Wu Yue looked at the small world around her, and at the Qiankun Mirror in the view outside the Cauldron, which was still exerting power.
âBringing a Great Dao Immortal Artifact out of the human world wonât affect the Five Elements foundation of the human world?â
âNo. As long as a Great Dao Immortal Artifact is not destroyed, it will not affect a realmâs Five Elements, even if it goes to another world.â
You have experience in this area, and Old Shenâs theoretical research supports this.
Year thirty-two, age fifty-one.
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You replaced âHalf-Emperor for a Thousand Agesâ with âFormation Master.â
Days passed one by one.
In this place where day and night were indistinguishable, you couldnât tell how long had gone by.
You only knew your rations had run out.
You counted how many blades of grass remained in the Cauldron Realm.
The nine crowsâ daily caws had gone from frantic annoyance to numb routine.
âLooks like weâll be trapped here for the rest of our livesâŠâ
Someone spoke sadly.
At that moment, the Qiankun Mirrorâs voice came from the outside view of the Cauldron.
âWe escaped! We escaped! Hahaha! This is the true realm of freedom! There are no restraints here!!â
Long Yang and the others had no idea what was happening.
âWhatâs the Qiankun Mirror saying?â
You paused for a second, then your mouth twitched.
âHeâs probably having an episode.â
The Qiankun Mirror began acting nonsensical.
It ran and leaped in the spatial turbulence, completing one flashy inverted-hook maneuver after another.
Without the Qiankun Mirror stabilizing the surrounding space, the turbulenceâs distorting force on matter once again pressed down on the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
Da Chun sweat poured like rain, aided by the other Immortal Artifacts.
The twenty of you didnât just stand there helplessly, you all pumped your Three Energies into Da Chun, whether it helped or not, at least you were contributing.
âBrother Chen Dong! Are these Immortal Artifacts of yours authentic?! How does each one get weirder than the last?!â
When Long Yang and the others first arrived and saw how many Immortal Artifacts you had, they were envious.
After a while, that envy turned into complete disbelief.
Old eunuch, old villain, old mute, Village Simpleton, and the nine crows that screeched all day long until they drove people mad.
The Qiankun Mirror outside was an even heavier problem.
Going insane at a moment like this meant it intended to doom every one of you here.
You had become very calm about all this.
You took out a wine jar and poured twenty large bowls, the liquid sloshing loudly as you filled them.
âEveryone, let us drink this wine and go together to the Yellow Springs!â
Baili Su and the others said in unison.
âDonât be so generous with your words!! Weâre not ready to die yet!!â
At this moment they understood another truth â objects have owners, and owners determine what objects are like.
You shrugged, showing helplessness.
This spatial turbulence was not something you people below Martial King could handle.
What else could you do besides accept fate?
However, a miracle really happened.
The Qiankun Mirror went utterly berserk in the spatial turbulence, even beginning to strike wildly.
It didnât know what it was hitting, but somehow it managed to tear a fairly large hole!
Da Chunâs eyes and hands were lightning-quick; he drove the Nine Provinces Cauldron forward and rammed in, bringing the Qiankun Mirror crashing in with it.
The Qiankun Mirror kept shouting.
âNo!! I donât want to go in!! Thatâs a prison!! The outside is vast and full of opportunity!!!â
The scenery around them kept shifting.
A blinding light came from outside the Cauldron view, making you dizzy and stunned.
With a thunderous shake and violent trembling, the Nine Provinces Cauldron struck a rocky mountain with a tremendous crash.
The impact sent the several-hundred-meter-high mountain collapsing by half on the spot.
Rolling rock and debris engulfed the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
Though the outside view was obscured by rubble, you knew the outside was no longer the bizarre spatial turbulence.
âDid we go back to the human world?â
âHahaha! Great, great! Truly a miracle!!â
âBrother Chen, open an exit to this realm quickly, I canât wait to step out and take a deep breath of human-world air!â
You glanced at the outside view and saw something the others couldnât â an alien race aura.
âYouâd better not celebrate too earlyâŠâ
Before you could open the Cauldron Realmâs exit, several explosions sounded outside.
âWhatâs going on? Whoâs attacking us now?â
The blasts cleared the sand and shattered rock off the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
From the outside view, you could see two Dragon-Men with fleshy wings in the sky, each holding a Magic Bullet Cannon, peering toward the Cauldron.
One of them still had half of the Qiankun Mirror in his grasp.
They spoke the Dragon-Man tribe language.
But you could understand them.
âLook! This seems to be another Five Elements root artifact!â
âHaha! You and I, brothers, today lucked into two Five Elements root artifacts. Hand them to the leader, and weâll surely trade them for decades of lifespan!â
âWeâll be rich, weâll be rich!â
When Long Yang and the others saw the appearance of those two Dragon-Men, they were stunned.
âWhat is that thing, is it a Demon Tribe memberâŠâ
âDid we really return to the human world?â
âIâm afraid notâŠâ
You didnât hurry out. Instead, you first released Hu Chacha.
Since Long Yang and the others couldnât see Hu Chacha without a special method, they only watched you shake the Ten Thousand Souls Golden Banner, then open the Cauldron Realm exit.
Hu Chacha went out.
The two Dragon-Men outside were very surprised to see a fellow tribesman.
âBrother, how did you end up inside this foreign-world Five Elements root artifact? Which camp are you from? Are you corporeal?â
Hu Chacha performed a very proper Dragon-Man tribal greeting.
âTwo elders, I actually discovered this artifact and luckily brought it back from another world.â
The two looked skeptical.
âIf you brothers donât mind, I can present this item to you.â
Their expressions shifted to belief.
âItâs just we donât know if there are more of our kin around. An old saying goes, finders share the reward. If there are many who find it, the rewards wonât be enough to divide.â
The two Dragon-Men in the sky laughed heartily.
âDonât worry, this area is a âsmash zone.â There arenât even blades of grass here, let alone people!â
Before the two could finish celebrating, you walked out of the Cauldron Realm, hands behind your back, bearing the air of a transcendent master.
âThen Iâm relieved. You may enter the banner!â
You raised a hand and slapped the air.
A fiery giant hand directly smashed those two newly Soul Tempering Realm Small Fry on the spot, maiming them completely.
The Ten Thousand Souls Golden Banner shook, and a terrifyingâno, sacredâradiance poured out, extracting their souls and imprisoning them inside the banner.
âOld Wan, reform them!â