Chapter 622

Of course, at this stage, talking about this is still premature.

“We’ll try again later,” Xu Xing said. “We can fine-tune it further—this aura’s effect might even provide some auxiliary benefit to the Joyful Sect’s seduction cultivators.”

The Joyful Sect’s seduction cultivators have gone to great lengths to maintain their own heat.

While the Daoist cultivators of the Supreme Dao Sect shun this “presence” aura like venomous snakes and scorpions, the seduction cultivators are desperate for it.

Many seduction cultivators have gone to great lengths to inquire about how to obtain the “presence” aura.

After all, exposure brings heat, heat brings traffic, and traffic raises one’s cultivation base.

“Hmm.”

The Seduction Ancestor gazed at the towering statue of the Sword Ancestor.

“Before I came to the Sword Sect, I seem to have heard Yin Xue mention that a few of the young ones who returned from their mission were willing to trade their Ascension Points for the aura’s effect.”

She normally didn’t pay attention to such trivial matters within the sect.

But since Yin Xue returned, she comes to report to her every single day.

What a nuisance!

“Forget about all that.”

The Seduction Ancestor deliberately ended the topic.

Auras and such…

Even if they were to be distributed as rewards, it would only be after the “Tai Xuan Immortal Web” is fully deployed.

“By the way, I recall that Lingzu’s disciple and that young one from the Orthodox Alliance volunteered to handle the expansion and deployment of the Immortal Web?”

She was present in the Sword Sect when this was discussed.

But she hadn’t paid much attention to what happened afterward.

“How’s the progress now?”

Since the aura reward she’d just mentioned was tied to the “Tai Xuan Immortal Web,” she asked casually.

“It’s already completed.”

“So efficient?”

The Seduction Ancestor was slightly surprised.

After all, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu were only Tongxuan—they didn’t even have cultivation paths well-suited to handling the complex conditions of the Chaos Sea.

“With the Immortal Web’s assistance, and since the nearby realm was one we’ve previously explored, establishing the connection nodes was relatively easier,” Xu Xing explained.

If it were a completely unfamiliar realm, setting up the nodes wouldn’t have been so simple.

“Oh.” The Seduction Ancestor nodded slightly.

Then she turned and faced the distance alongside Xu Xing.

After a long while…

“Xuan really has no taste,” the Seduction Ancestor suddenly said.

“Hm?”

“Among those who fell out of the Tai Xuan Realm together, I should’ve been one of them.”

Xu Xing: “...”

I thought you were going to say something important.

The Chaos Sea, Second · Xun Yuan Realm.

A world marked by the “Tai Xuan Immortal Web” as “Yuan Liu · First World,” its energy level reaching Fan Xu, with potential for an energy leap.

Within the scope of the [Second · Xun Yuan Realm], apart from the Hedao-level Yuanzhen Realm and the Tongxuan-level Taiping Realm, this world is the most powerful.

Precisely because of this, Yuan originally brought Yin Ling here, hoping to find suitable spiritual objects to forge a foundation for Yin Ling.

But after entering it with Yin Ling…

He discovered that the spiritual objects within the world still fell short of the requirements—even if he scoured all spiritual matter in heaven and earth, it still wouldn’t suffice to forge a physical foundation capable of housing a Tongxuan-level “spirit-born artifact.”

Only by using the entire world as material might he forge a physical foundation capable of temporarily housing Yin Ling.

Yuan, of course, could never disregard the lives of an entire realm.

So he merely rested briefly with Yin Ling inside the world, then left with her.

Of course, this was also the true reason why Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu’s “World Search Function” extracted only a few seconds of key information earlier.

At this moment, within the world…

Dawn broke, the distant sky hazy.

A steep, towering cliff was shrouded in mist, cold winds howling, piercing to the bone…

“If he’s looking for high-quality spiritual objects, why not return to the Taiping Realm?”

Ming Yu sat where Yuan had once held Yin Ling, gazing into the distance, her eyes distant.

Ning Wanzhu stood behind Ming Yu.

The cold wind stirred their robes and hair, making their figures appear frail.

To be honest, both women’s hearts were complicated at this moment.

Hearing Ming Yu’s words, Ning Wanzhu paused, then softly said:

“His path is different from ours—he doesn’t even know of the Taiping Realm’s existence.”

She had noticed this before, and confirmed it after querying the “Tai Xuan Immortal Web.”

The Tai Xuan Immortal Web, using the “Spatial-Realm Coordinate Deduction Equation” left by Yuan, deduced the result—

If their own path was a straight line toward Yuan’s lost homeland, then Yuan’s path was winding and circuitous.

He often circled far and wide, only inching slightly closer to his desired home.

And except for the extremely unique Daxian Realm, all paths deduced by the “Spatial-Realm Coordinate Deduction Equation” deliberately avoided great realms of Hedao level or higher.

Or rather, those great realms of Hedao level or higher, to protect themselves, deliberately concealed their locations.

Ordinary methods could never deduce their whereabouts—only beings like True Immortals, who transcend the very nature of realms, could ignore this.

Yuan didn’t even know of the existence of the Taiping Realm or the Yuanzhen Realm, so naturally, he couldn’t return to search for them.

As she spoke, Ning Wanzhu forwarded the results of her earlier query to Ming Yu.

“...” Ming Yu fell silent after reading it.

After a while, she finally whispered, “You’re still so thoughtful.”

It was like this before—and it’s like this now.

Ning Wanzhu pressed her lips together.

“He’s probably no longer within this realm’s scope.”

In other words, if they wished to continue searching for Yuan, they’d have to leave the [Second · Xun Yuan Realm] and venture into more distant, unknown realms.

Hearing this, Ming Yu paused, then asked a strangely unexpected question:

“What do you think he’ll do?”

“What?”

“For Yin Ling’s sake—what will he do?”

Ming Yu stared at the query results Ning Wanzhu had forwarded to her personal interface.

“Great realms above Hedao level all have the trait of concealing themselves—Yuan’s deduced ‘Spatial-Realm Coordinate Deduction Equation’ simply cannot locate them...”

Here, Ming Yu stopped speaking, but Ning Wanzhu already understood.

Worlds below Hedao level simply cannot generate spiritual matter meeting Yuan’s requirements, yet the Hedao-level or higher great realms—he cannot find them...

If the “Spatial-Realm Coordinate Deduction Equation” still fails to break through this limitation...

“When the small amount of spiritual matter he carries is exhausted, do you think he’ll watch Yin Ling’s spirit fade away—or choose to use an entire world as the primary material to forge a physical foundation?”

“No,” Ning Wanzhu shook her head, “there’s another possibility...”

“...” Ming Yu rose from the steep cliff and sighed, “We must find him quickly.”

She clearly understood what Ning Wanzhu meant by “possibility”—

Retracing their steps back to the Tai Xuan Realm would provide ample spiritual matter to forge a physical foundation.

But then, all his years of effort would be utterly wasted.

Since arriving in the Tai Xuan Realm, Yuan had always wanted to return home.

His parents were still alive—he simply couldn’t bear to leave them in peace.

But humans aren’t grass or trees—who can remain unmoved? A thousand years had given him too many irreplaceable people and memories.

When he first made his decision, he himself had said so.