Ye Yu froze on the spot when Elder Ge made that proposal.

"No way... no way. Your wife has been dead for twenty million years, and you’re telling me a remnant soul could still exist?"

This was simply unbelievable.

Everyone knew that even for the divine race, the divine soul could not remain outside the body for long. Otherwise, its complete dissipation was only a matter of time.

Therefore, once a divine soul left its body, there were only two possible choices.

Either seize someone else’s body and occupy it to continue living.

Or, like the legendary old masters, enter a certain container and fall into slumber. A ring, a necklace, a bracelet, and the like.

However, this method also required many strict conditions.

For example, one had to possess tremendous strength to preserve the integrity of the divine soul, as well as extraordinary perseverance.

In addition, the soul would need to enter periods of sleep from time to time to ensure that its soul power would not dissipate too quickly and vanish entirely.

After all, even if a divine soul hid inside a container, it was not truly immortal.

If too much time passed, the divine soul would still disperse.

That was why Ye Yu was so shocked when he heard the words remnant soul.

Such a fragile existence... and you managed to preserve it for twenty million years, Elder Ge. You are truly ruthless.

Of course, Ye Yu was not the only one who was stunned. Zhu Xincheng also stared at Elder Ge in disbelief.

"You old bastard. Are you saying my mother still has a remnant soul? Why have you never told me about this all these years?"

Elder Ge carefully took out a white pearl. Inside it floated an extremely faint shadow.

Ye Yu had seen this object before in the Compendium of Divine Artifacts.

It was called a Soul Nourishing Pearl.

According to the records, it had been refined by a ghost god, its purpose being to nurture the shattered soul of his wife.

He had never expected that such a thing would appear in Elder Ge’s hands.

Elder Ge said with a trembling voice, "Back then, the poison in your mother’s body had already run too deep. There was no saving her. Even her divine soul was on the verge of dissipating. At the final moment, I took out the Soul Nourishing Pearl and gathered a trace of her remnant soul. I hoped that one day your mother’s divine soul might grow stronger and that we could find a suitable body for her to possess so she could continue living."

"But tens of millions of years have already passed. That remnant soul is still pitifully weak and could disperse at any moment. That’s why I never told you about this."

"Daoist Friend Ye, answer me. If I reinsert this remnant soul into my wife’s body, will she be able to recover her consciousness?"

Hearing this, Ye Yu shook his head slightly.

"I’ve never tried something like this before. You can attempt it. As for whether it will work, I truly don’t know."

Elder Ge instinctively tightened his grip on the Soul Nourishing Pearl and then looked toward Zhu Xincheng.

She nodded.

Clearly, she also wanted him to try.

What kind of mother was one without emotions?

Only if she possessed her own consciousness would she feel like a real person.

So even if the chance was small, they had to try.

Elder Ge placed the Soul Nourishing Pearl before Li Mu and carefully infused it with divine power.

Very soon, the shadow inside was drawn out and began drifting toward Li Mu’s forehead.

At the moment the two were about to touch, the shadow completely entered her.

Li Mu’s originally pitch-black pupils began to change.

After several fluctuations, a trace of clarity finally returned.

Seeing this, Zhu Xincheng hurried forward.

"Mother, how are you, Mother?"

Li Mu did not respond. Instead, she raised her hand and gently stroked Elder Ge’s face.

"How did you become like this? Has the Yinsha Bone Poison not been removed?"

Hearing that familiar voice, both Elder Ge and Zhu Xincheng’s eyes instantly reddened.

They were just about to speak when they suddenly noticed faint cracks appearing on Li Mu’s face.

It was as if a delicate porcelain vessel were about to shatter.

Li Mu noticed the strange expressions in their eyes and softly said,

"There’s no need to mind it. A damaged divine soul can never truly recover. Even if it reenters the divine body, it cannot stop the final dissipation. I have already died once. I stopped caring about such things long ago."

Hearing these words, Zhu Xincheng burst into uncontrollable sobs.

Elder Ge, meanwhile, tightly held Li Mu’s hands and kept murmuring to himself.

"There must be a way. There must be a way! Daoist Friend Ye, please help us!"

Faced with the plea for help, Ye Yu could only reveal a bitter smile.

As the caster of the Demon Transformation, Ye Yu had already sensed the rejection between the divine body and the divine soul from the very beginning.

After remaining outside the body for too long, the divine soul had been damaged. On top of that, the summoned divine body would become a demon god body.

This made them even more incompatible.

If the soul was not removed in time, this divine body would also shatter.

But Li Mu’s divine soul was already this fragile.

The moment it left the body, it would instantly dissipate.

In other words, no matter what they did, she was doomed to die.

Such an answer was too cruel.

Ye Yu truly did not know how he could possibly say it.

What right did he have to claim he could help?

Li Mu looked at Ye Yu and gave him a grateful glance.

"Thank you, Daoist Friend, for intervening. Otherwise I would never have awakened again. Even if the time is short, I still feel very happy. Being able to see my daughter grow up is already a wonderful thing."

As she spoke, Li Mu pulled Zhu Xincheng into her arms, savoring a moment of warmth.

"Cheng’er, when Mother is gone, you must take good care of your father. It’s true that he likes to flirt with women, but in his heart he loves you the most. Back then, when you were poisoned by the Yinsha Bone Poison, if he had not used a secret technique to transfer all the poison onto himself, you and I would already be companions on the road to the Yellow Springs."

Hearing this, Zhu Xincheng’s eyes widened.

"Yinsha Bone Poison? Why have I never heard about this before?"

Then she thought of the poison Pang Bobing and Hua Junshuang had mentioned earlier, as well as the changes in Elder Ge’s divine body and appearance over the years.

Zhu Xincheng instantly realized that this might be the real truth from back then.

So it turned out that after the gu poison, there had also been bone poison.

Pang Bobing and Hua Junshuang were truly vicious beyond measure.

But now was clearly not the time to discuss that.

Zhu Xincheng said anxiously,

"Mother, hold on. I’ll take you back to the Divine Alliance. I’ll ask the Divine Physician to save you. There must be a way to bring you back to life. Let’s try!"

Li Mu shook her head slightly and once again turned her gaze to Elder Ge.

"If I could do it all over again, I would still choose to be with you. Lifetime after lifetime, never to be separated."

As soon as the words fell, Li Mu’s divine body suddenly shattered.

Together with her divine soul, it turned into countless specks of starlight and completely dissipated.

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