Sun Moon Convergence, Undead Evolution

"Something's happening!"

Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen both sensed that strange spatial fluctuation in an instant.

The two vanished from where they stood.

Seeing Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen leave, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen hurriedly followed.

Before long, the four of them saw a Spatial Gate appear where Ye Fan had originally vanished.

"Xiao Fan!"*3

Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen spoke in unison.

Kong Deming looked Ye Fan up and down, his face filled with delight.

At Ye Fan's side stood a massive ice bear—the ferocious beast he had tamed, the Ice Bear King.

The moment Ye Fan appeared, the Ice Bear King had rushed over to await him.

"Teacher, Sister Mengmeng, Brother Xiaoxiao!"

After three months apart, Ye Fan finally saw Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and the others again.

Ye Fan was immensely excited as well.

At the same time, his gaze swept over Kong Deming beside them.

Judging from the way Jing Hongchen and the other two treated Kong Deming, this man clearly held an extraordinary status.

A thought suddenly surfaced in Ye Fan's mind. This should be my grandmaster, the legend of the Sun Moon Continent, the continent's number one soul engineer, Kong Deming.

That was what Ye Fan thought.

By then, Jing Hongchen had followed Kong Deming down to Ye Fan's side with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.

Jing Hongchen was the first to ask after Ye Fan. "You little brat, you disappeared for three whole months. Do you know how worried Mengmeng and Xiaoxiao were about you?"

Jing Hongchen did not mention himself, but Ye Fan could feel his concern.

"Sorry, Teacher. Things were far too urgent at the time, and I didn't think that much."

"I only wanted to draw the enemy away as quickly as possible."

"Afterward, I was busy absorbing the pills you gave me, which delayed me for so long."

After hearing Ye Fan's explanation, Jing Hongchen did not dwell on the matter any further.

Jing Hongchen introduced Kong Deming to Ye Fan. "Ye Fan, this is my teacher—your grandmaster."

"So he really is that legendary figure of the Sun Moon Continent."

Upon hearing that, Ye Fan became certain of his guess.

"Greetings, Grandmaster!"

"Hello to you too, little fellow. I'll call you Xiao Fan, then."

"I would be honored!"

"Could you let me enter your Spatial Gate and have a look?"

Kong Deming seemed unconcerned with such formalities. Instead, he was deeply curious about the spatial power Ye Fan had displayed.

"Of course."

Ye Fan did not hesitate in the slightest. After all, the fact that he controlled a spatial plane was no longer a secret.

As the continent's number one soul engineer—and a powerhouse who also wielded spatial power, if Ye Fan remembered correctly—Kong Deming would certainly be curious about his spatial plane.

As he spoke, Ye Fan chanted the spell again and opened the Spatial Gate.

When Kong Deming saw Ye Fan connect to a spatial plane merely by chanting an incantation,

he was utterly shocked.

"A soul skill? Interesting."

Ye Fan took the lead, followed by the Ice Bear King.

Kong Deming came next, followed by Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, with Jing Hongchen last.

As they passed through the Spatial Gate, bone-piercing chill rushed at them. The world was gray and lifeless, black earth scattered with stark white bones, while dense undead aura drilled straight into their souls.

Soul power automatically circulated around Kong Deming to resist the corrosion. His eyes were filled with shock, and with a slight pinch of his fingers, he began analyzing the stable laws governing this independent space.

The Xiao and Meng Hongchen siblings, meanwhile, curiously examined their surroundings.

Jing Hongchen slowly looked around, astonished by the vastness of this demiplane. He also noticed the pure Life aura unique to Ye Fan interwoven through the air, neutralizing some of the sinister energy.

The Ice Bear King stepped forward, spreading a faint chill to shield them. The five stood silently, gazing at this independent world without sun or moon, filled with the aura of the dead, each inwardly amazed.

"What an enormous spatial plane!"

"And this plane is still evolving."

Kong Deming seemed to gain some sudden insight.

