After the battle, Ye Bufan lay completely limp on the ground. After a long while, he vaguely fell into a deep sleep.
The Taiyi Ring in his hand suddenly emitted a white light, and Ye Bufan instantly disappeared from his original spot.
When Ye Bufan dazedly opened his eyes, he saw Xi Fei and Xi Yi standing right in front of him, looking at him.
"Ye Bufan, you're finally awake," Xi Fei said. "We had just familiarized ourselves with the terrain around here and found you lying in the forest. We thought something had happened to you."
"How did I get here?" Ye Bufan looked around, finally confirming that he was in the space of the Taiyi Ring.
"It's likely your spatial ring protecting you," Xi Fei said. "When we found you, we detected spatial fluctuations on your person."
Ye Bufan nodded, recalling that when he first received the inheritance, the old man had indeed mentioned that the ring would function in critical moments.
"It seems that after I finished fighting and passed out, this ring activated its protection mechanism and sent me into the ring," Ye Bufan mused, feeling increasingly that the Taiyi Ring was extremely convenient for his cultivation or combat.
Since he was already inside, he might as well recover completely here before leaving.
Ye Bufan bid farewell to Xi Fei and Xi Yi, the two spiritual horned rhinoceros, and went to the main peak of the Taiyi Divine Sect to cultivate. This location was situated directly above a spiritual脉 (lingmai - spiritual vein), where the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was extremely dense. In just an hour, Ye Bufan felt his true qi fully restored.
He stood up, and his bones all made cracking sounds.
Ye Bufan took a deep breath and, through the Taiyi Ring, sensed the situation outside. He discovered that where he had just fought, many disciples from the Overlord Blade Sect had appeared, along with disciples from other sects.
"It seems they were attracted by the commotion of my previous battle," Ye Bufan thought to himself.
These Overlord Blade Sect disciples were gathering around the corpse of the Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile. Even Elder Zhang Wei was preparing to inspect the corpse.
The body of the Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile was essentially filled with poison. If these people touched it without any precautions, they were highly likely to be corroded by its venom, leading to festering skin.
Ye Bufan no longer cared. While all the disciples were intently focused on the corpse of the Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile, Ye Bufan moved his mind and appeared from the Taiyi Ring.
"Don't move!" Ye Bufan shouted sternly. Everyone was startled by Ye Bufan's sudden appearance.
All eyes turned to Ye Bufan, wondering, "Is Ye Bufan's strength this terrifying? When did he appear, and we didn't even notice? Is this the power of the peak of the Core Formation mid-stage?"
Zhang Wei, alerted by Ye Bufan's shout, finally stopped his actions.
"Mr. Ye," Zhang Wei said, glancing at Ye Bufan, and quickly asked, "Are you alright?"
Ye Bufan shook his head and replied, "After dealing with this Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile, I found a hidden spot to rest for a moment. As soon as I arrived, I saw you preparing to touch the corpse of the Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile."
"Mr. Ye, is it not permissible to touch the corpse of this demonic beast?" Zhang Wei asked, confused.
"This demonic beast is called the Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile. It is fierce by nature, its entire body is highly poisonous, and it is incredibly violent. If you touch its blood without any precautions, your skin is very likely to fester. In severe cases, you could even die from poisoning," Ye Bufan warned.
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone took a step back. Only Zhang Wei remained rooted to the spot, appearing relatively composed.
"Regarding the corpse of the Blood Sun... Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile, how should we handle it?" Zhang Wei asked.
Ye Bufan smiled slightly, walked to the side of the Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile, and flicked a wisp of small purple flame from his fingertip onto its body.
In just a few breaths, the Purple Nether Cold Fire incinerated the corpse of the Blood Sun Devouring True Crocodile to ashes.
All the disciples watched in stunned silence. Some of them had already been deeply impressed by Ye Bufan when they went to the Taiyi Divine Sect's secret realm. However, this time, such a colossal creature instilled an even greater sense of awe in them towards Ye Bufan.
Seeing this, Zhang Wei quickly addressed the disciples of the other sects: "Esteemed sirs, the reason for the great explosion just now has been clarified. You may all disperse."
"Zhang Wei, the most important matter has not yet been clarified," at this moment, an elder from the Heavenly Star Sect stepped forward.
This elder from the Heavenly Star Sect asked Ye Bufan: "Mr. Ye, we heard Elder Zhang Wei of the Overlord Blade Sect say that you entered the mountain for training and have already figured out the matter of the teleportation array. May I ask if Mr. Ye has understood it clearly? So that I may report back to the sect."
Ye Bufan nodded. Elders from the other sects—the Bright Sect, the Crimson Sword Sect, and the Bright Palace—all turned their gaze towards Ye Bufan.
"I have indeed figured out the matter of this teleportation gate," Ye Bufan said. "This should be a legendary wandering teleportation array. The special characteristic of this type of teleportation array is that it can randomly teleport to locations within a large area."
Ye Bufan shared all the information he knew about wandering teleportation arrays with the people from these sects.
"So, you mean to say that behind this teleportation array, there is a high possibility of a sect?" Zhang Wei's words made everyone's eyes light up. In such a place, with such a teleportation array, the possibility of a sect was likely to be similar to that of the Taiyi Divine Sect. Otherwise, an ordinary sect would certainly not be able to create such a formation.
"It should not be so," Ye Bufan said. "Right now, demonic beasts are continuously being teleported over, which indicates that this teleportation array is teleporting from another world."
This statement caused everyone's spirits to dim.
Ye Bufan observed this, thinking to himself that there weren't that many sect secret realms for them to discover.
"In that case, does this mean we can't do anything about this teleportation array?" the elder from the Heavenly Star Sect said. "This way, we will inevitably have to spend a lot of manpower and resources here, which would be a waste of time, wouldn't it?"
"Not at all," Ye Bufan replied. "The major sects can completely surround this place and use it as a training ground for their disciples. Only through training on the verge of death can one grow."
Ye Bufan's suggestion was inspired by the stories of other worlds that Lin Xiaoyao had told him when he was young. Many cultivation worlds specifically enclosed mountain ranges where demonic beasts had relatively low cultivation for disciples to train. This place was very suitable for that purpose.