Mu Huayuan died, the Mysterious Heaven Spirit Vine secured (double-length chapter; requesting monthly votes and subscriptions)

Fine cracks had begun appearing around the spatial node where the spatial rift lay, like cuts slashed into leather.

Some even flickered in and out of existence.

Ye Jingcheng could see some of them with his Star Illusion Eye. Back when he was still a Nascent Soul Cultivator, he could already see seventy to eighty percent of the spatial rifts. Now that he had reached spirit transformation and eaten quite a few more Star Illusion Fruits along the way, his Star Illusion Eye had reached perfection. To improve it further, he would probably need the Star Illusion Fruit Wood Demon to advance to the sixth stage.

But the Wood Demon's aptitude was only so good, and sixth-stage wood hearts and Sixth-Stage Advancement Pills were difficult to find.

As for the Heavenly Wood heart from this expedition, Ye Jingcheng planned to trade for it with the Vast Righteousness Divine Lord and the Heaven-Breaking Divine Lord.

He was now a sixth-stage middle-grade Alchemist, and he was confident he could obtain it through a trade.

"Master!" Just as Ye Jingcheng approached, an enormous shadow appeared beside a spatial rift.

The shadow looked like a flood dragon, but it was none other than the Void-Rending Divine Earthworm.

A stone appeared alongside the Void-Rending Divine Earthworm. It was the Grotto-Heaven Stone Spirit.

It assumed the form of a youth, its eyes brimming with excitement.

"Master, we originally planned to return immediately, but we saw Mu Huayuan holding off the spatial turbulence alone. His strength really was incredible. He tried to escape, but we used the Heaven-Rending Art to expand the spatial rifts and turbulence. Only then did we kill him!"

Both the Void-Rending Divine Earthworm and the Grotto-Heaven Stone Spirit were cultivating the Heaven-Refining Spirit Canon.

This canon allowed them to move through spatial rifts