What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

With this map, he can not only avoid known danger zones but also find the optimal route to reach the core.

More importantly, the underground cave where the Myriad Spirit Pool that Shen Guiyan mentioned is located is very likely also marked on it.

Just as Lin Yuan was carefully studying the route.

"boom!"

A sharp, piercing explosion suddenly came from outside the cave.

Lin Yuan stuffed the map and token into his storage bag.

With a quick movement, he ducked and disappeared into the shadows on the right side of the cave entrance.

He pressed himself against the edge of the hole, peering out through the narrow gap.

Above the sky.

Gu Jiusi, dressed in white, was desperately fleeing.

Her hair was completely disheveled, and her once carefully styled black hair was now loose and flying wildly in the high-speed wind.

He stood on a light blue flying sword, the spiritual light on the sword flickering, and his escape light seemed about to collapse.

Her gentle and beautiful face was now deathly pale. A glaring red vein of blood hung from the corner of her mouth, and a charred burn scar on her fair and slender neck was a shocking sight.

And less than three hundred feet behind her.

A crimson-gold two-wheeled chariot crushed the void, roaring as it pursued like a fiery behemoth ready to devour its prey.

The chariot has a simple and domineering design, is entirely made of red gold, and has blazing fire-attribute spirit patterns engraved on its rims.

Two firebirds, formed from pure flames, served as the tamers. Their wingspans were several meters long, and each flap of their wings left a trail of charred, burnt marks in the void.

The firebird emitted a sharp cry, and waves of heat spread from all around the vehicle, distorting the air in its path into a transparent heat barrier.

Chu Mingyue stood steadily on the chariot.

Clad in crimson armor, its runes swirling with spiritual energy, a fiery red cloak billowed behind her fluttered in the wind. Her face was resolute and sharp, her features sharply defined, and her phoenix eyes burned with a bloodthirsty fighting spirit.

The overwhelming pressure of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator poured out without restraint.

The oppressive feeling was like a scorching volcano, locking onto Gu Jiusi, who was fleeing in panic.

One is a hidden prodigy secretly cultivated by the Tai Xuan Immortal Sect for many years. The other is the most bloodthirsty and warlike third princess of the Chu Kingdom royal family.

The early stage of the Golden Elixir is compared to the later stage of the Golden Elixir.

A crushing difference of two whole minor realms.

"Run? What are you going to use to run!"

She swung her right hand out suddenly.

A dark red, thorny whip shot out from the palm of his hand. The whip was over ten feet long, and each section was covered with barbed spikes, the tips of which gleamed with a crimson light.

The moment the whip was lashed out, it shattered the air in front of him.

"Snapped!"

The sonic boom was like thunder.

The towering crimson flames spread wildly along the whip, expanding, twisting, and solidifying in a very short time—transforming into a crimson fire python nearly a hundred feet long.

The fire python's body was as thick as a water vat, with layers of scale-like flames overlapping each other.

A pair of scarlet snake eyes locked onto its prey, and with its gaping maw wide enough to swallow a house, carrying a terrifying heat that could scorch anything, it lunged straight at Gu Jiusi's back.

Gu Jiusi felt the earth-shattering, scorching aura behind her, and her pale face turned even paler.

She gritted her teeth, her hands moving with incredible speed, her ten fingers forming a series of complex hand seals in mid-air.

A thick, light blue ice shield materialized out of thin air behind her.

The shield was about ten feet in diameter, with layers of ice crystals condensed on it, emitting a bone-chilling cold.

"Bang!"

The fire python crashed headfirst into the ice shield.

Two completely opposite and extreme spiritual energies collided violently.

An ice shield in the early stages of the Golden Core realm is like thin ice meeting lava when faced with a fire-attribute attack in the later stages of the Golden Core realm.

He couldn't even hold on for half a breath.

The ice surface cracked instantly, and the cracks spread out like a spider web.

Immediately afterwards, the entire shield shattered with a deafening roar, and ice shards, along with lingering flames, shot out in all directions.

