In a small world beyond the heavens.

Guan Yan, who had severed karma with Hanging Temple and broken free from monastic life, held Xiao Fan’s hand, his eyes full of tenderness, and strolled through a sea of flowers.

He wanted to plant nine hundred and ninety-nine kinds of flower seas for her, and tie nine hundred and ninety-nine kinds of fragrances.

He wanted to take her to nine hundred and ninety-nine small worlds, to experience nine hundred and ninety-nine sweet lives. To live according to the ways of those worlds, to love, to travel, and then to pass by.

He was no longer a monk, but still kept his shaved head. Her white hair had turned back to black silk, and her smiling eyebrows were just as they were when they first met.

Everything was as it was in the beginning.

Everything in the Forest Sea Origin Realm, everything in the current world, was actually not that important.

They had properly said goodbye, and afterwards only lived their own lives.

Five hundred years of enduring bitterness, for this one moment of sweetness.

Worldly affairs no longer concerned them, but there were always some matters, some people, that were special.

For example, that young person who had witnessed their story and pushed them to reunite.

Guan Yan liked him, and Xiao Fan also liked him.

Every time this child wrote letters, he seriously discussed cultivation, but at the end, he would also mention Granny Xiao Fan and respectfully greet her.

It was at a certain moment when the wind blew the sea of flowers into waves, Guan Yan thought of himself as the Jade Balance Star Lord again, and slightly regained his senses… Thus, he brought his index and middle fingers together and plucked out a piece of starlight-shimmering letter paper.

Xiao Fan hummed a tune distractedly, seemingly drunk on the flower fragrance.

“Don’t steal glances, it’s tiring for your eyes.” Guan Yan held the letter paper up to her face. “Look yourself.”

Xiao Fan took the letter paper and emphasized a sentence: “You insist I look, so I’ll look. Actually, I don’t like reading your private letters.”

With one glance, she was suddenly somewhat surprised. “Heaven Buddha treasure tool?”

Guan Yan slowly walked forward, his moon-white long robe fluttering, and calmly said: “It’s impossible for there to be any treasure hidden in the world seams of the Forest Sea Origin Realm without me knowing. Clearly, he fell into a trap.”

Xiao Fan immediately became nervous. “Then what are you still doing here? Quickly go take a look? Such a good child, thinking of you with good things. Even if he was deceived, the intention is more precious than the treasure!”

Guan Yan tightened his grip on her hand, his smile gentle. “Don’t worry, I’m here.”

Ao Kui’s corpse was falling.

That body, like a miracle of a true dragon, was so ordinary after its life force was exhausted. It was nothing more than more flesh and blood, a larger skeleton, and brighter golden scales.

The ink ants of Play Fate swarmed in the air, winding like a black rope around the dragon several times, all turning ink-colored. They quickly gnawed the dragon corpse’s flesh and blood clean, leaving only the skeleton crashing to the ground!

Under this impact, the dense ink ants scattered like flowing water, with countless casualties. But the living ones quickly crawled back, continuing to gnaw on bones and suck marrow.

The Mohists play with mechanisms and puppets, not beast taming. The ink ants dividing the dragon corpse are not for self-digestion, but are stored in ant sacs after decomposition. Finally, the ink ants that swallowed different parts will enter different ant pools, then spit out the preliminarily processed raw materials for cultivators to take. Directly collecting dragon scales, dragon blood, and dragon meat is already an outdated choice…

Ao Kui was already dead, the Heaven Slaughter Ten Thousand Absolute Array was still operating automatically, Jing Li was still reciting scriptures, blood corpses were still swaying… Hundreds of thousands of floating land warriors were busy in the vast land, also like ants.

“Losing is losing, no matter who you lose to.” Play Fate responded to Ao Kui’s resentment before death with this flat sentence.

In this floating land war, his mechanisms and puppets suffered many casualties. It could be said that he used mountains of Dao Origin Stones to create the current victory… This dragon corpse was his harvest.

Jiang Wang didn’t mind either.

He was too lazy to respond to the dead.

He only raised his head and looked at the copper-colored sky.

