Published: February 26, 2025
Zhou Liren bowed and said, "I will remember my master's teachings and will start anew."
"Mm, you can return to the Western Continent Ancestral Dynasty," Tan Yun replied. "When you go back, the whereabouts of me and Yunxi can only be shared with Dao Qing Grandmaster. No one else should be told, including the Western Continent Emperor. Do you understand?"
"You don’t need to worry, I will take good care of Yunxi," Tan Yun assured him.
"Master, seventh princess, take care. I take my leave." After speaking, Zhou Liren, filled with emotions, vanished into the sky.
For Zhou Liren, encountering Tan Yun was indeed a blessing in disguise.
After Zhou Liren left, Tan Yun stored the Divine Vessel into the Ancestral Ring and then summoned the Time-Space Divine Tower that Fang Zixi had given him for the first time.
A moment later, after the backlash from the Primordial Chaos Daoist Soul had recovered, Tan Yun stepped out of the Time-Space Divine Tower and hovered in the void.
"Yunxi, please enter the Time-Space Divine Tower," Tan Yun said.
"I won’t," Yu Yunxi shook her head, extending her delicate hand, and with a faint smile said, "I want you to take me flying; I want to be by your side, not stay in the tower."
Tan Yun smiled gently, grasping Yu Yunxi's soft hand. Then, the two performed the disguise technique.
Yu Yunxi still appeared with a face full of freckles.
"Are you ready?" Tan Yun's voice was very gentle.
"Ready," Yu Yunxi nodded, her beautiful eyes revealing the happiness of a girl.
"Since you are ready, let's set off."
"Whoosh!"
Tan Yun, holding onto Yu Yunxi, let his hair dance as he increased their speed to the maximum, traversing above the Sea of Demons...
Time flew by, and twenty years later.
Previously, it would have taken Tan Yun thirty years to reach the Forbidden Area in the center of the Sea of Demons while piloting the Divine Vessel. However, after flying with Yu Yunxi, they arrived in just twenty years.
As they reached the outer edge of the Forbidden Area of the Sea of Demons, the vast and boundless ocean below was as dark as ink.
Looking down at the pitch-black deep sea, Yu Yunxi couldn't help but feel a little timid.
Tan Yun sensed Yu Yunxi's tension and softly said, "Don't be afraid; I'm here."
"Mm." As soon as Yu Yunxi's voice fell, she seemed to notice something, her face suddenly turned pale, and her delicate body trembled.
Drops of sweat, the size of beans, dripped from Yu Yunxi's smooth forehead. She looked down at the sea water in horror, rendered speechless by fear.
Noticing Yu Yunxi's symptoms while flying, Tan Yun immediately halted and held her pale and frightened face, asking anxiously, "Yunxi, what's wrong?"
"Are you feeling unwell?"
Yu Yunxi trembled violently and suddenly threw herself into Tan Yun's embrace, shivering as she said, "I'm... I'm scared..."
"Yunxi, don’t be afraid; I'm here," Tan Yun held her trembling body tightly and asked, "Tell me quickly, what happened?"
"Tan Yun... Tan Yun... you have to look at the sea below!" Yu Yunxi cried out in terror.
Tan Yun looked down and saw that the sea was still pitch black with nothing unusual.
Tan Yun frowned, "Yunxi, there's nothing down there!"
"Nothing?" Yu Yunxi tremblingly left Tan Yun's embrace, and the moment her pale face peered downward, she let out an extreme scream of terror, "Ah!!"
"There is! Tan Yun, you have to look!"
Yu Yunxi seemed to have been severely frightened, her voice hoarse from screaming.
Tan Yun suddenly looked down again, but still saw nothing.
However, in Yu Yunxi's eyes, things were different!
In her perspective, a horrifying scene appeared in the sea below.
In the pitch-black sea of the Forbidden Area, there emerged the face of a woman!
The woman's face was gigantic, at least ten thousand feet long, extremely pale, but even so, it was still possible to see that she was stunningly beautiful.
What was terrifying from the depths of their souls was that the woman possessed a pair of blood-red eyes, and her long hair flowed like blood, swirling in the dark sea.