Liangqiu Xuanyi returned on the other side, carrying Lin Suyun back with her.
"You didn't kill her? Couldn't bring yourself to do it?"
Jiang Changkong was slightly surprised. He had not expected Lin Suyun to still be alive.
"I sorted through her memories. She also knew some soul techniques."
Liangqiu Xuanyi said calmly, "I was worried that if I acted, her soul would escape. So I brought her back to kill her in front of you."
As she spoke, she pressed a sun fireball into Lin Suyun's body.
The Great Dao of the Sun burned away everything, even incinerating her Dao patterns.
Jiang Changkong extracted her soul and fed it to the Soul-Anchoring Tree.
Liangqiu Xuanyi said calmly, "From now on, I'll try contacting my other senior and junior sisters and have them work for you."
"Mm. Remember to keep watch over the territory." Jiang Changkong responded, then sat down cross-legged. "Cultivate diligently."
Liangqiu Xuanyi sat down as well, but did not cultivate. "After this, are you going to the starry sky?"
"Mm. The Void Realm can no longer help me improve. I have to go to the starry sky."
Jiang Changkong's eyes were full of yearning. There was golden matter there.
As long as he could find the golden matter, he could swiftly step into the near-god realm, perhaps even surpass it.
Before becoming a near-god, he had no sense of security.
First there had been the body-refining near-god, then Hua Tianrui, the soul near-god, and most recently, the Merfolk King.
Once those near-god powerhouses recovered, even the Federation might not be able to stop them.
Besides them, there were other near-gods he had yet to encounter.
They were all potential threats. Who knew whether one of them might have a sudden fit of madness one day and try