That was an empty and silent metallic color, covering this world for many days, bringing endless suppression and fear.

Ao Kui was dead, but the Begging Life As Bowl in the sky… was still there!

The copper-colored sky canopy covered the floating land, thus becoming “heaven round, earth square.”

The myriad beings of the floating land world were all like birds in a cage.

And outside the “bird cage,” someone riding a red cauldron across the star river had already arrived from afar.

Jiang Wu Xie, Master of the Nurturing Heart Palace of the Great Qi Empire, used heavenly classics and earthly weft to draw star paths, and connected emotion threads as far paths. In the vast universe, he grasped a grain in the vast sea.

This distance, if purely measured by space, was probably not billions of miles away. Even if one walked until their divine power and life force were exhausted, they still couldn’t reach it.

But standing on the Purple Micro Central Heaven, with emotion threads as ties and starlight as paths, locking onto the specific star dome position, and with a star chart leap… it was close at hand.

He rushed to the target as fast as possible; the effort spent need not be mentioned again.

Yet what he saw before his eyes was covered with Sanskrit, iron walls and copper walls.

This world was not originally very open, and now it was even more directly locked into a prison.

Light could not penetrate, shadow could not penetrate, sound could not penetrate. Who knew how many years had passed inside?

No wonder Yu Ling had warned him in advance that this world indeed had great changes!

When he first came here to plot, he hadn’t discovered any Buddha nature power.

His heart worried about Yu Ling’s danger, and Jiang Wu Xie didn’t waste any time. While still some distance from the floating land world, he directly flung his large sleeve, his right hand virtually spread and slanted back, as if to grasp something—

In the depths of the vast universe, in the ancient star dome, a red star suddenly lit up!

That was the collection of star concepts, the core that was extremely difficult to specifically touch.

Its starlight sprinkled across all heavens and myriad worlds, and at this time it poured unsparingly on Jiang Wu Xie.

Red starlight!

So bright and beautiful, endlessly illuminating this place.

And it all instantly gathered into one bundle, grasped by Jiang Wu Xie in his palm.

At this time, Jiang Wu Xie’s posture was stretched, his ink hair flying, like a fully drawn bow. In the ultimate yin softness, there was also surging explosive power.

Starlight filled the bow.

Suddenly released the string.

Jiang Wu Xie took only one step and was already in front of that copper wall. The bundle of starlight in his hand had already turned into a long spear in this process.

Purple eyes, black hair, dazzling red spear!

The star’s name was “Red Luan.”

Red dust casts the cauldron.

The spear’s name was “Red Luan.”

Originally, there was no evil desire.

Moreover, when the Red Luan star moves, who doesn’t seek marriage!

This one spear bloomed lonely in the depths of the universe, like a flower that no one appreciated, yet extremely gorgeous.

Flower blooming season just meets!

Such a brilliant spear, which could absolutely be called a stunning spear at the divine arrival level, crashed into the iron and copper wall that covered the entire floating land world.

Like an old monk striking a bell in the deep mountains.

That long and lonely sound echoed almost endlessly in the depths of the universe.

But it was only this one sound.

No matter how stunning the Red Luan spear was, it could not break the Begging Life As Bowl.

Jiang Wu Xie was after all only a divine arrival. Although he had cast the cauldron in the red dust and achieved it in one step, he was overbearing and unmatched. But he faced a Heaven Buddha treasure tool.

Besides this one long bowl sound, there were no gains.

“Hu…”

Jiang Wu Xie exhaled a long breath.

He turned the violent backlash from the Red Luan spear into turbid gas and spat it out.

The spear tip was still touching the copper wall, his right hand still grasping the long spear. He thus hung outside the floating land world, unable to open this world gate.

He did not hesitate to prematurely achieve divine arrival, killing his way all the way from Linzi, Qi country in the present world to here.

But billions of miles of longing star path were actually blocked by one copper bowl!

A mere low-position external world, with a few lingering old things plotting against each other, actually dared to block him, Jiang Wu Xie?

The majestic prince of Great Qi, a descendant of a heavenly noble, with the strong support of the Imperial Clan Bureau, the most qualified existence to compete for the dragon throne… How could he endure this grievance?!

