Seeing Donkey's peach-blossom eyes and drool dripping from his mouth, Lin Qi simply left him by Xielisi's side.
In any case, he wasn't Xielisi's man yet. Xielisi probably didn't have the appetite to swallow him whole right now, did she? And given Donkey's tenacious vitality, even if Xielisi truly wanted to do something to him, she would probably find it difficult.
For Lin Qi's enterprise on the Black Spirit Continent, he could only rather unkindly leave Donkey in a dangerous situation—though, honestly, Donkey probably didn't think he was in danger at all. He would more likely feel that he was in paradise, wouldn't he?
So Lin Qi took Abili, along with the two Rabbits and the Three-Legged Toad, and headed back toward Black Pearl Harbor in high spirits.
Halfway there, after finding a secluded place devoid of people, Lin Qi had Dragon Cliff devour Abili's divine soul, leaving her only a wisp of remnant soul that retained a few scattered fragments of memory. Dragon Cliff tossed Abili's divine soul into the Immortal Ascension Pool. After purifying her soul, it was divided according to the usual fixed ratio between Lin Qi, Heaven Mountain, the Osmanthus Tree, and the rest.
He had not felt much while absorbing Amulai's divine soul, but after absorbing the portion of Abili's divine soul that belonged to him, resounding sacred hymns suddenly rang out over Heaven Mountain. Pillars of white light shone down from pale golden clouds of radiance, and all of Heaven Mountain became splendid and magnificent. Even the aura it emitted abruptly grew several times stronger.
What delighted Lin Qi most was that the voice of Heaven Mountain was becoming increasingly human-like, and many of the cracks on his body had vanished as well. Clearly, Abili's divine soul had brought Heaven Mountain enormous benefits. This