Approximately half a month later.

Wang Yu and Han Li's figures flew over a glistening lake.

The two stood suspended in the air, their gazes fixed ahead, their brows furrowed.

There, the void was fractured once more, torn apart by countless dense spatial rifts, even the lake below was cleaved in two, its edges blocked by an invisible barrier, forming a high wall of water.

On the other side of these spatial rifts, floated landmasses of varying sizes, and towering peaks isolated in the void, densely covered with white jade palaces. Most of them showed signs of damage, some even having half their mountain walls collapsed, yet one could still vaguely discern the prosperous scene of the past.

Han Li gazed at the floating peaks and white plaza, a strange sense of déjà vu rising within him. Just as he was lost in thought, he heard Rehuo Immortal speak:

"Fellow Daoist Li, it seems we cannot pass through here. I'm afraid we'll have to find another way."

"Fellow Daoist Rehuo, what was that land originally? Do you remember?" Han Li didn't answer, but asked instead.

"That seems to be Martial Uncle Mu Yan's Two Lives Palace, which, besides Old Ancestor's True Words Palace, was one of the most important places in the entire sect. Now the entire space has been shattered and become chaotic, whether it really is... I'm not sure," Rehuo Immortal said hesitantly after hearing this, staring intently at the area for a moment.

Hearing this, Han Li was certain that this was the place where he witnessed the destruction of the True Words Sect when he traveled through time and space, and also where he hid Mu Yan's corpse.

"Since it was such an important place, we must take a look. What if the Grand Five Elements World Illusion Art is hidden here?" Han Li said after pondering for a moment.

"That's true, but we cannot pass through here. Let's look elsewhere, perhaps there's a way through," Rehuo Immortal said hesitantly.

"There's no need for such trouble. Although the spatial rifts are dense here, it's not as if there's no path at all. Look there, isn't there a passage connecting to that land?" Hearing this, Han Li swept his gaze around again, examining the area for a moment, then shook his head and pointed in one direction.

Rehuo Immortal followed the direction he was pointing and saw a pillar of water, about ten feet in diameter, extending outward from the edge of the lake hundreds of feet away, like a water bridge connecting to a piece of land tens of miles away.

"Fellow Daoist Li, are you joking? That stream of water is surrounded by spatial rifts. A moment of carelessness and we'll be swallowed up. Moreover, its end is also cut off by a spatial barrier, not really connected to that area. Even if we can safely walk over, it's a dead end. Why take such a risk?" Rehuo Immortal asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Risk is necessary. Looking for another way now, firstly, we may not be able to find one, and secondly, it would waste too much time. It's better to go through here," Han Li said slowly, his gaze slightly focused.

He had successfully crossed different landmasses using this method before, so he had some confidence.

Seeing his expression, Rehuo Immortal knew that persuasion was useless. After thinking for a moment, he didn't say anything against it, but the look in his eyes still held some hesitation.

"In a moment, we will sneak through the water. When we reach the edge, I will find a way to open the spatial barrier, and we will pass through in one go," Han Li instructed.

"Fellow Daoist Li, are you really confident that you can break the barrier without affecting the spatial rifts, allowing us to pass through?" Rehuo Immortal raised an eyebrow, somewhat doubtful.

"The spatial barrier here is many times weaker than in the outside Immortal Realm. It's not difficult to break. As long as we are fast enough, we have at least a seventy percent chance," Han Li said with a slight smile.

"This..." Rehuo Immortal was speechless upon hearing this.

However, matters had reached this point, and he could only gamble with Han Li.

After the two were prepared, they flew down and plunged straight into the lake below, like two swimming fish, moving forward through the waterway, heading straight for the opposite continent.

After entering the waterway, their hearts were in their throats. They slowed down to the extreme, and suppressed the fluctuations of their spiritual power to the limit, fearing that disturbing the spatial rifts would lead to disaster. They moved forward slowly, almost like two ordinary people without cultivation.

It took the two more than an hour to cover the short distance of tens of miles.

As they approached the barrier, a purple light flashed in Han Li's eyes, and with a flip of his hand, he took out the emerald gourd, tilted its mouth towards the front, then turned to look at Rehuo Immortal, reminding him to be ready with a mental message.

Then, he pinched a magic seal in his hand and heavily slapped the bottom of the gourd. A soaring green light suddenly bloomed from the mouth of the gourd, and a thunderous roar came from within.

Immediately afterward, a Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword shot out from the green vortex at the mouth of the gourd, turning into an almost blurred green sword shadow, instantly piercing into the spatial barrier in front.

"Rumble"

A burst of violent roaring sound came, the spatial barrier had not yet broken, but the lake water in the waterway was violently stirred by this momentum, rolling up two strong waves and hitting both sides.

The surrounding space also seemed to be torn by this force, and the already fragile balance was instantly broken. Several spatial rifts around immediately expanded, devouring the surrounding lake water and pressing towards Han Li and Rehuo Immortal.

Seeing this, Rehuo Immortal's expression changed drastically, and he quickly summoned the golden ancient mirror, urging it with all his strength.

A large amount of golden light spewed out, supporting a golden area around Han Li and Rehuo Immortal, slowing down the expansion of the surrounding spatial rifts a lot, but not completely stopping it.

At this moment, the "rumbling" sound on the spatial barrier in front disappeared, followed by a "crack" sound, and after the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword pierced through, a spatial channel only half a person tall suddenly emerged.

Han Li's eyes flashed, he grabbed Rehuo Immortal's collar with a big hand, and with a leap, instantly passed through the channel.

