Madam General, please run slower.

Soon, Li's body was covered with many scars of varying sizes. His spiritual energy was constantly consumed and replenished, which was a huge challenge for him both physically and mentally. Several times, Li was almost killed by the attacks.

This kind of excitement of hovering on the edge of death was something that Li had never felt since her rebirth. This feeling made Li even more excited, with bright red blood staining her eyes, and she rushed deeper into the cave as if she was risking her life, and even began to exchange injuries for injuries.

"Den."

Li's spiritual power was constantly strengthened during the fight, and her spiritual realm was raised a little bit again. Since she entered the dense forest, she has been promoted twice, reaching the Nascent Soul Great Perfection. If she succeeds in taking the treasure in the center of the fog, it is a sure thing that she will be promoted to the Spiritualization Stage.

If she had not transferred the spiritual power into Qu Shi's body before, she would have been promoted to the Spirit Transformation Stage when she absorbed the incomplete bones from the North and East Regions.

And it would be easier for her to deal with these strange plants in front of her at the Spiritual Transformation Stage. So, was her coming to this point also part of those people's plan?

Li always felt that her life was like a puppet tied by strings. In her previous life, she resisted the organization's control, so she was hunted down and destroyed. This time, she also tried not to follow their plan, but after a lot of twists and turns, she still went back to the same path. This feeling of being controlled made Li very unhappy.

"Damn it, the worst that can happen is that we die together." Li looked at the birds and beasts in front of him that were covered in wounds but still struggling, and the dark spiritual power in his hand continued to condense into a black sickle.

The birds and beasts that sensed the danger did not flee like normal creatures, but roared fiercely at Li, flapping their wings and launching an attack. Li did not retreat but advanced, directly facing the attack of the birds and beasts.

The spiritual powers collided, smoke and dust rose up, making it impossible to see the outcome of the battle.

When he saw Li rushing towards the ferocious beast again, Jinmu couldn't help but take a few steps forward, and the chains on his body rang because of his movements. A ray of golden light flashed on the chains, and they bound him again and locked him up, making him unable to move.

The golden eyes stared at the mist until the smoke and dust dissipated and the thin figure standing there appeared in the water mirror. Only then did it breathe a sigh of relief.

Jinmu, whose spirit was too tense, suddenly lost his strength at this moment. He lay on the ground gasping for breath, looking at Li who seemed to be crazy in the water mirror, and muttered in a low voice, "Madman... You are a madman, and so am I."

The long sickle in her hand dissipated, and Li looked at the wound in her abdomen pierced by the bird feathers in annoyance. Fortunately, her dantian was not injured, otherwise this trip would have been in vain. Now the spiritual power in her body was not enough to heal herself, so Li could only tear off her sleeves and bandage it casually, and then continue to move forward.

The giant bird-beast was like the last guardian of the forest. After that, everything around him returned to peace, and Li had a brief respite. The further he went in, the more he could feel the chill spreading along his spine, and he had some guesses about the skeleton in the center.

As the mist dissipated, Li saw the slender spine floating in the air, covered in white light. But next to the spine was a strange creature, bound by chains. The chains actually extended from the joints of the spine.

Li only glanced at the spine, and his eyes suddenly felt a stinging pain as if he was looking directly at the scorching sun. His vision was blurred for a moment, and Li closed his eyes to relieve the bitterness in his eyes. Suddenly, he felt that the appearance of those strange guardian creatures in the periphery was understandable... bullshit.

Li lay down where he was, and no matter how his mind kept clamoring for him to come closer, he did not move.

"Uh...are you still alive?"

"Not dead." Li Wei propped himself up and squinted at the creature that looked like a deer and a horse. "What on earth are you?"

"I am a Qilin! A divine beast! I am not a thing."

Li didn't expect that this was actually an ancient mythical beast that had already become extinct. No wonder the little mermaid Ayu called it an old thing. "Yes, yes, you are nothing."

If Tanghulu were here, he would definitely find this sentence very familiar.

Jinmu choked up and looked at Li speechlessly, "My name is Jinlin."

"You should be very familiar with me, so I won't introduce myself." Li responded casually and closed her eyes and lay back down. The spiritual power emanating from the spine was so mellow that it made her feel so comfortable that she wanted to sleep.

"Why don't you come here to refine the divine bone?" Jin Lin tilted his head and looked at the yawning Li. If she hadn't been injured, he would have thought she was here for an outing. If it were someone else, they would have rushed over to grab the divine bone as soon as they saw it.

"No hurry, let's chat and I'll take a good rest."

"What do you want to talk about?" Jin Lin looked at the blood-soaked cloth on her abdomen and nodded knowingly.

Li wanted to talk about so much more, "How long have you been locked up here?"

"Not long, just a hundred years or so."

For a Qilin with a lifespan of thousands of years, a hundred years is not a long time. But for a mortal without spiritual power, a hundred years is a complete change of generation.

"A hundred years? If I remember correctly, it has only been a hundred years since the founding of Qianwu?" Li thought of the secret passage near the cold palace and couldn't help but think more, "What is the connection between you two?"

Jin Lin was really impressed by Li's sharpness. "The reason why Qianwu has been able to flourish to this day is largely due to the deal between the first emperor and me."

"What did you trade?"

"I need to use the aura of the Son of Heaven to suppress the divine power, and he longs for the ability to practice." Jin Lin sighed deeply, "It's just that human hearts are unpredictable and their desires are hard to satisfy. The spiritual power emitted by the divine bone is enough to support the practice of the people of a country, but he is not satisfied that ordinary people can also practice, so he reversed the formation I gave him."

Li finally became interested and sat up.

No wonder the divine power of the other skeletons spread from the center outwards, but only the cold palace was converging from the periphery to the center.

"There are some losses in reversing the formation, right?"

"Yeah." Jin Lin nodded irritably. "The balance of spiritual power has been broken. The spiritual power of the divine bone is depleted too quickly. This has disrupted our original rhythm."

Jin Lin looked at Li in front of him, but ultimately did not say the words of apology.

Li understood the meaning in his eyes and chuckled: "So according to your original plan, I shouldn't be here so early, right?"

"Yes, you are still too weak." The consequence of advancing the plan was that the danger faced by Li doubled.

"So you know that I woke up in Qu Tangli's body."

Jin Lin hesitated for a moment and asked, "Have you ever heard of the theory of dual souls?"

"Dual souls?" Li had heard of this in his previous life. "You mean there are two souls in one body?"

"Well, that's how you are." Jin Lin sighed deeply, "The two souls have contradictory personalities. One is dedicated to killing and bloodshed, and the other is pure and kind. The two souls were separated for some reason. But the two souls were originally one, but when one of them is too strong and dominates, the two souls return to one body."

Pure and kind? No wonder Qu Tangli is a fool.

"Will the two souls affect each other after they return to the body?"

"Yes."

After getting Jin Lin's affirmative answer, Li's doubts were finally solved. She said why she didn't kill anyone in the past few years when she wanted to, and even she felt that her temper had improved a lot.

"How much do you know about my identity as a goddess?" According to Jin Lin's two souls, the goddess that the secluded family is looking for should be Qu Tangli's soul of supreme kindness.

"Goddess? They found us so soon?" Jin Lin was very excited, and the chains on his body tightened a little more.