Chapter 2019: Li Suo
“Li… Suo?”
“The Life Creation God… that Li Suo?”
Yun Che stared at the white silhouette ahead, his soul shaken beyond words.
“Yes.” The white silhouette replied softly. “Your shock and disbelief are perfectly normal. According to the common understanding of all worlds, the Life Creation God perished long ago.”
Li Suo—the divine name of the Life Creation God among the four Creation Gods of the Divine Race!
She was also the most beloved, revered, and worshipped of all Creation Gods.
The Ice Phoenix deity in the Minghan Heavenly Lake considered serving in her Life Divine Palace the greatest honor of its life.
She created countless lives and races… and the first race she created was the Wood Spirit Clan.
The “Life Miracle” she wrought was a true miracle that saved countless beings from calamity.
Every record of her was etched with eternal compassion, sanctity, greatness, immaculate purity, and… unparalleled beauty.
As the sole female Creation God, she was the origin of the concept of feminine “beauty” and its ultimate embodiment.
The ancient dragon god texts of the Dragon God Realm once described Li Suo’s divine form as follows:
『A Creation God bearing the mighty powers of world-creation, life-creation, and light. Possessing a merciful heart that pitied all living things, a sacred power that redeemed all beings, and a countenance and divine radiance that transcended the creation of immortals.』
『Legend has it that when the Primordial God created heaven and earth, He bestowed three parts of splendor upon all things. The remaining seven parts were all given to Li Suo.』
『Wherever her divine form passed, a thousand stars and ten thousand moons turned to withered dust.』
Words were pale and could hardly capture even a fraction of her glory. But the emotional “tragedy” between the Heaven-Slaying God Emperor, the Element Creation God, and the Life Creation God was enough to show what kind of brilliance Li Suo possessed.
Both of the two strongest Creation Gods had once pined and suffered for Li Suo.
When the returning Jie Tian Mo Di mentioned the name “Li Suo,” even though millions of years had passed and she knew the Life Creation God had already fallen, her words still overflowed with a jealousy so intense it made Yun Che’s heart tremble…
“Jealousy” rather than “contempt”—it showed that Jie Yuan, as a Demon Emperor, had a subconscious sense of inferiority to Li Suo in terms of “brilliance.”
And now, this most holy of the four Creation Gods… the Creation God who fell earliest at the start of the war between gods and demons… was here, before his eyes, softly uttering that divine name like a distant dream.
“According to your understanding, the Life Creation God fell to the poison of the Nine Evil Demon Emperor and perished at the very beginning of the war between gods and demons.”
“But ancient records have never found her remains, nor have they ever truly found the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal she once held.”
The white silhouette’s voice was faint like a pale moon. She was speaking of herself, yet her words were full of the pronoun “she.”
Her life, her soul seemed to have been reborn and reshaped. The fragments of past cognition and memory, as they gradually connected and became clear, felt like foreign things—like someone else’s memories and life.
The white silhouette’s voice also stirred some of the recorded memories about the Life Creation God in Yun Che’s sea of souls:
『The Life Creation God fell, and all realms were enraged, all beings mourned. Yet… to this day, her remains have still not been found… perhaps for fear that the light divine aura emitted by her remains would be destroyed by the Nine Evil Demon Clan…』
『…After the Life Creation God fell, the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal vanished without a trace. The world believes it fell into the hands of the Nine Evil Demon Clan… a thousand regrets and ten thousand sorrows.』
“You…” Yun Che was still staring at her, unable to speak for a long time. His knowledge, everything he had, made it impossible for him to believe.
Because that was a Creation God!
Even in the ancient era, they were gods above gods!
How could a Creation God still exist in the current world!?
Yun Che’s disbelief did not surprise the white silhouette. She slowly withdrew her finger, causing the dim world to lose a trace of that lavish pure white light. “I think that back then, after the Life Creation God was ambushed by the Nine Evil Demon Emperor and struck by the ultimate Nine Evil Demon Poison, she did not die immediately. Instead, in her final moments, she peeled away the ‘part’ of her that had not been contaminated by the poison, fled into the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal, and with her last strength, sealed the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal shut.”
