The Celestial Maiden hid her daughter very well, and for the time being, Ye Fan couldn’t find her. However, Ye Fan’s mastery of spatial cultivation far exceeded the Celestial Maiden’s imagination. While the Celestial Maiden thought she could hide her daughter, it was merely a matter of time before Ye Fan would find her.

And it wouldn’t take too long.

Ye Fan used his Spiritual Sense to search every potential spatial pathway on Earth. After experiencing both four-dimensional and five-dimensional spaces, his understanding of space had deepened, and he could roughly guess how the Celestial Maiden had hidden her daughter.

"Ye Fan, don’t delude yourself. You’ll never find her!" the Celestial Maiden boasted arrogantly.

At this moment, the Celestial Maiden seemed more like a defeated dog. Xi He couldn’t bear to look at her and said, "If you have the strength, think about your own fate first. Fighting against the master won’t end well for you. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!"

The Celestial Maiden shouted harshly, "You cooperated with a demon and even became his servant. You’re worse than that demon. Xi He, I misjudged you before. From now on, there will never be any chance of cooperation between us!"

"If threats worked on me, I wouldn’t still be here. It seems you really won’t cry until you see the coffin. The master was right; I shouldn’t have been merciful to you. You haven’t even reached the peak of your cultivation, and you act like this. Who knows how arrogant you’ll be once you do reach your peak? Fortunately, I saw through you early! I won’t help you any further; it’s up to you now!" Xi He said, turning her back on the Celestial Maiden, clearly unwilling to help her anymore. However, Ye Fan sensed that Xi He still felt a tinge of reluctance because, in her mind, the Celestial Maiden still held a high place.

It was like a love-hate relationship.

Ye Fan, meanwhile, didn’t have much energy to care about the issues between Xi He and the Celestial Maiden. He was still focused on detecting the presence of spatial power. If he couldn’t find this power, as the Celestial Maiden claimed, he would merely be putting on a facade here. Ye Fan was proudly determined not to be looked down upon by the women around him, especially by unreasonable ones like the Celestial Maiden.

Soon, he detected a flaw in the spatial power. Although the flaw was tiny, Ye Fan’s cultivation allowed him to capture it instantly.

In an instant, Ye Fan, accompanied by the three women around him, arrived at the location of this power, somewhere in the ocean. After sensing the surrounding water currents slightly upon arrival, Ye Fan realized he was at a place in the Western Pacific Ocean, several thousand meters beneath the sea. As for why the spatial power’s flaw was here, Ye Fan could only deduce that the Celestial Maiden had set the entrance to another space here, and Lan Jing was likely inside.

"Does the master think the person is inside?" Xi He suddenly asked while observing the area. Once she got closer, she could feel a spatial anomaly, as if it was a place hiding someone.

Ye Fan replied, "I’m not sure if it’s here, but perhaps it’s just a trap. The Celestial Maiden is cunning; she wouldn’t overlook the possibility of me detecting these entrances. Even if this spatial power can only trap me temporarily, her scheme will succeed if I can’t get out quickly!"

Xi He glanced at the Celestial Maiden, who was now in meditation, like a corpse, unwilling to answer any of Ye Fan’s questions or reveal any flaws to avoid being discovered by Ye Fan.

"This doesn’t seem to have any power. What are you talking about?" Dao Zhen appeared puzzled, unable to detect anything around her with her cultivation level, and instinctively felt this was just a seabed without even Spiritual Energy, let alone any spatial power.

Xi He retorted, "If you don’t have much cultivation, you shouldn’t make a fool of yourself here!"

Dao Zhen glared at Xi He, annoyed and wanting to argue but knowing she wasn’t qualified to do so.

After examining for a while, Ye Fan said, "I’ll go in and check first. If everything’s fine, I’ll come out to bring you all in. Otherwise, wait outside and keep watch over the Celestial Maiden, ensuring she doesn’t escape!"

"Where would I escape to that you couldn’t retrieve me?" the Celestial Maiden sneered. "If you have the guts, don’t go in and see who laughs last!"

"Ridiculous, ridiculous!" Xi He commented, apparently disappointed with the current state of the Celestial Maiden, who no longer resembled the figure she admired.

Meanwhile, Ye Fan completely ignored the Celestial Maiden’s arrogance. He vanished in an instant, entering the spatial vortex at a speed the Celestial Maiden couldn’t comprehend, leaving no trace for a while.

Dao Zhen watched from the side, stunned by Ye Fan’s disappearance, and wondered aloud, "Where did he go?"

Xi He glanced at Dao Zhen, uninterested in responding.

Dao Zhen stood there for a long time, unable to understand spatial power, and thus clueless about what Ye Fan had just done...

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...

After entering the space, Ye Fan felt like he arrived at an unknown place and sensed an inner peace here.

All around was a dark space, like a vast universe. Ye Fan couldn’t explain or determine where he was, but he was sure that the spatial gate behind him remained open, allowing free entry and exit, indicating the Celestial Maiden didn’t trap him here.

Or perhaps, even if she intended to, she lacked the ability now. With his current cultivation level, even a combined effort by prime Xi He and the Celestial Maiden wouldn’t match him.

"This place is strange. Could it just be an ordinary cosmic vacuum environment?" Ye Fan examined carefully, noting that this differed from his experiences in four-dimensional and five-dimensional spaces; this was a three-dimensional space without time anomalies, rendering it impossible for him to detect any sign of Lan Jing or the presence of Spiritual Energy.

"This should just be a trap, right?" Ye Fan speculated internally, eager to continue his search albeit with fruitless results for quite some time.

Finally, he decided to move around to further investigate the surrounding space before drawing conclusions.

After searching for a while, he still found no sign of any power entity present, yet sensed the presence of stellar power far away, perhaps thousands of light-years distant.

"It’s still cosmic space here, but why is the stellar power so sparse? Could this be at the universe’s edge? With my current cultivation, I might have been torn apart by cosmic tension long ago. The Celestial Maiden set a trap for me here to ensure I don’t return!" Ye Fan felt a surge of anger within him.