Li Yan and Zhao Min didn't dare to use their Divine Sense to investigate what the seven-colored lights outside were. Once the purple-red cord collapsed, the Spirit Power shield would be their last line of defense.
"This is the strongest defensive magical treasure I can produce. You shouldn't have come back down."
There was no tremor or panic in Zhao Min's voice. She turned her face to look at Li Yan, a hint of regret in her heart over his earlier actions.
How could Li Yan be bothered to argue at a time like this? One method after another flashed through his mind, and in an instant, a large amount of sweat beaded on his forehead.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flashed through Li Yan's mind. He thought of the "Earthen Patch." That was a spatial magical treasure refined by a terrifyingly powerful Body Integration stage cultivator.
'It should be able to defend against these strange seven-colored lights, but...'
At this moment, how could Li Yan care about exposing the existence of the "Earthen Patch"? He immediately thought of an unsolvable problem.
If both of them entered the "Earthen Patch," then the "Earthen Patch" itself would be left alone in these strange seven-colored lights.
If no other cultivators appeared here, the "Earthen Patch" would not be taken, and they would be forever trapped inside it, floating eternally in this strange space, never able to escape.
But this thought lasted only for an instant, because the purple light of the outer purple-red cord had already shrunk to the very edge of their Spirit Power shield.
Li Yan's right hand shot towards his left wrist. But just then, the purple-red cord, like a beast on the verge of death, suddenly erupted with an unprecedentedly dazzling light.
Li Yan's movements paused, and he stared outside in a daze. Zhao Min, however, didn't notice Li Yan's abnormality at all, because her attention was also captivated by the scene outside.
Within the dazzling light, an extremely illusory figure seemed to be slowly walking out.
It looked like a purple-robed elder, but his face was completely unclear. Yet Zhao Min's mouth opened silently, and a very low sound came from her throat.
Li Yan thought he heard the words "Ancestor," but his attention was also completely focused on the outside.
After the illusory purple-robed elder stopped, he suddenly formed a strange cultivation manual with his hands. The surrounding purple light intensified, becoming even more dazzling.
The range of the purple light, which had been tightly clinging to them, suddenly began to expand outwards again. Wherever the purple light shot out, all the seven-colored lights scattered to the sides.
As the purple light expanded, Li Yan and Zhao Min immediately discovered that their bodies, which they had been unable to control, could now move within the range of the purple light. The more the purple light expanded, the more space they had to move.
Before Li Yan and Zhao Min could even be overjoyed, they saw a black rift suddenly appear less than three zhang in front of them.
Seeing this, Li Yan didn't even think. He grabbed Zhao Min and, with the heavily cracked "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" leading the way, plunged headfirst into the black rift.
As the two of them flew away, the purple light lasted for less than two more breaths before the purple-red cord in the air shattered with a crisp sound, dissolving into specks of purple light that quickly dissipated.
The blurry figure of the purple-robed elder also vanished without a trace the moment the purple-red cord collapsed.
The seven-colored lights immediately swept back in, occupying this part of the world once more. The entire world returned to a deathly silence, and the black rift was also gone without a trace.
...
At the edge of the cliff of the Devil's Cliff Crevice, Wei Zhongran had now woken up and was staring blankly at the abyss below. Beside him, Zhao Zhi's eyes were red, her face streaked with tears.
Li Yuyin stood silently to one side. Around them were many cultivators from Windy Cool Mountain. Li Wuyi, Gong Chenying, and the others were nowhere to be seen.
Wei Zhongran slowly turned his gaze and said in a low voice to a purple-robed elder beside him.
"Ancestor, is there really no sign of teleportation below? Even a small trace could be a clue!"
The purple-robed elder shook his head.
"I have sensed it several times. There isn't the slightest trace of a teleportation aura."
The purple-robed elder thought for a moment, then looked at Wei Zhongran's somewhat ashen face and sighed.
"Tell Wuyi and the others to come up for now. I'll go find Mo Gu later. He's a great cultivator, not someone I can compare to. If that doesn't work, I'll have that old ghost Dacen go find Senior Su."
This person was the Nascent Soul Ancestor of the Wei Family. Looking at Zhao Zhi, who was sitting on the ground in a daze, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He had gone down just now and used all his magical power but couldn't find any clues. After a moment's thought, he immediately switched to a voice transmission to Wei Zhongran.
"There is one other person who can definitely find a clue. Since he arranged for you to complete this mission, and you actually succeeded, it means that the spatial laws that Senior has mastered are unmatched in this realm. Not like us, who only know a little bit. Moreover, you and this Senior have a bond of affinity, and this time you risked life and limb..."
Wei Zhongran's eyes slowly lit up as he listened. But just then, the Wei Family Ancestor's body suddenly shook, and his voice transmission immediately stopped.
A trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, but he quickly regained his clarity. Then he suddenly looked at Zhao Zhi and frowned.
"Get up at once! What kind of behavior is this? Let me ask you, did you give that purple-red hair cord to Min'er?"
Zhao Zhi was overcome with grief. She had essentially watched her daughter fall. The fact that she hadn't lost her mind on the spot was a testament to her inner strength.
Suddenly hearing the purple-robed elder's words, she didn't react for a moment and just let out a dazed "ah."
A stern look immediately flashed in the Wei Family Ancestor's eyes. Wei Zhongran was an extremely astute person. He instantly thought of a possibility and quickly interjected.
"Ancestor, that purple-red hair cord is carried by Min'er. What's wrong, Ancestor? Is there a clue?"
