He Hong immediately said, "Retreat!"

The three of them quickly flew towards the east side of the South China Sea. They had just left Sin Island when they heard a voice.

Where are you all going?

Eight figures appeared around the three, radiating astonishing demonic energy, resembling demon gods.

Qin Lan was taken aback. "People of the Spirit Clan, what brings you here?"

It turned out that the three of them were surrounded by the patriarchs of the eight great spirit races, led by Jia Hao. Their appearance on Sin Island was naturally due to a message from Crescent Moon.

Back then, Luo Yunfei, the fifth strategist of the Owl Sect, possessed Shui Miao, the chief of the Water Qilin Clan, and almost overthrew the entire Spirit Continent.

This led the clan leaders to swear an oath to never coexist with the Owl Clan of the Half-Heaven Realm.

Upon hearing the message from Crescent Moon, he traveled day and night, flying from the North Sea to the South Sea.

Jia Hao snorted, "The people of the Owl Sect are the greatest enemies of my Spirit Clan. Destroying you is a no-brainer!"

Qin Lan was completely bewildered, and as she was thinking about how to escape the encirclement, more than a dozen figures appeared in her sight. It was the arrival of the powerful figures from the Half-Heaven Realm sect.

Although they are just a few small black dots, they are moving extremely fast and can arrive in no time.

Fei Xiang cried out urgently, "Brother, this is bad! More powerful figures are catching up! We must break through this encirclement!"

Qin Lan nodded and immediately took action.

However, the eight patriarchs of the Spirit Clan were no ordinary experts, and despite the three's fierce attacks, they were unable to break through.

After the arrival of the powerful figures from the Half-Heaven Realm sects, Qin Lan and the others were surrounded and attacked by numerous powerful figures. They held out for less than a quarter of an hour before some died and others were injured, leaving only Qin Lan.

Mao Buyi, a celestial official from Immortal Island, said, "Qin Lan, I advise you to obediently return to Immortal Island with me and accept its judgment!"

"Pah!"

"I'd rather die than go to that place!"

Suddenly, a purple light shone around Qin Lan, who had used his astral projection technique, intending to perish together with everyone else.

Naturally, the crowd wouldn't let him have his way, and together they attacked, shattering Qin Lan's primordial spirit before it exploded.

"You wait, the Half-Sky Realm Owl Sect will not be destroyed!"

Qin Lan's voice gradually disappeared as his primordial spirit dissipated. The dignified fourth strategist of the Owl Sect had fallen just like that.

Baxia snorted, "This is really boring. Sin Island was destroyed in just a few rounds!"

"With a lineup like this today, even a peak Yuanxiang Realm expert would perish!"

Lan Hua then pondered and said, "Now that the fourth and fifth strategists of the Owl Sect in the Half-Heaven Realm have been destroyed, the Owl Sect's power has been reduced by more than half, leaving only the sixth strategist. However, we do not know his current whereabouts!"

"Exactly, and we don't even know his identity. This sixth brother is really mysterious!" Baxia sighed.

Du Renjie asked curiously, "Could it still be hidden in Tianyuan Cave?"

Nalan Ruode shook his head. "It's unlikely. After the conspiracy of Tianyuan Cave was exposed, the experts from the Half-Heaven Realm swept through Tianyuan Cave and found no one!"

"What about the Ghost Face Vine? What's the situation with the Ghost Face Vine?" Lan Hua asked.

"The Ghost-Faced Vine is now bound by a restriction, and it's likely it can no longer leave the Tianyuan Cave!"

Lan Hua sighed, "This sixth brother might be the most formidable one. We all need to be careful!"

After annihilating the three island lords of Sin Island, many powerful figures entered the island and began cleaning up the battlefield.

It's more like they're dividing up the spoils than cleaning up the battlefield.

Sin Island has been operating for thousands of years, and its treasures are as rich as any major sect in the Half-Heaven Realm.

That being said, what's wrong with taking a little benefit from someone? It's just the cost of doing the work.

Although the Sin Island organization was destroyed, the Eighteen Prisons still exist.

