System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

Hearing Xia Jiuyou's response, Chen Xuan chuckled, "Alright. I also look forward to your successful tribulation, after all, then our promise will have to be fulfilled."

"Pah! Who wants to keep your promise!" Xia Jiuyou was so angry that her teeth itched, but a blush crept onto her cheeks. She glared at Chen Xuan, turned around and walked away with graceful steps. As her skirt swept across the ground, it stirred up a gentle breeze, enveloping her anger in the morning mist.

Chen Xuan watched her resolute retreating figure, pursed his lips helplessly, and traced the soft warmth he had just touched with his fingertips, muttering to himself:

"This is the downside of having too deep an understanding of the Great Dao—once you glimpse a corner of the future, you can't help but be extra concerned about the entanglements of cause and effect." As he finished speaking, a complex look flashed in his eyes, a mixture of teasing and barely perceptible melancholy.

After muttering to himself, Chen Xuan tidied up briefly, then with a flick of his finger, the Northern Underworld Immortal Mansion, which was suspended in the Hanging Mountain Range, transformed into a stream of light and entered his storage ring.

At this moment, on the sheltered plain, the morning mist had not yet dissipated. The immortal residences of the various races' prodigies had already been closed. Han Jiuling, Dao Yi, Xuan Yi, Yao Guang Holy Son, and others were gathered together, talking in hushed tones.

Upon seeing Chen Xuan appear, everyone immediately stopped talking and turned their gazes toward him, their words full of concern—after all, they had received his Seven-Colored Divine Stone last night, and their attitudes were now much warmer than usual.

"Brother Chen Xuan, where do you plan to go next?" Dao Yi spoke first, his tone sincere.

Upon learning that Yi, Ziqing Shuangjue, and half of the others would continue their adventures in the Devouring Demon Star Void, Chen Xuan bluntly stated, "I am going to find my Daoist partner, Qiu Zixian, and reunite with her."

"Brother Chen Xuan, please wait." Qingxia stepped forward, her delicate brows slightly furrowed, her tone carrying a hint of solemnity.

"The Devouring Demon Star Void will be open for ten years, and there are two years left. You must reach the void coordinate exit of the Flame Dragon Realm within two years. At that time, the eight Immortal Kings and God Kings will join forces again to open the passage. If you miss it, there will be no more opportunities."

"Not bad." Tianyi smiled and patted Chen Xuan on the shoulder, his tone carrying a hint of reminder, "This eternal space is exceptionally stable. Unless it reaches a fixed cycle, even if all the sect leaders joined forces, they wouldn't be able to budge it in the slightest. Brother Chen Xuan, please remember the time carefully, lest you miss your return journey."

As the saying goes, "He who takes a man's money is bound to him, and he who eats a man's food is bound to him." Last night, everyone received the Seven-Colored Divine Stone from Chen Xuan, so the words of advice they gave him now carried a more genuine concern, no longer the polite distance that usually existed between the geniuses of the Holy Land.

Chen Xuan cupped his hands in thanks and said loudly, "I will remember your kindness. In that case, let's meet again in the exit airspace two years from now!"

He nodded to everyone in turn, but when his gaze fell on Xia Jiuyou, he saw her deliberately roll her eyes, turn her head to the side, and her ears were secretly turning red.

This scene seemed strange to everyone, but they assumed it was just a past grudge between the two. Except for Han Jiuling, who had always been interested in Xia Jiuyou, who frowned, no one else delved into the complicated love story.

As light and shadow shifted, Chen Xuan transformed into a black rainbow, tearing through the morning mist-shrouded void and rapidly disappearing into the distance.

Xia Jiuyou finally couldn't help but turn her head, her gaze following the increasingly faint figure. Her eyes were filled with disappointment and worry, and her fingertips unconsciously clenched her sleeves. But from beginning to end, she didn't say a word—proud as she was, how could she easily show her reluctance?

After bidding farewell to everyone, Chen Xuan embarked on his journey to find a partner alone.

To balance speed and safety, he flicked his finger, and a palm-sized tower floated on his shoulder, its surface covered in ancient immortal runes that glowed faintly. "Little tower, explore the void ahead and see if there are any hidden ancient immortal formations."

This area was on the edge of the ancient immortal battle; although many remnants of array formations remained, they were not densely packed. Along the way, Chen Xuan only encountered three or four broken ancient immortal arrays. At the small tower, he was told to "turn three zhang to the left, avoiding the Gengjin Killing Array."