Jiang Wu Xie slowly retracted the Red Luan spear behind him, his eyes sinking, preparing to call for reinforcements.

It was time to put on the airs of the Great Qi Nurturing Heart Palace here!

But at this moment, the void on this side suddenly darkened and then brightened. A luxurious and complex star chart to the extreme spread out beside him. In the center of the star chart stood a man with his hands behind his back, his hair pinned with an ink hairpin, his face excessively young.

The star chart Daoist robe on his body shone brightly in the depths of this universe, increasingly highlighting this person’s extraordinary nature.

Jiang Wu Xie’s heart moved, his eyes jumped with joy, but he ultimately maintained his composure and nodded slightly with extreme grace: “Supervisor Ruan.”

Supervisor of the Great Qi Astronomical Bureau, star divination master Ruan Qu!

He stood beside Jiang Wu Xie, showing two different kinds of handsomeness. He also nodded in return. “Ninth Highness.”

“Did Father Emperor send Supervisor to protect me?” Jiang Wu Xie tried to be as casual as possible. “Too ostentatious! When a son travels a thousand miles, parents worry, I understand this principle. But since I chose to achieve divine arrival and come to the depths of this universe, I naturally came prepared, not some hot-headed reckless man…”

As he spoke, he became sentimental. “Father Emperor loves me deeply, but also looks at me too lightly! I truly don’t know whether to be happy or sad!”

Ruan Qu: …

He came to the floating land world with no relation to Jiang Wu Xie at all!

Nor was it the Great Qi Emperor’s instruction!

When Jiang Wang first discussed the floating land world with him, he was very interested. He also gave Jiang Wang a knife coin, asking him to notify him once he returned to the floating land later.

Later, Jiang Wang issued an edict to the world to exterminate the No Birth Cult Ancestor, and also used that knife coin to invite him to act.

He felt Jiang Wang’s determination, and without receiving any calculation reward, he acted to help calculate and break Zhang Lin Chuan’s karma, forever cutting off his future path. At that time, he also calculated that the floating land world was signed with the name “Zhang Lin Chuan,” so he didn’t give another knife coin to Jiang Wang later.

Because he already knew the location of the floating land world, he no longer needed Jiang Wang to lead the way, just waiting for an appropriate time to explore.

Today, causes and conditions met, and it was exactly the right time.

But how should he explain to Ninth Highness now… Your father basically doesn’t care about you?

“Your Highness, upon first entering divine arrival, then stepping outside the heavens, and crossing the star river alone, your courage is commendable, and your cultivation is also very outstanding.” Ruan Qu had no words to say, simply praising him in two sentences.

This coming to the floating land, truly speaking of a relationship with Jiang Wu Xie, could also be linked a bit.

When Jiang Wang first discussed the floating land world, he mentioned in passing that Jiang Wu Xie, Master of the Nurturing Heart Palace, had also participated.

This was one of the reasons the floating land world attracted his attention.

“What alone?” Jiang Wu Xie sighed. “Father Emperor is taking care of me, you are protecting me, I am ah, really like a fearless child.”

Undeniably, the Nurturing Heart Palace Master was very good at building relationships and giving a sense of closeness—provided that the Great Qi Emperor was really taking care, and Ruan Qu was really sent to protect him.

Ruan Qu saw that he was still circling around this topic of deep father-son affection and couldn’t get out, so he hurriedly said: “Your Highness came to the floating land several years ago, presumably you have already made preparations there?”

“The inheritance of the eight wise ministers of the ancient human emperor, who can not be tempted?” Jiang Wu Xie’s fringe hung down, with a touch of melancholy. “The one who first discovered this place was actually Wu Qi. He was physically inconvenient, so he took advantage of the opening of the Seven Stars Secret Realm and had his cousin Lei Zhan Qian place a piece here. I didn’t have a suitable Seven Stars Secret Realm candidate by my side, so I came personally once.”

The majestic Nurturing Heart Palace Master, how could he have no one by his side?

