Millions of miles of space pass in a flash.
"Wow! This is the interior of the Xuanzhou... It's so big! It's many times bigger than the largest Xuanzhou in our family!"
Standing in the center of the first floor of the ancient castle inside the Taikoo Xuanzhou, Number Seven Under Heaven kept turning around and looking around, his mouth wide open, shouting in surprise.
"This is just one of the castles in the Xuanzhou. There is an extremely huge space outside the castle... It is definitely larger than you can imagine." Yun Che said mysteriously. As the master of the Xuanzhou, he can always know the situation inside the Xuanzhou. With the injection of the power of the Nine Sun Jade, the Xuanzhou also revived from its silence, and its world laws began to operate. Outside the castle, the originally dry land has become green in the past few months. Countless kinds of mysterious beasts roam in it, and more exotic flowers and beasts are being nurtured and grown.
“Such a huge profound boat, but I can’t feel any fluctuations in its energy aura, and I can’t even sense its movement.” Number One Under Heaven exclaimed: “The world is so big, there really are all kinds of wonders, and there is actually such a treasure.”
Although Number One Under Heaven was extremely shocked and surprised, he did not ask Yun Che where it came from, because he knew that this would offend others. Yun Che took the initiative to say: "This profound boat should have been passed down from ancient times, and I got it accidentally. It is different from ordinary profound boats. It is a world of its own and has a special spirituality. It has now recognized me as its master, and no one can take it away... However, I still hope that Brother Tianxia can keep it a secret for me. Although it is impossible for anyone to take it away, if it is targeted by greed, it will be very annoying if a few flies come to harass it from time to time."
"Haha, don't worry, Brother Yun. You have been so frank with me, how could I be a despicable person?" said the most cheerful man in the world.
"Brother, how long will it take us to reach Tianxuan Continent?" Xiao Yun asked excitedly.
“Oh, we’ve arrived.” Yun Che said.
"Ah? Are we there yet?" The three of them were all dumbfounded.
“Yes… We have arrived at this point in the third breath since we entered the Xuanzhou. We have been stopped for a long time now.” Yun Che had a calm expression… but in fact, he was enjoying their exaggerated reactions.
"This... so fast!?" Xiao Yun opened his mouth wide, and stuttered a little. "Father said that the Profound Sky Continent and the Illusory Demon Realm are millions of miles away. Even if it is through space travel... this speed is too exaggerated! Millions of miles!"
“Let’s go out.” Yun Che said, his chest rising and falling gently: Profound Sky Continent… Blue Wind Country, I’m finally back… No matter what, you must be safe and sound…
He released his mind and checked the energy consumption of Xuanzhou. The result surprised him greatly. After traveling millions of miles in space in an instant, the energy consumption of Xuanzhou was less than half! It was many times smaller than he expected!
Based on this consumption rate, let alone returning to the Fantasy Demon Realm... there should be no problem making dozens of trips back and forth!
It was definitely not that the consumption of the Ancient Profound Ark was small... but the power of the Nine Sun Jade was too huge! It was definitely beyond Yun Che's cognition. After all, it was a divine jade from the divine beast Golden Crow!
Under the red light, the scene in front of him changed rapidly. A dry and hot breeze mixed with dust blew over him. All around him was a vast mountainous area, but the vegetation was scattered and dry. The occasional trees were mostly broken on the ground. The air was filled with a heavy sense of desolation and loneliness.
Yun Che: “…”
"Here...are we already in the Profound Tian Continent?" Number Seven Under Heaven looked around, but could not see any human habitation, and it seemed that there was not even any trace of a mysterious beast.
"We seem to have arrived at a very desolate place." Xiao Yun also looked around.
"The density of elements is very weak, the level of profound strength here should be very low." Number One Under Heaven frowned: "Brother Yun, is this the 'Blue Wind Country' you mentioned?"
“…It should be.” Yun Che frowned slightly, looked around for a while, turned to Number One Under Heaven and Number Seven Under Heaven and said, “I’m not sure where this is in Blue Wind Country. But… Brother Under Heaven, Seventh Sister, do you have any way to cover up your ears and elf wings? Although there are records about the elves in the Profound Sky Continent, it seems that they have not appeared for thousands of years.”
