At the same time, in the outside world.
"Rumble——"
The violent spatial turbulence gradually subsided.
This terrifying chain of explosions had almost turned the Celestial Abyss unrecognizable, cliffs collapsing, mountains and rocks rolling.
The might of the explosions completely tore apart the Celestial Abyss’s earth veins.
The already bottomless abyss floor collapsed into countless crisscrossing ten-thousand-zhang-deep chasms.
Up in the firmament, there were still multicolored spatial cracks remaining.
And within the Celestial Abyss, on a certain floating broken cliff, a faint Spiritual Light secretly protected this place, isolating it from the impacts of the outside.
"Waaah——stupid Master! Big liar Master!"
Qing Jun, covered in dust and with a head of messy silver hair, fell sitting onto the hard rock.
She clutched the broken bowl tightly, big tears rolling down like a snapped string of beads, crying as she shouted into the abyss below, where multicolored spatial turbulence rolled,
"Master, you’re not allowed to have anything happen to you! Otherwise... otherwise Qing Jun, uuuuuu..."
Behind her, Jin’er’s little face was also dirty, her eye rims red like a little rabbit’s, but she still sensibly walked forward and gently tugged Qing Jun’s sleeve:
"Qing Jun, don’t run around, be careful not to fall. Master is so powerful, he definitely won’t be in trouble... H-he must have been swept into some Secret Realm, he’ll come back to find us very soon."
"Squeak squeak!"
The little white fox squatting to the side let out a human-like sigh.
As a former Half-Step Nascent Soul True Monarch,
it had just seen things more clearly than anyone.
That explosion was not only frightening in destructive power, it also contained many spatial fragments formed over a thousand years in the Celestial Abyss.
The burst of power in that instant had already exceeded the scope of human strength; even a legendary Divinity Transformation Celestial Monarch might not possess such might.
"But... thankfully its offensive nature wasn’t strong, its power was focused on the Laws of time and space, otherwise half of Qi Kingdom would already have become a ghost domain."
The little white fox still felt lingering fear.
Of course, "not strongly offensive" was only speaking relatively.
The explosion of the Celestial Abyss would be enough to affect the two countries of Yan and Qi.
"Jin’er is right, Master will be fine."
Zhiwei stood at the very front of the broken cliff, calm and composed.
With Master gone, as the senior sister, she was the backbone for her junior sisters and absolutely could not lose her composure!
She gazed deeply into the abyss below:
"Just now... I felt a spatial fluctuation. Master should have been transferred to some other place by a spatial crack."
"Senior Sister, then what do we do next?"
Jin’er bit her lip.
Actually,
she felt that, at this very moment, their sisters should spare no effort to search for Master around the abyss.
What if Master was heavily injured, what if Master was still being hunted by that Fake Pill monstrosity...
Perhaps.
Right now, Master might just be needing their help.
Zhiwei lowered her eyes, pondered for a moment, then raised her head and said calmly:
"We continue into the depths of the Celestial Abyss."
"Into the depths?" The little white fox was so shocked its white fur all stood on end, shaking its head desperately, "Squeak squeak! Squeak squeak squeak!" (Are you crazy! Those monstrosities in the depths of the Celestial Abyss have definitely gone berserk, going in now is just walking into a trap!)
Jin’er also whispered, "Master is missing, why are we still going into the Celestial Abyss? Shouldn’t we go save Master now?"
"Master’s aura has already disappeared from the Celestial Abyss. To search for him would be no different from looking for a needle in the ocean; we have no clues at all."
Zhiwei shook her head; she looked toward the endless abyss,
"Rather than that, it’s better to go into the depths of the Celestial Abyss and search for Bai Susu... Earlier, the monstrosities broke out, and Cultivators of the seven branches of the Emotion Crossing Sect entered the depths of the Celestial Abyss—there must be a reason behind all this. Perhaps the reason for the Celestial Abyss exploding lies in something that happened in the depths."
"Only by finding the source of the anomaly can we find a way to break this situation."
Qing Jun scrubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, smearing her fair little face into something like a tabby cat.
She sniffled and shoved the broken wooden bowl tightly into her arms:
"Then we’ll listen to Senior Sister! Whoever dares block our way, Qing Jun will kill them! When we find Master, Qing Jun is going to pluck all of Master’s fur... Master doesn’t listen at all, uuuuuu..."
The little white fox covered its eyes in pain with its paws.
They were doomed; not a single one of these three girls was normal.
But seeing their resolute expressions, it could only resign itself with a sigh and obediently shrink back into Qing Jun’s bundle.
"Let’s go."
Zhiwei lightly beckoned with her fair hand, and three Gourd Swords spat out sword light, firmly protecting her two junior sisters within.
The three of them, like shooting stars, decisively plunged into that part of the Celestial Abyss’s depths that even Golden Core True Men would shy away from.
This place had already lost the constraints of worldly common sense; because of that earthshaking explosion, it had been forcibly torn into a bizarre, ladder-like broken maze.
The little white fox hiding in Qing Jun’s bundle poked out half its head and squeaked:
"Squeak squeak! (This place has been blasted into a Third-Layer broken realm!)"
And their current position was within the uppermost broken realm.
Here, gravity was inverted and chaotic.
Countless shattered mountains hung upside down in midair, and streams of surging blood-colored dark rivers meandered upward, finally crashing apart at the spatial fault line and scattering into a skyful of scarlet ice mist.
And atop those inverted mountains, one could vaguely see some surviving Demon Cultivators of the Emotion Crossing Sect desperately battling with the monstrosities.
"They’re fighting?"
Zhiwei’s gaze hardened; she remembered that the Emotion Crossing Sect had not wanted to fight the monstrosities and had even prepared a large number of Loose Cultivators as feed—they merely wanted to find the Duqing Divine Son.
But it seemed the explosion of the Celestial Abyss had shattered all of the Emotion Crossing Sect’s schemes.
"Aah——! Help me!"
A few Demon Cultivators were torn and bitten by the monstrosities; before they could even finish their screams, their bodies were ripped into countless pieces like ragged cloth, blood spraying across the sky.