At this moment, atop a giant floating mountain that towered over ten thousand feet, a stunningly beautiful woman was sitting in meditation.
Suddenly, the breathtakingly beautiful woman opened her eyes and looked towards the clouds and mist swirling among the cliffs below.
If Ye Chen were to see the face of this beautiful woman, he would certainly realize that she bore an uncanny resemblance to the young girl Yan Ling'er he had battled, yet she appeared much more mature than Yan Ling'er.
This mesmerizing woman was none other than the Heavenly Saintess Yan Ling'er, a name that echoed with fame throughout the entire Barbaric Wilderness Continent!
She was also the real entity of the spiritual doppelganger that Yan Ling'er had left on the eighteenth floor of the Ancient God Tower.
More than three thousand years had passed, and the invincible True Qi Realm expert of the past had now cultivated to the realm of a Heavenly Saint, and within that realm, she had reached an incredibly formidable level!
At this time, the Heavenly Saintess Yan Ling'er looked at the clouds and mist in the valleys below, and suddenly, she extended her fair palm and grasped into the void, a purple Spirit Talisman fell into her hand.
"An Ancient God Tower Spirit Talisman?"
"Could it be a message from the spiritual doppelganger I left in the Ancient God Tower?"
Heavenly Saintess Yan Ling'er pressed the Spirit Talisman against her forehead and slowly closed her beautiful eyes.
After a long while, when she opened her eyes again, a mysterious light flashed in them, "I never imagined, after more than three thousand years, someone would finally be able to defeat the spiritual doppelganger I had left in the Ancient God Tower."
"Ye Chen, it turns out to be a fifteen-year-old boy, and he's from the Barbaric Wilderness Continent!"
"He managed to learn Instantaneous Movement in the True Qi Realm, and even the True Qi he cultivated is incredibly unique?"
The Heavenly Saintess Yan Ling'er revealed a look of interest.
"What a pity, I am currently breaking through to the 'Void Sky True God' realm and cannot afford to venture to the lower realm."
"Let's pass the 'Ancient Flame Order' to him for now. If he doesn't come to the Minor Spirit Realm, perhaps one day, I can go down to the lower realm to see this incredible young man."
On the slender fingers of the Heavenly Saintess Yan Ling'er was a purple ring, and as she murmured to herself, a palm-sized blue-purple command token flew out from inside the purple ring.
This blue-purple command token had the character "Flame" engraved on the front, and the back depicted the many floating peaks and immortal mountains of the ancient Flame clan lands.
Surrounding the entire blue-purple command token was a faint mystical purple light, making it seem extraordinarily exceptional!
After running her fingers over the token for a moment, Heavenly Saintess Yan Ling'er flicked the token into the midst of the clouds and mist in the valley.
As soon as the ancient token entered the clouds and mist, it shone with a purple light and disappeared into thin air.
Just moments before, the ancient token had vanished within the clouds and mist surrounding the floating mountain peak of the ancient Flame clan lands in the Minor Spirit Realm.
The next moment, a colossal void opened in the sky above the eighteenth floor of the Ancient God Tower.
As Ye Chen looked towards this gaping void, he could see clouds and mist within and even a mountain so huge it was unfathomable above the clouds. For an instant, he saw a stunning figure sitting atop the mountain.
He also felt that the resplendent figure glanced at him in startled wonder.
Afterward, the void closed once again, leaving only an ancient token enveloped in a purple light falling downward.
"Is this the 'Ancient Flame Order'?"
Ye Chen stretched out his hand to catch the ancient token, examining it closely.
At that moment, he heard the faint laughter of Yan Ling'er in his ear, "Yes, Ye Chen, this is the 'Ancient Flame Order,' passed to you from my true self in the Minor Spirit Realm!"
"With it, traveling to the Minor Spirit Realm in the future will be much more convenient for you!"
Inside the Ancient God Tower, Ye Chen and Yan Ling'er received the Ancient Flame Order that the Heavenly Saintess Yan Ling'er had sent through the void from the Minor Spirit Realm.
Outside the Ancient God Tower, the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact and a golden monkey awaited Ye Chen, who had made it through the entire tower, to come out.
At the same time, many others were also waiting for Ye Chen.
Taixuan Sect, outside a cave abode on a mountain, a twelve or thirteen-year-old sword-carrying girl was sitting cross-legged on the ground. She occasionally glanced anxiously toward the closed doors of the cave.