Number One Under Heaven instantly understood Yun Che’s meaning and nodded, “It’s a small matter.”
After saying this, he activated his profound energy, and the transparent cicada wings behind him instantly folded up and disappeared into his clothes. His pair of pointed ears were also covered by green light. When the green light faded, they had turned into ears like those of ordinary humans... This was not a real change, but a disguise under the profound energy. However, unless one's profound energy was far superior to his and one was concentrating on observing, it would generally not be noticed.
The Seventh in the World also used the same method to cover his cicada wings and ears.
“Brother, your expression… looks so solemn. Is there something… wrong?” Xiao Yun asked tentatively. What Yun Che had been looking forward to the most during this period of time was returning to the Profound Sky Continent. When he was in the Xuanzhou, he could clearly feel the excitement that filled Yun Che. Now that he had arrived on the land of the Profound Sky Continent, he should be excited and happy… But now, he was frowning, with no expression of joy at all.
Yun Che looked ahead, frowned, and said, “It’s okay… I just vaguely felt that something seemed to be wrong. I’ll go up and confirm where this is.”
After saying this, Yun Che leaped with all his might and flew into the air. However, before his body touched the clouds, a rather large city appeared in the distance to the west. He paused there, silently looking at the outline of the city, and a name also appeared in his mind.
That is... Crescent City!!
Although New Moon City is not a big city, it is also one of the main cities of Blue Wind Nation. In particular, its location is right in the middle of Blue Wind Nation's territory, so it is the hub city of Blue Wind Nation, with a huge flow of people every day, and it is very lively. And now it is morning, when a large number of people who stay in New Moon City are leaving the city. From Yun Che's position, whether it is the east, west, south, or north of the city, there should be crowds of people...
But at a glance, there was hardly a single person in sight. The central city of Blue Wind Nation gave Yun Che a feeling that it was a bit lifeless... and from a distance, it seemed to be shrouded in a dark mist.
According to the location of New Moon City, Yun Che also remembered where he was standing. When he left Floating Cloud City and went to New Moon City while training, he passed by here and stayed here for one night... However, the place in his memory was clearly covered with trees and grass, full of vitality, and there were quite a lot of low-level profound beasts active. But now, it was a wasteland, as if it had been burned by a sea of fire and then trampled by thousands of troops.
What's going on?
What exactly happened in Crescent City?
A strong sense of uneasiness arose in Yun Che’s heart. He quickly calmed down and said with a gloomy brow, “Let’s go! Let’s go to New Moon City… The situation here seems to be a little bit wrong.”
"Ah, New Moon City?" Xiao Yun was about to ask when he was pulled up by No. 7 Under Heaven: "Don't say anything more, let's go!!"
They all saw Yun Che's strange expression. Even when he was facing the forces of the Huai Palace alone, he was full of energy and laughed heartily... But at this moment, Yun Che's face was frighteningly gloomy. As soon as Yun Che finished speaking, he rushed westward at a high speed, and the three of them hurriedly followed.
"The land here seems to have suffered a large-scale destruction. And the atmosphere here seems too desolate." Number One Under Heaven said calmly: "Brother Yun, the New Moon City you just mentioned is the place where you were born?"
“Not really.” Yun Che frowned, flying faster and faster: “I didn’t stay in New Moon City for a long time, but it was the place that changed my destiny. It should be one of the most lively cities in Blue Wind Country besides the Imperial City, but it feels dead and dull to me now. The place we are in now was definitely not like this back then... What on earth happened here!?”
Yun Che gritted his teeth slightly, trying not to imagine the speculations that were more terrifying than the last. At this moment, he suddenly felt the fluctuation of weak profound energy from several miles ahead. His eyes moved, and his speed suddenly slowed down, flying towards the location of the profound energy fluctuation.
Several boulders several people high appeared in sight. Behind the shattered boulders, seventeen different strengths of profound energy auras were transmitted. The strongest of these auras was at the seventh level of the Spiritual Profound Realm, while the weakest was at the beginning of the True Profound Realm. They hid behind the boulders and tried their best to suppress their auras... but how could they possibly hide from Yun Che's spiritual perception?