It was just that under the restrictions of the Seven Stars Valley, no one could match Lei Zhan Qian and be easily killed. This prince was one who pitied the fair and cherished the jade, unwilling to let beauties take risks… so he took the risk himself.

Indeed like Martial Ancestor.

But the “like Martial Ancestor” Ninth Prince was right before his eyes. His layouts, his styles, his actions, there was time to slowly observe them clearly. Ruan Qu suddenly very much wanted to know, if the Eleventh Prince were still alive, if Lei Zhan Qian were still alive, what would this situation look like today?

Truly regrettable ah.

Even for him, such a star divination master, having seen too many matters and too many people, also felt too regrettable.

Jiang Wu Xie said again: “The floating land has its own opportunities, it will not come out until the time is ripe. I thought to wait until after a hundred years, but I didn’t expect changes to arise now.”

He looked at the copper wall before his eyes: “A Heaven Buddha treasure tool is locking this world here. Does it mean…”

Although there was the myriad races covenant, in this new Dao Calendar era, transcendents could not act directly. But transcendents’ plots were everywhere, and also the main driving force of the great contention of the myriad worlds. It was just that they usually could not be perceived by ordinary cultivators.

The appearance of Heaven Buddha power in the floating land world meant that the danger level of this realm was raised almost infinitely.

Ruan Qu said peacefully: “Instead, there is no need to worry about how much power Heaven Buddha releases. The more it is seen, the more it will lose in the final transcendent situation… The Saha Dragon Staff is still being suppressed. If I am not mistaken, this Begging Life As Bowl was also pushed here by another existence.”

“Can it be lifted open now?” Jiang Wu Xie asked.

“Not easy.” Ruan Qu shook his head. “It has locked this world and is almost one with it. If forcibly lifted, it is easy to collapse the entire floating land.”

“Can Supervisor see the current situation inside?” Jiang Wu Xie asked again.

“I only know that it is very lively inside now, the rest cannot be seen clearly. Some existence inside deliberately concealed everything.” Ruan Qu gazed at the copper patterns close at hand, his expression somewhat strange. “Our former Martial Peace Marquis seems to be among them as well.”

“Isn’t he opening an inn in the Star Moon Plains?” Jiang Wu Xie said, gently patting his forehead. “When I first came here, he also came, sword-retreated Lei Zhan Qian, won the life and death chess, seized the Heavenly Chief…”

Ruan Qu thought to himself, I know about this place because he told me.

Jiang Wu Xie was somewhat astonished: “How am I outside, and he is inside? How did he get in?”

Ruan Qu thoughtfully: “Perhaps he was originally inside. This Heaven Buddha treasure tool was buckled on afterwards.”

Jiang Wu Xie became more and more inconceivable as he spoke: “The changes in the floating land world are related to him? Heaven Buddha specially buckled him?”

Ruan Qu shrugged his shoulders: “Who knows?”

If Yu Ling is smart enough, she should seek protection from Jiang Wang. Jiang Wang should also give me face.

But… with the current danger level of the floating land world, Jiang Wang may not be able to protect himself.

Jiang Wu Xie thought for a moment, then asked again: “You just said, the existence inside that deliberately concealed everything… who is it?”

“I don’t know yet. It is playing hide-and-seek with me, and it will take some effort to find out. But one point can be affirmed…” Ruan Qu said: “If it hadn’t discovered me, it would have let you in.”

Jiang Wu Xie then knew that when he raised his spear to hit the copper wall, Ruan Qu had already arrived.

But he noticed the key point was not this: “Your meaning is, I can go in?”

Ruan Qu avoided talking and only said: “I need a little time to crack it. Your Highness, how about finding a place to rest for a moment first?”

“Supervisor Ruan!” Jiang Wu Xie held the Red Luan behind him, those long eyes that were always criticized as ‘frivolous’ and ‘promiscuous’, revealing an unprecedented seriousness.

He clasped his hands together, so seriously performed a bowing ritual: “Please send me in.”

Thanks to book friend “Huluwa Nightly Makes New Wolf” for becoming the alliance leader of this book, as the 475th alliance for Red Heart Patrolling Heavens!