After staying in the villa for more than two hours, Ye Fan came out. When he returned to the yacht on the East Sea, the sun was still high. Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman scrutinized him, seemingly interested in where he had been.

As for Li Zhaojun, Min Shang, and Lan Jing, they wouldn't interfere with where he went.

"Did you settle things?" Li Zhaojun came out from the cabin and asked on the deck.

"Yes." Ye Fan went over to embrace Li Zhaojun, kissing her on the face. The more he was with her at this time, the more he felt guilty towards her. However, since Li Zhaojun's cultivation had not yet reached the corresponding level, he didn't dare to risk anything happening between them. He didn't want to have regrets, "I've temporarily detained Hua Wu without killing her, to win the hearts of the Seven Great Sects. Tianxuan Sect should send someone to confer soon. This won't affect our journey to the underground."

The sea surface was very calm at this time. Ye Fan also enjoyed the leisurely feeling of sailing the yacht with his female companions under the blue sky. Perhaps the presence of Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman would disturb the atmosphere a bit, but he preferred that once everything was over, he could live as a recluse in peace; when others don't bother him, he wouldn't bother them either, and peaceful life on Earth and in the secret realm would be best. Attaining the Dao and becoming celestial would be a very comfortable life.

"Lan Jing, Senior, we should head to the seabed now."

Ye Fan called out, no longer referring to Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman as "Little Xuan." Although there was some estrangement between him and Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, it hadn't reached a point of life-and-death struggle. Moreover, Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman was Lan Jing's mother and an ancient powerhouse. He didn't have the confidence to compete with such a strong woman nor dared to think of conquering Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman because it was too far-fetched. Behind Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, there was a mysterious man, who was Lan Jing's father.

The voyage to the seabed would be relatively far, so it would be best to travel by sword flying.

In the blink of an eye, Sang Yuan appeared behind Ye Fan. At this time, Sang Yuan had already imprisoned the defeated Hua Wu in the dungeon. The few of them took only a few seconds to appear in the waters above the underground ocean, and they began to dive, leaving Lan Jing to care for the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, who was in mortal form.

Upon reaching several hundred meters below the sea surface, Lan Jing used a special method to open the entrance to the underground ocean. Seawater began to pour downward, and Ye Fan and the others followed the water flow to go forward. After swimming a few kilometers, a large blue crystal's blue light could be seen. Lan Jing was also delighted and called out, "Look, it's the Sacred Artifact!"

As the Guardian of the Sacred Artifact, Lan Jing had been inseparable from the large blue crystal since birth. Her memories of her mother were even vague, which contributed to Lan Jing's usual solitary nature. She was very shy; even when she met Ye Fan and others, she had a conflict with him. However, she could read the goodness or malevolence in people's hearts at times, so she could discern that Ye Fan harbored no harmful intentions towards her. After Ye Fan pushed her away in the Tianxuan Sect's main hall, she trusted him more, but this trust had not yet transformed into affection.

Lan Jing herself didn't understand emotions; she merely found it very interesting and fulfilling to travel the world with Ye Fan and others and do things she hadn't done before. It made her much happier than staying in the underground ocean guarding the large blue crystal.

Lan Jing swiftly swam to the side of the large blue crystal, with the small blue crystal and small purple crystal following her. Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman watched her daughter from afar like a loving mother, her expression somewhat dreamy, as if thinking of someone, or something.

"Senior, do you not plan to tell her some things?" Ye Fan used his sound transmission to speak to Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman. Besides Ye Fan and Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, only Sang Yuan, who had achieved ascension cultivation, could detect this voice. However, Sang Yuan was very clear about the relationship between Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman and Lan Jing, so she didn't dare to interject when her master and divine mother were speaking.

Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman slightly shook her head and said nothing. Because she had no cultivation now, if she spoke, those around her or Lan Jing would hear.

"Alright." After seeing Lan Jing cozy up to the Sacred Artifact for a while, Ye Fan summoned, "We are just passing by, and soon we'll head deeper underground. If you like, on the way back, we'll bring you back and let you stay a bit longer."

"Okay." Lan Jing swam over, her pretty face full of joy. It seemed bringing Ye Fan and others to her childhood home was a very happy and leisurely matter for her.

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The group started from the underground ocean and, following the underground waterways, entered the subterranean world. This was originally the living paradise of the underground race, but unfortunately, due to some massacre, only Leng Yu, their princess, survived.

No Shadow was the witness of this massacre, but she denied killing the underground race. Ye Fan also believed that with No Shadow's status, there was no need to conceal on such matters, even if she destroyed the whole Earth, she wouldn't deny it. Her cultivation was unmatched in both Earth and the secret realm, and only those ancient powerhouses long since missing could be her match.

"When the underground race perished, I brought their princess back, but didn't leave any clues." Ye Fan said while walking down the desolate streets of the underground race; he intentionally concealed the last words left by the old priest about the key. The old priest's Magic Wand was still in Ye Fan's storage bracelet.

Little Black Crystal returned to the place where it had its feast back then, flying out now to hover above Ye Fan's head, trying to find some scattered spirits to feed on. Unfortunately, after some time, those souls either dissipated or drifted elsewhere. In the vast underground world, no traces of living spirits or undead could be found.

Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman asked, "So why did you bring us here?"

"Legend has it that the underground race possessed a Divine Artifact, which suggests there is another world below this one, a world perhaps very close to the Earth's core. Doesn't Senior know anything about it?" Ye Fan observed Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman. Logically, even Jiuyou Su Girl and Xi He, transformed into No Shadow, were searching for something from Earth. The original owner should be Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman.

"Should I know?" Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman didn't want to answer Ye Fan's question, her tone very cold.

Ye Fan did not press further, closing his eyes and using his Spiritual Sense to search within the underground world, focusing mainly around the underground race's palace. Originally, it was the cemetery of the underground race, but Ye Fan had burned the bodies with Heavenly Fire, allowing their souls to return to the Earth. Even then, the palace remained in ruins, and he couldn't find any basement or secret room.

"Perhaps we are looking in the wrong place." Ye Fan opened his eyes and said, "We are already deep in the underground. Even if we dig here, it shouldn't cause a big earthquake on the surface!"

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