“After that, she entered a long slumber within the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal… But as the gods and demons were destroyed, the chaotic aura grew thinner and thinner. Eventually, there was no more Primordial Chaos energy in the chaos, and unable to touch Primordial Chaos energy, she could not awaken. Even the seal on the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal gradually loosened.”
These were conjectures she had pieced together based on Yun Che’s understanding, gradually overlapping with the fragments of memories that were slowly becoming clearer one by one.
She felt she had slept for many, many years—so long that even her final soul had fragmented.
“Until one day, the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal touched you… touched that Wood Spirit girl named ‘He Ling.’”
The name “He Ling” stabbed Yun Che’s soul with intense pain, and he blurted out, “It was He Ling’s life aura that awakened you?”
“Yes, and no.” The white silhouette gave him a very subtle answer. “He Ling’s life aura was pure to the extreme, as if it originated from the same source as my own life aura. When her aura touched me, it was like spiritual water and sweet dew, reviving my life and consciousness from slumber.”
“When I pieced together my cognition… I am the Life Creation God. Wood Spirits are the purest spirits I created using the origin of life, so we share the same life source. That she could awaken me is within reason.”
“But later, as I followed your experiences, I realized that the main cause of my awakening and gradual ‘completeness’ was not He Ling, but you.”
“Because of the Primordial God’s aura on your body.”
“…” Yun Che slowly steadied his mind.
This white silhouette claiming to be “Li Suo” had been existing within the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal all along!? The Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal was given to him by Qianye Ying’er. Over the years, he had never been able to activate it successfully, and even records about it were scarce. So he had gradually given up on it and forgotten about it, leaving it sitting in a corner of the Heavenly Poison Pearl for a long time.
If her consciousness had awakened when he first obtained the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal, then all his subsequent experiences were also her experiences.
Including… his conversation with the Primordial God’s will!
At this moment, he suddenly recalled the voice he had heard when he first got the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal—the voice he had thought was an illusion.
“When you awakened, did you ever call out the name ‘Ni Xuan’?” he asked.
“Yes.” She responded directly. “At that time, I had just woken from a great dream, like a newborn baby. My consciousness was filled only with countless scattered fragments… And your aura touched the fragment imprinted with the name ‘Ni Xuan,’ making me utter that sound completely unconsciously.”
“That call was like an instinct of consciousness. At that time, I didn’t even know who Ni Xuan was, nor did I know who I was.”
The white silhouette continued, “In that initial consciousness, the only things I could distinguish were a few short names…”
“Mo E, Ni Xuan, Xi Ke, Li Suo… Jie Tian… Jiu Sha… Ming… Nie Lun…”
“And two names that brought the most peace to my soul… Only later did I gradually understand… those two names were one for my disciple and one for my adopted daughter…”
“My disciple… named ‘Long Shen Xi,’ my adopted daughter… named ‘Ling Wanhu.’”
“Whoosh—” A streak of red light flew out from Yun Che’s body, turning into a lovely girl’s figure. “Who’s calling Wanhu?” Hong’er was clearly just waking up. She blinked her vermilion-red eyes and looked at the white silhouette ahead with astonishment. “Huh? White big sister, how do you know I have another name called Wanhu? This is clearly a secret that only Sister Shen Xi should know.”
“…” The white silhouette did not answer. She quietly looked at the girl, and the already supremely holy white light seemed to soften even more.
Yun Che turned his gaze to Hong’er, then back to the white silhouette… Suddenly, he thought of Jie Yuan’s strange behavior and murmured words when she faced Hong’er back then.
Could it be that the sacred soul that “filled in” after Hong’er had her dark component stripped away, and the “demon-slaying” attribute of the sword she had become… were forged and bestowed by the Life Creation God!?
“As you think.” The white silhouette seemed to see through his thoughts. “Back then, when Mo E fought Ni Xuan, Ni Xuan lost, but Mo E knew the victory was not clean, so he held back. He no longer sought to annihilate Ni Xuan and Jie Yuan’s daughter, but her dark component had to be stripped away.”
“The daughter of a Creation God and a Demon Emperor had a level of life and soul that was supreme. Only the Life Creation God could reshape her into a complete body and soul after stripping that component.”
“…” Yun Che listened in silence. He could tell that the tone of the white silhouette now… was not a guess based on current cognition, but a genuine memory fragment.