"I sensed that the sliver of Divine Sense attached to it has disappeared. The two of them should be... should be, should be in a sealed space?" The purple-robed elder's words became hesitant and uncertain towards the end, but he quickly continued.
"The time was too short, and the Divine Sense only sent back a little information. Everything is too blurry. I speculate that they must have used that purple-red hair cord. I sensed that the two of them escaped through a black rift, but the rift disappeared quickly. It was only at the moment the black rift opened that I sensed the aura of the purple-red hair cord. It seemed to be a sealed space there. They should have been trapped inside before. But that purple-red hair cord is only a defensive type, so how could it break through a sealed space..."
For a moment, the purple-robed elder became uncertain about his own judgment. There were some things he couldn't explain.
'So the two of them are still alive...'
Wei Zhongran thought in a daze. On the other side, Zhao Zhi had already come to her senses, and a glimmer of light had returned to her eyes. She was just muttering something that no one else could hear.
...
Li Yan and the other felt their vision go dark, and they arrived in a pitch-black world. Then, the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" around them emitted a series of crisp "kaka-kaka" sounds.
"Master, I can't hold on..."
Li Yan hadn't even figured out where the purple-robed elder had sent them or where they were now when the Little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant's extremely weak voice came through.
Only then did Li Yan notice that the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" was covered in cracks, as if it could collapse at any moment.
The Little Purple Dragon-Elephant's soul power had now dropped to the level of an initial-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. Just resisting the seven-colored lights for a moment had nearly shattered the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation."
But upon arriving here, before the Little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant could even breathe a sigh of relief, a terrifying tearing force suddenly assaulted them from all sides, as if it wanted to instantly rip the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" to shreds.
Its soul power began to be rapidly consumed again, and it was clear that it could not hold on any longer.
Li Yan knew that he had to retract the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" now. Otherwise, the Little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant would undoubtedly die.
Without the slightest hesitation, he pointed his finger, and the purple light outside the Spirit Power shield turned into a purple line and quickly vanished.
"Quick, look! There's a white light over there!"
Just then, Zhao Min's voice sounded in Li Yan's ear.
Just after retracting the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation," an overwhelming pressure immediately slammed into the Spirit Power shield, shaking Li Yan so hard that he couldn't catch his breath, and the circulation of his Spirit Power even stagnated for a moment.
He had no time to assess his surroundings, so he wasn't able to immediately look in the direction Zhao Min indicated.
The tearing forces were very strong, seeming as if they could shatter his Spirit Power shield at any moment. Li Yan had to give it his all.
Li Yan and the other didn't know that during their fall, they had happened to be reorganized by the two-realm barrier into a time-space.
There were two spaces there. One was an endless dark yellow time, and if nothing unexpected happened, Li Yan and Zhao Min would have been trapped in that space forever, drifting endlessly until the end of their lifespan.
But it just so happened that this time-space had just been formed and was still intersecting with another extreme, fast-time-flow space, and they had not completely separated.
Thus, at a certain moment, Li Yan and the other were drawn into the seven-colored light space.
Time there was accelerated several times over, and the consumption rate of all magical treasures was increased several-fold. That was why both the talismans and the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" were consumed so quickly.
And it was thanks to Zhao Min's unhesitating use of the purple-red cord. The purple-red cord, being a defensive magical treasure refined by a Nascent Soul cultivator, not only temporarily saved Li Yan's and Zhao Min's lives, but more importantly, the power unleashed by the magical treasure at the end gave them a chance to escape.
That was the last and strongest method left by the Wei Family Ancestor. The final cultivation manual unleashed by his Divine Sense would convert all the materials used to refine the purple-red cord into a final protection.
By turning those heavenly materials and earthly treasures into the strongest defense, this final burst, with its extremely expanding defensive power, actually tore open a thin rift in the space that had just been reorganized and was still unstable.
It was also fortunate that this was a newly born reorganization of the two-realm space. Otherwise, once it truly stabilized, let alone a sliver of the Wei Family Ancestor's Divine Sense, even if Gu Jiuqi himself had come, he would have been powerless.
Outside that rift was the outermost interlayer of the two-realm barrier. In other words, they had now descended to the edge of a realm.
Although this place was already within the scope of a certain realm, it wasn't considered a true entry. They were just drifting at the edge. The plane had a powerful repulsive force against foreign objects.
This was also the final barrier that protected the plane from being hit by sporadic meteorites that broke through the barrier. Li Yan and the other could be squeezed out of here at any time.
Squeezed back into the two-realm barrier, where space was chaotic, with not only time-spaces but also more chaotic flows of space and endless Astral Wind.
Li Yan and the other were now in the same situation as the demonic cultivators who had passed through the Devil's Cliff Crevice to finally reach the Desolate Moon Continent.
This was the final hurdle. The demon army sent batch after batch of demonic cultivators, and in the end, very few could break free and pass through this checkpoint.
Moreover, the higher the cultivation, the greater the repulsive force generated by the plane. This was also why, before the Devil's Cliff Crevice was truly opened and the two-realm barrier was broken, only Demonic Soldier-level cultivators could pass through.
At this moment, Li Yan and the other were facing the same problem.
Especially after removing the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation," Li Yan's pressure suddenly increased. Zhao Min's reminder made Li Yan's spirits lift.
On one hand, he continuously poured his Spirit Power into the Spirit Power shield, and on the other, he looked in the direction of Zhao Min's gaze. Sure enough, about a few li to their left front, a slanted, grayish-white light was flashing.