When Ye Fan was preparing to go underground with his team, Shen Yan had just opened her eyes for the first time and saw a face that made her feel nauseated, along with the unfamiliar surroundings. She felt she had been abducted again.

"Who are you?" Shen Yan's last memory was of packing her luggage in her room, preparing for a round-the-world trip to clear her mind and completely forget about Ye Fan. Afterward, she lost consciousness, and she had no idea what happened.

At this moment, the place where she was with Shadowless was no longer on Earth but in a very peculiar cosmic space, even far from the solar system. Beneath their feet was a star that drifted without any gravitational pull from other stars, showing no signs of life. Yet, Shadowless could create a human-compatible environment using spiritual energy. Shen Yan witnessed a bizarre scene; it was incredibly dark around her, but she could still clearly see Shadowless's face, which made her feel eerie and terrifying.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not your enemy, nor will I harm you." Shadowless transformed from the nauseating old man's face into a mature and elegant woman's, but even so, it did not diminish Shen Yan's fear. Shadowless said, "I brought you out to ask for your help. You are Shen Yan, and you're with Ye Fan... no, you're sort of like pre-lovers who haven't fully become a couple. Is that right?"

Compared to Shadowless's cruelty towards others, she was much gentler with Shen Yan, as she also regarded Shen Yan as one of the 'opposite sex'. She even felt a tinge of jealousy towards Ye Fan, who had the favor of outstanding girls like Li Zhaojun and Min Shang, even Shen Yan, an exceptional human girl, was enamored by him. While she herself had only one lover, who was now separated from her by an unreachable distance, she couldn't even find traces of her lover.

"You want to use me to threaten Ye Fan? You're delusional!" Shen Yan's attitude was firm; even if she couldn't be a true couple with Ye Fan, she would never do anything that would harm Ye Fan's interests out of fear or coercion.

"That Ye brat, if I wanted to kill him, he'd have no resting place long ago. You think he'd pose a challenge for me? But you, you have a certain stubbornness that I admire. Very good, very good." Shadowless was satisfied with Shen Yan's character. "I will help you cultivate so you can obtain the immortal law for longevity. In return, you help me find someone, as an exchange, how about it?"

"There's no way!" Shen Yan rejected without mercy.

Shen Yan had been kidnapped by ninjas before, she knew these kidnappers definitely wanted to do something harmful to her. Those ninjas previously used her to threaten Ye Fan, although Ye Fan eventually rescued her, she always felt indebted to him. This time, she would never let Ye Fan fall into danger again.

"You can reject me, but I will kill Ye Fan." Shadowless wore a cold smile which didn't match her beauty. "If you cooperate with me, I can make you into immortals with him. If you wish to be with him alone forever, I can even kill the women around him. If you cannot bear him hating you, I will take those women away so they may never reunite. From then on, Ye Fan will be solely yours, and you can be together as described in your fairy tales, forever till the end of time!"

Shadowless's persuasive words made Shen Yan feel comfortable listening, but she would not believe in this woman who she had only met once and with two fake faces.

"You lunatic, you must be insane! Let me go quickly, or I'll call the police, Ye Fan won't let you get away with this, he… he will protect me!" Thinking of Ye Fan disregarding his own safety to rescue her from ninjas warmed her heart enormously. She hated herself for being incompetent, falling into the enemy's hands a second time, putting Ye Fan in jeopardy again, and this enemy seemed even stronger.

"I've given you a chance, alas, you didn't seize it, so blame no one but yourself." Shadowless said, "You think denying me means I can't do anything to you? I can only make you a puppet to do my bidding..."

The next moment, Shen Yan's eyes suddenly became dazed, and after a while, she seemed to lose her consciousness.

Finally, she actually stood up and walked towards Shadowless step by step, as if she was a gentle woman, gazing lovingly at Shadowless.

Shadowless eventually embraced Shen Yan, "Such a little beauty, if my heart wasn't taken, I might consider making you a concubine. Alas, you're Ye Fan's gain. But it doesn't matter, if you can work for me, I will compensate you, it's a fair trade!"

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Earth, Hua Hai City.

Ye Fan and Li Zhaojun, along with Min Shang, Lan Jing, Sang Yuan, and the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, left their residence, heading towards the depths of the East Sea. Initially, Ye Fan intended to go to Ninghai City to bring the underground princess Leng Yu, but he didn't want to disclose the underground race's demise to Leng Yu.

After consideration, he decided not to find Leng Yu. Ye Fan had yet to decide how to deal with this woman; for the time being, he left her in Ninghai City, thinking perhaps later he might let her join one of the seven major sects, allowing her to continue cultivating with Golden Core Stage powers, henceforth distancing herself from the mortal world of the underground race, offering her a chance to attain immortality.

"Are we going to the seabed?" Lan Jing was excited, as she could see the great blue crystal again.

She always considered herself the guardian of the 'sacred relic', as if that was her reason for existence. At this moment, her good friend Ye Fan would take her to the seabed, it felt like taking a friend home, she significantly wanted to introduce the surrounding people to the large blue crystal, despite knowing it wouldn't understand her language.

"Yes." Ye Fan nodded with a smile, for every time he saw Lan Jing, he felt purity, having no distracting thoughts in her presence.

Even when Ye Fan felt a strong sense of conquest towards women, desiring to conquer the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman and Xi He, he never thought about acting on Lan Jing. Because even his deepest inner self didn't want to tarnish Lan Jing's purity. He preferred being Lan Jing's guardian, allowing her to remain joyful, free from deceit and scheming contamination.

He believed that the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, as Lan Jing's mother, shared the same stance in guarding Lan Jing's pure heart.

Initially, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman stopped him from approaching Lan Jing as she found him a deceit-entangled human, not wanting Lan Jing to be deceived by his lies. But actually, Lan Jing herself had the ability to distinguish right from wrong, in this point, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman overthought.

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