Chapter 160: Ye Sheng Goes to the Immortal Realm

At this moment, Ye Sheng even doubted whether he had been dreaming during the day, which was why he had ended up in that strange place.

Ye Sheng grabbed a passerby and asked, "Excuse me, was there originally a deserted courtyard around here?"

The person lowered their head and looked at Ye Sheng with a puzzled expression. "Little fellow cultivator, this has always been an open space. What courtyard are you talking about?"

"Are you... certain?"

Ye Sheng asked again, feeling a trace of self-doubt.

The person chuckled twice. "I walk past here at this exact time every day. Of course I'm certain."

Embarrassed, Ye Sheng let go of the person and muttered a word of thanks.

"Thank you."

The person chuckled again and instructed Ye Sheng, "It's getting dark soon. If you have nothing to do, head home early, little fellow cultivator. The Xuxuan Realm has not been very peaceful lately."

"Not peaceful?" Ye Sheng widened his eyes, full of curiosity. "How is it not peaceful?"

The person bent down to meet Ye Sheng's gaze and poked his somewhat chubby cheek.

This caused Ye Sheng to twitch the corner of his mouth and take two steps back.

Did this person really take him for a child?

The person paid no mind to Ye Sheng's dodge.

"Almost every family in the Xuxuan Realm has had people go missing. Haven't you heard?"

"..."

The childish expression Ye Sheng had put on froze instantly. He truly had not heard about this.

"Every single family??"

The person nodded heavily. "Yes, every family, so you had better hurry back."

"Oh..."

Ye Sheng carefully scrutinized the passerby he had just stopped.

An unfamiliar face.

His face was covered in thick stubble, making his facial features barely discernible.

He had the air of a lone wolf.

"Are you... a resident of the Xuxuan Realm?"

Ye Sheng couldn't help asking.

As soon as he asked, he felt his question was odd. If not the Xuxuan Realm, where else could he be from? Could people from other continents possibly reach this place?

The person flicked Ye Sheng on the forehead. "More or less. Alright, hurry home now."

"Ouch..."

Ye Sheng covered his forehead and rubbed it vigorously.

With that kind of force, it was bound to be red and swollen.

When he raised his head indignantly, the person had already vanished.

"What is going on? Why do I keep running into strange people or ending up in bizarre places?"

Ye Sheng muttered speechlessly as he slowly walked toward home.

He must have been hexed or something over the past couple of days.

Back in his room, he stared blankly at the painting he had taken from Ye Hanyou's treasury.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally bit his finger and let a drop of fall upon it.

Sure enough, he found himself back on Star Island.

This was the very first strange place he had visited over the last two days.

Fan Lihua was immersed in cultivation, and the island was exceptionally quiet.

Unwilling to provoke Fan Lihua, Ye Sheng wandered around the island by himself.

Eventually, he reached the room where Yan Qingye refined pills.

There seemed to be some powerful attractive force emanating from within.

Curious, Ye Sheng stepped inside and laid eyes on a gigantic alchemy cauldron.

As an alchemist, he could sense—even without touching it—that a mighty entity inside the cauldron was staring intently at him.

It forced him to take two steps back in spite of himself.

After composing his emotions and carefully observing the cauldron, he was shocked to discover that this vessel appeared to be the very Divine Farmer Cauldron his father had been searching for.

"!!!"

How could it be here?! Ye Sheng was struck dumb with astonishment.

Feng Yougeng had claimed to have a lead on the Divine Farmer Cauldron; could he have known about You Xiyue's natal island?

That shouldn't be possible, though. Other people shouldn't be able to discover this place at all.

Let alone lay eyes on the Divine Farmer Cauldron upon the island.

Just as Ye Sheng stood there in a daze, Fan Lihua finally snapped out of her concentration, realizing an intruder had breached the premises.

She sprinted rapidly toward the alchemy room.

"Hey, what are you doing here again? Why are you staring at Little Yeye's cauldron?"

"Little Yeye's cauldron?? Who on earth is Little Yeye??"

For once, Ye Sheng did not get angry at Fan Lihua's tone.

