"Vermilion Bird, you old witch, stand still for me!"

Chen Nan's shout naturally had no effect, and nearby, Su Yixuan, seeing her sister being taken, was so anxious that she started crying on the spot.

Chen Nan summoned the warship, and everyone quickly boarded it, rushing towards Earth.

Chen Nan was well aware that with Vermilion Bird's strength, even if he had a hundred lives, they wouldn't be enough. The only plan was to return to Earth to call for reinforcements, giving Su Qingqing a sliver of hope.

The distance between the Moon and Earth, though not extraordinarily far, still required six hours to traverse.

Six hours may not seem long or short, but in such a span, innumerable changes could occur. Chen Nan even worried that by the time he returned to Earth, Su Qingqing might have already met a cruel fate.

After all, with Vermilion Bird's cultivation, her speed was far beyond that of a divine-level warship.

A distance of hundreds of thousands of miles, she could probably cross with a single instant teleportation back to Earth.

It took Chen Nan and the others nearly six hours to return to Earth, and they went straight to Tianlun Mountain to find Xuan Tianji. In the hillside's clearing, Shi Fanzhen was wielding the big hammer practicing, while Xuan Tianji lay on the grass nearby, sleeping soundly.

Chu Wenrou was nowhere to be seen; it was unclear where she had gone.

"Brother!"

As soon as he saw Chen Nan, Shi Fanzhen tossed aside the big hammer and ran over.

Chen Nan nodded in response, not having time to speak with him, striding towards Xuan Tianji quickly, "Old man, save her, hurry up and save her."

Xuan Tianji yawned, sat up, and glanced at Chen Nan, "You little rascal, I just dreamed of a beautiful woman and hadn't even kissed her yet when you woke me up. Save who?"

As he spoke, he calculated with his fingers and his expression changed dramatically.

"Su Qingqing!"

While Chen Nan was speaking, Xuan Tianji had already calculated it. He immediately cursed, "That lousy woman, I take a nap, and she starts misbehaving."

"Can you stop talking nonsense and quickly go save her!" Chen Nan shouted loudly.

Xuan Tianji glared at him fiercely, "You can't even protect your own woman, and you come to me crying? How would I know where to go to save her!"

Chen Nan said, "Can't you calculate it?"

"That lousy woman cast a blinding technique, I can't deduce the result at once," Xuan Tianji shook his head and said.

"Could it be the Immortal Spirit Valley?" Chen Nan asked.

"Maybe. I'll go take a look first."

With those words, Xuan Tianji disappeared from the mountaintop, heading towards the Immortal Spirit Valley.

Chen Nan quickly boarded the warship, flying towards the Immortal Spirit Valley, leaving Su Yixuan, Ye Yiyi, and the others on Tianlun Mountain.

Although the speed of Chen Nan's warship could not compare with Xuan Tianji's, the distance of just over a thousand or two miles didn't take long. Soon, he arrived outside the Protecting Valley Formation of the Immortal Spirit Valley.

At this moment, Xuan Tianji was using divine power to combat the formation, and everything within the formation could be seen clearly.

The current Immortal Spirit Valley was vastly different from before. In the place where the Immortal Spirit Saintess Sculpture once stood, a huge altar had been constructed, and Su Qingqing was tied to it, long since fainted.

Chen Nan had seen this altar before.

It was located a hundred miles east of the Immortal Spirit Valley; Chen Nan and Su Qingqing had once stumbled upon it.

At that time, the altar was still under construction, the entire sect was being oppressed by Vermilion Bird to construct the altar there. After such a long time, the altar had surely been completed.

As for why the altar from a hundred miles away appeared in the Immortal Spirit Valley, it was not surprising.

After all, with Vermilion Bird's level of cultivation, moving mountains and seas, transporting an altar from a hundred miles away was no difficulty at all.

"Vermilion Bird, you old witch, release her for me!" Chen Nan shouted loudly from outside the formation.

Xuan Tianji glanced at him and said annoyed, "What are you shouting for, if shouting could make her let go, would I be bothering with breaking the formation?"

Chen Nan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, "Can I help with anything?"

"Shut up, that'd already be a big help."

As Xuan Tianji spoke, he delivered two more palms towards the Protecting Valley Formation, still unable to shake the formation.

This Protecting Valley Formation was left by the Immortal Spirit Saintess back in the day. Over time, it had become somewhat damaged, but since Vermilion Bird's resurrection, she knew this day would come, so she had been restoring the formation by every means possible.

Now, the Protecting Valley Formation was no longer what it was when Ye Yiyi healed in the valley.

The formation was fully restored, its power undiminished from when the Immortal Spirit Saintess herself laid it, and despite Xuan Tianji employing all his skills, it was difficult to tear through it.

"Old man, can you do it or not!" Chen Nan was a bit anxious.

Xuan Tianji focused on breaking the formation, ignoring him.

In the Immortal Spirit Valley, Vermilion Bird sneered, "Old man, don't waste your effort, you cannot break this formation!"

Xuan Tianji said, "You crazy woman, the Divine Soul of the Immortal Spirit Saintess is extinguished; she cannot be revived. Now that Su Qingqing has received her legacy, given time, she will become the new Saintess. By being so persistent, the only result will be endangering Su Qingqing's life, and your sister will still not be revived."

"As long as there's a glimmer of hope, I won't give up. As for the girl's life or death, what does it matter to me!" Vermilion Bird's voice was resolute and cold.

Xuan Tianji was furious at her words, "She is the descendant of the Immortal Spirit Saintess, and you treat her life so lightly, can you face your sister?"

"As long as I can revive her, nothing else matters. If you have the ability, break the formation yourself!"

As Vermilion Bird spoke, she began chanting again, gathering the power of the soul onto the altar. Once the soul power was sufficient, she would extract Su Qingqing's soul to reconstruct the Divine Soul of the Immortal Spirit Saintess.

Endless divine power flew from Xuan Tianji, his heart tense.

In his heart, he thought, the Immortal Spirit Saintess was indeed a Supreme King of a generation: the Protecting Valley Formation is infinitely mysterious. If he had his peak strength from back then, he might have been able to crack it. But now, to forcefully break the formation could result in a severe depletion of primordial energy, and even if he cracked the formation, rescuing people from Vermilion Bird would be nigh impossible.

Thinking of this, Xuan Tianji withdrew with his power.

He waved a sleeve, casting out a three-legged round tripod, ancient and weathered with the aura of ancient times.

"Boom"

Xuan Tianji punched, the massive light fist smashed onto the large tripod.

The three-legged round tripod emitted a dazzling light, beams of divine light shot into the sky in all directions, disappearing instantly beyond the horizon.

In the valley, seeing this, Vermilion Bird's face changed greatly, "You old thing, you can't break the formation yourself and call for reinforcements, aren't you ashamed?"

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