Ye Fan reached the location near the core of Taiyuan Star. The area around him was dead silent, the thick core material composed of high-pressure, high-temperature tals.
The core of Taiyuan Star is very similar to Earth’s core layer, both ford by liquid tal. Ye Fan needed to locate the space where Li Zhaojun was from among these tal layers, but after searching for a long ti, he hadn’t found any clues.
"I can clearly feel Zhao Jun is nearby, but why does the connection suddenly weaken when I get close?" Ye Fan was puzzled, as if Li Zhaojun had already left Taiyuan Star, leaving him unable to sense her traces.
At this mont, a voice suddenly ca from behind Ye Fan—the voice of the Mysterious Lady: "Ye Fan, don’t think of helping that Li girl. If I find out you are shielding her for harming my daughter, I’ll make sure you have no place to die!"
The Mysterious Lady seed to have gone mad, having been used along with the Pure Woman to fend off the black shadow, while the Pure Woman continuously created trouble for her. This made the Pure Woman realize that the previous battle between the Mysterious Lady and Ye Fan was re bluff, as the Mysterious Lady hadn’t fully recovered her cultivation yet.
Even though the Pure Woman knew the Mysterious Lady’s cultivation was still inferior to hers, she dared not easily attack the Mysterious Lady. While she wished to kill the Mysterious Lady to eliminate future troubles, she feared Ye Fan’s punishnt, so she could only use the power of the black shadow to deal with the Mysterious Lady.
Ye Fan completely ignored the conflict between the Mysterious Lady and the Pure Woman, focusing solely on finding Li Zhaojun.
He could sense the spiritual bodies around Taiyuan Star, both living and dead, and he felt the battle between the Mysterious Lady, the Pure Woman, and the black shadow. He could sense the powerful spiritual energy lingering on the surface and the cultivators on Taiyuan Star being forced into Pan Gu’s secret realm to avoid these strong spiritual bodies. He also felt Ta Mo and the female cultivators sent by Sang Yuan still hovering in space hundreds of kiloters away from Taiyuan Star...
Yet, he couldn’t feel Li Zhaojun’s presence.
"If Zhao Jun were around, I would definitely sense her. There’s only one explanation: Zhao Jun isn’t on Taiyuan Star, but perhaps she’s in another dinsion. Only by opening a passage can I find her!"
Ye Fan judged that Li Zhaojun was indeed not on Taiyuan Star, but the space she was in was accessed through a passage from Taiyuan Star’s core.
Once he’d made this determination, Ye Fan’s focus shifted from searching for living or dead spirits to finding the unusual substances around the core. Sure enough, he discovered sothing near Taiyuan Star’s core—an imnsely powerful elent origin object. The elental forces previously released by Taiyuan Star also ca from this origin object.
"Master, that thing is terrifying; can we avoid it?" As Ye Fan approached the elent origin object, Little Zi Ying suddenly appeared and said, woozy.
Previously, the six small crystals had been cultivating within his storage ring, either improving their cultivation or helping Ye Fan mobilize strong elental power. They hadn’t appeared for a long ti.
Ye Fan looked at Little Zi Ying, "Approaching that thing, does it make you uncomfortable?"
"Yes, Master, can we not go? I’m so scared!" Zi Ying, in her spiritual body form, felt hazy, making it difficult for Ye Fan’s Bronze Mirror to see clearly.
Ye Fan understood these symptoms were due to interference from the powerful external elental forces.
"You will have to endure a bit. Once we are near the elental object, the pressure won’t be as intense. I must go because your mistress is likely over there!" Ye Fan reassured.
Ye Fan, being human and not an elent spirit, was not greatly affected by the elental object, although he still had to withstand a significant amount of pressure.
While moving through the high-temperature, high-pressure underground tallic magma layers, Ye Fan had to carefully discern direction, as the intense subterranean magnetic field caused confusion in the natural human sense of direction and distance.
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After spending a few minutes, Ye Fan finally reached the powerful elent origin object.
It was a red crystal, resembling the Origin Power of the Little Red Crystal. As he approached the red crystal, Little Red Crystal erged from Ye Fan’s storage ring, excitedly gazing at the object.
"Master, can I go closer?" Little Red Crystal asked happily.
Apart from Little Red Crystal’s enthusiasm, the others—Little Black Crystal, Little Purple Crystal, and the rest—appeared utterly drained due to the red crystal’s overwhelming power affecting them.
Ye Fan looked at the red crystal, understanding it was akin to Earth’s blue crystal.
Ye Fan said, "It turns out the origin power of Taiyuan Star doesn’t co from the objects previously seen, as that was rely a branch. The power cos from the big Red Crystal. Little Red Crystal, can you communicate with it and ask about Zhao Jun?"
"Sure!" Little Red Crystal imdiately began interacting with the big Red Crystal, using an unspoken form of communication. Ye Fan didn’t know what was being said, but after a mont, a red space appeared—a sort of portal—beside the large Red Crystal.
Little Red Crystal exclaid, "Master, I asked, and it said that the mistress is in there. It can lead us there!"
Ye Fan had little basis to determine whether the large Red Crystal was deceiving him, but he chose decisively, "Thank you, I’ll take you all through imdiately!"
Ye Fan swiftly took the six small crystals through the red portal.
After crossing the portal, Ye Fan suddenly felt engulfed by light.
No longer shrouded in darkness, he seed to have returned to Earth.
"Where am I?" Ye Fan curiously examined his surroundings, realizing many things were beyond his control. His cultivation seed to vanish, and he found himself on a mountain path, unable to sense any spiritual energy.
"Is this an illusion?" Ye Fan’s heart filled with urgency; he wanted to find Li Zhaojun without delay.
Attempting to channel spiritual energy to fly into the sky, Ye Fan discovered his cultivation was unreachable, and the six small crystals had also disappeared, along with the storage ring.
Ye Fan continued down the mountain path, his gaze fixed skyward, confirming he wasn’t on Earth, as two suns existed in the illusion.
"Oooh..." A small house below seed to emit black smoke, as if it was on fire. Ye Fan felt a strange sensation stir within him. He beca increasingly excited, sensing Li Zhaojun might be inside the little house.
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