“The Life Creation God reshaped the incomplete daughter of Ni Xuan into a complete life and adopted her as her daughter. It happened to be when the Wanhu flowers were blooming in the Life Divine Palace, so she named her Wanhu. In the end, following Ni Xuan’s wish, she entrusted her to the Sword Spirit Divine Clan and forged a sword soul into her. From then on, she took Ling as her surname and the identity of the Sword Spirit Divine Clan’s princess.”
“According to the memory fragments, Ni Xuan also kept his promise: he never saw his daughter again, nor did he appear in the Life Creation God’s subsequent memories.”
“But, not only Mo E, the Life Creation God also had no idea at that time that the isolated dark ‘component’ had not been destroyed, but had been hidden in the world by him all along.”
What she was referring to was undoubtedly You’er.
“You… are you really the Life Creation God Li Suo?”
It wasn’t just Yun Che; facing the name “Li Suo,” anyone in this world, even if another Creation God were alive, would not dare to believe it.
The white silhouette spoke slowly: “My Life Miracle is not even one ten-thousandth of what it was back then, but it is still sufficient proof. At this point, you should be clear in your heart.”
Yun Che’s subconscious already believed, because everything she said—whether within his knowledge or beyond—fit the identity of “Life Creation God” far too well.
It was just that the three words “Creation God” were too lofty, too illusory and ethereal… The impact on Yun Che was second only to the “Primordial God” who also existed in this world.
Aside from Li Suo, among the Creation Gods and Demon Emperors, except for Mo E who died of old age and Jie Yuan who was exiled, all the others died from the “Myriad Tribulations of Oblivion” released by the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel hijacking the Heavenly Poison Pearl.
Under the Myriad Tribulations of Oblivion, all lives were equal—only death, no survival.
But Li Suo was struck by the Nine Evil Demon Poison.
And yet she escaped the “Myriad Tribulations of Oblivion” and, after a long slumber, reappeared in the world?
And she was with him all along, without separation!
He carried Hong’er and You’er coexisting within him, and had once had He Ling as well…
Even in a thousand layered dreams, he would never have dared to imagine that a Creation God had been existing on his person all this time!
“Apart from the names ‘Life Creation God’ and ‘Li Suo,’ I cannot find any other identity that matches my fragmented cognition and memories.” As she spoke, her gaze remained quietly on Hong’er—the vermilion eyes, the vermilion hair, the elfin face, the strangely familiar aura… It was a genuine warmth in the soul. She believed that in the past, she had once deeply loved and been close to this girl.
“You are the Life Creation God Li Suo…” Yun Che murmured, breathing chaotically. It took him a while to gradually calm down. “Since you awakened so long ago, why… why did you never appear to me before?”
“Because I couldn’t.” She answered softly. “When I first awakened, my life was too thin. If I had appeared, my life source, craving recovery, would have instinctively absorbed He Ling’s life source. Given the gap in levels, this process would have been irresistible and unstoppable.”
“So I could not allow myself to appear in the same space as her.”
“Until… you fought Mo Beichen, and she sacrificed her life source.”
This was the Life Creation God—even as the supreme existence, at her weakest moment, she still refused to take another’s life aura.
Recalling the strange revival of the Azure Dragon Emperor and the rapid recovery of his own two injuries… all of that happened after He Ling sacrificed herself.
“So… that’s how it is.”
Mentioning He Ling made the weight in his heart and soul surpass his shock. He smiled bitterly. “No wonder… no wonder…”
“You could instantly save the Azure Dragon Emperor from a fatal wound… I couldn’t do it, Shen Xi couldn’t do it either… only you…”
Even as a soul in a virtual state, her Life Miracle was far beyond what Yun Che or Shen Xi could achieve today.
“Someone as powerful as you… if only you could have saved He Ling back then too…” he muttered, somewhat dazed.
The white silhouette… the Life Creation God Li Suo spoke softly: “Since I exist, how could I really let her disappear?”
The celestial voice entered his ears, pulling Yun Che into a dream in an instant.
He froze… After a full three breaths, he suddenly rose, stumbled, and half-knelt directly on the ground, completely forgetting to adjust his posture. Only a hoarse roar escaped his mouth: “What did you say? What did you say!?”
——PS: The name Long Shen Xi has the compound surname Long Shen, and the given name Xi.