Transmigration: The Main Character is Not Becoming the Cannon Fodder!-Chapter 264 - 2: Surviving Direct Lineage of the Annihilated Clan (Part 2)
With the Divine Soul, it means that even if the body perishes, as long as the Divine Soul remains intact, it can be housed within the Lifebound Insect, offering a chance for reconstruction and rebirth. This is also a means for the Li Family to preserve their lives.
As for other Divine Clans, if there is an opportunity for possession, they too may live again or be reborn directly through the reincarnation of the Divine Soul.
Numerous Divine Clans have fallen at this phase, transitioning from the Spirit Realm to the Divine Soul stage.
Within the Divine Domain, the most formidable beings are those at the Divine Venerate level.
The Li Family once possessed a Divine Venerate, yet even they were exterminated this time. To become a Divine Venerate, after surpassing the Divine Soul, how many more stages and how many more epochs of cultivation are needed?
Li Shuning had already calmed her mind by this point.
She stepped out from the secret chamber.
The most unfathomable capability of the Li Family is their ability to change unpredictably.
This capability is attributed to the power borrowed from insects.
Li Shuning’s Lifebound Insect is extraordinarily powerful, subdued in the ancestral lands of the Li Family, surpassing even the lifebound insect of the Clan Leader’s son.
Through her Lifebound Insect, Li Shuning altered her appearance, her aura, and all her connections of karma, then departed the secret chamber.
In the Divine Domain, all kinds of families exist, some proficient in fate calculations and the assessment of karma.
Li Shuning could not afford to be careless.
Upon leaving her secret chamber, she realized that this place was merely one of the Lower Realms beneath the Divine Domain.
Generally, Divine Clans are reluctant to descend to the Lower Realms.
Because the concentration of Spiritual Energy in the Lower Realms cannot compare with that of the Divine Domain, resources are scarce.
Yet Li Shuning’s father had transported her to this place, indicating its special nature.
Li Shuning wandered this realm for ten years before finally discerning its unique properties.
Li Shuning gained tremendous benefits from this realm, and her Lifebound Insect also experienced considerable advancement.
She could utilize her Lifebound Insect’s abilities freely.
In other words, Li Shuning possessed a mighty concealment capability.
She left that realm and began traversing various Lower Realms, deeming them not simple.
After seventy to eighty years, Li Shuning entered the Profound Light stage and returned to the Divine Domain.
Although Li Shuning had altered her appearance, her natural beauty remained, enabling her to enter the second largest family of the original Divine Domain, though it was now the foremost family.
Within this family, Li Shuning discovered many things.
Even the younger members were aware of some aspects concerning the Li Family.
The extinction of the Li Family was supposedly related to the mysterious insect they had acquired.
Rumors outside suggested that for fear the Li Family’s acquisition of a more powerful insect would leave no place for other families in the Divine Domain, they preemptively struck.
Li Shuning, however, discovered an obscure force at work, subtle yet peculiar.
It seemed this force was present among several families within the Divine Domain.
Li Shuning had not yet developed clarity on this matter before she encountered the Clan Leader’s son.
To her surprise, the Clan Leader’s son was indeed her cousin.
In a world where her family was destroyed, leaving her against a host of enemies, having a kinsman was a source of great joy and hope.
The Clan Leader’s son was evidently stronger than Li Shuning and provided significant assistance as they sought out their enemies together.
Li Shuning invested her full trust in the Clan Leader’s son.
The bloodline of the Li Family is incredibly powerful.
Because of the belief that the insect discovered by the Li Family posed a great threat, the Clan Leader’s son suggested they find it to uncover its secrets.
They easily located the insect.
The Clan Leader’s son researched it for a long time but found no peculiarities.
Li Shuning, who always revered the Clan Leader’s son, naturally wouldn’t study it herself, believing that any benefits from the insect should go to him first.
However, unable to find anything, the Clan Leader’s son then handed it to Li Shuning, prompting her to investigate.
In just a few days, she recognized the insect’s uniqueness; although it appeared lifeless, it was merely dormant. Despite its dormancy, it possessed an absolute self-preservation ability, with defense several times stronger than when it lived.
After numerous tests, Li Shuning found the insect could accept a master.
Moreover, its defense was nearly invincible.
If it became her Lifebound Insect, its defense would immediately escalate. Though a living insect might not withstand a strike from a Divine Venerate, it could fend off attacks from anything below that level.
And as Li Shuning’s strength grew, the insect’s defensive capabilities would enhance as well.
Li Shuning had discovered the means and was about to claim the insect when she noticed the longing in the eyes of the Clan Leader’s son.
In the end, Li Shuning ceded the insect and assisted the Clan Leader’s son in making it his Lifebound Insect.
The Clan Leader’s son was overjoyed, evidently aware of the insect’s wonders.
With absolute defense and offensive capabilities, if the Li Family had indeed realized the insect’s potential earlier, they might have been invincible within the Divine Domain.
Li Shuning believed that with such leverage, they now had true prospects for restoring the Li Family.
Yet she never imagined that the Clan Leader’s son, likely to be the next Clan Leader, was actually a traitor.
During their search for clues, though it was Li Shuning’s turn to stand watch, the Clan Leader’s son suggested she rest while he took the watch.
Li Shuning, indeed exhausted, awoke to discover her Divine Soul constrained, her body inscribed with various runes, leaving her powerless and feeble.
Being intelligent, Li Shuning quickly grasped what had occurred and recalled the peculiar behavior of the Clan Leader’s son since their reunion.
Why had the Clan Leader’s son brought her to the mysterious insect so easily when it was feared by all?
How laughable that she trusted him so completely.
Li Shuning was in despair, reflecting on the Clan Leader dedicated to the family.
What level of despair would he feel beyond the grave, knowing his son was a traitor?
What followed for Li Shuning was unbearably painful.
The force behind it all sought the Li Family’s bloodline power, their insect control abilities, and the Clan Leader’s son, having pledged himself to them, surrendered everything, though the force remained unsatisfied.
For when members of the Li Family fell in battle, they obliterated all secrets within their bodies.
Seized, Li Shuning became a subject for their experiments.
Li Shuning endured countless humiliations, expending every last drop of her blood, culminating in a tragic death.
