has become a mess, and our true spirit is practically gone. As a result, we can't operate and absorb efficiently anymore, and we can't step on our own feet like we used to."

Lu Li said that he had discovered this when he fed Lu Xueqing the source energy before. In the past, if they absorbed each other's energy, the explosive power would be enough to send people flying.

But now they are seriously practicing dual cultivation, and each time they switch, there is only a tiny, barely noticeable improvement.

(End of this chapter)