The three of them discussed for a while and decided that no matter what happened, the most important thing was to heal their injuries first.
Only when their strength was restored could they have confidence.
Among them, Jing Xingzhi's injuries were the lightest. Although his Three Swords of Secular consumed a lot of blood essence, his natal flying sword wasn't damaged.
Qin Xi's body and meridians were all tempered by Vermilion Bird, so he recovered very quickly.
As for Mo Tiange, her injuries were only slightly more serious than theirs. What was more troublesome was that apart from her auxiliary magic weapons, almost all her magic weapons were destroyed in the Heavenly Tribulation.
Fortunately, the place they were living now was quite safe. There were no traces of cultivators on the surrounding islands, so they could recuperate in peace.
Several months later, their injuries were basically healed, and they planned to leave the island to see what happened.
During this time, Mo Tiange repaired the Jade-Bone Puppet.
This puppet withstood the seventh Heavenly Tribulation for her, so it was damaged. However, the puppet's frame was the skeleton of an ancient Deification cultivator, and the other materials were also rare treasures in the world, so it wasn't damaged. She just repaired it a little and replaced it with crystal jade.
As for her natal magic weapon, the Heaven and Earth Fan, it was a bit troublesome.
It wasn't broken. In terms of material, the Heaven and Earth Fan wasn't inferior to the Jade-Bone Puppet.
However, because it faced the Heavenly Lightning head-on, the Heaven and Earth Fan lost all its spiritual aura, so it needed a long time to slowly recover its former spirituality.
As a result, she almost didn't have any powerful magic weapons. It was fine on normal days, but it would be a bit troublesome if something happened.
But this problem couldn't be solved in a short time. For things like magic weapons, the longer they were refined, the more power they could display. Even if she had a lot of finished magic weapons now, she couldn't use them immediately.
Besides, how could a magic weapon that could attract the attention of a Nascent Soul cultivator be that easy to obtain?
Therefore, Qin Xi simply told her that since it was broken, she should refine it again.
In any case, she had a Nascent Soul puppet with her, so self-protection wouldn't be a big problem.
On the other hand, she would have an advantage if she refined the magic weapon again.
Firstly, the higher their cultivation, the better the materials they could collect, and the better their refining techniques would be. Secondly, they had obtained many good things in the Immortal Palace, and they also had a treasure like the Spirit Quenching Water. It would be a waste if they didn't use it to refine magic treasures.
Thus, while nourishing the Heaven and Earth Fan, Mo Tiange cultivated the Great Heavenly Thunder Technique and refined the Fusheng Sword at the same time. Fortunately, they took this Great Heavenly Thunder Technique from the Immortal Palace's storeroom, and the Fusheng Sword also recovered its former elegance after its devil aura was removed. After a bit of refining, the two of them combined could also display a considerable amount of combat power.
"Qin Shoujing, Mo Qingwei, come out quickly!" Jing Xingzhi's excited voice came from outside.
The two of them, who were cultivating separately, stopped to adjust their breathing. They looked at each other helplessly.
"What's the matter now?" Qin Xi asked as he waved his hand to open the restriction on the cave entrance.
"Of course it's a big matter!" Jing Xingzhi burrowed his head in and automatically dragged the prayer mat over to sit in front of the two of them.
He said, "I can finally confirm that we are indeed in the Yuan Zhou Sea."
"What do you mean?" Mo Tiange asked.
After getting along with Jing Xingzhi for several decades, she could be considered to have figured out his personality. He was a person who couldn't stay idle. Back when they were trapped in the underground palace, even if he couldn't get out, he still wandered around the underground palace. Now, he was even more so. Besides cultivating, he had to fly around on his sword every day, so he knew more things than they did.
"A few days ago, I flew north and finally saw a big island.
There are many residents on this big island, and there are also many cultivators. "
"So, what did you find out?"
"En." A mysterious smile appeared on his face. "Guess what happened in the end."
Judging from his appearance, it seemed the matter was very unusual?
Mo Tiange and Qin Xi glanced at each other and said in unison, "If you have something to say, just say it."
"…" Jing Xingzhi wanted to keep them in suspense, but no one cooperated. He was quite depressed and muttered, "Aren't you curious?"
"Aren't we asking you?" Mo Tiange said casually, "If you're not curious, we won't ask."
Jing Xingzhi became even more depressed, but when he thought about their personalities — they only cultivated every day, and one was more dull than the other — he felt relieved.
Forget it, they're just two idiots. Why bother with them?
A mysterious smile appeared on his face again. "You definitely won't be able to guess. We were obviously in the Returning Ruins Sea, but how did we end up in the Yuanzhou Sea?"
After a pause, he said, "In fact, the place we're in can be said to be the Yuanzhou Sea or the Returning Ruins Sea."
What did that mean?
Mo Tiange and Qin Xi didn't understand. "The Returning Ruins Sea is the Returning Ruins Sea, and the Yuanzhou Sea is the Yuanzhou Sea. What do you mean by it can be said to be the Yuanzhou Sea or the Returning Ruins Sea?
Could it be that the two seas can overlap? "
"You're right!"
Mo Tiange just said it casually. Unexpectedly, Jing Xingzhi clapped his hands and said, "Yes, the two seas overlap!"
"What?"
Qin Xi was stunned, but he suddenly understood. "The subsidence in the Heavenly Sea means that the Yuanzhou Sea and the Returning Ruins Sea overlap?"
"I guess so," Jing Xingzhi said.
Jing Xingzhi said, "When I found that big island, I learned from several cultivators that when the earth caved in that day, the Yuan Prefecture Sea was also stormy. Many islands almost sank, and the restrictions on countless small islands were broken. Countless people died and were injured.
The big island they were on was fine. Although there were casualties, its vitality was preserved.
After the storm, they also found that the surroundings were a bit different. The Core Formation cultivators on the island went out to search and found that there were many small islands in the surroundings, and the original islands' positions were also slightly shifted.
"They spent several months to contact other big islands, only to find that things were unusual. The west of the archipelago, which should've connected to the Yunzhong Inner Sea, became a vast sea, and they couldn't reach Yunzhong."
Yuanzhou was in the east of Yunzhong. After passing the Yuanzhou Sea, they could reach the Yunzhong Inner Sea, which was also the main way for cultivators to travel between the two places. After all, the long-distance Transporting Formation was very expensive, and cultivators below the Core Formation realm often couldn't afford it.
Unlike the Celestial Pole, which was isolated, there were Yuanzhou and Xiaoyang to the west of Yunzhong. The sea between them wasn't dangerous. Since ancient times, they had many connections, so they were also quite familiar with each other's situations.
The path between Yuanzhou and Yunzhong was often visited by people. Now that it was suddenly cut off, it was quickly discovered.
Mo Tiange and Qin Xi glanced at each other. They both felt this matter was very strange.
Didn't that mean the entire Yuanzhou Sea was moved to the Returning Ruins Sea?
This was unusual. Although they heard about small islands disappearing in one place and suddenly appearing in another place, they were only small islands after all, not the entire sea.
Just the disappearance and reappearance of small islands was already strange, let alone the entire Yuanzhou Sea?
"What about Yuanzhou Continent?"
Mo Tiange asked, "Yuanzhou Sea suddenly changed to Returning Ruins Sea, but is Yuanzhou Continent still in its original position?"
Jing Xingzhi shook his head. "I don't know.
Although it's called a big island, it's only relative to the small island we're on. The highest cultivation level on that island is only a Core Formation cultivator, so we can't immediately contact Yuanzhou Continent.
I heard that some people already went in the direction of Yuanzhou Continent, but the news hasn't come back yet. "
After a long time, seeing that the two of them didn't speak again, Jing Xingzhi couldn't help but ask, "What are you thinking?"
"What else can we think?"
Qin Xi said faintly, "In any case, we're about to leave. We'll go and see what's going on later."
It wasn't easy to find out such shocking news, but in the end, these two people's reactions were so cold. Jing Xingzhi was a bit dispirited. "Alright, alright. Call me when you're ready. I'm going to cultivate."
Right after he said that, he stood up and left.
After he left, Mo Tiange asked after a while, "Senior Martial Brother, is it really possible for this kind of thing to happen?"
Qin Xi shook his head and said, "The world is so big that nothing is too strange. Who knows?
But … "
"But what?"
He said with some hesitation, "I always feel that this matter is very strange. Ever since we left the Immortal Palace, everything has been linked together."
Mo Tiange was slightly stunned. "You mean …"
"As soon as we left the Immortal Palace, it collapsed.
Affected by the restrictions of the Immortal Palace, that independent space probably couldn't be preserved and has probably disappeared by now.
After we came out, the matter of the Heavenly Tribulation was put aside. Right after that, the Middle of the Sea caved in, and the Yuanzhou Sea suddenly changed into the Sea of Returning Ruins. These things are all linked together. It's too much of a coincidence to say that they're unrelated. "
"Are you saying that these incidents might be related?"
Qin Xi shook his head. "It's just my intuition. These things happened at the same time. It's too coincidental."
What he said was reasonable.
However, Mo Tiange tilted her head and thought for a long time, but she still couldn't figure out what the connection was. After all, the whole sea suddenly changed to another place, which was too unimaginable.
"It can't be a space crack, right?"
She said whimsically. "Could it be that a space crack suddenly appeared between the Sea of Returning Ruins and the Yuanzhou Sea, overlapping the two seas?"
"Anything is possible."
Qin Xi didn't think it was absurd. "There are too many unimaginable things in this world. Even if we're Nascent Soul cultivators, we only know a little."
Mo Tiange agreed with this point.
The higher one's cultivation level and the stronger one's strength was, the more insignificant one would feel.
It was said that Nascent Soul cultivators had the ability to fly in the sky and burrow underground, but compared to the world, their strength was just a tiny ant.
Mo Tiange really didn't know how terrifying the power of those powerful cultivators who could contend against the world in ancient times was.
Thinking up to this point, she couldn't help but wonder to what extent did one have to cultivate to achieve the so-called Great Dao?
Unconsciously, she already became a Nascent Soul cultivator. In the eyes of the world, she could be considered to have stepped into the Great Dao, but she felt it was far from enough.
What if she advanced to the Deification realm?
Would she still find herself very insignificant?
Was there still a path after she advanced to the Deification realm?
No one could answer these questions. Only when she reached that step would she know the answer.
Several days later, the three of them left the island and headed east.
If the Yuanzhou Continent and the Yuanzhou Sea moved, they could reach the Yuanzhou Continent by heading east.
As for the north, they didn't dare to go there for the time being. If they were still in the Sea of Returning Ruins, heading north would lead them back to Yunzhong. Right now, in the eyes of the high-level cultivators in Yunzhong, they were human-shaped Qiankun Bags, and everyone knew there were a lot of treasures inside.
If nothing unexpected happened, after they arrived in the Yuanzhou Continent, Mo Tiange and Qin Xi planned to return to the Celestial Pole with the Transporting Formation Jing Xingzhi used to get here.