The Path to Another World

Looking at her familiar features—eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like crescent moons, a delicate nose, and cherry lips—wasn't she exactly like Ge Qiusha, the nature goddess who appeared in his dreams? Ye Fan's mind went completely blank. Thinking of all the encounters and events along the way, and now seeing her in person, he couldn't help but feel a surge of panic. It seemed his guess was correct; from the very beginning, the two of them had been gradually lured into this circle. He couldn't help but feel resentful. If it weren't for her, none of this would have happened, and none of this danger would have occurred.

The azure light transformed into a complete goddess, incomparably beautiful and exuding wealth. She hovered silently in the air, her almost transparent feet barely touching the ground. Sensing Ye Fan's fluctuating emotions, she turned and suddenly bowed ninety degrees to him, startling Ye Fan into a state of bewilderment. Ge Qiusha parted her lips, her voice as clear and melodious as a nightingale's, and said, "I'm sorry for dragging you into this, but I really need your help. I never imagined this journey would be so turbulent!"

Seeing the noble goddess bowing and apologizing to him, Ye Fan was somewhat flustered and hurriedly waved his hands to stop Ge Qiusha from bowing. "Are the dreams we had all real?" Ye Fan asked, blushing slightly. The goddess's aura was too powerful. Although she didn't say anything or make any gesture, just one look was enough to make Ye Fan lower his head and ask with a red face.

"Actually, what you were having wasn't a dream. It was me transmitting a portion of my memories into your minds, making you mistake it for a dream! Those were my most real experiences." Mentioning this, Ge Qiusha felt a pang of sadness, thinking of the elves and the millions of allied forces on the Mayan continent. Almost all of her top experts had perished, while the Dark Alliance had suffered virtually no damage. She wondered how the battle had fared. Her voice trembled as she said, "Our destination now is the Mayan continent, the Mayan continent of the calamity that occurs every thousand years in my dreams. I can already sense that the Mayan continent has set its coordinates and received their prayers. Ancestral gods, my people are still alive!" Mentioning her people, the elves, Ge Qiusha became emotional. Several hundred years had passed since the last thousand-year calamity; a new holy war was about to begin!

"My strength is very weak, I'm far from being your match, wouldn't I be just throwing my life away? And dying would be utterly pointless. It's not that I'm busy, I'm really powerless to help!" Ye Fan knew what Ge Qiusha meant, and quickly refused. He was self-aware and knew his own limitations perfectly well.

"Perhaps your strength is still weak now, but I sense the aura of the Ancestral God within you. According to the Ancestral God, this is the Dao. He himself achieved this only after being guided by an old man who rode a blue ox across the void. You also cultivate the Dao, making you a prodigy I have never seen before. I have also predicted your destiny; your future is limitless. I believe only you can save our elven race. I hope you can spare no effort for the billions of innocent lives on the Mayan continent! I thank you on their behalf!" After saying this, he made a gesture to perform a grand salute, which startled Ye Fan, who quickly dodged away. A high and mighty deity bowing to him was something he could not accept.

Seeing the two continuing their escalating argument, Qinglong grew anxious. He clearly felt the attraction increasing, and if it dragged on, commanding them would become increasingly difficult. He cleared his throat twice, interrupting their conversation, and said seriously to Ge Qiusha, "Let's talk about catching up later! We're about to be sucked in; talking about rescuing people or seeking revenge is pointless then. The most important issue now is how to break free from this damned attraction; it's too powerful."

Hearing Qinglong's urgent tone, Ge Qiusha smiled apologetically at Ye Fan and asked worriedly, "What are your chances of success?" "Originally, I was seventy percent, but now, after this delay, I'm only fifty percent confident. Even with just one percent, we have to try because we have no other way out. Let me tell you, this kind of black hole is beyond human capability. Several top-tier experts once agreed to venture into a black hole together, but they all disappeared without a trace, their fate unknown. Any one of them was a hundred times stronger than us. If we are swallowed up, we are doomed." Qinglong thought for a moment and said heavily, "Fifty percent chance, but life and death are uncertain."

"Alright! We'll work together, but after this is over, you have to ask your apprentice for a favor! I saved his life, after all." Ge Qiusha knew the situation was urgent and didn't hesitate, because the longer it dragged on, the worse it would be for them. "Okay, let's do it! If he doesn't agree, I'll take care of him for you." Qinglong immediately sold Ye Fan to her.

The two exchanged a glance, and simultaneously their bodies became ethereal. In the blink of an eye, they had passed through the light barrier of the spacecraft and entered outer space. As soon as they emerged, they felt a powerful attraction pulling their energy bodies backward. Startled, they quickly placed their hands on the spacecraft and clung to it tightly. They silently circulated their profound energy, and two dazzling lights, one green and one blue, shone like bright lamps, their divine senses standing out in the pitch-black space.

The two tacitly channeled their inner energy into their legs, then unleashed it like rockets from their feet, creating a powerful thrust to resist the black hole's gravitational pull. Experiencing it firsthand, they realized the gravitational pull was terrifyingly strong; insufficient power was practically ineffective. They slowly increased their power to 50%, 60%,... until they reached 90%... before gradually feeling the spacecraft stop moving towards the black hole. The two were horrified; 90% of their power must have been terrifying—enough to overturn rivers and seas—yet here they were only resisting the gravitational pull from hundreds of miles away. No wonder it was said to be a terrifying force capable of attracting even light. Looking at the spacecraft barely stopping its movement and the ever-increasing gravitational pull, Qinglong felt despair. Was the heavens truly going to destroy them?

As the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly. Whether it was simply bad luck or fate playing a cruel trick on them, it was unclear. In the distance, they saw a boulder, roughly the size of a mountain, drawn by the black hole, moving in a straight line with the spacecraft and hurtling towards it at an ever-increasing speed. At its lightning-fast pace, it was estimated that it would catch up and deliver a devastating blow in just a few breaths. Seeing this, Qinglong's expression changed drastically. He suddenly roared frantically, "Life burns! With my body, I burn my soul!" He had already exhausted almost all his strength just to keep the spacecraft from being sucked in, and suddenly his entire body shone brightly. Qinglong's previously solid body gradually became somewhat transparent, but the fluctuations of his Yuan energy suddenly intensified several times over. Feeling that his power could propel the spacecraft in the opposite direction, but not enough to push it to its maximum speed and safely avoid the meteorite, he glared at Ge Qiusha, who was still somewhat dazed, and roared, "What are you still hesitating for? If these two children perish here, what are you talking about saving them for?"

A single sentence jolted Ge Qiusha from her shock. Seeing the increasingly ethereal Azure Dragon, she gritted her teeth and, just as frantically, unleashed her soul power to propel the spacecraft. With their selfless strength, the spacecraft sped off in the opposite direction at the speed of light, narrowly avoiding the terrifying meteorite. Ye Fan and Tian Jun, though they hadn't heard what the Azure Dragon and Tian Jun were saying, knew from their ethereal forms that the two had paid a heavy price to rescue them. Tears welled in their eyes as they watched them, their fists clenching inwardly; needing others to rescue them was truly a bitter experience.

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