"Sister Jiang Yao has been in secluded cultivation for so long!"
"The selection for the true disciples of Taixuan Sect is about to start. Sister said she would definitely leave seclusion before Ye Chen arrives at Taixuan Sect! The day of selection is approaching, so Sister should be coming out soon, right?"
The murmuring sword-carrying girl lifted her gaze toward the direction of Qingyang City again.
"I wonder how Ye Chen's cultivation is going. Can he defeat so many genius disciples from the outer sect and break into the top three?"
"If he can't make it into the top three and join Taixuan Sect, Sister Jiang Yao will be so heartbroken!"
This murmuring sword-carrying girl was Chan'er, the girl who had seen Ye Chen at Qingyun Sect and had the closest relationship with Jiang Yao.
Meanwhile, inside the cave abode.
A stunningly beautiful girl wearing a goose-yellow dress was sitting cross-legged in cultivation.
Her hair fell like a waterfall to her waist, and her pristine skin, delicate face, straight nose, rosy lips, and the faint dimples that appeared when she slightly smiled were all intoxicating.
At this moment, her eyes, as clear as stars, were tightly closed. Her long eyelashes quivered above her eyes, creating an indescribable sense of purity.
This girl was Jiang Yao, who was in the process of attempting to advance to the middle stage of the Spirit Sea Realm and had also been waiting for Ye Chen to come to Taixuan Sect.
"Ye Chen, please come out quickly, hurry up and emerge from the ancestral secret realm!"
Outside the ancestral land of the three great families, Bai Xiaodie was looking frantically into the land, her face full of panic.
She had been waiting outside the ancestral land for three or four days, never leaving.
"Ye Chen, if you don't come out, Grandfather... he might just..."
Thinking of this, Bai Xiaodie's fingers were clenched so tightly that they turned bloodless.
Bai Xiaodie's grandfather was none other than Patriarch Bai of the Bai Family, who had been in a coma for over a month since being injured by Si Kongmiao of Wan Ya Mountain's three great rogue cultivators.
During this time, his condition had become increasingly severe, with even his life force slipping away continuously!
The three families had not expected the condition of the Patriarch to deteriorate so rapidly. Seeing him made them think bitterly of those three rogue cultivators from Wan Ya Mountain who they detested to the core.
The trio had continuously stolen treasures from the young explorers of the ancestral land, shattered the great hopes of the three clans, and injured or killed their martial artists!
Even Patriarch Bai was gravely injured and in a coma, his condition getting worse by the day.
The three families had summoned countless physicians, and Bai Xiaodie even called upon a Spirit Sea Realm expert from her sect, Peach Blossom Valley, to treat Patriarch Bai, to no avail.
The Spirit Sea Realm expert even said that Patriarch Bai had been sabotaged during the attack, his life force shattered, leaving no hope for recovery!
Upon hearing this, all members of the three clans felt like they had been struck by lightning out of the blue.
They couldn't believe that their Patriarch would pass away !
They didn't want to believe it!
As for Bai Xiaodie, she was utterly shell-shocked; if it hadn't been for her thoughts of Ye Chen, the memory of him exchanging for the "Life Origin Pill" at the Myriad Treasures Stele, a pill that could restore all vitality loss of a martial artist, and seeing her grandfather's impending death, she might have gone mad!
The Life Origin Pill could awaken her grandfather.
Bai Xiaodie believed that as long as Ye Chen returned from the ancestral secret realm, he would undoubtedly be willing to use the Life Origin Pill to save her grandfather.
Therefore, she kept waiting for Ye Chen's return!
She kept praying that Ye Chen would return before her grandfather could hold on no longer!
Amidst the anticipation of the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact and the golden monkey, Chan'er and Jiang Yao's waiting, and Bai Xiaodie's waiting.
On this day, when the 18th-floor ordeal of the Ancient God Tower came to an end, Ye Chen was finally teleported out.
Having faced the trials of all eighteen floors of the Ancient God Tower, having benefited from the acceleration of time within, and having spent more than a year of arduous cultivation to advance his True Qi Realm to the 11th level, as well as achieving major gains in his techniques, Ye Chen, after acquiring the "Ancient Flame Order" and bidding farewell to Heavenly Saintess Yan Ling'er, emerged from the tower!