The fully loaded military Starskiff sped toward the Scalegorge Waterscape. Its streamlined hull sliced through the firmament, leaving a string of sonic boom clouds in its wake.
In a short time, the Starskiff had traversed thousands of kilometers, entering the boundless Scalegorge Waterscape delve.
This was one of the largest and most expansive delves on the Xianzhou. It contained an Ancient Sea even vaster than the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on Earth combined.
At the front of the Starskiff, Fu Xuan was deep in contemplation and divination, commanding the Cloud Knights in the rear. Aside from Welt, who silently listened to Fu Xuan's deployments, the other Astral Express members tacitly chose not to disturb her.
"Eh!"
March 7th, whose slender fingers were deftly swiping across her phone screen, suddenly let out a faint sound of surprise.
"What's wrong, Ah Qi?"
Stelle reached out to rub the head of Caelus, who was resting with his eyes closed. Seeing that the Caelus-cub didn't open his eyes or even resist no matter how she rubbed, Stelle revealed a wicked grin, planning to mess his gray hair into a bird's nest. Upon hearing March, she stopped her hand, and the Stellaron spirit's fluffy little head leaned over.
"It's Dan Heng. It seems he left the inn a long time ago. He appears to be right near the Scalegorge Waterscape now." March 7th's slender fingers tapped rapidly on the screen.
"Hmm? How did he know we would come to the Scalegorge Waterscape?"
Stelle was stunned for a moment and looked at March 7th's phone screen.
"I don't know."
March 7th shook her head, her hair, with its elegant gradation of cherry blossom hues, swaying with her movements. She pressed a finger against her chin in brief thought, attempting a guess. "Maybe it has to do with Dan Heng's past? After all, he is a Xianzhou local."
During the chat, Dan Heng sent his location data.
"No, wait, Seven... you call this nearby?"
Stelle pointed at the pinned location, which was hundreds of kilometers away, her eyes slanting in disbelief.
"Hiya, well, this Starskiff flies fast, doesn't it?"
March 7th waved her hand nonchalantly. For the boundless Scalegorge Waterscape delve, a distance of a few hundred kilometers could indeed be considered "nearby." A supersonic Starskiff could arrive within ten minutes.
"Wow, even with your brain, you were able to calculate the time directly?" Stelle feigned shock.
"I'll hit you, you know~!"
With a gentle yet dangerous tone, March 7th revealed a "nuclear" kind smile.
"Sha! Don't stand on ceremony."
Stelle moved the Caelus beside her over, making a "please" gesture and wearing a scummy smile that invited her to hit him as she pleased.
"Ah Caelus, what are you doing? You've had your eyes closed this whole time. Are you sleeping?"
March 7th lightly punched Stelle on the head, then curiously leaned in front of Caelus, wanting to observe him closely.
Stelle's eyes darted around, and her brows curved with malicious intent. She pretended to stand up to look out the window, but as she passed behind March 7th, she cheekily twisted her waist and bumped her perky rear, hidden by her coat, forward.
"Ya!"
Caught off guard, Little March pitched forward, plunging her entire body into Caelus's embrace. Her lips, crystalline as jelly, brushed past Caelus's cheek.
The girl's cheeks instantly flushed red with heat.
Feeling the warm, fragrant jade and the scented breeze enter his arms, Caelus opened his eyes. He deliberately looked at the shy and cute girl with a gaze that said, 'I didn't expect you to be this kind of Ah Qi,' while adopting the delicate posture of a young girl being molested by a hooligan.
"Come on, Ah Qi, I won't resist."
Silver Wing has been watching this side with a smile the whole time.
"Won't resist what! It's not...!"
Her brows and eyes holding a trace of flustered shyness, March 7th gritted her teeth in embarrassment and anger, turning her head to look at the culprit: "Ah Stelle!!!"
She was about to rush over, baring her fangs and brandishing her claws.
"Stop, I surrender! It was all Caelus-cub who forced me to do it!" Stelle immediately gave a French military salute.