"Little Yeye is my young mistress's disciple."

Fan Lihua puffed out her chest, glaring at Ye Sheng with deep displeasure.

She looked at him as if he were a thief.

That gaze finally made Ye Sheng feel uncomfortable.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's obvious you harbor malicious intentions toward this cauldron." Fan Lihua's eyes deepened, wearing the expression of someone who had completely seen through Ye Sheng.

Ye Sheng felt rather awkward; he certainly had entertained such thoughts when he first laid eyes on the cauldron.

Still, he argued defensively, "This cauldron hasn't even recognized an owner yet. How can you claim it belongs to this 'Little Yeye' person?"

Fan Lihua gave a light huff. "Whether it has recognized an owner or not, I don't know. I only know that Little Yeye always uses this alchemy cauldron to refine pills."

"He... can use this cauldron to refine pills?"

A wave of shock rippled through Ye Sheng's heart.

Logically speaking, if unacknowledged, a cauldron of this caliber could never be used for alchemy because it wouldn't even spark a flame.

"Of course." Fan Lihua pointed toward the jars and bottles on a nearby table. "All of these were refined by Little Yeye. Little Yeye is an absolute alchemy genius."

Ye Sheng walked over and opened the bottles one by one to inspect them.

It was obvious that the grades of these medicinal pills were quite low, yet their purity was exceptionally high.

Then, his gaze fell upon the box containing the Purple Spirit Recovery Pill.

The moment he opened it, Ye Sheng's face froze into stone.

Could medicinal pills even be refined into this kind of shape?

No wonder it was stored in a box; how could an ordinary medicine bottle possibly fit something like this?

"Where is the Little Yeye who refined these pills?"

Fan Lihua cast a strange look at Ye Sheng, marveling that his temper hadn't flared up today.

Had he actually grown more temperate than her?

Fan Lihua reined in her attitude somewhat.

"Little Yeye is naturally following the young mistress in the Immortal Realm."

Ye Sheng nodded and walked out of the small wooden cabin in a daze.

He returned to Star Island proper.

"Star, send me back."

"..."

He waited for a moment, but not a single thing moved.

Fan Lihua burst into laughter.

Ye Sheng grew exasperated and angry. "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, hahaha..."

After laughing for a while, Fan Lihua straightened up.

"Star won't listen to you. She's terribly aloof. She ignores me when I speak to her too, so you might as well give up. Aside from the young mistress, she probably listens to no one."

"Do I have to wait for that sister to come to this island before I can go home?"

Fan Lihua rubbed her chin. "Why don't you try asking Xingruo?"

"Xingruo?"

Fan Lihua stood at the boundary connecting the two islands.

She pointed toward Xingruo Island and said, "It's that island right over there."

Ye Sheng took a couple of steps and crossed onto Xingruo Island.

"Senior Xingruo... Can you please send me back??"

A golden beam of light enveloped Ye Sheng.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Sheng found himself back in his own room.

"They're both island guardians, but the difference between them is simply monumental."

Ye Sheng couldn't help letting out a sigh.

With that sigh finished, he began packing his bags.

He wanted to go to the Immortal Realm to take a look at the fellow recognized by the Divine Farmer Cauldron. Of course, he also wanted to seek out You Xiyue to investigate that eerie courtyard and the strange person he had encountered.

As a result of this journey, it took him a full week just to grope his way to the Immortal Realm.

Only by stepping out did he realize how vast the outside world truly was.

And how novel it felt.

If not for the blessing of the physical body he inhabited, he would have been abducted and sold off a dozen times over.

At this moment, Song Bai had recovered significantly. Aside from the two exorcism needles that still could not be pulled out, he was already capable of walking on his own two feet.

Blue Time had departed two days prior to continue his search for Blue Star.

Compared to the other realms, the Immortal Realm was naturally not particularly large.

However, when someone deliberately wanted to hide, tracking them down was no easy task.

Even though it had taken him a full seven days to arrive in the Immortal Realm, Ye Sheng did not feel like it had been too long.

"Little child, are you lost?"

A delicate female voice rang out from behind Ye Sheng.