After passing through, Han Li didn't stop, but recalled the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword with one hand, and continued to rush forward for more than a thousand feet before stopping and looking back.

The spatial channel they had created was still open, not immediately closing. The waterway inside had been completely swallowed by spatial rifts, and strands of black fissures were extending into the channel entrance.

Fortunately, the fissures extending in were only extremely small, and not enough to widen the channel.

After a while, Han Li saw the channel entrance slowly closing, and finally completely closed, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thanks to Fellow Daoist Rehuo for resisting for that moment..." He put away the Profound Heaven Gourd and looked at Rehuo Immortal with a smile, saying.

"I can see now that it's no coincidence that Fellow Daoist Li has this ability and endless treasures," Rehuo Immortal said with a wry smile, still with lingering fear and a pale face.

"Fellow Daoist Rehuo is too serious, it was just a matter of timing," Han Li said with a smile.

After resting for a while, the two walked along the white plaza scattered with rubble, and soon saw a palace ruin covering a vast area.

Unlike the ruins they had seen before, most of the palaces here had severe burn marks. Many of the remaining palace walls had signs of bricks being melted by flames. However, there were no corpses to be seen, as if they had all been burned to ashes.

"I wasn't mistaken before, this is indeed the ruins of the Two Lives Palace. Most of the sect's affairs were originally handled by Martial Uncle Mu Yan, so his Two Lives Palace was also the busiest place in the sect. Now it seems to be the most damaged," Rehuo Immortal said with a sigh after looking around for a moment.

Han Li vaguely remembered that when he witnessed the great battle, the Time Dao Ancestor's earth-shattering blow was not too far from here. He reckoned that the center of the battlefield was not far from here, so it was not surprising that this place was severely damaged.

Arriving near the palace, Han Li looked around, carefully searching with the remaining information in his memory.

After a while, his gaze fell on a high pile of scattered bricks and stones, and he stopped.

Then, a purple light lit up in his eyes, and he carefully examined the area.

Seeing this, Rehuo Immortal stopped and waited to see what he would discover.

"Fellow Daoist Rehuo, there seems to be something under this mound of earth..." Han Li said, pretending to ponder.

"Something? Could it be a hidden underground palace?" Rehuo Immortal raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Doesn't seem like it... We'll know when we dig down," Han Li said.

With that, light lit up on the two, and they dug deep into the mound of earth.

After a long time, the two figures flew out from underground and landed on the ground.

Han Li's hands were empty, but Rehuo Immortal carried a corpse on his back.

It was wearing a tattered yellow robe, was tall and thin, had straw-like yellow hair on its head, and its face was full of ravines, like a tree-man of the wood spirit alien race, it was Mu Yan!

Compared to the Mu Yan that Han Li saw when he traveled through time, the corpse at this time was almost the same as before, except that the yellow robe was decayed, and the color on its body was even more dry, looking like a piece of dead wood that had been exposed to the sun for many days.

"Fellow Daoist Li's spiritual eye ability is really powerful. Martial Uncle Mu Yan's corpse was buried so deep, yet you were still able to detect it, it's really unbelievable," Rehuo Immortal said, tidying up the clothes on the corpse.

Han Li thought, if he didn't already know that there was a corpse hidden here, with the suppression of divine sense in this ruin, he would never have been able to discover Mu Yan's corpse that he had buried deep underground back then.

"I don't know why, but when I arrived here, I suddenly felt a sense of induction, and subconsciously explored there," Han Li said, pretending to be confused.

"In that case, it's fate," Rehuo Immortal said.

"How is it, is the Grand Five Elements World Illusion Art on Senior Mu Yan?" Han Li asked, knowing that it was impossible, but still asking.

"It's naturally impossible to be on Martial Uncle Mu Yan. It's more likely to be hidden in his Two Lives Palace," Rehuo Immortal glanced at the completely collapsed palace in the distance and said.

After saying that, he carried Mu Yan's corpse on his back again, and went to the main hall with Han Li.

In the severely damaged main hall, there were no wooden structures left, and the remaining brick walls had been burned and melted beyond recognition.

Rehuo Immortal came to a half-collapsed brick wall in the back hall, raised a hand to sweep away the ashes and dust on the wall, revealing a strange pattern like tree rings, and said with pleasant surprise: "There really is..."

Seeing Han Li's confused expression, he explained: "This is the mark of a secret room. There used to be one in Master's Flowing Fire Palace, I didn't expect Martial Uncle to have one here too, even the location is exactly the same."

"Are the two of them on good terms?" Han Li asked, his eyes slightly narrowed, as if asking casually.

"Well... Martial Uncle Mu Yan has a fiery temper, and in fact he was the most at odds with my master. But this is only compared to the other martial uncles, in terms of friendship between fellow disciples, it's still very good," Rehuo Immortal said.

Han Li nodded silently, without saying anything more.

Rehuo Immortal picked up one of Mu Yan's hands and pressed it on the tree ring mark, infusing the immortal spiritual power into it. He saw a green light light up on Mu Yan's dry and gray palm, as if dead trees were rejuvenated and restored some color.

Soon, the green light on the tree ring mark flourished, supporting a blue light door the height of one person.

Seeing this, Rehuo Immortal stopped infusing the immortal spiritual power, and the withered wooden palm immediately returned to its gray color.

Then, he looked back at Han Li, signaling him to follow him, then carried Mu Yan's remains on his back and stepped into the light door.

Han Li hesitated slightly, then followed closely behind and walked into the light door.

After a dizzy spell, the two figures appeared in a huge underground palace.