The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Liu Mengli threw herself into Shen Yifei's arms, crying like a chick that had just hatched from its egg, her tears and snot covering him.

Shen Yifei was so tightly gripped by her that he could hardly breathe. He reached out and patted her back. "Alright, alright, stop crying. If you keep crying, my robe will become a rag."

Liu Mengli sobbed as she released him, looked down at her soft, white hands, pinched her cheek, hissed in pain, then grinned, "It's real! I can feel pain! Not that kind of imagined pain!"

Seeing her like this, Shen Yifei was happy for her.

This girl has been with me for so long, from a nightmare spirit that was neither human nor ghost, to finally having a physical body now. It has not been easy.

"Master, touch me, see if I'm real, if I'm warm?" Liu Mengli said, grabbing Shen Yifei's hand and pressing it against her body.

Shen Yifei was speechless. After this woman regained her physical body, her shamelessness also returned, becoming even thicker than before.

Despite saying that, I still pressed my hand on it; the feel was simply unbeatable.

Liu Mengli's body went limp from his massage, her voice trembling: "Master... be gentle... I'm afraid I'll fall apart again if you keep massaging me..."

"It won't dissipate, it won't dissipate, your body is quite sturdy."

He was indeed curious about just how robust Liu Mengli's newly restored physical body was.

So while he was kneading her, he secretly sent a wisp of his soul into her body, wanting to carefully examine the condition of this new body.

As it turned out, this investigation revealed something amiss.

Liu Mengli's physical body has indeed recovered; her meridians, bones, and flesh are exactly the same as a real person's.

But when his soul followed her meridians to explore the depths of her sea of ​​consciousness, he discovered an extremely strange phenomenon.

Her sea of ​​consciousness remained a bottomless pit.

The spiritual power that had been poured in during the dual cultivation had vanished without a trace, as if it had been completely swallowed up by something.

"Mengli, your sea of ​​consciousness..." Shen Yifei released his grip, his expression turning somewhat grave. "What happened to the divine soul power I transferred to you during our dual cultivation?"

"I don't know. I feel full of energy and have a lot of spirit. I don't feel anything is wrong."

Liu Mengli closed her eyes and carefully sensed for a while, then opened them and shook her head. "No, I think it's quite normal."

Shen Yifei frowned.

This is strange. He clearly sensed that there was a bottomless pit deep within Liu Mengli's sea of ​​consciousness, which was continuously devouring the divine soul power within her body, but she herself could not feel it at all.

"Feel it carefully again. Is there anything unusual in the deepest layer of your consciousness?"

Liu Mengli was taken aback by Shen Yifei's question, then closed her eyes and focused on sensing it for a while.

She sat cross-legged, placing her hands on her knees, adopting a serious posture for cultivation. Shen Yifei stood beside her, watching her intently, afraid that something might happen to her.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Liu Mengli opened her eyes, her brows furrowing slightly.

"Master, I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out, but now that you mention it... I do feel like something's not quite right."

"Something's not right?"

"It feels like... like there's a void in my mind, like something's missing. But I can't quite put my finger on what's missing, it's just a feeling of emptiness."

Shen Yifei's heart sank; it seemed his guess was correct.

There really was a bottomless pit in Liu Mengli's sea of ​​consciousness.

"Mengli, relax, I'll go in and take another look."

"Okay, you can do it, be gentle."

Shen Yifei composed himself, separated a wisp of his soul, and carefully probed into Liu Mengli's brow.

This time, he didn't rush to go deeper, but instead lingered on the surface of her sea of ​​consciousness.

Liu Mengli's sea of ​​consciousness was no longer as empty as before. The previous round of dual cultivation of the soul and spirit had indeed replenished her soul power and given her a warm and gentle feeling.

Those divine souls were like a thin layer of mist, swirling around the surface of her sea of ​​consciousness, adding a bit of vitality to her originally parched sea of ​​consciousness.

But Shen Yifei knew that this was just a facade.

He continued to explore deeper, passing through the thin layer of mist, and arrived at the middle layer of his sea of ​​consciousness.

The middle layer was much more spacious than the surface layer, with only scattered divine soul power wandering around, like a field that had been tilled but had not yet been sown.

Shen Yifei continued downwards, exploring the deepest part of his sea of ​​consciousness.

The further down he went, the less moist and warm the feeling he had felt earlier disappeared, and gradually Shen Yifei's soul began to feel somewhat cold.

Until he touched that familiar, soft barrier.

This is it.

He had just encountered this barrier; it was soft and bouncy.

He didn't pay attention at the time, assuming that Liu Mengli's sea of ​​consciousness was naturally shaped like that.

But now it seems there's definitely something wrong with this thing.

Without further hesitation, Shen Yifei directly mobilized the red aura in his dantian, carefully transferring that wisp of red aura from his fingertips into Liu Mengli's sea of ​​consciousness, and then gently touching that soft barrier.

"Sizzle..."

With a soft sound, the soft barrier contracted sharply the moment it came into contact with the red aura, as if it had been branded with a red-hot iron.

Immediately afterwards, a powerful suction force surged out from below the barrier, attempting to draw in Shen Yifei's wisp of divine soul along with the red aura.

Shen Yifei was prepared and immediately severed the connection between that wisp of divine soul and himself, letting the suction force swallow his divine soul and the red aura together.

Then, he quickly withdrew from Liu Mengli's sea of ​​consciousness.

"Master, are you alright?" Liu Mengli asked quickly when she saw that his face was a little pale.

"It's nothing, I just lost a bit of my soul." Shen Yifei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "There really is something deep within your sea of ​​consciousness that's devouring your soul power."

"It devoured my soul power?" Liu Mengli was also somewhat bewildered. "What is that?"

"I don't know, but I tested it with the aura of the Five Elements Demon God. After I burned it, it tried to absorb my soul. I stopped it and cut off the connection directly."

Upon hearing this, Liu Mengli's expression turned somewhat grim. "What should we do then? I finally managed to get a physical body. If there's something in my sea of ​​consciousness devouring my soul, won't I be drained dry sooner or later?"

Seeing Liu Mengli's panicked appearance, Shen Yifei reached out and pinched her cheek. "Don't be afraid, I'm here. Do you think I'd let you turn back into a spirit?"

Liu Mengli looked down at her shapely figure, then pinched her thigh, wincing in pain. "Master, I finally got this feeling, I don't want to go back to how I was before... If I really had to go back..."

Liu Mengli puffed out her high, firm breasts.

"Why don't you... just eat me now!"