If Grass Can Live, What About My Hundred-Thousand-Year-Old Mom?

"Rewinding a plant with basic life characteristics cost thirty times as much as rewinding an inanimate object of the same volume. It seemed causality assigned an extremely high weight to the correction of 'life.'"

This discovery gave him a deeper understanding of his own power.

The Chat Group had completely gone mad.

[World's Number One Princess: It's alive! The grass came back to life! I saw it! The broken grass grew back!]

[Is Jade Not Jade: Th-this isn't restoration anymore. This is bringing the dead back to life! Even if it's only a blade of grass...]

[Ghost Cat: Life... He reversed the process of life's withering.]

At Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong's breathing became rapid. She gripped the armrest tightly, her nails nearly digging into the gold.

Resurrection!

Even if it was only a blade of grass, it had still been resurrected!

This represented a possibility! A forbidden domain that even gods could not easily tread into!

Li Yifei's experiment continued.

He looked at the restored Blue Silver Grass, his gaze calm. To obtain more accurate data, he needed a more thorough experimental specimen.

He raised his hand. This time, a faint wisp of Primal Force appeared in his palm and directly crushed the Blue Silver Grass into powder, completely destroying even its tiniest cellular structures.

Its aura of life completely vanished.

"What would the difficulty be for rewinding a dead lifeform?"

With an investigative mindset, he activated [Eternal Moment] for the third time.

This time, the Hourglass Dial's rotation visibly became more laborious.

The Soul Power within Li Yifei's body poured out frantically like floodwaters released from a dam!

"Buzz~"

The shattered grass fragments trembled violently, enveloped by a dense green glow of life so rich it seemed impossible to disperse.

That was not a simple rewind.

At the level of laws, it was forcibly declaring the causality of this "death" invalid, flowing upstream from the lower reaches of the river of time and returning to the moment when it had been "alive"!

Li Yifei felt that the Soul Power he had only just restored to less than fifty percent was drained by more than half in merely three seconds!

The data on the Wristwatch sounded frantic alarms.

[Warning! Soul Power consumption has exceeded 50%! The host's energy reserves are rapidly declining!]

But he did not stop.

Finally, the green light faded.

A completely intact Blue Silver Grass, even lusher and fresher than before, stood quietly in its original place.

From death to rebirth.

"So that's how it is..." Li Yifei understood.

"Rewinding inanimate objects consumes the least. Rewinding living lifeforms causes consumption to surge. Rewinding 'dead' lifeforms causes consumption to skyrocket geometrically. And the higher the target's level of life, the greater its strength, the greater this consumption becomes."

He had obtained the conclusion he wanted, at the cost of nearly draining his Soul Power again.

But he felt it was worth it.

This data was more precious than any Immortal Herb or divine medicine.

Yet the calm conclusion he had drawn through his experiment set off monstrous waves in the eyes of everyone else.

Dugu Bo had already fallen to his knees, not out of fear, but out of reverence for having witnessed a divine miracle of creation.

He looked at that blade of grass, tears streaming down his aged face as he repeatedly muttered, "God... a true god..."

After a deathly silence in the Livestream Room, the comments erupted like a roaring tsunami.

[World's Number One Princess: I... I don't know what to say... I have no words...]

[Is Jade Not Jade: From today onward, if anyone says gods exist again, I'll smash this recording into their face! This is what a fucking god is!]

[Little Fox Demon: We... what exactly is the power we Soul Masters pursue...?]

Hu Liena's thoughts carried a trace of confusion.

And amid all this chaos and shock—

One person's reaction was entirely different.

In Nuoding City, Xiao Wu stared fixedly at the resurrected Blue Silver Grass on the screen. Her petite body trembled violently, and tears burst uncontrollably from her large eyes.

Mom...

Only those two words remained in her mind.

Her mother had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, hunted down by Spirit Hall, before ultimately sacrificing herself to protect Xiao Wu.

If...

If even dead grass could be resurrected...

Then what about her mother?

An unprecedented hope, like wildly growing vines, instantly coiled around her heart.

Her hand trembling, she used all her strength to send the question that could change everything in the Chat Group.

[Bunny Is So Cute: Brother Yifei... th-then can you... resurrect my mother?]

Xiao Wu's line, her thoughts carrying a sobbing tone, was like a basin of ice water in the boiling Chat Group, instantly extinguishing all the noise.

Resurrect... her mother?

The weight contained in those two words crushed every girl watching in silence until they could barely breathe.

Li Yifei stared at the trembling question. Within his calm mind, streams of data began surging at an unprecedented speed.

Resurrection.

Logically speaking, it was not impossible. He had just completed a reversal of the concept of "death."

But he immediately pulled up the energy consumption report from rewinding the Blue Silver Grass.

Repairing a damaged living Blue Silver Grass consumed three percent of his Soul Power.

Rewinding a dead Blue Silver Grass that had been completely crushed and had entirely lost all signs of life consumed more than fifty percent of his Soul Power.

And that was only a plant without any power.

Xiao Wu's mother was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had sacrificed herself. Her level of life, total energy, and the complexity of her causal entanglements were utterly incomparable to a Blue Silver Grass.

Based on a projection using his current Soul Power reserves, the Wristwatch gave a red, despair-inducing symbol.

[∞]

[Li Yifei: Theoretically possible.]

Li Yifei typed those five words into the Chat Group.

He was not lying. In his system of understanding, as long as there was enough energy, nothing was impossible.

[Bunny Is So Cute: R-really?!]

Xiao Wu's thoughts erupted with wild joy, but Li Yifei's next sentence immediately pulled her back to reality.

[Li Yifei: But with my current energy reserves, I cannot pay the cost. The gap cannot be measured in orders of magnitude.]

His answer was calm, objective, and devoid of even the slightest comfort or sympathy.

Yet it was precisely this cruel truth that made Xiao Wu, in her Nuoding City dormitory, change from despairing sobs into choked cries filled with immense hope.

It could be done!

There just was not enough energy!

It was not "impossible," only "not possible for now"!

That was enough!

More than any false consolation, that let her see the light!

[Bunny Is So Cute: I'll wait! Brother Yifei! I'll wait for you! No matter how long it takes, I'll wait!]

Her thoughts carried a resolve fierce enough to burn everything away. From this moment on, her life had a single ultimate goal that surpassed revenge.

Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong's body, which had gone cold at the word "resurrection," instead surged with a scorching tide when she saw Li Yifei's reply.

He could resurrect the dead.

He had admitted it. He could resurrect the dead!