87: black hole

Lin Xi did not hide anything and told Su Ze everything that had just happened.

This included the fact that he had given the drop of essence blood he obtained to Feng Qingyi, who was currently in the midst of Nirvana.

Hearing this, Su Ze walked over to the furnace and looked through the door. With just one glance, his face turned red, and he quickly looked away.

Inside the furnace, Feng Qingyi was still in a deep sleep. Because she had absorbed most of the energy from the fire seed, the flames were now very weak and could no longer obscure her form.

Su Ze could clearly see a beautiful, unclothed young girl curled up in the furnace like a fetus. Her vital parts were covered only by her long hair and a few fiery-red feathers.

The previous youthful immaturity was gone, replaced by a full and beautiful maturity.

“Feng Qingyi... she really has grown up. She's grown a lot in every aspect...”

Su Ze wiped his nose, closed the furnace door, and thought silently to himself.

Although Lin Xi's drop of dragon blood had extended Feng Qingyi's Nirvana period, which was originally nearing its end, the benefits she gained were even greater.

However, the fact that the other party had given him so many benefits made Su Ze feel a bit uneasy.

Seeing this, Lin Xi explained from the side, "Kid, don't overthink it. This is all compensation for what happened to your parents back then."

This sentence dispelled most of Su Ze's concerns.

“It seems my parents had quite a lot of influence, but why didn't I feel it before?”

“Even when I couldn't become a Beast Tamer, I didn't see anyone coming to help...”

The three of them stayed in the underground space for a while longer. After confirming that the Dragon Corpse would not undergo any further changes and that Feng Qingyi's Nirvana was progressing steadily, they prepared to leave.

But Xiao Sheng said to Su Ze, "Junior brother, you go out first. It's been a long time since I've seen Teacher, and I want to spend some time alone with him to catch up."

Su Ze didn't think much of it. He nodded and left the underground space first.

Only after Su Ze's figure had completely disappeared did Xiao Sheng look at the furnace where Feng Qingyi was undergoing Nirvana. He then turned to Lin Xi and said, "Teacher, so the master of that Little Phoenix is actually my little junior brother?"

“We already owe him enough. You must never place him in a dangerous situation again!”

Hearing this, Lin Xi sighed and said, "I understand everything you're saying... In fact, I've been secretly watching this kid all these years."

“Not long ago, he only had excellent spiritual talent but was consistently unable to contract a spirit beast. I didn't try to help him solve that problem either.”

“Because I originally thought that if he could just live his life steadily as an ordinary person, that would be enough.”

“But who could have known? Soon after, various high-level demon beast eggs started appearing around him. There were so many that he could even give them away.”

“Aside from this diamond rank Little Phoenix currently in Nirvana, he also gave a platinum-level demon beast egg to the retired Guo Linshan, and not long ago, he hatched a platinum-level Shadow Realm Overlord beast right in front of me.”

Xiao Sheng’s mouth hung open in shock. These demon beasts were actually nothing to him; his own collection was far larger and richer.

But the issue was that he was one of the only two Level 100 War Gods in Great Xia, which was why he could come into contact with so many high-level demon beasts.

Su Ze, on the other hand, was just a freshman in college and had no family background to speak of.

If one had to say, he and his teacher were probably Su Ze's biggest backers.

Yet, without any help from them, the origins of so many high-level demon beasts were very suspicious.

“It seems little junior brother has his own fortuitous encounters...” Xiao Sheng remarked with emotion.

Lin Xi also nodded in agreement. “Perhaps we should have expected it. When he was able to return alive from that side back then, even if he lost his memories, he must have become extraordinary...”

He looked up at the pitch-black spatial rift above.

This spatial black hole, which separated the two worlds—nothing could withstand its cutting force.

Only that tough Dragon Corpse could remain lodged within it, preventing it from ever closing.

But in fact, there was one person who had once passed through this black hole alive, and that was Su Ze!

Back then, an accident in Mr. and Mrs. Su Lin's experiment caused a massive upheaval.

Lin Xi and Xiao Sheng had rushed over, only to see a mess, a slowly closing spatial black hole, and a child being spat out by it!

They didn't understand why Mr. and Mrs. Su Lin would choose to bring Su Ze along for such a dangerous experiment.

Even more baffling was how Su Ze could return intact through a spatial black hole that even a Level 100 War God could not pass through.

Unfortunately, the Su Ze spat out by the black hole had lost his memories of that period, so it was impossible to know what had actually happened.

They had tried asking and even tried using spiritual powers to explore Su Ze's memories.

However, none of the methods yielded any results and only caused him extraordinary pain, so they had no choice but to give up.

Recalling the past, Lin Xi sighed and said, "Our time is now very tight. Even if we succeed in the seizure, we will still need time for cultivation, so we must speed up the progress."

“And right now, Su Ze and his spirit beast are the most suitable choice, so... it can't be changed now.”

Then, dropping his usual demeanor, his eyes turned resolute as he said, "But even if this Old man has to sacrifice his life, I will absolutely not let anything happen to him!"

Xiao Sheng sighed and nodded helplessly.

“Teacher, you don't really need to say that. I will cooperate with you fully. No one needs to get hurt.”

Lin Xi only gave a slight smile in response.

Even after becoming one of Great Xia's War Gods, this child was still so naive.

How could there be a logic where trust is gained without paying a price?

Besides, he was nearing the end of his road anyway. He might as well burn himself out in the final moments of his life!

Afterward, the two of them left the underground space together.

Leaving behind only the Feng Qingyi in Nirvana, the spatial black hole slowly rotating as it tried to close, and the half-dragon skeleton on the earthen wall that had fallen back into deathly silence.

But what they didn't notice as they left was that...

The deep mark left by Mr. and Mrs. Su Lin on the dragon skeleton was actually not on the side of the Human World at this moment.

Nor had it, as they speculated, been revived, covered in flesh, and dragged over to the Monster Beast World side.

Instead, it was located exactly in the middle, at the very spot where the spatial black hole was constantly rotating and cutting in its attempt to close.

If it were an intact dragon skeleton, it could indeed withstand the spatial cutting.

But now... that crack was slowly but surely widening under the sharp spatial power.

The dragon skeleton seemed as if it could be cut in half at any moment, allowing the spatial black hole to close!