"From now on, I'll have to trouble you, Daoist Friend." Yuanfeng looked at Qing Xuan.
"Now that she has entered my sect, I will naturally keep her safe."
Qing Xuan did not offer any empty pleasantries. That single sentence was enough to put Yuanfeng at ease.
Kong Xuan stood to one side, lightly rubbing the crimson feather between her fingers. Only when Qing Yi extended a hand toward her did she put it away and hurry over to the two of them.
After leaving Undying Volcano, the three did not linger any longer in the Primordial World.
Qing Xuan took a single step, and the heavens and earth before him unfolded.
The blazing firelight of the Southern Wilderness was cut off behind them by layer upon layer of mountains and rivers.
When Kong Xuan could see clearly again, the Primordial World was no longer before her. In its place stretched the boundless Cosmic Star Sea.
Standing beside Qing Yi, she raised her head and watched the enormous stars slowly revolve along their ancient paths.
The question already on the tip of her tongue took a while before she finally asked it.
"Is Purple Star still ahead?"
Qing Xuan raised a hand and pointed into the depths of the star sea.
At first, there seemed to be nothing there but deep violet light. Yet as the three continued onward, an imperial star far more ancient and vast than the surrounding stars gradually revealed its full outline.
Countless stars circled around it, while billions of streams of starlight converged upon it from all directions.
Even before truly entering it, Kong Xuan could sense the nearly inexhaustible Innate Star Energy within that star.
The Phoenix Clan Ancestral Court occupied countless territories in the Southern Wilderness, and Undying Volcano was one of the foremost