With the guidance that "there is an eternal maze of trees a thousand feet ahead, just go around it," they easily avoided it without delaying their journey.

Then, pale blue spatial ripples spread around Chen Xuan's body, and the Qiankun Great Shift technique was fully activated—his figure flashed continuously in the void, each teleportation traversing tens of thousands of miles, and the distance to the coordinates of the aura left by Qiu Zixian was rapidly shortening.

Having not seen his Daoist companion for nearly ten years, he was initially filled with longing. However, perhaps because he had spent many days with Xia Jiuyou, that intense longing had faded somewhat, turning into a gentle concern.

Three months later, Chen Xuan finally arrived at the core area of ​​Qiu Zixian's aura coordinates.

This void is filled with crisscrossing eternal Dao traces, which gleam with a bronze luster. They are battlefield relics left from the ancient battle between immortals, and even the space here is more stagnant than elsewhere.

But as soon as he stepped into the area, he was stopped by a sharp shout.

"It's him! Chen Xuan!"

"Chen Xuan from the Flame Dragon Realm! The one who possesses the Seven-Colored Immortal Gold!"

Chen Xuan turned his head in response to the sound and saw more than ten figures floating in the void. These people were twelve feet tall, with a pair of wrinkled fleshy wings on their backs. Although they were humanoid, their faces were covered with six scarlet eyes, two on their foreheads, two on their cheeks, and two on their chins. When they looked over, their eyes were filled with intense greed and murderous intent. Their appearance was ferocious and strange.

"The Six-Eyed Demon Clan?" Chen Xuan raised an eyebrow, not in a hurry to make a move, but instead looked at the other party with great interest. "It seems that the matter of the Immortal Ancient Array has already spread to all the geniuses of the myriad races."

The six-eyed demon leader's vertical eye in the center of his forehead suddenly lit up, and his voice was as rough as a broken gong: "Chen Xuan! Hand over the Seven-Colored Immortal Gold obediently, and we may spare your life! Otherwise, once the news leaks out, the geniuses of all races will swarm here and grind you to dust!"

"Where is the woman who was with you? Why is she nowhere to be seen?" Another demon cultivator licked his lips, all six of his eyes locking onto Chen Xuan as if he were examining a rare treasure.

Chen Xuan shrugged, his tone somewhat innocent: "What Seven-Colored Immortal Gold? I've never even heard of it. Is that stuff tasty?"

"I'm furious! Even on the verge of death, you still dare to argue!" the leading demon roared, his crimson eyes filled with savagery.

"After the prodigies of all races poured into the ancient immortal array, they dug three feet into the ground, looting not only the seven-colored immortal gold, but even the accompanying seven-colored divine stones! The four holy sons and daughters of the demon race have sworn an oath to the Heavenly Dao to prove their innocence, and the hollowed-out mountain at the array's core was definitely not their doing—besides you and that woman, who else could have escaped from the array with the treasures?!"

"Not bad! Now that things have come to this, you still think you can get away with it?"

"Hahaha! Heaven has helped my Six-Eyed Demon Clan! All races are searching for people from the Flame Dragon Realm, and such an opportunity has fallen into our laps! With the Seven-Colored Immortal Gold, the strength of our clan's leaders will surely skyrocket!"

The demons roared excitedly, their murderous aura surging, turning the void crimson.

Chen Xuan remained calm and composed throughout – he had originally intended to inquire about the current situation of Devouring Demon Star Void from these people, and now that his goal had been achieved, the playfulness in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by a bone-chilling coldness.

"So the Seven-Colored Immortal Gold and Divine Stones have driven you to such madness." Chen Xuan sneered, and with a backhand grip, the Northern Darkness Sword was suddenly drawn, its dark blade gleaming with a chilling light. "Unfortunately, you don't have the life to take them."

When the sword light appeared, the void trembled.

In just a few breaths, more than ten Six-Eyed Demons at the Void Reversal Realm fell into pools of blood. Their terrified cries and pleas for mercy had not yet spread before they were completely annihilated by the sword light.

Chen Xuan casually put away their storage magic treasures, without even glancing at the corpses on the ground, and transformed into a streak of light, heading straight for the location where Qiu Zixian's aura was the strongest.

"The situation is not right. After Dao Yi and the others get wind of this, they will probably set off immediately to the airspace away from Xingxu."