Li Su looked at her silently, saying nothing.
To be honest, he found it difficult to determine what kind of mindset she had when speaking to him now.
She had noticed the anomaly and had even found an outsider. Under normal circumstances, shouldn't she be doing everything she could to act against "him" and find a way out of the cage? Yet she had come to him of her own accord, telling him she had discovered something was wrong and urging him to prepare as soon as possible.
This was not normal!
Sensing the confusion in Li Su's gaze, Di Gongrui suddenly turned her head and looked toward the Nine Provinces.
Her eyes were like stars, flowing light circling within them. They were incomparably ethereal, yet also deeply chaotic, with countless emotions piled inside.
Only after a long while did Di Gongrui take a deep breath and withdraw her gaze from the Nine Provinces.
"You find this strange. That is not strange."
"Under normal circumstances, if someone discovered that they were trapped inside an endlessly repeating prison, they would surely exhaust every possible means to escape it."
"In such circumstances, no matter what they did, it would not be strange in the slightest."
"Even if they became cruel, bloody, vicious, and ruthless... even if they had to twist their own nature beyond recognition, they would not hesitate."
"No one can endure such a thing. Even powerless mortals would go mad and try every conceivable method, let alone cultivators who wield power."
"Under normal circumstances, my reaction is what should seem strange—what should be impossible to understand."
"Especially given my identity. By all rights, I should have been the first person in the entire Nine Provinces to break."
Her identity?
Li Su froze for a moment.
"I am not an ordinary