"Oh well."

Hearing Ye Ran's words, Xuan Yuanjing obediently stopped in his tracks.

After a while,

Ye Ran finally finished setting up the array on the ground.

He straightened up and let out a long sigh of relief:

"Phew... finally finished. This was more tiring than killing those bastards..."

Then, Ye Ran turned around and looked at Xuanyuan Mirror, and in a few flashes, he appeared in front of Xuanyuan Mirror.

"Senior Xuanyuan gave you everything, right?"

"I did give it to you, but this thing..." Hearing Ye Ran's question, Xuan Yuanjing awkwardly took out the oil lamp from his pocket, which showed no energy fluctuations.

Seemingly afraid that Ye Ran might say something, Xuan Yuanjing simply took the initiative to speak:

"Teacher Ye, this is indeed a treasure passed down through generations of our Xuanyuan family, but I suspect it might be a fake..."

Ye Ran took the oil lamp from Xuan Yuanjing's hand and nodded in satisfaction:

"What fake? This is the real deal!!"

Hearing Ye Ran's affirmative answer, Xuan Yuanjing asked in surprise:

"Teacher Ye, can you tell this is genuine?"

"Of course!!" Ye Ran weighed the oil lamp in his hand, his eyes gleaming as he gazed at the petal-shaped design on it, and murmured:

"The famous Lotus Lantern, any Chinese person could recognize it, right..."

"Teacher Ye, what did you say??"

"Oh...it's nothing," Ye Ran said dismissively, tossing the oil lamp back to Xuanyuan Jing.

He then continued speaking to the Xuanyuan Mirror:

"Now, follow me. Remember to step perfectly in my footprints with every step. Don't wander off. Can you do that?"

Although he didn't know why Ye Ran said that, Xuan Yuanjing still nodded:

"Teacher Ye, you can do it!!"

"Hmm, if a transcendent cultivator who practices Qi and blood cultivation can't even do this, then their training has truly been in vain..."

Ye Ran nodded and began to follow a certain pattern, step by step, into the array he had drawn.

Xuanyuan Jing watched Ye Ran step into the formation, and then carefully followed Ye Ran's steps into it.

In order to allow the Xuanyuan Mirror to clearly see the location of each step it takes,

Ye Ran walked extremely slowly, which also caused Xuanyuan Jing to walk very slowly.

The two walked forward step by step, almost as if in slow motion.

During this journey, Xuanyuan Jing finally couldn't help but ask:

"Teacher Ye, what happens if we go into the wrong formation?"

Xuanyuan Jing had just finished speaking when

Suddenly a gust of wind blew,

It startled a pheasant from the nearby woods.

The startled pheasant darted directly towards the direction of Ye Ran's formation.

The moment the pheasant darted into the formation,

With a "whoosh!!!"

An invisible sword aura emanated from the edge of the formation, severing the pheasant in two and a half pieces...

Xuanyuan Jing stared wide-eyed at the pheasant's miserable state...

I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat...

"See that? This is what happens..." Ye Ran looked at Xuanyuan Jing with a smile.

"Logically, this formation should have been carved out bit by bit by a professional formation master, but I found that troublesome, so I just used a sword to carve it out. It's certainly fast enough, but as you can see, it has its drawbacks..."

Xuanyuan Jing swallowed hard and nodded seriously:

"clear......."

Then he turned to look at Ye Ran:

"Teacher Ye, why don't we just fly there?"

Upon hearing Xuanyuan Jing's words, Ye Ran suddenly stopped.

Seeing that Ye Ran had stopped, Xuan Yuanjing didn't dare to take another step forward.

For a moment, the scene seemed to freeze in time.

Seeing that Ye Ran remained silent for a long time, Xuan Yuanjing assumed that Ye Ran was angry because he had talked too much and too much.

He quickly added a sentence to cover it up:

"Teacher Ye, I didn't mean to question you. You must have your reasons for insisting on doing this, and I'll follow your lead..."

"No..." Ye Ran turned around at this moment and gave Xuanyuan Mirror a thumbs up.

"That's why they say you're the most talented young man in the Xuanyuan family. Let's fly over there."

After saying that,

Ye Ran took the lead, darting out and flying to the core of the formation.

Subsequently,

Ye Ran turned around and waved to the bewildered Xuan Yuanjing, signaling him to come over quickly.

At this moment, a bewildered Xuanyuan Jing looked at Ye Ran, who had already reached the core of the formation, and a bitter smile appeared on his lips.

So even Teacher Ye can be unreliable sometimes...

Subsequently,

Xuanyuan Mirror jumped straight upwards.

Ye Ran followed and rushed directly to the core of the formation...

"Young people are really smart," Ye Ran said with a smile, praising the flying Xuanyuan Mirror.

This compliment made Xuanyuan Jing awkwardly scratch his head, stand aside and chuckle sheepishly, saying:

"Teacher Ye, what do we do now?"

"Oh, right." Ye Ran held out her hand, "Give me your precious thing."

Hearing Ye Ran's request, Xuan Yuanjing obediently handed Ye Ran his family's oil lamp.

Ye Ran looked at the Lotus Lantern in her hand and murmured to herself:

Did your ancestor tell you what this treasure is called?

Hearing Ye Ran's question, Xuan Yuanjing shook his head:

"I don't know its name. No, not only me, but even my ancestor didn't know its name. However, according to legend, it's a treasure passed down from the first head of the Xuanyuan family, possessing the power to change the world..."

"I see... No wonder you thought this was a fake..."

Ye Ran got the general idea.

Then, holding the oil lamp up to the Xuanyuan Mirror, he continued to explain:

"This treasure is called the Lotus Lantern. It was forged from celestial fire after the ancient gods mended the heavens. Legend has it that when Pangu separated heaven and earth, the ancient gods used this treasure to illuminate the three thousand worlds of primordial chaos. It is a supreme innate treasure capable of transcending the river of time and space and escaping the five elements..."

Listening to Ye Ran recount the origins of the Lotus Lantern,

Xuanyuan Jing's eyes widened in disbelief.

Firstly, they were surprised that their precious possession, which showed absolutely no energy fluctuations, had such a remarkable origin.

Secondly, they were surprised that Ye Ran was so familiar with treasures of this caliber...

At this moment, Ye Ran,

He didn't seem like a young man in his twenties or thirties at all; rather, he seemed like an ancient monster who had lived for thousands of years...