I asked you to go down the mountain and get married, not to shock the world!

Mingchuan held his breath and focused his mind, raising his spiritual senses to the extreme, like the finest spider web, carefully sensing every trace of chaotic fluctuations remaining in the air near the barrier in front of him.

What he first detected was a blazing yet decaying ember of fire spirit.

In an instant, Mingchuan's expression changed.

"Someone actually used the Burning Meridian Technique here?! That's a technique with a nine-out-of-ten chance of death!" Mingchuan's heart skipped a beat.

He immediately thought of how Su Hongzhen had sent Luo Yang and others here to interfere with Jizhou.

Could it be Luo Yang... who used this technique on Jizhou?!

The moment this thought crossed Mingchuan's mind, his heart tightened again.

He carefully sensed the surroundings but couldn't detect any trace of Luo Yang. Instead, he noticed that Ji Zhou and Ye Chuhan were still alive.

Immediately, Mingchuan breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, he sensed a cold, greedy, and dark aura that was constantly trying to devour and assimilate everything...

This is the devouring power that escaped after the core crystal of the mother plant exploded. Like an invisible maggot clinging to the bone, it is still eroding the surrounding space!

With his eyes closed, Mingchuan selected the purifying properties of the Jizhou Earthfire Red Lotus and the burning intent of the Golden Flame Fruit from among the chaotic information.

After these two forces annihilated each other with the Devouring Force, they left behind a unique, strange residue that was as pure as crystal yet carried a sense of destruction.

That's all!

Mingchuan silently shouted in his heart, his hands forming hand seals. The dark spiritual energy around him no longer emitted pressure, but instead, like the most exquisite craftsman, began to carefully simulate and replicate these three auras.

And they attempted to forcibly fuse them according to the proportions of the chaos caused by the previous explosion!

This process is extremely difficult and dangerous; the slightest mistake could lead to complete annihilation during the simulation.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on Mingchuan's forehead, and his face was slightly pale.

He must perfectly play the role of a "mixed residue" while maintaining the purity of his spiritual power!

"Faster...faster..."

He urged himself anxiously, his divine sense locked onto the speed at which the runes of the barrier in front of him were circulating.

The slowing fluctuations are about to reach their peak, and then they will accelerate again!

This opportunity only lasts for a moment!

Just as the speed of the rune's flow slowed to its slowest point, about to change direction—

Mingchuan suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze flashing with a sharp light!

The chaotic, decaying, yet distinctive "residue" aura he simulated around him instantly reached its peak!

Without further hesitation, he transformed himself into a blurry stream of light, seemingly a mixture of shattered flames, distorted shadows, and pure, crystal-clear light, and charged headlong into the rippling barrier!

There was no earth-shattering sound, only a soft "pop" like a drop of water merging into the surface of a lake.

Under the astonished gazes of Sect Master Ye and the two elders, the moment Mingchuan's figure touched the barrier, it seemed to be absorbed into that invisible barrier, like an inconspicuous bubble merging into the bottomless water and disappearing completely!

He succeeded!

Sect Leader Ye stared in disbelief, his expression then growing even more grave.

Mingchuan went in, but he was left outside!

The danger inside was palpable even through the barrier, and Mingchuan was all alone...

There's no guarantee that something won't go wrong!

Sect Master Ye's face immediately darkened, and he said to the two elders behind him, "Use all the treasures of our sect, we must go in!"

"Yes!"

……

The moment Mingchuan's figure disappeared into the barrier, it was as if he had stepped from one world into another completely different world.

The noise, spiritual energy, and even light from the outside world are instantly shut out.

Instead, there was a suffocating stillness and a thick, cloying darkness with a putrid, savory smell.

The air here was as thick as liquid, and every breath felt like swallowing filthy mud. The intense, consuming power relentlessly tried to penetrate his pores and erode the spiritual energy shield around him.

Mingchuan steadied himself, immediately suppressing all the simulated residual aura, and once again used pure dark spiritual energy to protect himself.

His sharp eyes shone like cold stars in the darkness, quickly scanning his surroundings.

The scene before me was nothing short of hell.

The earth was a distorted mix of scorched black and pale white, covered with dry, cracked marks and huge craters, clearly scars left by fierce battles and explosions.

The air was thick with lingering turbulent energy, the acrid smell of burning flames, the sweet, pungent odor of decaying plants, and an indescribable...

The stench of decay at the level of the soul was mixed together, making one feel nauseous.

What's most unsettling is that, as far as the eye can see, there are almost no complete life forms to be seen.

The withered and twisted trees resembled ghostly figures struggling in their death throes, while the ground was littered with numerous fragments of eerie egg sacs that had lost their luster and turned into stubborn rocks.

Also included were some broken magical artifacts and bloodstained fragments of clothing belonging to the disciples of the Qingcheng Yufa Sect.

Deathly aura, an extremely dense deathly aura, enveloped this world.

The once terrifying mother plant has vanished, leaving only the huge, charred crater in the center as proof of its existence.

However, Mingchuan's mind was not at ease at all.

Because he could sense that the terrifying pressure that sent shivers down his spine did not come from the wreckage, but rather emanated from a deeper and wider part of the earth.

Like a colossal creature awakening and breathing slowly underground, coldly watching the tiny creatures that have intruded into its territory!

“Jizhou… Ye Chuhan…”

Mingchuan ignored the harshness of the surrounding environment and focused all his attention on sensing the two faint but crucial auras.

Thanks to the energy residue he had accurately detected earlier, he quickly locked onto a direction.

Not far from the edge of that scorched pit, beneath a relatively intact rock wall, there seemed to be faint signs of life and familiar traces of spiritual energy!

Without the slightest hesitation, Mingchuan moved swiftly, like a ghost in the night, silently rushing off in that direction!

……

Meanwhile, deep within that narrow and hidden crevice, Jizhou and Ye Chuhan's situation was worse than Mingchuan had imagined.

With his back against the cold rock wall, Jizhou felt as if all the bones in his body were falling apart.

In order to catch Ye Chuhan, who was blown away by the shockwave, and to use his last bit of spiritual power to create a protective shield, he endured the most direct impact of the explosion's aftershocks, resulting in severe internal injuries.

At this moment, he felt nauseous and his chest felt tight. Every breath he took was tingled with the smell of blood. His meridians were constantly pierced by needle-like pain due to the complete depletion of his spiritual energy.

Although the poison had been cleared from the wound on his left arm where he had been injured by the poisoned needle, the wound reopened during his subsequent rolling and impacts, and blood had already soaked through the makeshift bandage, causing waves of dull pain...