Ronan and Dean Wan Ta were both people of action. They made the appointment at noon, and after lunch, they were already in the Southwest Volcano Area of Spring City, nearly three thousand kilometers away.
Naturally, they had arrived so quickly via Cross-Space Teleportation.
On the Inner Earth side, it could be said that there were no longer any space-time coordinates capable of blocking Ronan. Even with another person in tow, he could transfer through the Cloud Top World and Mist Labyrinth, or have Magneto-Optical Mica lend a hand. This time, Ronan chose to jump through the Relay Station in the Mist Labyrinth, a method he had basically made public.
At present, the Dream World's reverse influence over the Real World was still continuing. Following the Fire God Ant Nest, the site of the nearby Jin Buhuan Battlefield had acquired labels such as "Dream World Expansion Pack" and "new main game storyline," becoming a key gathering place for explorers of every kind and idle members of society.
Ronan and Dean Wan Ta did not encounter any of them. Instead, they went directly to the Space-Time Scar in the Underground Area 70 Kilometers Deep, near the location of the Gate of Rebirth (Experiment).
At that depth, they had already passed through the crust and entered the Upper Mantle. The extreme molten environment was two thousand Kelvin hot and under tens of thousands of atmospheres of pressure. Ronan was not afraid of it, but he had to consider Snake Tongue and Dean Wan Ta, who would be participating in this experiment. So, he had set up a Temporary Space nearby in advance.
Similar to a Time-Space Bubble, it was a "redundancy" inserted into Inner Earth space-time. It was connected to the outside environment, yet not quite, filtering out only those extreme conditions.