Ye Yunfei’s gaze then shifted to the Thunder Beast. Bolts of violent thunder continuously exploded along its massive form, shaking the surrounding space and causing numerous black spatial fissures to appear.
“The Thunder Beast's power has soared as well. It can easily slay a full Star-Gazing Realm expert now,” Ye Yunfei said, nodding as he sensed its aura.
With that, Ye Yunfei emerged from the Chaos Thunder Pool, bringing the Thunder Beast along.
“Finished your cultivation? By my reckoning, you've been cultivating here for over twenty years now. Of course, that's calculated by the flow of time in this place. How much time has passed in other worlds is impossible to say,” Hun Lao said as he emerged from the Heavenly Dao Tower.
“Indeed, twenty years have passed here without me even noticing. But thinking that I've mastered another profound body-refining technique makes it all feel worthwhile. Alright, let's continue on to the Feixian Continent. With my current strength, I'll count as a capable expert once I arrive there,” Ye Yunfei replied with a smile.
Ye Yunfei had a decent understanding of the overall strength of the various Core Worlds within the vast cosmos of the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds and naturally knew the rough power level on the Feixian Continent.
“Let's go. But I will definitely return to this place to cultivate in the future. Only this Chaos Thunder Pool can allow me to advance this lightning-attribute body-refining technique to a truly high realm,” Ye Yunfei continued.
In the time that followed, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao pressed on through the vast, misty expanse of the Chaotic Void.
Not long after they left the Chaos Thunder Pool, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao suddenly discovered a massive monster standing in the void far in the distance. It stared at them with two lake-sized eyes.
“Damn! That monster is over there! It's locked onto us again!” Hun Lao cried out.
“This thing holds a grudge too fiercely. You only slashed it with your sword once, yet it waited here for over twenty years, still thinking of revenge!” Hun Lao couldn't help but comment.
Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao poured their full power into propelling the Green Flying Boat, fleeing toward the direction of the Feixian Continent.
To their surprise, however, the monster did not give chase. It simply stood in the distant void, watching the green boat until it vanished from sight.
“That human youth stayed in the Chaos Thunder Pool for over twenty years and actually emerged alive and completely unharmed. It seems he may have a terrifying background,” the monster muttered to itself only after Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao had long departed. It had not been waiting purely for revenge; its nest just happened to be nearby.
On the rest of their journey, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao encountered all sorts of dangers. However, relying on their strength, their varied trump cards, and their extraordinary knowledge and judgment, they navigated past them all, albeit not without some scares.
Once, they encountered a Half-Emperor expert also traveling through the Chaotic Void. Sensing that Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao were no simple folk and seemed to have mysterious backgrounds, he grew curious and attempted to capture them for interrogation.
The result was that Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao exerted every ounce of effort, using every trump card at their disposal, and were finally forced to take refuge in a chaotic region filled with terrifying spatial storms. Only by exploiting the chaotic structure of space and time in that area, combined with the Heavenly Dao Tower's powerful ability to conceal their auras, did they barely manage to evade that Half-Emperor’s pursuit.
“That old bastard is too vicious! We almost fell into his hands. I’ve memorized his Soul Power aura, Ye Yunfei. Once your strength is sufficient in the future, we must definitely go settle the score with him!” Hun Lao said, gnashing his teeth in anger after shaking off the Half-Emperor's pursuit.
“Agreed. I’ve also memorized that old thing’s soul aura. Don’t worry, we’ll have another chance to meet him for sure. If I hadn't advanced the Thunder God Tyrant Body to the fourth layer, making my body nearly indestructible, he would have torn half my body apart earlier. I must vent this resentment,” Ye Yunfei nodded in response.
Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao continued their journey, traversing vast distances, experiencing all sorts of hardships and dangers along the way.
After an unknown length of time, a certain day finally arrived.
“Thank the heavens, we’re finally about to reach the Feixian Continent!” Hun Lao exclaimed excitedly to Ye Yunfei after performing some calculations.
“Yes, we will soon arrive at the Feixian Continent,” Ye Yunfei replied with a nod.
Before long, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao arrived at a specific location and came to a halt.
This was the very edge of the Feixian Continent!
The Feixian Continent's spatial barrier was hidden deep within the spacetime at this location. All they needed to do was shatter that barrier to enter!
Having experienced countless hardships to reach this point, Ye Yunfei suddenly felt an intense longing for the power he had wielded as a Heavenly Emperor in his previous life. As an Emperor, whenever Ye Yunfei wished to go to any of the Core Worlds within the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds, he only needed to lock onto the appropriate spatial-temporal coordinates and directly spatial traverse over. There would have been no need for all this trouble.
“Alright, what we need to do now is find a weak point in the Feixian Continent's spatial barrier, then force our way through,” Hun Lao stated.
Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao then moved deep into the spacetime at that location and saw a solid spatial barrier ahead.
For a while, the two began searching along the spatial barrier in that area. Eventually, they found an exceptionally weak spot.
“With our cultivation in spatial-temporal energy and laws, plus the power of the Half-Emperor longsword, and factoring in your current strength, we should be able to force our way through the spatial barrier at this point,” Hun Lao said, pointing at the location.
Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao then began working, employing all sorts of methods and unleashing their trump cards as they forcefully attempted to breach through into the Feixian Continent.
The Half-Emperor longsword proved to be the most effective, capable of effortlessly shattering the spatial barrier here.
Finally, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao successfully penetrated the spatial barrier, entering the spacetime of the Feixian Continent!
Instantly, they were met with waves of rich spiritual energy and profound heavenly and earthly laws.
Ahead lay an endless continent!
Its area was vast—at the very least thousands, even tens of thousands of times larger than the Primordial Continent! The energy and laws that existed here were also far beyond what the Primordial Continent could ever compare to!
“Feixian Continent, I have arrived!” Ye Yunfei couldn't help but murmur as he gazed upon this Core World before him.
“Now that I've reached a Core World, I am drawing ever closer to the realm of a Heavenly Emperor! In the future, when I undergo my tribulation to ascend to Heavenly Emperor, it will certainly be within a Core World. Perhaps even right here on the Feixian Continent. Of course, there are various ways to connect the different Core Worlds within the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds, with numerous teleportation channels. Since I've reached the Feixian Continent, it will become much more convenient for me to travel to other Core Worlds in the future! Xianling World, for example! Very well, the true rise of this life of mine… will start right here on the Feixian Continent!”
Reaching a Core World filled Ye Yunfei’s heart with soaring, heroic pride!