When Xie Changkong and the other higher-ups of Hudao Academy learned that the Alchemy Tower would join Hudao Academy as its Alchemy Hall, they all stood there dumbfounded, completely unable to believe it.
As everyone knew, the Alchemy Tower had always held a transcendent status within the Tianxuan Continent. Its prestige was at least equal, if not superior, to that of Hudao Academy. Now, it was going to join the academy?
Only when Dan Jun personally arrived at the main headquarters of Hudao Academy with a group of Alchemy Tower elders to discuss the various arrangements did Xie Changkong and the other leaders finally realize it was true—the Alchemy Tower really was joining Hudao Academy!
News of this spread, throwing the entire Tianxuan Continent into an uproar. Originally, Hudao Academy was already the sole superpower and strongest major sect on the continent. Now, with the addition of the Alchemy Tower, its position became completely unshakable.
Everyone understood that from then on, Hudao Academy would be the undisputed, one and only true hegemon of Tianxuan Continent!
Next, Ye Yunfei began guiding Dan Jun in refining Fifth-Grade Treasure Pills. After half a day, Dan Jun successfully refined one.
Two days later, Dan Jun refined a Sixth-Grade Treasure Pill!
Having cultivated alchemy his entire life, Dan Jun's foundation was actually already quite deep. Added to that was Ye Yunfei, an actual Pill Venerable, personally instructing and imparting various advanced pill-forging techniques. This caused Dan Jun's alchemy skills to soar.
"Thank you, Master, for imparting such exquisite alchemy techniques!" After refining the sixth-rank pill, Dan Jun trembled uncontrollably with excitement, paying a deep bow to Ye Yunfei and addressing him as 'Master'.
Ye Yunfei accepted it with composure. The alchemy techniques he had taught Dan Jun had propelled him into a new realm of pill forging.
Three days later.
"It's time for me to leave," Ye Yunfei muttered to himself.
He bid farewell separately to his father, the Ye Family elders, and the Hudao Academy higher-ups.
To his slaves—Fengyun Jue, Ren Xuantang, the Divine Medicine Valley Patriarch, and others—Ye Yunfei gave the order to protect the Ye Family members.
When Wu Heishan, Dugu Huan, Wen Zilong, Long Yingying, and the others heard Ye Yunfei was going to the Xuanhuang Star Domain, they all clung to him, demanding to go together. Ye Yunfei repeatedly assured them that he would return and bring them all out when the time came. Only then did Wu Heishan and the others relent.
Then, Ye Yunfei and Da Di Daozhang quietly left Hudao Academy.
After more than half a day, they arrived before the spatial rift in front of the Protector Realm City.
"Ye Yunfei, you're not planning to take me away from Tianxuan Continent through here, are you? This spatial rift is chaotic and unstable. If we barge in, we could be torn to pieces at any moment." Da Di Daozhang looked at the spatial rift ahead, a frown forming on his face. He was unaware of Ye Yunfei's modifications to its structure.
"Don't worry. I'm confident," Ye Yunfei said with a laugh. Then, he strode towards the spatial rift.
"We're really going in?" Da Di Daozhang hesitated.
Ye Yunfei had already entered the spatial rift, walking step by step into its depths as if walking on solid ground!
"Just as I thought, someone has passed through here within the last two days!" The moment Ye Yunfei entered the spatial rift, he sensed it immediately. "It seems it should be that Zishan Shenni and Xiao Hui," he thought to himself.
Moreover, Ye Yunfei sensed that a spatial treasure had been used within this rift. It seemed that Zishan Shenni possessed a quite high-level spatial treasure, enabling her to enter Tianxuan Continent.
"There's nothing happening?" Standing outside the spatial rift, Da Di Daozhang watched as Ye Yunfei walked a stretch inside without the slightest incident. He couldn't help but feel both shocked and curious.
"I already said there's nothing. Come in," Ye Yunfei said with a smile.
Only then did Da Di Daozhang muster the courage to step into the spatial rift.
Boom...
Majestic spatial energy and spatial laws violently rushed towards him.
Da Di Daozhang's face paled in fright.
Ye Yunfei waved a hand, sending out a wave of spatial energy that enveloped Da Di Daozhang. Immediately, the spatial energy and spatial laws rushing towards Da Di Daozhang vanished.
"Ye Yunfei, you can actually control the spatial energy here?! Even Aoyue Demon King couldn't do that, otherwise he'd have barged into Tianxuan Continent long ago! Ye Yunfei, how did you manage this?!" Da Di Daozhang was dumbfounded, utterly shaken.
"Let's go." Ye Yunfei gave a faint smile and took the lead, walking towards the other end of the spatial rift.
"Monster," Da Di Daozhang said, shaking his head as he gazed at Ye Yunfei's receding figure.
At the same moment.
Ancient Demon Realm.
"Lord Aoyue Demon King, it is confirmed without a doubt. Tianmo Prince's Soul Slate has shattered. Tianmo Prince... I'm afraid he is likely to meet with misfortune..." An Ancient Demon Race expert arrived before Aoyue Demon King, reporting cautiously.
"Tianmo Prince was at the Tenth Level Grotto-Heaven Realm. On the Tianxuan Continent, only Ye Yunfei could kill him." Aoyue Demon King's expression grew extremely somber.
A rolling fury erupted from him, causing the surrounding space to distort.
"Ye Yunfei! I swear, I will kill you!" Aoyue Demon King vowed, enunciating each word. His hatred for Ye Yunfei had reached its peak.
"Lord Aoyue Demon King! That spatial rift—it seems there's activity again!" At that very moment, another Ancient Demon Race expert hurriedly came to report.