The recoil slammed into Gu Jiusi's back.

"puff--"

She opened her mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood. The blood mist was instantly dispersed by the strong winds high in the sky.

The pale blue flying sword beneath his feet shook violently, the spiritual light on its blade flickering erratically, and its escape light nearly dissipating.

He tumbled several times in the air before barely managing to regain his balance.

But her speed suddenly plummeted.

The tanks closed the distance once more.

A cruel smile curled at the corners of Chu Mingyue's lips.

The crimson battle armor on his body suddenly glowed brightly, and his entire body was enveloped in a layer of intense firelight.

She held her long whip high in her right hand, the whip swirling and dancing above her head. The fire-attribute spiritual energy within a radius of several dozen feet was forcibly drawn and poured into the whip by her golden core magic power.

The temperature is rising rapidly.

Even from a distance of over a hundred feet, Lin Yuan could clearly feel the suffocating heat.

Despair welled up in Gu Jiusi's gentle, peach-blossom eyes.

She had planned to look for opportunities after entering the core area.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he was randomly teleported to the ground, he bumped into Chu Mingyue, this unreasonable and crazy woman.

Mana depleted, defenses breached.

She has been driven to the brink of despair.

Just as Gu Jiusi was about to grit her teeth and burn her golden core essence, risking a decline in cultivation just to fight for a way to survive—

Deep within her brow, a familiar yet both fortunate and abhorrent fluctuation of spiritual energy trembled violently.

Forbidden God Technique.

The restrictive mark that Lin Yuan had planted deep within her soul was now transmitting a crystal-clear message.

Gu Jiusi's pupils suddenly contracted.

The despair receded as quickly as the tide. In its place came an extremely complex emotion.

Fortunately.

humiliation.

There was also a trace of subconscious dependence that she herself couldn't quite explain, like a drowning person grabbing onto a piece of driftwood.

Gu Jiusi did not hesitate for a moment.

She abruptly dissipated the last trace of spiritual light from the flying sword beneath her feet. The escape light completely dissipated.

Without the support of magic, the body, like a kite with a broken string, fell straight down from mid-air.

The wind whistled in my ears.

She didn't panic. As she fell, she poured the last bit of magic power she had into her body, tucked her limbs in, and slammed straight down to the ground in an extremely ruthless manner.

Heading towards the barren mountains.

"Stay here!"

Chu Mingyue sneered. She assumed Gu Jiusi had fallen because she had exhausted her magic power, and the cruel smile on her lips deepened.

The chariot tilted.

The two firebirds folded their wings and swooped down, pulling the crimson-gold chariot straight down.

The fiery spiritual power accumulated on Chu Mingyue's long whip had reached a critical point and could be unleashed at any moment.

Halfway up the barren mountain.

In the shadows of the cave entrance.

Lin Yuan watched this scene expressionlessly.

My left wrist rotated very slightly.

Between her two long, slender, fair fingers, there was a jet-black bead the size of a longan.

The surface of the bead was dull and without any spiritual energy leakage.

Mysterious Yin Extinction Thunder.

Lin Yuan bent his thumb and placed it under the bead.

Pointing at the white figure rapidly falling from the sky.

Suddenly, it sprang.

A burst of pure, mid-stage Transcendental physical power erupted. The finger bone collided with the bead, producing an extremely faint "click".

The jet-black bead, like a silent arrow, shot through the air along a precisely calculated arc.

Extremely fast.

However, it did not stir up even the slightest ripple of spiritual energy.

Chu Mingyue, focused intently on hunting her prey during a high-speed battle, would hardly notice such an inconspicuous little bead.

Gu Jiusi saw the jet-black bead flying down from below as she fell.

Just as the bead was about to reach her side, she suddenly rolled over.

The jet-black beads grazed her side.

Then it continued to fly upwards along that precise arc.

It crashed head-on into Chu Mingyue, who was swooping down.