"Long time no see." Mu Xiaoxiao's red lips curved into a sharp arc. "I didn't expect you to succeed after all."

That familiar face gleamed with a cold, porcelain-like light in the moonlight, yet her eyes and brows held an eerie quality Han Feng had never seen before. Most chillingly, her pupils were a strange, ghostly blue, like two flickering will-o'-the-wisps.

Han Feng abruptly stopped his attack, his stellar power surging violently in his palm: "Enough nonsense, where did you put Wang Hao?"

"Guess?" Mu Xiaoxiao tilted her head, but the gesture, which should have been playful, came across as unnatural, like a puppet on a string.

His anger erupted like magma. Without another word, Han Feng unleashed the power of stars in his palm, sending a dazzling beam of light straight at Mu Xiaoxiao's face!

"Barrier deployed!" Chen Feng and Yu Die activated their devices simultaneously, and a semi-transparent energy shield instantly enveloped the entire rooftop, isolating the battle fluctuations within.

Mu Xiaoxiao calmly raised the amethyst. Spiderweb-like patterns appeared on the surface of the crystal, and Han Feng's star power was absorbed as if it had vanished into thin air. The remaining shockwave only lifted her hood, revealing a full head of silver hair—an effect that dye could not achieve; each strand of hair was deathly white, as if life had been drained from it.

"Crack." A tiny crack appeared on the surface of the crystal.

Han Feng's pupils contracted slightly. His full-force attack, unleashed at the early stage of the Great Dao Realm, had actually been neutralized by this tiny crystal? He held back no longer, his aura surging, his robes fluttering even without wind. The clouds in the night sky were stirred by an invisible force, forming a vortex.

"So this is the Great Dao Realm..." Mu Xiaoxiao licked her lips, her blue light intensifying. "But as long as the crystal remains, your attacks won't be able to harm me."

She shook the cracked crystal, her tone as flippant as if discussing the weather: "Of course, if you keep attacking and it breaks, I'll have to use Wang Hao as a shield."

Han Feng's knuckles turned white from clenching his fists. He subtly gestured to Chen Feng—"Flank"—while continuing to verbally pressure him: "Things from the Nether Crystal Clan? Looks like you've acquired quite a bit after colluding with extraterrestrial forces!"

"Collusion? That sounds awful." Mu Xiaoxiao chuckled. "We're just... each getting what we need." She suddenly turned to her left. "Hey, you with the Tang sword, take another half step and I'm jumping!"

Chen Feng froze on the spot. Han Feng's heart sank—Mu Xiaoxiao's perception far surpassed that of Chen Feng and Han Feng.

"You went to all this trouble just to lure me out?" Han Feng's star power surged through his meridians, yet his voice was terrifyingly calm. The vortex of clouds in the night sky spun faster with his aura, occasionally flashing with a silent bolt of lightning.

Mu Xiaoxiao played with the cracked crystal, her silver hair fluttering like spider silk in the night wind: "If it were just like this, why would I go through all this trouble?" She gently stroked the surface of the crystal with her fingertips, and the crack actually healed a little.

Han Feng caught a glimpse of Yu Die subtly moving to his right out of the corner of his eye, so he deliberately raised his voice: "Then why did you arrest Wang Hao? He has nothing to do with our grudges!"

"Really?" Mu Xiaoxiao suddenly giggled, her voice sharp and grating like the scraping of glass. "Han Feng, Han Feng, do you think only the Dongfang family knows divination? There are plenty of people with precognitive abilities overseas." She suddenly became serious. "The prophecy indicates that Wang Hao will become a key asset for you on your journey to the extraterritorial battlefield."

These words exploded in Han Feng's mind like a bomb. Wang Hao? That joking best friend who was always cracking jokes? An ally in the extraterritorial battlefield?

"Bullshit!" Han Feng shouted sharply, while simultaneously giving Yu Die a wink. "Wang Hao is just an ordinary person!"

Mu Xiaoxiao's blue eyes turned to Yu Die, who was stealthily moving: "Don't bother, little sister." She suddenly raised her hand, and a beam of blue light shot towards Yu Die's feet, instantly causing thick ice crystals to form on the ground. "I told you, you can't stop me."

Yu Die was forced to retreat, her Tang sword unsheathed as she shattered the spreading ice shards. Han Feng's heart skipped a beat—this was clearly the ability of the Youjing Clan! Mu Xiaoxiao's integration with the extraterrestrial forces far exceeded expectations.

"You think I'd believe your nonsense?" Han Feng secretly adjusted the trajectory of his stellar power, preparing to unleash a penetrating move from the "Nine Forms of Starfall." "Where exactly is Wang Hao?"

Mu Xiaoxiao shrugged, a gesture that should have been casual but appeared extremely awkward, as if unseen threads were controlling her: "Believe it or not. Anyway..." She suddenly smiled strangely, "Time's up."

The crystal suddenly burst forth with a blinding blue light! Han Feng instinctively raised his hand to shield his eyes, only to see Mu Xiaoxiao's figure gradually become transparent in the light.

"Space jump? Don't even think about it!" Han Feng formed hand seals, and the power of the stars transformed into countless strands of light that coiled towards the center of the blue light. "Star Lock Imprisoning Heaven!"

The moment the light strand touched the blue light, Han Feng felt a terrifying repulsive force—an energy that no human could possess, carrying a sense of oppression from a higher dimension. The thickest strand of light barely managed to wrap around Mu Xiaoxiao's left wrist, but it froze into ice crystals the instant it touched her skin, and then shattered.

"It's useless." Mu Xiaoxiao's voice began to distort. "This 'Boundary Crystal' is connected to the energy pool of the Nether Crystal Clan's home planet. With your strength, which has just entered the Great Dao Realm..."

Han Feng suddenly changed his move, and all the light threads converged into a single silver thread as thin as a hair, piercing into the crystal crack at an incredible angle! This was the "Starlight Breaking Boundary" technique he learned from the Absolute Fiend inheritance, which was specifically designed to counter all kinds of defensive treasures.

"Click—"

The crack in the crystal suddenly widened, and Mu Xiaoxiao's expression finally changed. She abruptly crushed the crystal, and the burst of blue light formed a spatial portal: "Han Feng! We'll meet again!"

Han Feng was also helpless in this situation, and at this moment he only regretted that his strength was far from enough.

At this moment, Yu Die stepped forward. After examining the traces at the scene, she returned with a grave expression: "We just conducted a technical analysis. Mu Xiaoxiao's space jump coordinates point to a certain location in the Pacific Ocean, but there was interference along the way, so we cannot rule out the possibility that it's a false coordinate."

"Let's go back to base first." Han Feng glanced at the spot where Mu Xiaoxiao had disappeared, his voice hoarse. "First, retrieve all of Wang Hao's activity records before his disappearance. I suspect this matter isn't as simple as we think."

Upon receiving Han Feng's order, Chen Feng and Yu Die immediately began their operation, and soon the three of them arrived at the Longyuan Base.

Lin Zhengguo also received the message and was waiting at the base. Upon seeing the three return, he hurriedly asked, "How did it go? Did you find them?"

Chen Feng shook his head without saying anything. Lin Zhengguo turned to look at Han Feng, who said, "Mu Xiaoxiao and the others' target is indeed Wang Hao, but she said they were a step too slow. There must be some clues that we missed. This matter is not that simple."