"Someone passed through it a few days ago, and now there's movement again?! I'll go see!" Aoyue Demon King's form blurred, transforming into a streak of demonic light and vanishing in an instant.
At that moment.
Ye Yunfei was leading Da Di Daozhang through the spatial rift towards the opposite side.
A moment later.
Finally.
Ahead was the exit on the other side of the spatial rift.
"Excellent! I've finally returned to the Xuanhuang Star Domain! I've been trapped in the Tianxuan Continent for hundreds of years!" Da Di Daozhang was extremely agitated.
Then, Ye Yunfei and Da Di Daozhang stepped out of the spatial rift.
Before them was a fragment of broken land, floating within the starry void. This piece of earth was relatively small in area and appeared desolate and dilapidated, unsuitable for living beings.
Ye Yunfei and Da Di Daozhang stood on this fragmented land, the vast, starry expanse stretching boundlessly above them.
In the distance, dozens of military tents were stationed. Each camp exuded a churning demonic aura.
"It's the Ancient Demon Race forces!" Da Di Daozhang said grimly. "The Tianxuan Continent is a low-level world discovered by the Ancient Demon Race, so they've always stationed people here to keep watch."
"Who's there?!" At that moment, troops poured out of the dozens of distant tents, rushing towards Ye Yunfei and Da Di Daozhang to surround them.
"Slaughter them." Ye Yunfei waved a hand.
The Five Elements Spirit Swords whirred out, slicing through them.
Argh!
A series of miserable screams rang out constantly.
Within moments, all of the Ancient Demon Race personnel, along with the dozens of tents, were chopped into mincemeat.
"Ye Yunfei, you actually dare to kill them all! We better leave, now! Once Aoyue Demon King knows you've emerged, he will definitely hunt you down across the entire star domain!" Da Di Daozhang immediately retrieved a large flying ship.
Ye Yunfei and Da Di Daozhang boarded the ship.
Swoosh!
The ship charged into the vast expanse of the starry void, vanishing into the distance in an instant.
A few breaths later.
Rumble...!
A majestic, overbearing demonic power suppression came rushing from afar, shaking this fragment of broken land.
Then, a streak of demonic light descended from the distance, landing on the ground.
It was a grotesque-looking Ancient Demon, with a towering physique, radiating a terrifyingly powerful demonic aura. It was precisely Aoyue Demon King.
"Who did this?!" Aoyue Demon King's face darkened to the extreme as he surveyed the ground littered with dismembered limbs and flesh.
Suddenly, he noticed, on the ground in the distance, an Ancient Demon corpse that had been severed into several pieces, its head twitched.
"There's a half-fragment of a remnant soul left!" Aoyue Demon King stretched out a hand and exerted a sucking force.
Swoosh!
That head, along with a small half of its mangled torso, was sucked to a position before Aoyue Demon King.
"Spirit Condensation Technique!" Aoyue Demon King gave a low shout, his hands weaving like butterflies among flowers, continuously forming one hand seal after another that enveloped the head.
In the space around that head, tiny soul fragments resembling fireflies constantly drifted back into the skull.
Moments later.
That head actually slowly... opened its eyes.
"Lord Aoyue Demon King!" Seeing Aoyue Demon King, the head was greatly alarmed and called out weakly.
"Who killed you all," Aoyue Demon King asked.
"It was a young man with terrifyingly powerful strength. He emerged from the Tianxuan Continent," the head said, a look of terror appearing on its face.
"A young man emerging from Tianxuan Continent!" Aoyue Demon King was both shocked and furious.
"I'll search your memories! Soul Searching Technique!" Aoyue Demon King pointed a finger, a fearsome surge of Soul Power enveloping the head.
"Nooo! Arghh…"
The head screamed miserably. Being soul-searched was an excruciatingly painful experience.
Immediately, Aoyue Demon King saw Ye Yunfei's figure within this head!
"So it was indeed Ye Yunfei! He's emerged from Tianxuan Continent!" Aoyue Demon King roared with a sound like thunder, shaking this patch of starry void.
Pah!
That head directly exploded into pieces.
At this time, a group of Ancient Demon Race experts arrived as well, descending beside Aoyue Demon King.
"Ye Yunfei has already emerged from Tianxuan Continent! Send my orders! Immediately launch a manhunt for Ye Yunfei across the entire Xuanhuang Star Domain! Spare no cost or effort; we must find Ye Yunfei! Also, spread this news. A while ago, Ye Yunfei killed so many people. I think, besides our Ancient Demon Race, many great sects and clans will want to settle scores with him!
"Hah! Ye Yunfei, if you'd kept hiding in the Tianxuan Continent, perhaps I could do nothing to you. But you actually dared to run out?! This is seeking death!" Aoyue Demon King roared.
"Also, send a few Great Profound Dan realm experts to guard this place, to prevent Ye Yunfei from escaping back there if need be!" Aoyue Demon King added.
"Yes!" the nearby Ancient Demon Race experts promptly replied.
At that moment.
The ship carrying Ye Yunfei and Da Di Daozhang was already far away, speeding through the boundless starry void.
"Ye Yunfei, you killed those Ancient Demon Race troops. Aoyue Demon King's magical power is vast and boundless; he'll definitely deduce it was you. You're in serious trouble. I've discovered, young man, your skill in provoking trouble is truly first-rate," Da Di Daozhang said to Ye Yunfei.
"It's fine. Well, if trouble comes, we meet it head-on. Besides, even if Aoyue Demon King doesn't come looking for me, I'll still go find him. Our Tianxuan Continent has suffered far too much hardship because of the Ancient Demon Race. That debt must be settled properly," Ye Yunfei replied placidly.