Invincible Dad-Chapter 725 Purple Spirit Whale_1

Ruan Lan suddenly wanted to find a crevice to crawl into and live there for the rest of her life, never to emerge again. She felt she could no longer face Xu Lai or her niece!

Suddenly, Ruan Lan realized something. "Sister, did you know brother-in-law is Venerable Qingfeng?"

Ruan Tang awkwardly put away the Qingfeng Sword and tried to change the subject. "What do you want to eat tonight? Before your brother-in-law left, he prepared all our meals for the next few days. There's even crayfish, your favorite."

"Sister," Ruan Lan interrupted, "please answer my question directly."

"Sometimes, you don't really need to know the true answer," Ruan Tang said, carefully choosing her words. "Besides, life is full of hurdles you have to get over. Ruan Lan, you..."

"So I was the only one who didn't know," Ruan Lan wailed, covering her face. "I'm ruined! I'm going to die! Waaah..."

His sister-in-law ran back to her room, crying.

"Did I say something wrong?" Bai Xue asked meekly.

"It's nothing," Ruan Tang said gently. "She had to find out eventually."

Over the past few days, Ruan Tang had recovered enough to go back to work and have fun with her friends. It wasn't that she wasn't worried about Xu Lai; rather, she felt she shouldn't let her sister and the others worry about her. Now, it seemed she had been overthinking things. Ruan Lan and Bai Xue were getting along very well.

"Then... can I stay for a few more days, until Daoist Qingfeng returns?" Bai Xue asked expectantly.

"Of course," Ruan Tang nodded.

She had learned from Yan Chunfeng that this woman had given Xu Lai four Spiritual Fruits and even "gifted" him six drops of her Essence Blood. For both sentimental and logical reasons, Ruan Tang would never send Bai Xue away to let a defenseless woman wander alone.

Bai Xue smiled sweetly and said earnestly, "I won't stay for free. I can give you my blood, or my flesh is fine too."

"...There's no need for that," Ruan Tang said, waving her hands dismissively.

Far away, Xu Lai had no idea his wife had refused Bai Xue's "short-term rent." If he had known, the heartache would have surely left him breathless.

To Xu Lai, ordinary Holy Medicines or treasures that took millions of years to form no longer held much attraction. But a Snowflower that had survived a hundred eras was different. A single drop of its blood could extend a life by a hundred thousand years. As long as one could refine a Snowflower, living a second life would be effortless, and even a third or fourth was not impossible.

This held a fatal allure for any Emperor Realm powerhouse. Take Great Emperor Youming, for example. He was already living his second life. If he could refine a Snowflower, his supreme imperial might would span five eras. What a magnificent and peerless existence that would be!

...

「Two months after leaving home.」

Xu Lai finally found Yousu Qinghuan at the bottom of the Boundless Sea. Or rather, he had only found one of her tails.

She died once. Xu Lai's gaze flickered.

The Nine-Tailed Fox clan possessed nine tails, losing one with each death. When he first met Yousu Qinghuan, she had nine tails. Later, after she vanished for two hundred years, they met again. She had lost three tails by then, leaving her with only six and severely weakening her.

If not for that, with Yousu Qinghuan's talent, she would have likely reached the Nine Heavens of the Quasi-Emperor long ago, instead of being stuck at the bottleneck of the sixth heaven for tens of thousands of years.

No matter how many times Xu Lai asked, Yousu Qinghuan refused to reveal the real reason she lost those three tails. Instead, she would always drain him completely dry, managing to deflect his questions every time.

What was she searching for here, that she was willing to pay with a tail? Xu Lai sighed.

Since a tail had been severed, Yousu Qinghuan must have left this place. This was because severing a tail was like having a substitute die in her place; her true body would reappear in the ancestral lands of the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox clan.

It's good that she's alive.

Muttering to himself, Xu Lai picked up the tail. It was soaked with the waters of the Boundless Sea, its fur having lost all its luster. He continued his search at the bottom of the sea for the so-called door.

He had been there for a full sixty days and had already eaten two of the four Snowflower fruits. Xu Lai had lost all concept of time in the crushing depths, repeatedly releasing and retracting his Divine Sense.

Although he hadn't found the door, he realized that his Divine Sense had become a sliver stronger than it was two months ago. This sliver is extraordinary! If I keep cultivating like this, what will happen in two hundred years? Twenty thousand years? Or even two hundred thousand years?

Xu Lai couldn't help but fall into deep thought. His physical body had already reached its absolute peak, with no possibility for further advancement. While there was room for his Spiritual Energy to improve, the pace was incredibly slow. Even a hundred years of secluded cultivation might not produce any detectable change. However, absorbing the "Purple Spirit"—which Emperor Wanyun considered an ill omen—had resulted in a noticeable improvement in his Boundary.

So, could I strengthen my Divine Sense further and use it as a breakthrough to advance my Boundary?

WHIMPER—

A mournful cry suddenly echoed through the depths.

Xu Lai's pupils contracted. He looked over and saw a colossal purple whale wandering in the deepest part of the ocean. It was over thirty thousand meters long, its body a transparent purple. Xu Lai was utterly minuscule before it.

It was common knowledge in the Immortal Domain that there was no life in the Boundless Sea. Of course, the three Snowflowers that had lived for a hundred eras were an exception to that rule. This whale before him... was also not a living entity.

Xu Lai sensed an incredibly familiar aura. This is a whale formed from Purple Spirit!

His eyes flickered. Five grains of Purple Spirit were enough to loosen my Boundary slightly. If I were to devour this massive Purple Spirit Whale... could my Boundary advance even further!?

Xu Lai did not try.

Firstly, the Ancient Great Emperors had differing opinions on Purple Spirit. Some believed it was inauspicious, while others saw it as a good omen.

Secondly, Xu Lai still had one of the "characters" in his mind. It was the second of the thirty-six Cloud Water Rust Characters, and it floated within his sea of consciousness, absorbing all the Purple Spirit around him. Whether the Purple Spirit was good or bad was irrelevant to him.

Just as Xu Lai was about to leave, the Purple Spirit Whale, which should have been heading toward The East, suddenly changed direction. It swam toward him!

RUMBLE...

The deathly still seabed of the Boundless Sea instantly grew turbulent as the Purple Spirit Whale moved.

MOAN—

The whale's song echoed across the seafloor. If Xu Lai had been on the surface of the Boundless Sea, he would have found it perfectly calm, without a single sound.

"You're courting death," Xu Lai snorted coldly.

Watching the Purple Spirit Whale crash toward him like a great mountain, Xu Lai clenched his fist. He was confident this one punch could blow it to pieces.

BOOM!

With a tremendous bang, Xu Lai's fist smashed straight through the whale's head, and its massive body instantly shattered.

But, in the blink of an eye, the scattered Purple Spirit reformed into a whale a few hundred meters away. Without hesitation, Xu Lai punched again, but moments later, the whale reformed once more... 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

...

Refusing to accept defeat, Xu Lai threw a hundred punches, even using a wisp of Qingfeng Sword Intent. Even so, he couldn't completely destroy it. The whale formed from Purple Spirit simply kept disintegrating and reforming.

MOAN—

It was as if the whale had found food, or perhaps a new toy, as it continued to circle and linger around Xu Lai.

Xu Lai narrowed his eyes. Normally, with my temper, I'd spend a hundred years shattering this thing if I had to. But now...

At the bottom of the Boundless Sea, Spiritual Energy was a limited resource; every bit he used was a bit he couldn't get back.