Having secretly learned quite a few moves during her daily battles of wits and courage with Caelus, Stelle directly used a retreat to advance, seizing the initiative.
"Ha? The same move won't work on Saint March a second time. Speak, how do you want to die?"
Previously, when Caelus was caught pulling a prank, he had surrendered and claimed Stelle forced him with violence, and March 7th had believed it.
"But I recall you falling for the same pit several times..."
Stelle stared at the flames of rage suddenly swelling around March 7th and her darkened little face. She immediately changed her tune, speaking with deep sincerity:
"Cough, I'm serious. Caelus-cub said as long as I play wingman for him, he'd give me something fun!"
"Wing... Wingman..."
The furious Little March's cheeks turned even redder upon hearing this word, using her remaining momentum to maintain her angry look.
Stelle: "(ω)"
She was just testing the waters. Regardless of whether Little March shyly died down or turned her gun to hit Caelus, it was no loss to her. Stelle placed a hand on her hip, triumphant, and gave Caelus-cub a smug look.
"Mhm, I indeed got my hands on something very, very fun and interesting."
Seeing the Stellaron spirit showing off, Caelus spoke with a beaming smile.
Stelle counted as a System owner; as long as one of the parties participating in the fusion included him or Stelle, they could separate again. Additionally, although people of different genders could use the earrings to fuse, the resulting gender would be unknown, so it was best to use them with the same sex.
Seele and Bronya, Li Sushang and Kiana or Bronie. Pairing them up two by two... he alone would gain several new forms.
Plus Stelle, March 7th, Sister Himeko...
"What? What is it?"
Hearing there was something fun, and that Caelus even used two "very"s to describe it, Hachi-Stelle conveniently switched to an obedient face, leaning close to Caelus to curry favor with a smile.
March 7th delivered a chop to Stelle's head as a sanction. It just grazed him, that's all. It... it can't count as a kiss! Suppressing her slight shyness, she also cast a curious gaze over.
Every rare gadget Caelus brought out was always full of surprises.
Boom!
Just as Caelus intended to keep the two in suspense, a earth-shaking, heaven-shattering blast was suddenly heard from a distance.
"Master Diviner, violent energy fluctuations detected in the Chou direction, five hundred li away."
A clerical Cloud Knight issued a report.
Fu Xuan looked up at the azure projection screen, her willow-leaf brows knitting slightly. "This energy intensity... what is going on?"
This energy did not reach the level of an Emanator response, yet it was not weak.
Fu Xuan lowered her brows in thought and quickly made a decision. As the Master Diviner of the Divination Commission, one must cultivate a good habit: when indecisive, cast a hexagram.
Fu Xuan raised her pale hand lightly. A stream of pink and purple particles rushed forth, quickly forming a formation. Her fingertips roamed in the air, seemingly plucking at strings.
The Matrix of Prescience Eye flickered, but in the next second, as if seeing something incredible, Fu Xuan's face revealed astonishment. "This is! What is happening!"
"Master Diviner, what is wrong? Is it Phantylia?" asked the concerned Welt, frowning.
"No, it has nothing to do with Phantylia. Chaos. The hexagrams are all in chaos in a single instant!"
It was as if a massive causality had appeared out of thin air, joining the calculation of future spacetime as a variable, causing the established hexagrams to be disrupted and everything to be pushed back to the start!
"How is this possible? How can such massive causality be generated out of nothing?"
This was a situation Fu Xuan had never encountered since stepping into the Way of Divination. Because gathering information related to causality took time, with insufficient data, let alone her Matrix of Prescience Eye, even using the Matrix of Prescience itself would not work.
"Master Diviner, let's go over there and take a look."
Caelus knew the source of that energy. Lifeforms that the System could not contain would randomly appear within a five-hundred-kilometer radius of him.
Fu Xuan and Old Yang were present, and the Starskiff had sufficient firepower. He could also use the earrings to fuse a super soldier; dealing with a Ten-Tails Larva would be more than enough. If they could resolve the Ten-Tails Larva immediately, they could eliminate a hidden danger.