Yun Che slowed down his speed and approached the boulder. When he was ten steps away, a gray-white figure suddenly rushed out from behind the boulder. The profound energy in his body burst out, and a long sword gleaming with cold light pierced Yun Che directly, accompanied by a roar filled with deep hatred: "Divine Phoenix thief, die!!"
The man who rushed out first was the strongest among the seventeen. But with only the seventh level of profound strength in the Spiritual Profound Realm, how could he pose even the slightest threat to Yun Che? Without moving his feet, he swung his palm in the air at the figure that was stabbing at him... and at that moment, he saw the face of that person clearly, and his face suddenly changed. He tried his best to retract the profound strength that had just been released, and at the same time, he stretched out his arm to block the world's number one who was about to rush forward: "Don't do it!!"
Although Yun Che had only casually swung his palm, and had just retracted more than 90% of his profound strength, his current profound strength was so overbearing that even if it was just a tiny bit that was insignificant to him, it was definitely not something that the person on the other side could easily withstand. The long sword in his hand instantly broke and fell out of his hand, and the whole person fell back and hit the big rock behind him fiercely... His face turned pale, and he collapsed to the ground, his whole body twitching violently in pain, but the determination and hatred in his eyes did not diminish at all.
"tutor!!"
"Teacher Sikong!!"
The people behind the boulder who were about to take the opportunity to attack were all horrified and gathered around the man, panicking and checking his injuries. Yun Che took a few steps forward and looked at the figure who had been knocked to the ground by him: "Sikong... Senior Brother?"
The person in front of him was very different from the one in his memory. His elegant long hair was gone, becoming messy short hair. His robes were no longer luxurious, but were covered with tears and bloodstains of varying depths. The face that was as smooth as jade in his memory... was now engraved with shocking scars... One of them almost touched his eyes.
The look in his eyes had changed drastically from before... he had lost his gentleness and was now as ferocious as a desperate jackal.
But his silhouette... was clearly that of Sikong Du who had lent him a helping hand and given him many instructions when he first entered Cangfeng Xuanfu!
When he called out “Senior Brother Sikong,” that person’s eyes turned to him. Suddenly, his whole body froze, his gaze remained fixed for a long time, and his pupils suddenly dilated drastically: “Yun… Yun Che?”
The name “Yun Che” also made everyone around him turn to Yun Che and look at him with a dazed look on their faces.
“Senior Brother Sikong just called him… Yun Che? Which… which Yun Che?”
“He… he looks similar to the Yun Che in the portrait of Xuanfu… no, he looks exactly like him!”
“Impossible! Yun Che died three years ago, how could it be him! And he’s wearing… um? That doesn’t look… like a phoenix?” A young man muttered as he looked at the golden crow tattoo on Yun Che’s chest.
Yun Che had joined the Demon King clan, and had been married for less than a month, so his clothes were basically all printed with golden crows and flames. This was why he was ambushed by these people... Because from a distance, they vaguely saw the golden bird and golden flames on Yun Che's body, and thought it was a tattoo of a phoenix and phoenix flames.
Yun Che quickly came to Sikong Du and said anxiously: “Senior Brother Sikong, it’s me! You must have thought that I had died three years ago... But I am back alive! Back then in Cangfeng Xuanfu, it was you who took me to the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion and watched me choose the Overlord Heavy Sword! It was also you who took me to the Taixuan Palace and the Inner Palace... Back then, when I wanted to go to the Burning Heaven Sect, it was you who guided me in the direction!”
Yun Che’s words made Sikong Du’s eyes tremble violently. He grabbed Yun Che’s arm, his whole body shaking with excitement: “Yun Che…it’s really you…you’re not dead…you’re not dead!”
“Yes! I am not dead!” Yun Che nodded vigorously: “Senior Brother Sikong, what happened? What happened to New Moon City? Aren’t you a mentor in New Moon Xuanfu? How did you become like this? What happened... Tell me quickly!”
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