With clear, compassionate eyes, Wuchen looked at Zhenru with a smile, inquiring about her hardships.

A warm feeling welled up in her heart, and she was the first person to tell her how hard she had worked.

For this "hard work," Zhenru gave a helpless smile.

In front of many people, she didn't say much about the mother tree to Wuchen, but only exchanged a knowing glance before politely speaking to Venerable Xian'en:

“Venerable Xian'en, please lead the way.”

Since she had come prepared to see her, Zhenru wanted to see what the other party had actually calculated.

Without being polite to Zhenru, Venerable Xian'en nodded and turned to flee ahead.

Of course, after taking care of the speed of the people behind him, Venerable Xian'en realized that apart from Jinming, no one else needed him to take care of their speed, so he simply took Jinming with him and sped away.

The group had barely left when those who had been secretly watching Zhenru's whereabouts rushed over and followed the scent.

Until they entered a maze, the group's tracks vanished without a trace.

However, this illusion was unknown to the junior cultivators, but the powerful ancestors of the Sun Realm were familiar with it.

This is a secret place belonging to the Fanyin Temple. It is not a secret place for the patriarch to cultivate in seclusion, but a secret place used by the Fanyin Temple for star observation and divination. It is a secret place that even the patriarch with the highest cultivation level in the Fanyin Temple cannot fully explore.

The powerful figures, who were almost ready to encircle and annihilate, stopped at the entrance to the secret realm. It wasn't that they didn't want to enter, but that they couldn't.

This secret place is peculiar; who can enter is completely unpredictable, regardless of cultivation level or aptitude. It's impossible to know who can enter.

But one thing is certain: none of the powerful beings surrounding them will be able to enter.

Zhenru and his group entered the secret place without even knowing its details.

Among the group, only Jin Ming showed a strange expression, while Wu Chen and Venerable Xian'en showed no surprise at all, indicating that the so-called randomness was actually governed by a pattern, which outsiders were unaware of.

"Venerable Xian'en, where is this?"

"A place where Fellow Daoist Zhenru can be guaranteed safety from now on."

Venerable Xian'en did not stop, and skillfully led the people deeper into the maze.

Within the maze, everywhere is shrouded in mist, obscuring the true nature of the high mountains and dense forests.

Zhenru didn't know which were real scenes and which were illusions. After receiving Wuchen's secret instructions, he only needed to spare a little attention to closely follow the steps of the Venerable Xian'en.

Gradually, the illusion faded away, revealing a towering observatory standing between heaven and earth.

Needless to say, that was their destination.

It wasn't a short distance, but for these people, it was just a matter of taking a few steps.

The observatory sits atop a towering, steep, and precipitous peak; it is simple yet exudes a mysterious and enigmatic aura.

It is unknown what this observatory was built of. Despite its simple and not very spacious nature, people standing on it felt insignificant, as if the vastness of the void and the universe were within reach.

"Fellow Daoist Zhenru can rest assured that anyone who can ascend this Star Gazing Platform is certainly not someone who has alienated us."

Should I wait?

Zhenru couldn't even discern the hearts of the people in the Sun Realm. Who could she possibly talk to about us? Hearing this, she simply smiled and said:

“Fellow Daoist Wuchen said that Venerable Xian'en has already seen through my predicament.”

Although Venerable Xian'en felt that Zhenru's attitude differed from what he had imagined, and also felt that they were definitely on the same side, he didn't keep them in suspense and said directly:

"The Sun Realm is teetering on the brink of collapse, and only you can save it. It may take some effort, but it's not too difficult. And on this observatory, you can get what you want even more easily."

Zhenru's eyes flickered slightly. The Mother Tree had told her that the Venerable Xian'en could also calculate the matter of finding a replacement and a place to accommodate the Sun Realm.

If it's that powerful, then what the mother tree said wouldn't be so difficult to achieve, right?

Before Venerable Xian'en could finish speaking, as Zhenru's thoughts were surging, Venerable Xian'en spoke with considerable certainty:

"I imagine that Fellow Daoist Zhenru should have at least four or five drops of Golden Crow essence blood in his possession by now, right?"

"The Star Gazing Platform has wonderful uses. Fellow Daoist, why don't you unleash the full power of your Golden Crow bloodline aura and experience the surprise?"

"Once we obtain the Golden Crow essence blood and Fellow Daoist Zhenru's Golden Crow bloodline is fully activated, the greatest difficulty in saving the Sun Realm will be almost resolved."

Hmm? No mention of changing realms?

Zhenru was surprised, but when she turned her head, she met the meaningful look in Venerable Xian'en's eyes, and suddenly she understood.

She forgot that the solution to finding new realms was the more difficult solution the mother tree had described, rather than the easier one.

The truly easy solution to succeed is to directly transplant the small Fusang Divine Tree from the Golden Crow Space to the core of the Sun Realm, and then use power to revitalize the Sun Realm, connecting it to the new mother tree.

Although generating life to complete the handover of the mother tree is an extremely difficult task, it is still much easier than changing to a new realm.

So Zhenru suddenly understood what that meaningful look meant.

Clearly, Venerable Xian'en possessed profound deductive abilities and had roughly calculated that the solution to the problem of the Sun Realm lay within himself, though he did not know exactly what it was.

Then he roughly calculated that as long as he collected all the Golden Crow essence and blood and fully activated the Golden Crow bloodline, he could obtain the power to repair the Sun Realm.

Zhenru remained calm and simply nodded to Venerable Xian'en, then followed his instructions and ascended the stone steps of the Star Gazing Platform.

Wuchen greeted Zhenru and told her to stay at the Care Platform and to contact him if she needed anything, then follow Venerable Xian'en into the illusion.

This includes Si Qing, who came with Zhenru.

After everyone left, Zhenru pondered for a while, then sat cross-legged with her palms facing the sky, gradually relaxing her mind.

There was a strange and mysterious force floating around the observatory. It wasn't very noticeable when there were many people, but when Zhenru was the only person on the observatory, the force of that force began to amplify exponentially.

Zhenru felt as if she were the only person left in the world, and the previously invisible forces in the air began to emerge as dots and lines.

It's just that Zhenru doesn't understand the art of deduction, so she can't see what those points, clusters, and lines of attraction really represent; in short, they're not what Zhenru wants.

Just as Venerable Xian'en had instructed, the Golden Crow Space was activated, and the aura of the Golden Crow bloodline was slowly released in all directions.

Gradually, the chaotic and disruptive auras disappeared, all auras vanished, and the world became desolate. The aura of the Golden Crow bloodline followed its instincts and dispersed into the distance.

At this moment, Zhenru's consciousness was like a lonely wandering soul in the world, roaming freely, trying to find its kind.

Further away, even further away...

Just as Zhenru was unaware of how long she had been sitting on the star-gazing platform, or where her consciousness had drifted to, and was almost merging into the desolate void, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared.