When Ye Chen returned to the small boat, his gaze was exceptionally bright.
He flicked the fishing rod, and the line with the hook flew into the lake once again.
Ye Chen began fishing once more.
This time, it didn't take long before he caught another "Bone Fire Spirit Fish."
However, this time, after confining the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" in the void, Ye Chen took just a glance at the patterns on the fish's body before directly killing it.
Then, although the special flame generated by the death of the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" flew onto Ye Chen, he didn't choose to use the flame to venture into the corresponding "Ice Flame Cave."
Because on this "Bone Fire Spirit Fish," Ye Chen did not find any pattern resembling the "Unnamed Spell."
In this situation, there was no need to waste time searching for the "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk" in the "Ice Flame Cave."
To Ye Chen's surprise.
After not jumping into the lake in dozens of breaths, using the special flame to go to the corresponding "Ice Flame Cave," the special flame from the dead "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" dissipated from Ye Chen's body.
Ye Chen pondered, thinking that the special flame must have sensed his abandonment of the search for the "Ice Flame Cave," hence it automatically dissipated.
From then, Ye Chen rapidly fished for "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" using this method.
Unless the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" displayed an unseen pattern or a sentence from the "Unnamed Mantra" further back, he would venture into the "Ice Flame Cave" to explore.
With the discovery of the link between the "Unnamed Mantra" and the "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk," Ye Chen spent less and less time looking for the "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk" and got larger yields.
In the end, after two days, Ye Chen even summed up nearly ten thousand corresponding pattern sentence words, with hardly any unfamiliar pattern sentence words left.
Under these circumstances, Ye Chen would only act when he caught a "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" with sentence patterns from the "Unnamed Mantra." Then, he would investigate the corresponding "Ice Flame Cave."
This approach greatly accelerated Ye Chen's search for the "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk!"
Two days passed, and he found a few strands of "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk" with seven spots!
With one and a half days remaining before the end of the twenty-seven-day timeframe specified for exploring all regions, Ye Chen stood on the small boat, gazing into the distance over the vast lake.
After uncovering the connection between the "Unnamed Mantra," the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" patterns, and the "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk," Ye Chen successfully found the seven-spotted "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk."
The Ninth Region rules previously mentioned that finding the nine-spotted "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk" was nearly impossible, and discovering the eight-spotted or seven-spotted "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk" would already be considered a great gain.
Ye Chen had already found the seven-spotted "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk," which was, logically, a good outcome.
Yet, Ye Chen was not satisfied.
To him, seven-spotted "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk" was far from enough!
After all, he wanted to compete with Dominion Realm Sovereigns in other regions; only if the quality of his "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk" was superior could he enter a better Ancient Temple.
Seven-spotted "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk" wasn't enough to give Ye Chen confidence in surpassing the Sovereign figures' gains in the Ninth Region.
"Finding the nine-spotted Golden Nine-Patterned Silk is almost impossible; only this level of silk provides a significant hope in having an edge in competition with Dominion Realm figures!"
Ye Chen's eyes shone brightly with determination, resolved to strive for the nine-spotted Golden Nine-Patterned Silk.
In a competition, strive for the best!
Knowing the Unsurpassed Divine Fire within the second Ancient Temple surpassed the Ancient Temple Spirit Fire ranked third on the Extreme Heavenly Divine Fire List, Ye Chen naturally wanted to win it.
Even in competition with Dominion Realm figures, he would not give up!
In the region where Dominion Realm Sovereigns were present.
Elder Tianhuo and Elder Xueya raced against time to fish for "Bone Fire Spirit Fish," searching for "Golden Nine-Patterned Silk."
These two, as the most formidable nine-star Sovereigns of the Nine Flames Clan and Blood Wing Clan, certainly had exceptional vision.
Ye Chen discovered the secret of the connection between the internal patterns in the "Ice Bricks" within the "Ice Flame Cave," and these two nine-star Sovereigns discovered this secret as well.
Ye Chen had obtained the first part of the "Unnamed Mantra" at the Fourth Region, and these two Sovereigns also discovered the first part of the "Unnamed Mantra."
They also found the connection between the "Unnamed Mantra" and the patterns on the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish!"
However, back then, Ye Chen, through immense patience and special intuition, discovered the second part of the "Unnamed Mantra" at the Seventh Region, and within these two Sovereigns, Elder Xueya of the Blood Wing Clan never found the second part of the "Unnamed Mantra."
Only the Elder Tianhuo of the Nine Flames Clan, like Ye Chen, also obtained the second part of the "Nameless Mantra".
And Ye Chen, in his search for the seven-spotted "Golden Nine Profound Threads", had already used a line from the second part of the "Nameless Mantra".
It was upon discovering that this line was linked to the patterns on the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" that Ye Chen decisively entered the "Ice Flame Cave" and acquired the seven-spotted "Golden Nine Profound Threads".