He immediately signaled Jing Hongchen with his eyes to stand guard, then sat down and began carefully sensing the spatial laws of this Undead Demiplane.

Meanwhile, Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen noticed the God-Sealing Platform beside the Ice Bear King.

"Xiao Fan, what is this?"

Jing Hongchen sensed that the God-Sealing Platform seemed to be sealing something and asked Ye Fan curiously.

"Teacher, it's a Soul Beast Embryo."

Jing Hongchen's face was filled with shock as he carefully examined the Soul Beast Embryo. When his gaze fell upon the center of the God-Sealing Platform, he saw a Soul Beast soul inside constantly dancing through the air.

In an instant, Jing Hongchen seemed to understand something.

"This is the Soul Beast Embryo? Is this why the Holy Ghost Cult kept pursuing you?"

Ye Fan smiled bitterly. "Yes, Teacher."

As soon as he said that, Jing Hongchen became even more intent on analyzing the Soul Beast Embryo before him.

In the end, Jing Hongchen reached a terrifying conclusion: in theory, this Soul Beast Embryo could become a human's Soul Ring.

"This Soul Beast Embryo is actually more than a hundred thousand years old. Wouldn't that mean that by killing it, a soul master could obtain a Soul Ring?"

"It would greatly reduce the danger of soul masters hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts."

Ye Fan was stunned when he heard that. He had not expected Jing Hongchen to infer so much information from a simple inspection.

As expected of one of the continent's foremost soul engineers.

"Teacher, you're right."

"What?!" This time, it was Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen's turn to be utterly shocked.

"Xiao Fan, no wonder the Holy Ghost Cult refuses to let you go. You stole someone else's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone."

Meng Hongchen spoke to Ye Fan with half a joke and half admiration.

Ye Fan could only smile bitterly. Wasn't that exactly the case?

While Ye Fan and Jing Hongchen discussed the Soul Beast Embryo, Kong Deming's first martial soul, the Moon, emerged on its own.

It illuminated a patch of this pitch-black Undead Demiplane.

Suddenly, Ye Fan felt the entire Undead Demiplane begin to tremble again.

"The plane is evolving."

Ye Fan was both shocked and delighted. He had never imagined that simply bringing everyone here for a visit would grant his Undead Demiplane such an immense stroke of fortune.

The plane's territory continued expanding outward. A bright moon slowly emerged in the formerly gray sky, its clear radiance spilling across the wasteland and neutralizing much of the bone-eroding deathly aura.

Kong Deming sat cross-legged where he was, using the plane's evolution to perceive the origin of space. He thoroughly grasped the core secret of the plane's transformation as countless insights into space surged through his mind.

Before the others could recover their senses, another blazing Great Sun rose behind him. The sun and moon hung together in the air, openly revealing his twin martial souls.

The power of the sun and moon poured into the demiplane. Heaven and earth shook violently, and the plane's evolution abruptly accelerated. The bone-covered wasteland stretched outward for a thousand li, its planar barrier becoming increasingly stable, only one step away from transforming into a truly complete small world.

Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were left dumbstruck. Jing Hongchen could not hide his emotion either, while Ye Fan looked at the phenomenon of sun and moon shining together and felt that his grandmaster's visit had brought him an opportunity beyond measure.

The plane's evolution would continue for some time, but Kong Deming had already awakened.

"Xiao Fan, thank you! My spatial power has finally entered the beginner's stage."

Ye Fan was filled with gratitude. "Grandmaster, I should be the one thanking you."

"Without you, who knows when my Undead Demiplane would have become complete?"

"At least now, I can see hope."

Kong Deming nodded slightly, highly satisfied with Ye Fan's calm and unassuming temperament.

He continued:

"Mm, I already understand the Soul Beast Embryo you were discussing."

"As far as I know, the Holy Ghost Cult has been researching methods to increase the age of Soul Rings. What I never expected was for their research into Soul Rings to have reached the point of creating Artificial Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings."

"Xiao Fan, would you mind letting me study this Soul Beast Embryo for a while?"