Several days later, two escape lights rose from Clear Spring Peak. After a short pause, the white one flew over Mount Taikang and disappeared into the sky.
The red streak remained in midair and did not move for a long time.
After a while, Qin Xi sighed softly. He looked at the empty sky, waved his sleeves, and landed.
Since Mo Tiange was gone, he should continue his Closed Door Meditation.
He knew very well that as a cultivator, this kind of separation was normal, so he just suppressed the slight reluctance in his heart and calmly returned to his cave.
"Master." Ye Zhenji greeted him.
Qin Xi smiled. "Go cultivate. Your aunt is not here, so you have to be more serious, understand?"
"En." Ye Zhenji smiled. "Master, don't worry. I'm not a child anymore. I know these things."
Qin Xi was stunned. Thinking of this child's performance in the past three years, he also smiled. "After all, you've gone through experience. You're different now."
He walked into his Closed Door Meditation room with his hands behind his back and said, "I won't come out for ten years, so I'll leave the cave to you.
Don't disturb me unless it's urgent. "
"Got it, Master."
Mo Tiange traveled at a moderate pace. Half a month later, she appeared in Linhai again.
This time, she already had a goal, so she just greeted Wei Haolan and went out of the sea along the familiar route.
As soon as Xiaofan was in the sea, it became very excited and happily flopped in the sea.
Although there was water in the Virtual Sky World, the stream wasn't the sea, and it was a sea beast that lived in the sea since it was a child.
Mo Tiange smiled as she watched it swim round and round. Finally, it returned to her side, raised its head, and said, "Master, where are we going?"
"To the place your grandfather said," she said, "But you're not familiar with this place, so come back first. I'll take you flying."
"No need."
Xiaofan flicked its tail, jumped from the water flexibly, and made a beautiful arc. "This is the sea. We Sea Dragons can smell the sea, so we won't get lost in the sea."
"En?"
Mo Tiange was stunned. "You've never been here. It's so far from where you live. Can you swim back?"
"Yes." Yifan nodded seriously. "Master, don't worry. This is the instinct of us Sea Dragons."
As it spoke, it looked at her pitifully. "Master, can you sit on me and I'll swim you to the destination?
I want to swim … "
Faced with such a pleading gaze, what else could Mo Tiange say?
She looked down and saw that its injury had healed. Its tail was strong and flexible. The strength of that swing just now could probably crack a stone. Of course, it would not be a problem for her to sit on it.
"Alright, let me know if you're tired."
"Yes."
Yifan jumped up happily and fell back into the water. She said hurriedly, "Master, come up quickly. We'll leave now."
Upon seeing its impatient appearance, Mo Tiange couldn't help but smile. She cast a simple Water-Repelling Art then sat on Xiaofan's back and let it lead the way.
Xiaofan's body was more than ten feet long, its tail was flexible, and its fins were powerful. In the sea, it was like an arrow leaving the bow. Although its speed was not as fast as her escape light, it was not much slower.
In the beginning, Mo Tiange still compared the route she had corrected to see if she was swimming in the right direction. Later, she found that Xiaofan's sense of direction in the sea was extremely accurate, so she no longer paid attention to it. Instead, she used the time on the road to study Mo Yaoqing's cultivation experience.
One person and one beast swam leisurely to the depths of the East Sea.
In the coastal waters, there were only some low-rank sea beasts. When those sea beasts saw the fifth-rank Xiaofan, they naturally didn't dare to approach.
As they went deeper and deeper into the East Sea, although some high-level sea beasts appeared occasionally, they didn't dare to approach Mo Tiange because of her powerful momentum.
A sixth-rank person and a fifth-rank Sea Dragon — ordinary sea beasts couldn't afford to provoke them.
Two months later, when Mo Tiange felt the pressure of a seventh-rank sea beast, she reluctantly put Xiaofan into the spiritual beast bag and flew high in the sky with her Cloud-Treading Boots.
The deeper they went, the higher the rank of the sea beasts. This time, she had a clear goal — it was better to avoid these sea beasts.
When the aura of the seventh-rank sea beast disappeared, Mo Tiange released Xiaofan and asked, "Xiaofan, can you point the way if we're not in the sea?"
Xiaofan floated in the air and nodded. "I can, but it'll be a little slow."
"En, that's good."
It didn't matter if it was a little slow, but the most important thing was safety. If Xiaofan swam in the sea, the human cultivator's aura would probably alarm those high-level demonic beasts, and a fierce battle would be inevitable.
If they flew in the air, as long as they were high enough, those demonic beasts wouldn't be able to sense them accurately, and they generally wouldn't act rashly.
The boring journey lasted for four months — the one month the Old Sea Dragon said was Mo Yaoqing's speed. When they arrived in the Celestial Pole, Mo Yaoqing was already a Nascent Soul cultivator. Even if they just traveled leisurely, her speed was much faster than Mo Tiange's.
Four months later, seeing that there were more and more high-level sea beasts around, Mo Tiange finally found the big island with the volcano.
She breathed a sigh of relief. If she still couldn't find it, she would have to consider going back first. Seventh-Rank sea beasts were quite common here, and maybe an eighth-rank sea beast would appear at any time. That would be dangerous.
"Master, it's there." Xiaofan's voice rang in her mind.
Mo Tiange looked down and saw that the big island had a circumference of several hundred miles, more than ten times larger than the small island where Mo Yaoqing lived. Moreover, the terrain was completely different.
Most of the island was rocky, overgrown with ravines, and mixed with sand and stones. There was only a small amount of soil, so even plants were rare.
The most important thing was that there was no spiritual aura on the island, so there weren't even demonic beasts nearby.
This was good news for Mo Tiange.
