441: The abnormality of the leaflets

Ji Yi walked and stopped, his brows never relaxing, but he no longer circled; he knew he was constantly going deeper.

The further he went, the more difficult he found it, because Immortal Emperor Juntian had actually integrated the Space-Time Great Dao into this world.

"This is a natural formation. No wonder it's so perfectly formed. Coupled with Immortal Emperor Juntian's arrangements, it's truly a challenge for people," Ji Yi muttered to himself.

"Perhaps the time we spend here this time will be longer than we anticipated," Ji Yi told the four women to prepare themselves mentally.

"Oh! How long will it take?" Xiao Min asked.

"I can't say, perhaps a few decades is not impossible," Ji Yi pondered.

"Tch~ Please don't insult the word 'exceed'. A few decades, isn't that just a nap? What a fuss," Xiao Min said disdainfully. She had thought it would be thousands or tens of thousands of years, but it turned out to be only a few decades, so she had worried for nothing.

"Ji Yi, how old are you exactly? You think a few decades is long. You haven't even reached three thousand years old, have you?" Sister Lan asked curiously.

"I'm old, old. I just turned one thousand years old not long ago," Ji Yi sighed.

"One thousand years old? You're really not human," Xiao Min's small mouth slightly parted, looking at Ji Yi as if he were a monster.

"Sister Xiao Min, you can't make personal attacks," Ji Yi mumbled.

"Ji Yi, you are a monster." Compared to Ji Yi, Sister Lan felt like she was a waste.

Xiao Ling and Xiao Ye also fell into self-doubt. They felt that their former title of Prodigy was too jarring.

"So, your Dao Companion also just turned one thousand years old?" Xiao Min asked.

"Ziyan spent three thousand years in the Space-Time Great Formation and is now almost four thousand years old."

"Four thousand years old..."

Xiao Min squatted down, drawing circles continuously, muttering, "One thousand years old, four thousand years old... hehe...."

"What's wrong with Sister Xiao Min?"

"Don't mind her, she's been so shocked she's gone mad," Sister Lan said.

The five continued forward. Ji Yi was now moving at the speed of a Mortal. Every step required full exploration to analyze the correct footing. One wrong step would only lead to circling, so their progress was very slow.

Ji Yi's premonition was not wrong. It took a full thirty-plus years for Ji Yi to feel like he had arrived in a completely real world.

Ahead was a palace. The five walked over. The main hall's door was open. Perhaps Immortal Emperor Juntian felt that anyone who could enter here couldn't be stopped by a door anyway.

Stepping inside, their eyes were met with dazzling light. Ji Yi and the others' eyes were illuminated in various colors.

"We're rich..." Xiao Min's smile covered her entire face, like a Mortal seeing hundreds of millions in cash.

The place was filled with Immortal Gold. This was where Immortal Emperor Juntian stored his Immortal Gold.

"Lapis Lazuli Immortal Gold, Eternal Immortal Gold, Chaos Immortal Gold... So much First-Grade Immortal Gold, I can't take it, I'm going to faint," Xiao Min clutched her head and leaned into Sister Lan's arms.

"Look at your mental fortitude," Sister Lan said disdainfully.

"Don't think I can't hear your heart beating faster just because you're pretending. Tsk tsk, nice touch," Xiao Min extended her wicked hand, finally getting what she wanted.

"You lecherous woman!" Sister Lan also extended her wicked hand, but Xiao Min dodged it.

Ji Yi skillfully collected all the Immortal Gold. Entering Immortal Emperor Juntian's Immortal Cave this time was a huge gain.

"Let's go," Ji Yi called out. Once the items were collected, it was time to leave.

As he walked out the door, Ji Yi felt an empty sensation in his heart, as if something important had been left inside.

This feeling lasted only a moment. If he hadn't paid attention, he might have thought it was his imagination, but Ji Yi was very sensitive to his spiritual perception. His spiritual sense would not produce emotions for no reason.

"Wait, I feel like I've left something important inside," Ji Yi called a halt.

"You dropped something? Isn't everything in your Na Ring? How could you drop something?" Xiao Min asked in confusion. She had never heard of Immortals dropping things, unless they encountered an Immortal who specialized in the Great Dao of Divine Thieves, but there was clearly no one like that here.

"It's not that I dropped something; it's just a feeling that if we leave like this, we'll miss something very important."

"Then let's go back and see," Sister Lan said, leading the way back.

Upon re-entering the room, Ji Yi carefully observed every inch of every corner. When he examined a pillar, Ji Yi finally discovered a trace. This pillar showed signs of having been repaired, as if it had been damaged before.

Ji Yi's eyes shone with light. He looked inside the pillar and saw traces of the combination of the True Dao and the Illusion Dao. At first glance, there seemed to be nothing wrong inside; it was just a normal pillar. However, since Ji Yi had discovered the hidden traces, he certainly wasn't willing to let it go.

Ji Yi extended his hand and began digging into the pillar. A Third-Grade spiritual wood was not very hard in Ji Yi's hand.

Ji Yi's hand went inside. After it had gone in about a foot, Ji Yi finally found something different. His hand was blocked. No matter how much strength he used, his hand could not move another inch.

Ji Yi hollowed out the pillar, and a dull, black stone appeared in his eyes.

Ji Yi took it out. Besides feeling very hard, he couldn't even make a mark on it with his strength, which was already very impressive, because he could make marks on First-Grade Immortal Gold, and First-Grade Immortal Gold could be used to refine Immortal Emperor Immortal Treasures.

"Do any of you recognize this?"

"This stone, besides being ugly, I can't think of anything else," Xiao Min was the first to speak.

"Stay out of the way," Sister Lan said.

"Then what do you say this is?!" Xiao Min retorted, unconvinced.

"Hmm... I don't recognize it."

"Tch~"

Xiao Ling also shook her head. Xiao Ye, however, was deeply captivated by the stone. Her gaze was too affectionate. Ji Yi felt the stone was a bit hot to the touch and quickly handed it to Xiao Ye.

Xiao Ye carefully touched the stone, her gaze growing even more affectionate. Ji Yi and the other three showed gossipy expressions on their faces and did not disturb Xiao Ye. It was rare for her to show emotion. Xiao Min had already taken out her identity jade pendant and recorded the entire scene.

After a long while, Xiao Ye finally came back to her senses and found the four looking at her with strange gazes. When they saw her looking back, they pretended as if nothing had happened.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Xiao Ye asked in confusion.

"Nothing, just very curious why this stone attracts you so much, like a lustful woman seeing a man," Xiao Min said with a mischievous smile.

"This is much more attractive than a man. If I tell you, you'll all show the same expression as me," Xiao Ye said, speaking so many lines in one breath, greatly reducing the author's pressure to pad the text.

The four all showed curious expressions. For Xiao Ye to treat it so seriously, it must be extraordinary.