After Chen Xuan left, Qing Tan fell asleep.
Liu Yan, worried, pulled Lin Xiao aside to a corner and said cautiously, "Brother Xiao, I feel like the way Qing Tan looks at him is… not quite right!"
"Looks at who?"
"That person!"
"Impossible!"
Lin Xiao was taken aback but then said, "Are you sure? I didn't notice anything odd in her gaze."
Liu Yan shook her head with a serious expression, "No, I truly felt that towards the end, she was looking at him like… like a young girl looking at her crush."
"What? That's impossible! You must be mistaken!"
Lin Xiao shook his head firmly.
"That man is our enemy! How could Qing Tan possibly like him?"
Seeing Lin Xiao so certain, Liu Yan bit back her words.
As a woman, she trusted her intuition.
Meanwhile, Qing Tan, resting in the corner, was already deep in slumber.
Yet, a faint smile tugged at her lips.
Only she knew what she was dreaming about—a dream where she and Chen Xuan were in a forest, doing things that left her blushing.
Meanwhile, Chen Xuan reached the peak of the Tianyan Mountains.
In the recent battle with Shen Qing, he managed to injure her through strategy.
For now, she wouldn't be back.
However, Bo Xuan's soul in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner had been exposed.
It likely wouldn't be long before word reached the Palace Of Darkness of the Northern Xuan Region.
With their two sacred artifacts in his possession, they would undoubtedly send people after him.
Before that, he needed to level up as quickly as possible.
He opened the system store and browsed around.
At his current system level, it was nearly impossible to buy high-quality items.
Upgrading the system required more emotional points, which he didn't have.
He could only rely on the lottery, hoping to get something valuable.
Just as he was about to draw, the system prompted:
[Ding! Free lottery draws have expired. Single draw now costs 1,000 emotional points!]
A thousand points per draw?
Chen Xuan was stunned.
That was pricey!
With a thousand points, in his previous life, he could have treated himself to a decent spa session!
He checked the system panel.
He had accumulated nearly 30,000 emotional points.
Taking a deep breath, he decided, "Ten draws in one go!"
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've obtained the ninth-grade martial art, Purple Shadow Nine Breaks.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've obtained a Summon Card.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host...]
This time, he felt it was worth it. Not a single "thank you for participating."
Apart from a Summon Card, he had drawn martial arts skills.
Chen Xuan checked the Summon Card's details.
Summon Card: Duration 24 hours, allowing the host to summon anyone from the Great Thousand Worlds to their side. Summon mechanism is random.
Seeing the random aspect, Chen Xuan was speechless.
Random? What if it summoned someone like Emperor Hun Tian(BTTH)? The whole Tianxuan Continent could be reduced to a stepping stone for his rise!
But then he thought, if it summoned someone like Flame Emperor Xiao Yan or the lovestruck Gu Xun'er… that might not be so bad.
Taking a risk, Chen Xuan clicked "Use!"
The next moment, the air in front of him rippled violently.
An energy vortex quickly formed in front of him.
A streak of green light shot out from the vortex.
A delicate figure appeared in the sky.
Clad in a simple dress, covering her graceful figure, she held a long sword emitting a faint green glow.
Her long hair was arranged in an elegant phoenix hairstyle.
At that moment, a look of shock surfaced on her beautiful face.
Behind her, a pair of green wings appeared, but they vanished within seconds.
Losing balance, she started falling towards the ground of Tianyan Mountain.
"Hm?"
Chen Xuan moved swiftly, positioning himself to catch her.
The soft, fragrant figure fell into his arms.
"Let go of me!"
Upon landing, the woman in the simple dress broke free from Chen Xuan's hold.
"What?"
So ungrateful!
Chen Xuan didn't bother to argue and only wanted to know who she was.
"Who are you? And where is this place?"
The woman looked around cautiously, her beautiful face filled with wariness.
Chen Xuan replied, "I'm Chen Xuan, and this is Tianyan Mountain."
He quickly ran through his knowledge of the Great Thousand Worlds, trying to identify who this person might be.
"Tianyan Mountain?" The woman repeated, frowning.
She had never heard of such a place.
A puzzled expression crossed her face as she muttered, "Wasn't I just in the Magical Beast Mountains? How did I get here?"
Magical Beast… Mountains?!
Wait!
Could she be…
Yun Yun?
No way!
As a reader of the "Battle Through the Heavens" trilogy, Chen Xuan knew the timelines like the back of his hand.
At this point, Yun Yun should have received her sect's mysterious inheritance and reached impressive strength.
But now… she seemed much weaker than he'd expected.
Then he remembered what she had said.
The Magical Beast Mountains!
Could this be her younger self, before she met Xiao Yan?
Excited, Chen Xuan asked, "Do you know the way to the Magical Beast Mountains?"
The woman, her gaze wary but her voice as clear as a chime, replied, "Yes."
She remembered coming to the Magical Beast Mountains to seek a sixth-tier magical beast, the Amethyst Winged Lion King, for an amethyst crystal.
But just upon arrival, she'd been sucked into an energy vortex.
In an instant, she found herself here.
She tried to summon her Dou Qi but found it sealed.
Desperation crossed her elegant face.
Chen Xuan reassured her, "Don't worry, I might have a way to send you back to the Dou Qi Continent someday."