"Mhm, This Seat has the same intention."
Fu Xuan nodded, issuing orders to the Cloud Knight operating the Starskiff.
Generally and rationally speaking, even if abnormal situations were detected en route, she shouldn't abandon the pursuit of Phantylia. However, Fu Xuan had received a message from Jing Yuan.
Phantylia's frontal combat power was almost the weakest among the Lord Ravagers, but since she could become a Lord Ravager, she was absolutely not a simple character. If her stats were weak, her mechanics were strong. Any individual Heliobus could change the energy balance within a region and freely convert energy, just like a human moving heavy objects. This allowed Phantylia to easily penetrate most matter and energy, including the seal the Dragon High Elder once placed on the Ambrosial Arbor.
Not to mention that after thousands of years, the power of the seal might have decayed.
Jing Yuan's travel speed was not as fast as Phantylia, who had no physical body; the latter had already entered the interior of the Scalegorge Ancient Sea's seal. Separated by the Ancient Sea and the seal, Jing Yuan couldn't chase inside at all.
Using the power of an Emanator, Jing Yuan could fight in the Ancient Sea, but fighting within the Ancient Sea would heavily discount the Lightning Lord's combat power, just like the Monkey King going underwater.
Fu Xuan's heart sank after receiving the message, but the General subsequently sent another.
[Master Fu, there is no need to worry about the Ancient Sea and the seal. I will find a reinforcement capable of resolving this matter. You just need to make preparations for battle.]
Someone capable of resolving the Ancient Sea and the Vidyadhara High Elder's seal... with Fu Xuan's intelligence, it was easy to think of whom Jing Yuan was referring to.
Since that was the case, they had to wait for Jing Yuan to find his helper. They might as well take this time to investigate the abnormal energy point first.
Caelus thought for a moment, took out his phone, and forwarded Dan Heng's location data to Moonscar.
In a place of hazy light, the weather adjustment instruments of the Xianzhou Luofu were likely affected; the blue sky that was sunny just minutes ago had now become a gray expanse with drifting clouds.
The churning seawater oscillated between light and dark as a Starskiff shuttled through the ethereal mist.
"Master, where are you taking me?"
Looking around at the gloomy sea surface, Jingliu looked up at the white-dressed girl standing at the bow of the Starskiff with arms crossed, occasionally gazing at the firmament and occasionally fiddling with her phone. She sighed in her heart.
Although calling her "Master" was extremely awkward at first, after being forced to say it a few times, Jingliu had begun to get used to it.
After the battle at the Artisanship Commission, she had planned to leave first to discuss the next plan with Luocha, which might need a little adjustment. But this little master wouldn't let her go, practically dragging her onto a Starskiff, saying she would take her to a place.
And then they arrived here—the Scalegorge Waterscape, the Ancient Sea.
"Get off the boat and follow me. You'll know in a moment."
Moonscar smiled mysteriously, leaping lightly off the Starskiff. She landed on the moss-covered ground and beckoned to Jingliu.
After a few seconds of silent hesitation and another sigh in her heart, Jingliu followed the girl and jumped off the Starskiff.
This place seemed like a city district destroyed by disaster. The square floor tiles were covered in cracks, and in many places, the tiles were gone entirely, leaving only the bottommost soil and ferns quietly poking their heads out to survive in the crevices.
The two walked one after another through the ruins. Suddenly, Jingliu paused and looked in a certain direction.
"That is?"
Even though her eyes were covered by black gauze, she could still see.
A young man with golden hair and blue clothes, wearing copper-accented armor and light robes embroidered with white clouds and emerald bamboo, radiating heroic spirit.
"Why is he here?"
Jing Yuan's disciple, the little brother who took one of her sword strikes earlier. He seemed to be moving forward while tracking someone's trail.
"Found him." Moonscar curled the corners of her mouth.
Jingliu was stunned upon hearing this. "You brought me here just to find him?"
"Of course not. Meeting Yanqing is just a coincidence. Mhm, we and he will probably be going the same way."
Moonscar chuckled softly.
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