Elder Xueya, not having acquired the second part of the Nameless Mantra at all, couldn't use it to match and find the pattern text, thus falling significantly behind Ye Chen and Elder Tianhuo!
When Ye Chen discovered the seven-spotted "Golden Nine Profound Threads", Elder Tianhuo, with both sharp sight and fortune, found a strand of eight-spotted "Golden Nine Profound Threads".
On the other hand, Elder Xueya, after two days, found only the most precious Golden Nine Profound Threads with five spots.
This made Elder Xueya extremely anxious!
However, he also had his advantages.
Although Elder Xueya's strength was not as great as "Elder Tianhuo's", before coming to the "Ancient Forbidden Grounds", the "Blood Origin Divine Master" of the Blood Wing Clan gave him several Divine Treasures for acquiring the "Unsurpassed Divine Fire", as well as Divine Treasures to resolve danger.
Among them was a miraculous object to recover combat power.
In the Ninth Region, the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" Ye Chen dealt with had Supreme Combat Power at the level of an Upper Immortal Divine Venerable, whereas the ones Elder Tianhuo and Elder Xueya dealt with were at the extreme combat power of a Nine-Star Sovereign.
Ye Chen, due to the "Starry Origin Power", surpassed the combat threat of the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish".
But Elder Xueya and Elder Tianhuo were different; every battle they engaged in with the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" required a considerable expenditure of energy.
In these circumstances, Elder Xueya relied on the miraculous object bestowed by the "Blood Origin Divine Master" to recover combat power, which saved him a lot of time. In fact, he managed to kill more "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" than "Elder Tianhuo".
Elder Tianhuo had the advantage of the second part of the "Nameless Mantra", while Elder Xueya had the advantage of the Divine Objects bestowed by the Divine Master.
Although "Elder Tianhuo" used fortune and sight to first find the eight-spotted Golden Nine Profound Threads, Elder Xueya, without the second part of the Nameless Mantra, often had to check the "Ice Flame Cave", but on the third day, his luck exploded and he suddenly found a strand of seven-spotted Golden Nine Profound Threads.
The time left for the exploration of the Nine Major Regions was getting shorter and shorter.
The competition between Ye Chen, Elder Tianhuo, and Elder Xueya also reached its final stage!
When there was only half a day left, Ye Chen, Elder Tianhuo, and Elder Xueya all successfully obtained the "Beast Spirit" of the "Bone Fire Spirit Fish".
What lay before them was only the final task, finding the most precious "Golden Nine Profound Threads"!
When only four hours remained, the most precious "Golden Nine Profound Threads" Elder Tianhuo found were still eight spots, and for "Elder Xueya" and Ye Chen, the most precious "Golden Nine Profound Threads" they found still remained at seven spots.
At this point, Elder Xueya was already a bit flustered.
When only three hours remained, the three still had no new gains, even Elder Tianhuo was frowning.
After all, the "Golden Nine Profound Threads" not only concerned the competition for better "Unsurpassed Divine Fire" among Sovereign Realm and below but also related to using the nine types of Nine Profound Threads to take out the "Unsurpassed Divine Fire" from the Ancient Temple.
In the previous eight regions, Elder Tianhuo had obtained the most precious Nine-Spots Nine Profound Threads, but in this Ninth Region, even though he obtained the eight-spots Golden Nine Profound Threads, he was not confident he could smoothly acquire the "Unsurpassed Divine Fire" with eight types of Nine-Spots and one type of Eight-Spots Nine Profound Threads.
By then, even if he won the competition against those below the Sovereign Realm and entered a better Ancient Temple, if he couldn't acquire the "Unsurpassed Divine Fire", it would all be in vain.
This made him completely uneasy!
When only two hours remained, on Ye Chen's side, standing on a single-leaf boat, Ye Chen suddenly made up his mind.
During more than three days, Ye Chen had fished countless "Bone Fire Spirit Fish", even switching several lake regions to fish, yet could only get the seven-spotted Golden Nine Profound Threads, which didn't satisfy him at all.
With time running short, Ye Chen felt that at this rate, he would be lucky to find an eight-spotted Golden Nine Profound Threads, and the chance of finding a nine-spotted Golden Nine Profound Threads was exceedingly slim.
In these circumstances, Ye Chen thought of one last method!
The "Changeable Divine Ability" from the "Taiyi Chapter" of the Primordial Star Scripture!
Ye Chen contemplated that if he used the "Changeable Divine Ability" to transform into a "Bone Fire Spirit Fish", perhaps he could enter the lake to search for other "Bone Fire Spirit Fish" and discover the most precious one.
Of course, this idea carried enormous risks.
After all, the rules of the Ninth Region stated that even Divine Masters would surely perish if they entered the lake without special flame protection.
And if using special flame protection, one would be taken directly to the corresponding "Ice Flame Cave" by the special flame, making it impossible to observe other areas.
There was still immense death risk in transforming into a "Bone Fire Spirit Fish"!