"What exactly happened?!"
The Hearthfire Seed was bound to the Kitchen God's very origin.
Across the Three Realms, no matter where Lu Chen was, the seed could never possibly be extinguished.
There were only two possibilities for the current situation:
Either Lu Chen had entered a forbidden land sealed off from heaven's secrets, cutting off all contact;
Or—The Kitchen God's heart clenched, and He dared not think further—that he had perished, body and soul erased.
But either possibility meant one thing: Little Friend Lu was currently trapped in a desperate, life-or-death predicament!
With a beckoning gesture, the Kitchen God summoned the [Hearthfire Register] into His palm.
The next instant, His figure plunged straight into its pages. He had already activated a secret art, using the Three Fires of the human body as a guide to trace Lu Chen's whereabouts.
Time rewound to the back mountain of Grass Temple Village.
When the Kitchen God appeared,
He saw Lu Chen surrounded by flowing halos of light, breaking the array with all his strength.
The great array before him was precisely the "Dry-Sky Musical Array" he had mentioned earlier.
Before long, after Lu Chen broke the array, swallowed the vermilion fruit, and entered the secret realm's entrance,
The Kitchen God followed without hesitation.
Though the secret realm was a world unto itself, severed from heaven's secrets, it was ultimately rooted in the mortal world, its ties to the human realm not yet cut.
As one of the foremost household immortals of the human realm, the Kitchen God could still force His way inside using the [Hearthfire Register] as a bridge.
It would merely consume more spiritual resonance.
But the situation was urgent. Even if His spiritual resonance were exhausted, He had to enter!
Upon stepping into the secret realm, the Kitchen God