After dinner, Gu Yuena tried to call Di Tian with her communicator again, but there was still no response.
"What is going on…" Gu Yuena was a little worried. The uncertainty made her uneasy.
Yun Ze thought for a moment and said,"Di Tian headed north of Star Luo City to begin his search. He's probably accidentally entered some small pocket space there."
"We'll return to the area near Star Luo City first, and then head north as well. We should come across that space eventually."
"Alright." Gu Yuena nodded in agreement.
The night was not peaceful—halfway through the night, Tang Sect personnel conducted a search throughout the city, looking for suspicious individuals.
But without portraits or identifying features, their search was destined to be fruitless.
Yun Ze and Gu Yuena had entered the city openly, without black cloaks or face coverings, looking no different than ordinary travelers.In that situation, who would see them as suspicious?
They heard of the Tang Sect search but remained calm, resting in their room without concern.
The next morning at nine, after breakfast, the two purchased a soul-guided automobile and walked toward the northern city gate.
They didn't drive it out of the city because although Gu Yuena could drive, she found getting a license troublesome. Driving without one would be a problem if discovered.
The car was stored inside a storage ring and would be taken out after leaving the city.
At the gate, four middle-aged Tang Sect stewards stood guard. They were all soul masters. Beside them was a metal device known as a soul power detector, capable of detecting the soul power of any soul master below the Ultimate Douluo level.
This was one of their methods of screening suspects—initially identifying them based on their soul power level.
Someone capable of that massacre would definitely be extraordinary—at least titled Douluo level.
Therefore, any titled Douluo appearing in this small city would immediately be under suspicion.
Yun Ze and Gu Yuena passed in front of the stewards without the slightest panic.
The stewards glanced at them several times. Among those entering and exiting, the pair was indeed eye-catching.
Yun Ze—red clothes, red hair, young, yet exceptionally handsome, with a striking phoenix emblem at his brow.
Gu Yuena—fair skin, stunning beauty, flawless features, with a perfect figure—almost impossible to ignore.
Their presence drew attention everywhere they walked, and even these stewards subconsciously stared a bit longer.
"They look so familiar…" one steward murmured, frowning as he watched their retreating backs.
"Captain, I think that's Yun Ze and Gu Yuena," another recognized them.
"It really is them." The others also remembered—these were the two who made a sensational appearance in the Youth Soul Master Competition.
"What are they doing here?" The captain frowned slightly.
"Does that make them suspicious?" one steward whispered.
"What do you think? Yes, they're geniuses, but they're only at the Soul Emperor level. Do you think they could do something like that?"
"That's true…" The others nodded. Those two definitely didn't have the capability.
"…Still, report their presence here." the captain said after thinking for a moment.
After traveling some distance, Yun Ze and Gu Yuena took out the soul-guided car and drove north.
They traveled by day, and near sundown would stop in a city to rest—not rushing too intensely.
In a large city along the way, Yun Ze purchased a large quantity of metal materials to create containers to house dragon souls.
During his time in Dragon Valley, he had already designed the formation arrays for the containers. Now he only needed to forge the metal and engrave the formations.
By now, he was already comparable to a seventh-rank Saint Craftsman—working with metals was becoming increasingly easy.
He rented a forging chamber in a blacksmith shop and spent several hours forging all the metal necessary for the next few days.
During the days, Gu Yuena drove while Yun Ze sat in the passenger seat engraving formation arrays, chatting with Gu Yuena from time to time.
They could complete one container a day—high efficiency.
More than twenty days passed quickly as the two traveled more than a hundred miles north of Star Luo City.
They carefully searched for space fluctuations along the way, reaching the northernmost edge of the continent, but still found no pocket space.
After discussing it, they turned east, searching for Di Tian while sightseeing across the continent.
One day, Gu Yuena's soul-guided communicator suddenly rang. She quickly grabbed it while driving.
"It's Di Tian's!" she said excitedly, slamming the brakes and answering, turning the volume up.
As soon as the call connected, she urgently asked,"Di Tian, what has been going on? Why hasn't your communicator been reachable?"
On the other end came rough, heavy breathing—Di Tian seemed to have just experienced a fierce battle and was exhausted.
After several breaths, Di Tian finally spoke:
"Miss… by coincidence, I entered the trial ground of a god."
"What? A god's trial ground?" Gu Yuena's eyes widened as she looked toward Yun Ze.
Yun Ze's expression remained calm."Explain it in detail. From your voice, it sounds like things haven't gone very well…"
That kind of exhausted breathing could only come after life-or-death combat. If he were doing well, he wouldn't sound like this.
"Alright…" On the other side, Di Tian's clothes were tattered and soaked in blood—he was seriously wounded.
After adjusting his breathing and gathering his thoughts, he began explaining what he had experienced:
"This trial ground is also a small pocket space. I discovered it by accident in a mountain range in the northwest of the continent."
"A spatial vortex appeared. When I approached to investigate, I was sucked in and entered that pocket space."
"Once inside, I wanted to contact you, but the communicator wouldn't work at all."
"Not only that, I couldn't leave either. The spatial rules of this world aren't something I can break."
"Since I couldn't leave, I started exploring the space. What I found shocked me."
Di Tian's voice became complicated—containing both joy and sorrow. Before Gu Yuena could ask, he continued:
"I encountered some soul beasts inside—only around twenty in total, but the strongest one had lived more than nine hundred thousand years."
"Nine hundred thousand years?" Gu Yuena was stunned. She didn't expect any soul beast on the continent to have such an age.
"Why were those soul beasts in that pocket world? And what does this have to do with the trial ground you mentioned?" she asked, full of questions.
"That nine-hundred-thousand-year soul beast is a Kirin with impure blood. According to it, it is a guard of the Kirin Ancient God."