No bodies of female attendants were found in the palace, presumably because the Princess drove them away before the explosion.
Jiang Li's figure flickered and he directly entered Nanli Palace, heading straight for Nanming Pavilion.
Regarding the layout of Nanli Palace, he was quite familiar and knew that the Princess had been residing in Nanming Pavilion for the past year.
The left eye continued to render with brilliant gold light as the Southern Ming Li Fire automatically parted before Jiang Li, allowing him to reach Nanming Pavilion and ascend to the top floor.
When the blazing True Fire parted like a curtain of mystery before him, Jiang Li finally saw the figure of the Princess.
She was leaning against the crimson Jade Couch, dressed in a crimson palace gown, flas flickering on her dress, emitting extre heat.
"Tornting yourself again," Jiang Li sighed softly.
Though it appeared flas covered the gown, in reality, the entire palace garnt was taphorically ford from Southern Ming Li Fire, and its constant extre temperature was the garnt's own temperature.
The Princess used Southern Ming Li Fire as clothes to both temper her body, continuously perfect the Vermilion Bird True Body, and demonstrate Dao Fruit, while also enjoying the pain brought by True Fire's burning.
Her physical body was still far from the Vermilion Bird True Body, the body refining brought imnse pain.
The sensation of burning flesh, even incinerating the Primordial Spirit, was not an easily bearable agony.
"After all, no one cares."
The Princess, with her arm supporting her head, spoke indifferently, "Do you care?"
"Naturally, I do,"
Jiang Li walked over Southern Ming Li Fire to sit beside the Jade Couch, speaking lightly.
"Liar," the Princess sneered, "You haven't co in over six months."
Her smile suddenly faded, replaced by a hint of resentnt, "You want to abandon too, don't you?"
The flickering flas deepened in color, as if transford into magma, flowing across the palace gown, carrying a dangerous aura.
"Your ntal state has a flaw, and after a sudden increase in power, it further imbalances your ntal state; for now, it's best to suppress the Yang Fire, refining it with Innate Qi, lest it affect your ntal state,"
Jiang Li, observing the Princess's changing expression, spoke lightly, his left eye's pupil containing celestial grandeur, under which the Southern Ming Li Fire began to automatically fade.
[Pangu's Left Eye] wasn't rely referring to the sun; at this mont, Jiang Li's left eye was approaching the true Pangu's Left Eye.
He felt the True Sun Fire rushing into his gaze constantly, the sun above resonating with his eyes, bringing the sun's scorching heat.
This sensation was like putting the sun into his left eye, replacing the eyeball. The True Sun Fire continually burned the eyeball, bringing pain apt for extre heat, though Jiang Li suppressed it.
It's uncertain whether eventually, Jiang Li's left eye would indeed beco a real sun.
The fading Southern Ming Li Fire cald the Yang Fire rampaging inside the Princess, reducing the pain she bore, instead causing a slight discomfort, and her face subtly sweating, only to be evaporated by the flas, covering her face with a surreal veil.
The Princess slightly frowned, seeming to dislike the pain's fading, yet suddenly lost in gazing at Jiang Li's left eye, couldn't resist sitting up, reaching out to touch Jiang Li's eye socket.
With a heated palm, brushing against her cheek, fingers crossed the eyelid, touching Jiang Li's eyeball.
Southern Ming Li Fire twirled in her palm, flickering at her fingertips, also touching Jiang Li's cheek and even his eyeball. Compared to the Princess, now Jiang Li was entirely unperturbed by this level of True Fire.
He calmly watched the Princess, letting the Southern Ming Li Fire burn.
"So hot,"
Golden fla appeared at her fingertips, scorching flesh, more terrifying than Southern Ming Li Fire, almost scorching her fingertips to ashes.
Yet the Princess carried a hint of contentnt, softly murmuring, "So painful."
Her finger restored after being scorched, then scorched again, repeatedly cycling. The Vermilion Bird's adaptation to flas kept the Princess in a loop between destruction and restoration.
"You're becoming more alluring," she said with a wandering voice.
"Perhaps your ntal state grows emptier, I'm rely a filler for you,"
Jiang Li maintained a peaceful countenance, even as his eyeball was touched by fingertips.
Though faintly crazed, now even if she unleashed a killing move on Jiang Li, it wouldn't harm him; let her vent her negative emotions.
"Makes little difference,"
The Princess chuckled, as if satisfied with enough touching, then withdrew her hand. All the daze and lostness vanished like phantoms, she reclined back and said, "Recently, I've examined records from the Southern Heavenly Departnt, discovering that Feng Manlou obtained several Dao Fruit related to Tai Sui God from the Southern Heavenly Departnt over the last twenty years."
Earlier appearing unbalanced, now she spoke seriously, directly ntioning Feng Manlou.
This revelation imdiately piqued Jiang Li's interest.
"Dao Fruit related to ti?" Jiang Li raised his brows.
The total of twelve Tai Sui Gods are rare children of Ti God Yeming.
Rare and uncommon signify the Dao Fruit's preciousness, a Great Venerable accommodating the Candle Dragon controlling Cosmic Light invites suspicion.
"When my brother was Emperor, Feng Manlou asked to cover for him, let him browse the library in Dragon Abyss Pavilion, " the Princess continued, "Later I inquired, he wanted to view history about the Feng family."
When Emperor was Emperor... naturally speaking of before the forr Emperor regained humanity.
The forr Emperor then deserved the title of supre, especially in the Imperial City, standing undefeated. Even if Great Venerable visited, they couldn't act freely under the forr Emperor's eye.
Even using Cosmic Light Divine Ability may reveal traces.
Thus, he opted for the Princess's cover.
But what's his motive for doing so?
Jiang Li gazed at the Princess.
Since ntioning it, she likely had guesses about Feng Manlou's purpose, otherwise she wouldn't bring it up.
eting Jiang Li's gaze, the Princess instead questioned, "Do you think people can reverse ti, returning to the past?"
"That's likely impossible," Jiang Li replied, "Even legendary Three Pure Ones can't achieve this. Though Cosmic Light Divine Ability can reverse ti, returning to the past is theoretically impossible because ti's gravity outweighs any existence."
Ti's a river constantly flowing forward, combining the recently acquired theory from Liezi, past being reality, present being illusion, makes this river perpetually in a state of freezing.
Every second of elapsed ti freezes in the river, becoming substance. To reverse this river necessitates lting all frozen ice.
Yet, ti-reversing entities are themselves within the river; how can they lt the "ice" freezing the river?
Just as Cosmic Light Divine Ability struggles against stronger existences, facing a ti river mightier than oneself, even brilliant divine skills can't reverse.
At most, it can reverse a specific object's or person's ti, yet in reality it's altering their state to mimic the past, saying it's reversing ti, but it's not truly returning to the past.
Reversing ti, returning to the past, lies in this simple yet stark challenge: due to insufficient power, and always so.
No matter the strength, as long as within this long river, the river's power remains greater, returning to the past demands reversing the entire cosmic ti, including oneself.
No matter the supre Daoist practices, no exquisite divine skill can resolve this seemingly simple issue.
This is why Jiang Li said even the Three Pure Ones couldn't accomplish it.
Yet now, as the Princess suggests, the Great Venerable seems to desire returning to the past...
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