There were no spirit veins on the island, so it couldn't attract demonic beasts, so she didn't have to face any unknown demonic beasts.
In the center of the island, there was a bulging volcano. There was no trace of an eruption, and it was cold without a trace of heat.
Mo Tiange flew to the top of the volcano and looked down. It was dark inside, and she couldn't see anything clearly.
She scanned it with her divine sense and didn't find any danger, so she slowly descended to the crater.
As she descended lower and lower, Mo Tiange gradually saw what was inside the volcano.
There was no lava, no heat, only cold volcanic walls.
It was very dark inside, so she couldn't see anything clearly.
Mo Tiange opened her palm and light gathered in it. The Heaven and Earth Fan appeared in her hand, and the fan pendant emitted a faint white light.
When she explored Mo Yaoqing's cave last time, she felt it was very inconvenient to take out the Mother Moonstone for illumination, so she simply polished the Mother Moonstone into a fan pendant and hung it on the Heaven and Earth Fan, which was much more convenient to hold.
"Grandpa said there's water down there, so let me go down first," said Xiaofan, who landed behind her.
Mo Tiange paused and nodded. "En."
Not long after Xiaofan landed, Mo Tiange heard the sound of water, and then Xiaofan's voice rang out. "Master, come down. The water isn't very deep."
Holding the Heaven and Earth Fan, Mo Tiange carefully descended to the bottom of the volcano. She looked up and was a little stunned. "Is there a road here?"
There was a shallow stream at the bottom of the volcano, but she didn't see any road around.
"In the water," Xiaofan said, "Master, sit on my back."
After thinking for a short while, Mo Tiange cast a Water Avoidance Spell and sat on Xiaofan's back. Xiaofan flicked its tail and suddenly dived into the water.
The Mother Moonstone emitted a faint light, but it only illuminated the narrow space around it.
Mo Tiange released her divine sense and found that there was a passage in the water, but she didn't know where it led.
As soon as Xiaofan entered the water, it was extremely vigorous. After swimming for a while, it sped up.
Mo Tiange only felt that it dived deeper and deeper, and the pressure on the Water Avoidance Spell's spiritual aura shield also increased.
Of course, she was now a Core Formation cultivator, so the pressure at the bottom of the water was nothing to her, but she was confused.
Water flowed downwards, and Xiaofan dived into the water. Was this a waterway?
According to the fragmentary records on Mo Yaoqing's Jade Slip, it took her a lot of time to come to the Celestial Pole. Did she have to dive in the water for several months?
Fortunately, she didn't doubt it for too long. After swimming for a long time, Xiaofan began to float up.
The speed at which it floated up was getting faster and faster. Suddenly, with a splash, a person and a beast broke out of the water.
Countless water droplets dripped from the spiritual aura shield. Mo Tiange waved her hand, removed the Water Avoidance Spell, and released her divine sense.
This was an underground river. It was winding and led to a very far place, and her divine sense couldn't feel the end.
As for the surrounding rock walls, they were completely irregular in shape.
Xiaofan carried her and swam forward slowly.
The river was very cold. Even though it was a demonic beast, it still felt uncomfortable.
"Xiaofan, how about I take you flying?"
Xiaofan shook its head and refused. "No, Master, I like the feeling of swimming in the water."
"But, this water …"
"It's okay."
Xiaofan patted its tail. In an instant, a layer of green aura emerged from its scales and wrapped its whole body. "This way, I won't feel uncomfortable."
Mo Tiange looked at it carefully and found that it was also a kind of protective spiritual aura, so she nodded. "Okay."
They didn't know how long they swam in the dark river. There was only the sound of water and Xiaofan swimming around them.
Mo Tiange held the Heaven and Earth Fan and let her divine sense spread all the time.
There were no spirit veins in this river, so even if there were fish in the water, they were just ordinary fish and didn't dare to approach her and Xiaofan.
Several days later, Mo Tiange frowned and sensed spiritual aura.
Then, Xiaofan also stopped. "Master, there are spirit veins ahead."
"En." Mo Tiange used her divine sense to observe for a while and said, "There are no living things. Let's continue."
Xiaofan responded and continued to swim forward.
The spiritual aura was getting thicker and thicker. Mo Tiange looked at the surrounding rock walls and found that it was a spirit stone mine.
However, the grade of the spirit stones was not very high. It seemed to be a small mine.
One person and one beast passed through the middle of the spirit stone mine. With her sharp eyes, Mo Tiange found that something seemed to be growing on a spirit stone and said hurriedly, "Wait."
Xiaofan stopped. "What's wrong?"
From the rock wall, Mo Tiange carefully dug out a piece of jade that was shining with a sparkling white light and examined it carefully.
"Spirit-Gathering Stone?" Looking at the jade in her hand, she was surprised. "It's actually a Spirit-Gathering Stone!"
Hearing the sound, Xiaofan asked curiously, "Master, what's a Spirit-Gathering Stone?"
After confirming that the thing in her hand was indeed a Spirit-Gathering Stone, Mo Tiange put it into her Qiankun Bag and said, "A Spirit-Gathering Stone is a kind of jade that occasionally appears in spirit stone mines. It looks similar to spirit stones, but it has an effect of greatly condensing spiritual aura.
In the process of concocting pills and refining tools, how to condense spiritual aura and seal it in medicinal pills and magic weapons is the most difficult process. With a Spirit-Gathering Stone, the success rate of concocting pills and refining tools can be improved. "
"Oh …" Demonic beasts didn't understand concocting pills and refining tools, so Xiaofan only responded with a half-understanding.
Mo Tiange didn't expect that a Spirit-Gathering Stone would appear in this small mine, but she was pleasantly surprised. She told Xiaofan, "Swim around a few more times. We'll look for it."