Turning his head and looking around, First Heavenly Palace seemed just the same as he left it.
Although Yang Kai had been missing for three years, no one had dared to enter High Heaven Sect’s Sect Master’s private quarters at will. Aside from the disciples Ye Xi Yun had clean the place every day, First Heavenly Palace saw no other visitors.
After a while, Yang Kai nodded to himself and was just about to take a rest when his expression suddenly changed and he shouted sharply, “Who!”
As he spoke, he sent out a burst of Spiritual Energy towards a certain spot nearby.
He had suddenly felt a sense of being spied on at that moment.
As such, he did not hold back.
The space twisted under Yang Kai’s powerful Divine Sense attack, a strike even a Third-Order Origin Returning Realm master would find difficult to take.
However, the twisted space calmed down a moment later, as if an invisible hand smoothed it out.
Yang Kai’s attack yielded no effect.
This discovery made his face change and his eyes flash sharply.
Inexplicable energy visible to the naked eye began to emerge next, twisting and changing mysteriously.
“Divine Sense Manifestation!” Yang Kai called out in shock, but at the same time, he relaxed his vigilance because he perceived a familiar feeling from this visible Spiritual Energy.
As soon as Yang Kai called out, the Divine Sense Manifestation condensed into a figure.
Although this figure was slightly fuzzy, Yang Kai could see it wore a long black robe that covered head and face, only revealing a pair of star-like eyes while outlining an extremely graceful body-line.
Yang Kai narrowed his eyes as he stared straight at this figure, his heart pounding slightly.
The other party also stared back at him motionlessly, appearing as tranquil as an ancient well, displaying neither joy, nor anger, nor sorrow of any kind.
After a long silence, Yang Kai took a deep breath and asked in a solemn voice, “Are you Yang Yan… or the Great Emperor?”
The figure which appeared belonged to none other than Yang Yan. Clearly it was the Divine Sense Manifestation of the person sleeping in the sixth layer of the Flowing Flame Sand Field, but Yang Kai wasn’t certain whether she was the Yang Yan he knew or the Starry Sky Great Emperor of legend!
If she was the former, things would be simple.
If she was the latter, Yang Kai would need to tread carefully.
Hearing Yang Kai’s question, the figure frowned for a moment before declaring, “Both!”
“Really…” Yang Kai responded with a sigh, “It looks like you have already begun to merge.”
“En, but it will still take a few years to complete.”
“Then how should I address you?”
“Whether it is the person you know or the so-called Great Emperor, both are named Yang Yan,” The figure replied.
Yang Kai gently nodded, “So why have you sent your Divine Sense here instead of continuing to sleep in your loft?”
“I sense that you brought back something interesting, so I came to take a look.” Yang Yan smiled lightly.
“Something interesting?” Yang Kai frowned.
“This…” Yang Yan said while stretching out her hand, waving it towards Yang Kai. This action seemed light and casual, but under its influence, Yang Kai suddenly felt that something from his body was snatched away.
The speed at which everything happened was so fast that he did not even have time to think of resisting.
In a flash of light, a bead appeared in Yang Yan’s hand.
“The Sealed World Bead!” Yang Kai narrowed his eyes as he stared at the seemingly inconspicuous bead.
“En, the Sealed World Bead!” Yang Yan gently nodded, closing her beautiful eyes after speaking, as if she was sensing something, a while later opening her eyes again and whispering, “Sure enough, you were able to refine it.”
Yang Yan was well aware that Yang Kai was proficient in the Dao of Space.
The most basic requirement for refining the Sealed World Bead was to comprehend Space Force. Therefore, none of Star Emperor Mountain’s Sect Masters for ten thousand years was able to accomplish this. It was not until Qi Tian Che’s generation that anyone had an opportunity to discover the mysteries inside the Sealed World Bead.
In the end, however, it fell into Yang Kai’s hands.
“You actually managed to open a hundred-kilometre radius space inside, a truly amazing feat considering your current cultivation,” Yang Yan seemed to have discovered something that surprised her and muttered in admiration.
Yang Kai frowned, hesitated for a moment, then spoke, “I know that this bead belongs to you, but in order to escape from inside of it, I had no choice but to refine it. If you want to take it back, I will not object, but could you at least lend it to me for a while? I need it to ferry some people.”
“Lend it to you?” Yang Yan glanced at Yang Kai and smiled, “Why ask if I can lend it to you? You’ve already left your Soul brand on this Sealed World Bead so it belongs to you now, I won’t take it back.”
Saying so, Yang Yan tossed the Sealed World Bead back.
Yang Kai caught it before glancing at Yang Yan suspiciously.
Although he had yet to figure out all the details of this Sealed World Bead artifact, since it was an Emperor Artifact, it obviously had some kind of huge use to the Great Emperor. Yang Kai had not expected to be able to claim the Sealed World Bead for himself, he simply wanted to use it to bring his friends and relatives here from Tong Xuan Realm.
Without the Sealed World Bead, he would not be able to bring so many people over at once.
“You’re mistaken about one point,” Yang Yan said softly.
“Oh?”
“This Sealed World Bead isn’t mine.”
“Huh?” Yang Kai was stunned.
“Strictly speaking, I have never refined this Sealed World Bead, I was just holding onto it,” Yang Yan’s Soul body floated down and stood in front of Yang Kai like a real person, “It was something a friend of mine gave me.”
“Your friend?” Yang Kai was shocked.
Yang Yan’s true body was that of the Starry Sky Great Emperor, so would not a friend of the Great Emperor… be an existence on par with a Great Emperor?