Taiyi Dao Fruit-Chapter 1253 - 35: The Impossible Reversal of Time_2

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, flames flickering on her dress, emitting extreme heat.

"Tormenting yourself again," Jiang Li sighed softly.

Though it appeared flames covered the gown, in reality, the entire palace garment was metaphorically formed from Southern Ming Li Fire, and its constant extreme temperature was the garment'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 immense 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 come in over six months."

Her smile suddenly faded, replaced by a hint of resentment, "You want to abandon me too, don't you?"

The flickering flames deepened in color, as if transformed into magma, flowing across the palace gown, carrying a dangerous aura.

"Your mental state has a flaw, and after a sudden increase in power, it further imbalances your mental state; for now, it's best to suppress the Yang Fire, refining it with Innate Qi, lest it affect your mental 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 merely referring to the sun; at this moment, 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 extreme heat, though Jiang Li suppressed it.

It's uncertain whether eventually, Jiang Li's left eye would indeed become a real sun. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

The fading Southern Ming Li Fire calmed 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 flames, 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 flame 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 contentment, softly murmuring, "So painful."

Her finger restored after being scorched, then scorched again, repeatedly cycling. The Vermilion Bird's adaptation to flames kept the Princess in a loop between destruction and restoration.

"You're becoming more alluring," she said with a wandering voice.

"Perhaps your mental state grows emptier, I'm merely 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 Department, discovering that Feng Manlou obtained several Dao Fruit related to Tai Sui God from the Southern Heavenly Department over the last twenty years."

Earlier appearing unbalanced, now she spoke seriously, directly mentioning Feng Manlou.

This revelation immediately piqued Jiang Li's interest.

"Dao Fruit related to time?" Jiang Li raised his brows.

The total of twelve Tai Sui Gods are rare children of Time 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 me 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 former Emperor regained humanity.

The former Emperor then deserved the title of supreme, especially in the Imperial City, standing undefeated. Even if Great Venerable visited, they couldn't act freely under the former 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 mentioning it, she likely had guesses about Feng Manlou's purpose, otherwise she wouldn't bring it up.

Meeting Jiang Li's gaze, the Princess instead questioned, "Do you think people can reverse time, 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 time, returning to the past is theoretically impossible because time's gravity outweighs any existence."

Time'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 time freezes in the river, becoming substance. To reverse this river necessitates melting all frozen ice.

Yet, time-reversing entities are themselves within the river; how can they melt the "ice" freezing the river?

Just as Cosmic Light Divine Ability struggles against stronger existences, facing a time river mightier than oneself, even brilliant divine skills can't reverse.

At most, it can reverse a specific object's or person's time, yet in reality it's altering their state to mimic the past, saying it's reversing time, but it's not truly returning to the past.

Reversing time, 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 time, including oneself.

No matter the supreme 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...