Fairy Island decided to send people to temporarily take over and continue operating Sin Island, maintaining the complementary relationship between Fairy Island and Sin Island.

"Disperse, disperse, this is none of our business!" Lan Hua said.

Just as Lan Hua was about to part ways with Du Renjie, the latter suddenly said, "Brother Lan, I have a favor to ask. I want to go to the River of Separation and would like to invite you to come with me!"

"The River of Separation? Isn't that a dangerous place? What would we do there?" Baxia asked.

Lan Hua smiled slightly, "Brother Du, there's no need to be so polite. If I'm not mistaken, you went to the River of Separation because of the person in the ice coffin behind you!"

Baxia suddenly exclaimed, "I know! The one lying in the ice coffin must be your beloved!"

Du Renjie gave a wry smile, his face showing affection.

"Yes, lying in the ice coffin is my beloved, the love of my life!"

Lan Hua thought to herself, "Just as I thought." A man in his early thirties who carries a coffin around every day must either be a corpse collector or a great romantic.

Collecting the body is out of the question, so he must be a hopeless romantic.

Du Renjie gently stroked the ice coffin and said softly, "Her name is Ye Yao. She was originally from the Northern Continent. One day, she went to Iceland for a trip and that's how I met her!"

"I had no interest in her at first, but she was like a pure and innocent fairy, without any guile. After a few encounters, I was finally melted by her kindness."

"We fell in love because of this. Iceland has always been cold and lonely, but Yao Yao never cared. She liked to dance in the snow for me."

"Those were such wonderful days! It wasn't until I went into seclusion to break through to the Refinement of Spirit Realm that those beautiful memories became just that—memories!"

Lan Hua asked curiously, "Why is that?"

Du Renjie said regretfully, "When I was in seclusion breaking through to a higher realm, I suddenly went into a state of demonic possession. Yao Yao saw that I was about to go mad and die, so she sacrificed her own primordial spirit."

"Sacrifice your primordial spirit?" Lan Hua and Ba Xia were taken aback.

"That's right, Yao Yao sacrificed her primordial spirit to help me overcome my death, but her own primordial spirit dissipated!"

"I was unwilling to accept this, so I quickly sought help from the clan elders, who managed to salvage a sliver of her soul, but Yao Yao would never wake up again!"

Lan Hua thought to herself, "Isn't this turning me into a vegetable?"

"So, you placed Miss Ye Yao's body in an ice coffin and never left her side, even when you went out, you took her with you?" Lan Hua asked.

Du Renjie nodded slowly.

"For Yao Yao's sake, I traveled almost all over the Heavenly Realm. As soon as I learned that the Tianyuan Cave Trial had opened, I went there immediately."

Unfortunately, this Tianyuan Cave can only help me break through my cultivation level, but it doesn't benefit Yao Yao at all; it still can't awaken him!

Baxia sighed, "What an unparalleled romantic!"

Du Renjie added, "Now that five years have passed, Yao Yao's chances of survival have dwindled significantly. If we don't find another way, she will soon leave me!"

Lan Hua frowned, realizing the seriousness of the matter. "So you want to invite me to the River of Separation!"

"Could there be some treasure in the River of Separation that can save her? I've heard that there are tear-me-nots in the River of Separation. Could it be that they want to use the heart of a tear-me-not to save her?"

Du Renjie shook his head. "My Ice Clan elders said that this River of Separation is actually a seal, and behind the seal, it seems that the Undead Clan lives."

They have a secret formula for immortality; perhaps they can save my Yao Yao!

"A seal? An undead race?"

Lan Hua and Ba Xia were greatly surprised. This dangerous place was actually a seal. How could they not be astonished?

"Then let's go!"

"Anyway, we're just idling around!" Baxia didn't care about the danger at all.

Lan Hua nodded.

Du Renjie said gratefully, "The River of Separation is extremely dangerous. Brother Lan, are you sure you want to go?"

"Sin Island is just as dangerous, yet Brother Du still went with me, didn't he?"