Forcibly, she resisted the urge to cry, but her shoulders were shivering.
"Hurry up and go! Must you see me cry first before you leave?!"
"If every hatred and enmity I have are finally settled... I’ll be back!"
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with determination. Taking a step forward, he vanished into a cloud of purple smoke and flew into the sky!
Standing before the gate, he slapped his storage pouch and produced the nine map pieces.
The nine pieces of the incomplete map were originally broken and torn. However, when Ning Fan exerted his power on the map pieces on his hand, the torn marks on the map pieces disappeared as they formed into one.
Just as the map was completely assembled, a ray of golden light shot out from the map, shining on the giant gate.
The golden light carried a majestic aura force. Although it was not as strong as the six-legged golden statue, it was comparable to a Void Refinement Realm expert. At the moment the golden ray appeared, a golden mark surfaced on the foreheads of the nine Honorable Demon Generals at the same time. However, they disappeared in a flash.
"Demon Marshal Lu!" Lu Daochen’s eyes looked a bit misted as he uttered with excitement. The qi that he was feeling right now belonged to his previous master, Lu Wu!
As for the other Honorable Demon Generals, some of them seemed to be reminiscing their memories while some of them were sighing sentimentally. Among them, only Lu Jiefen revealed...a hint of greed in his eyes!
"If I successfully obtain the Star of the Celestial Emperor, my clone in the Pure Flame Tribe can definitely break through to the Half-Step Void Refinement Realm. Once I reunite it with my original body in the outer world... I can then break through to the Void Refinement Realm! When that time comes, I can dominate the entire Internal Endless Sea and be invincible among the nine tribes!"
At the moment when the golden marks on their foreheads disappeared, the giant door opened!
However, what they saw inside the giant gate was just a boundless realm of void!
In the space of emptiness, there were rays of starlight which congealed into a path. At the end of the path, it was connected to the Void Realm where a gigantic labyrinth was situated! It was a building made of starlight!
"What’s that?!"
Their countenances changed greatly. Each and every one of the demons felt shocked when they caught sight of the scene from the other side of the portal.
This is the Third World? Shouldn’t it be the land where the Demon Marshal is slumbering? Shouldn’t it be made up of wild lands and a giant egg where the Demon Marshal resides?
The Egg of Slumber was a self-sealing method displayed by the experts of the demon race. Through that method, one would be sealed within the egg without being able to cultivate. The egg was meant for one to slumber. However, it only had the heaven-defying effect of disregarding time. A lot of ancient demons who were awake after slumbering within the eggs for countless years could still maintain their original age.
Based on common sense, Demon Marshal Lu Wu should be slumbering in the demon egg.
However, what they saw in the Third World was not a demon egg but an empty world with only a maze made of starlight.
Why?! What had happened?!
Everybody including Prince Qu Shun, Imperial Concubine Zi and Lu Jiefen and the others were greatly surprised.
They didn’t understand why and there was no explanation. Behind Ning Fan, there were already 49 beams of light dashing to the sky and went right in the Third World.
At the scene, only Ning Fan and Lu Daochen who had already known the truth did not express any astonishment.
Ning Fan turned back and gave Lu Wan’er a final look. Then, with clenched fists, he turned around facing the portal and stepped into the star path!
At the moment he set his foot onto star path, he seemed to be guided by the starlight and was teleported to somewhere within the Star Palace somewhere.
The remaining 49 people set their feet onto the star path successively and were teleported to different places.
When the fiftieth person entered the portal, the giant gate was gradually closed.
"I can’t see him anymore..." Lu Wan’er could no longer forcibly hold her smile. She gently turned around and hid in a corner while tears began to stream down her cheeks.
"I’ll cultivate hard and diligently. I’ll improve my spirit augmentation technique to gain recognition from the Spirit King Palace and obtain the opportunity to become an immortal like my master...When that time comes, I will be the one who protects you and you won’t have to drift around without having anyone to depend on...Ning Fan, I’ll wait for you... You must stay safe..."
The starlight before his eyes was flowing swiftly. Even with the Fu Li’s eye, Ning Fan was not able to see through the thing shrouded by starlight.
Its speed is too quick... The speed of this starlight is at least six hundred thousand li* per second...
Its speed was six times faster than that of the Golden Flame Chariot which was pulled by the black dragon! The speed of the starlight was probably on the same level as a Half Step Void Fragmentation Realm expert’s.
After being engulfed by the starlight, Ning Fan had been teleported by the starlight for ten days. Ten days later, the starlight vanished. When Ning Fan opened his eyes and scanned his surroundings, he realized that he was now in a bright silver hall.
Silver bricks and silver tiles. The grass and trees around that hall were all in silver color too.
Ning Fan placed his palm on the wall of the hall. Immediately, a massive repulsive force was inflicted by the wall, greatly disrupting the regularity of his breath. He retreated tens of steps backwards from the wall continuously and his eyes narrowed with seriousness.
The wall of the palace had an extremely powerful force that prohibited anyone from touching it or going through it.
That force was the power of starlight!
So this place is the Star Palace...
The paths within the palace were complicated and confusing. The dangers lurking around the palace were hard to detect. However, Lu Daochen had given Ning Fan a map of the palace. Although it was just a general map, the labels on it helped Ning Fan instantly understand where he was right now.
"If I’m not wrong, this should be the one of the six compounds of the Hall of Humans..."
Ning Fan took out the jade slip that was given by Lu Daochen once more and placed it on his glabella. While studying the map, Ning Fan muttered to himself in a low tone. "The Star Palace is a vast labyrinth. According to Lu Daochen’s categorization, there are three domains from the internal part to the external part – the Heaven Hall, the Earth Hall and the Human Hall.
The Human Hall is situated at the outermost layer of the Star Palace. There are six mazes here which are arranged in the shape of a hexagon. Lu Daochen named them as the six compounds.
After going through the six compounds, then I will arrive at the three palaces of the Earth Hall.
The Heaven Hall would be at the end of the three halls. However, the structure of the Heaven Hall extremely resembles the medicinal garden of the Celestial Emperor that I’ve seen in samsara.
As for the location which is labelled by a red dot, it is the place where the remnant soul of Demon Marshal Lu is trapped. It is within the Heaven Hall."
Ning Fan then kept the jade slip.
"I wonder where the others are teleported to by the starlight..."
When he spread his spirit sense, he realized that just the size of the compound he was in was already more than millions of li*. What was more troublesome was that the network of paths within the compound was tangled and full of traps. With the existence of the traps, ordinary experts would definitely be unable to fly at their full speed. Moreover, each and every step they took must be extra cautious.
Within ten thousand li, there was not anyone else. Although there was not any sign of a person, Ning Fan managed to find some thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. Moreover, some of them had even reached ten thousand years old and they could be used for concocting Fifth Revolution pills.