Departure! Cape City!

Outside Sacred Pill City, Outer Domain—one of the eight great Space Wormholes.

Before the Space Wormhole plaza leading to the Northwest Continent.

Xuan Yi twisted the surrounding space, enveloping herself and Ye Yan within it.

"Teacher, don't worry. When I come back, I'll definitely bring you a surprise."

Ye Yan could not bear Xuan Yi's worried gaze and let his eyes wander.

"I don't need any surprises. Safety comes first!"

"If you encounter a crisis you cannot avoid, there's no need to hold back. Just say that you are my disciple."

"The Pill Tower's name is still quite renowned across the entire continent."

Ye Yan hurriedly nodded, not daring to argue.

After Xuan Yi finished her instructions, she continued talking, though even she seemed unsure what she was saying.

Ye Yan changed his appearance and turned to leave.

As she watched Ye Yan's retreating figure, reluctance welled up in Xuan Yi's heart.

Elsewhere.

"You're not going over?"

Xuan Kongzi pointed in Xuan Yi's direction and asked Tian Leizi.

"She's obviously in a bad mood right now. I'm not going to court trouble."

Tian Leizi's complexion had regained its rosy color as he spoke disdainfully.

"But tell me, do you think this kid can return to Sacred Pill City in two years after this journey?"

"He still has a Five Year Appointment!"

"Ah, right!"

Xuan Kongzi suddenly reacted.

If that brat Ye Yan could not return, wouldn't those clans make trouble!

He still had to remind him!

Seeing Ye Yan enter the Space Wormhole and stand within the spatial passage without leaving yet, Xuan Kongzi hurriedly sent him a voice transmission.

Ye Yan nodded almost imperceptibly.

Since he had somehow ended up with a Five Year Appointment, he had naturally made plans long ago.

Out of all the Five Year Appointments in the heavens, it could not be that he alone would fail to fulfill one.

After Xuan Kongzi finished speaking, Ye Yan surveyed the endless spatial passage around him. On both sides of the passage were faint, silvery spatial barriers.

Beneath those spatial walls was a passage nearly a hundred zhang wide, from which dense spatial fluctuations faintly spread.

Countless silver streaks flashed through the passage, shooting into the darkness as swiftly as lightning.

"Brother Lin, let's get going!"

With a flick of Ye Yan's arm, a black Space Ship appeared in his hand.

The moment the little thing appeared, it swelled in the wind like a fish entering water. Before Ye Yan's slightly astonished eyes, it became a vessel seven or eight zhang long and wide.

"Your Space Ship must be at least Tier Six!"

Ye Lin looked at the faint silver spatial power continuously flowing across the ship's surface and said in surprise.

"My teacher gave it to me."

Ye Yan smiled and stepped aboard first, with Ye Lin quickly following behind him.

In the Central Plains, Space Ships were graded as well, with Level Nine being the highest and Level One the lowest.

Even this Space Ship could not be obtained without a seventh-tier medicinal pill.

Ye Yan sat cross-legged near the back of the bow and left the energy input point at the front of the ship to Ye Lin.

He was only a Dou Shi now. All of his Dou Qi would probably only be enough to make the Space Ship lurch forward a short distance.

"You brat, not only do I have to protect you, I also have to work like a beast for you!"

Ye Lin grumbled as he stepped forward and waved his arm. A vast surge of Dou Qi poured out and entered the energy input point.

The entire hull trembled slightly. Then, like an arrow released from a bowstring, the Space Ship shot forward with a whoosh, turning into a streak of silver that sliced through space as fast as lightning.

"Here we go!"

Ye Yan looked at the pitch-black spatial passage, his heart stirring with excitement.

He had arrived in another world, yet the place he had reached was not one he knew well, so he could not help feeling somewhat uneasy.

Still, he was excited to see Lucky Brother, the richest woman on the continent, and Xiao Yi Xian.

As for Sacred Pill City, when he returned, he hoped he would no longer need to hide his appearance and could display himself openly before everyone.

Damn it, he was as handsome as a reader and had such unique charm. How could he suffer such indignity?

That would simply be a disgrace to transmigrators.

Black Nether of the Black Fire Sect, Soul Hall—you just wait.

Thinking of all the frustrations he had endured these past few years, Ye Yan could not help making ruthless vows in his heart.

The Space Ship moved through the spatial passage at a terrifying speed, as though racing beneath the stars and moon. Ye Yan could only watch the spatial walls around him streak backward.

It left Ye Yan utterly dazzled.

A Space Wormhole connected the spatial points of two locations, making the distance between them extremely short.

Their current destination was Cape City, from which they could travel to End of the World City in the northwest.

It would take seven days to reach Cape City in the Northern Region of Central Plains.

After that, it would take another thirteen days to travel from Cape City to End of the World City.

He had specifically asked around and discovered that the route Xiao Yan and the others took in the original story went from End of the World City to the city with a Space Wormhole nearest the Ye Family, which differed from his current route.

Ye Yan had long since lost the novelty he felt when first entering a spatial passage.

But this was also an excellent place to temper one's state of mind.

Travel within the spatial passage was much faster than outside, but the dullness was also far more intense amid its silent, lifeless expanse.

After watching it for too long, even those with weak wills would become irritable.

And aboard a Space Ship with only two people, when one of them still had to control the ship, that feeling became even worse.

This was the method Xuan Yi had told him about for tempering one's mind.

For once, Ye Yan set aside cultivation and stopped refining pills.

Amid this self-inflicted hardship, time quietly passed.

A ray of light appeared before Ye Yan and Ye Lin.

A cool breeze brushed against Ye Yan's face.

The irritation in Ye Yan's eyes gradually faded at that moment.

He had never felt that time inside could pass so slowly.

Now, he had truly experienced the subjective theory of relativity from his previous life for the first time.

Being beside a beauty and beside a furnace were entirely different experiences.

"We've finally reached Cape City. Let's go!"

Ye Yan took several deep breaths, his voice hoarse.

Ye Lin stood behind him, having already put away the Space Ship. There was a trace of emotion in his eyes as he looked at Ye Yan.

Being ruthless toward others meant nothing. Only those ruthless enough toward themselves could reach the pinnacle.

Even in only seven short days, he could vaguely see the Ye Family's future rise.

Therefore, he naturally became even more attentive to Ye Yan's safety.

The two left the Space Wormhole and immediately found a place to rest.

Ye Yan lay directly on the bed and fell asleep in less than three breaths.

Ye Lin also set up precautions in Ye Yan's room before returning to his own room to cultivate.

Not until deep into the night.

Did Ye Yan slowly rise. Ye Lin had already gone to the Space Wormhole west of Cape City and arranged their departure time for End of the World City.

"Sorry to trouble you, Brother Lin."

Ye Yan yawned and thanked Ye Lin, who was cultivating beside him.

"No need to be so polite! We'll leave the day after tomorrow. Rest well for these next two days!"

"Alright. I'll go outside for a walk and get some fresh air!"

Ye Yan looked at the night outside and shook his head.

"Let's go, then. We'll go together!"

Ye Yan nodded and instinctively disguised himself again, this time taking on another appearance.

Seeing this, Ye Lin felt that this was the easiest protection assignment he had ever had.

The night was simple, and the city was lively.

Yet Ye Yan felt that something was missing.

Only after Ye Yan returned to his room did he realize what he lacked: someone to slap in the face.

Unlike certain protagonists, he did not encounter trouble every time he arrived in a city.

P.S.:

There would still be a little gossip story later—inherit the estate, inherit the woman too!