"Alas..."
A long sigh rang out from a hundred li away.
Then, a streak of light flashed past, and Su Shi'er appeared before the Spirit Devouring Rat.
Looking at the dead Spirit Devouring Rat before him, his expression was somewhat grave.
Yet he did not do anything further.
He had no shortage of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, let alone spiritual pills and miraculous medicines for healing.
But while bodily injuries were easy enough to mend, the Spirit Devouring Rat's problem did not lie in its body.
Its lifespan had run out; its final day had arrived.
In such a situation, unless it succeeded in Tribulation Transcendence and broke through in cultivation realm,
even if it did not risk undergoing tribulation, it would still inevitably die.
Unfortunately, this attempt had ultimately ended in failure.
Su Shi'er was not surprised by this result in the slightest.
After all, the Spirit Devouring Rat had been timid by nature. Though it possessed spiritual intelligence, it had spent all these years shrinking back, never daring to take risks, until things had dragged on to this day.
On the eve of its lifespan's end, its qi had already begun to disperse as it returned to mortality. Choosing to take a risk now was truly too late.
Su Shi'er was no immortal; he had no way to bring a Spirit Devouring Rat whose lifespan had ended back from the dead.
And as he looked at the Spirit Devouring Rat now, countless emotions welled up in his heart.
Had he shown the slightest slackness on the path of cultivation in the first half of his life, or had he, like the Spirit Devouring Rat, chosen to cower from fear and shrink back,
then he feared that, like the Spirit Devouring Rat before him, he would have been