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Upon hearing this, Luo Cheng's face flashed with disappointment, but he nodded and said to Xiao Fan and the others, "Since that's the case, then I won't try to keep you any longer." With that, Luo Cheng took out a small boat from his storage ring and handed it to Xiao Fan, saying, "This space boat is a gift for you, my worthy brother. I wish you a safe journey!"

Xiao Fan nodded with a smile, and then, under Luo Cheng's disappointed gaze, the group entered the spatial wormhole and disappeared from the spot.

Chapter 87 Space Storm? A Minor Issue

As soon as everyone entered the spatial wormhole, they immediately felt the pulling force of space.

At Xinlan's reminder, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan did not resist, but allowed the spatial power to envelop them. Then, everyone felt their vision distort and felt a little dizzy. When their vision returned, they found themselves in a strange spatial passage.

"This is a wormhole?"

Looking around, Xiao Yan saw that he and his group were now in a passageway that was about ten feet wide. The passageway was surrounded by a barrier formed by spatial power, and outside the passageway was only an endless expanse of dark chaos, which looked extremely oppressive.

"Yes."

Xinlan nodded gently, looked at the dark space outside the passage, and explained to everyone, "Outside this spatial passage are extremely chaotic spatial turbulences. If you leave the passage and enter this void, I'm afraid only a Dou Zun realm expert could survive."

"Once others enter, encountering spatial turbulence will only lead to death. Even if they are lucky enough to escape the spatial turbulence, the resulting spatial disorientation is enough to drive a person insane..."

Hearing Xinlan's earnest words, Xiao Yan glanced at the spatial barriers surrounding the passageway and asked, "Is this spatial passage stable? Won't it collapse?"

Hearing Xiao Yan's question, Xiao Fan patted Xiao Yan on the head and said, "Alright, don't scare yourself. Since the space wormhole has been used for so many years, the probability of it having problems is still very small, except for human sabotage."

“Yes. Brother Xiao Fan is right.” Xin Lan echoed, then said to Xiao Fan, “Brother Xiao Fan, you can take out the spaceship that Luo Cheng gave you earlier. With the spaceship, our journey should be greatly shortened within this space passage. We should be able to reach Zhongzhou in about twenty days.”

Xiao Fan nodded, then took out the palm-sized boat and injected a wisp of battle qi into the space ship. The boat then grew larger in the wind and quickly transformed into a ship several meters in size, standing in the space passage.

"Is this what a spaceship is?"

Xiao Yan looked at the ship enveloped by a layer of magical spatial power, a look of surprise on his face. After all, he was completely unfamiliar with these things before.

"Hehe, let's go, Zhongzhou. Who knows how many more amazing things are waiting for us to explore!"

Xiao Fan smiled, nodded to Xiao Yan, and then the group boarded the spaceship.

Xinlan saw the surprise in Xiao Yan's eyes and continued to explain to everyone on the spaceship: "Depending on the energy inside, the size of the spaceship and the space it contains also vary. Similarly, the speed, which is the most crucial factor, also varies greatly."

"In Zhongzhou, people classify spaceships from level one to level ten. If I'm not mistaken, this spaceship that Luo Cheng gifted me should be a level four spaceship. Its market price is around one million."

After hearing Xinlan's explanation, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan finally gained an understanding of these things.

As for Xiao Fan, with the existence of the system and his memories from his previous life, he was naturally very clear about these things. However, with Xin Lan's introduction, Xiao Fan did not interfere too much.

"The operation of the spaceship requires constant operation by someone. For the rest of the journey, we may have to take turns controlling it."

While the spaceship is in the space tunnel, someone needs to continuously inject battle qi to control its movement.

Xiao Fan sat cross-legged on the spaceship, his right hand resting on it. A wisp of battle qi flowed from his palm into the spaceship. He then diverted a portion of his mind to control the spaceship and continued to study the battle techniques he had mastered.

Now that Xiao Fan was in control, Xiao Yan and the others entered the ship and began their cultivation.

The journey through the spatial passage was extremely tedious and boring. Apart from cultivating, there was nothing else for everyone to do. In addition, the twenty days provided a good opportunity for cultivation.

Xiao Yan entered the room that came with the spaceship and continued to study the Mountain-Opening Seal he had obtained, as well as the Five-Round Fire Technique of the Heavenly Fire Venerable.

Because of Xiao Fan's presence, Venerable Tianhuo did not fall into a deep sleep. However, he needed to use some medicinal liquid every now and then to solidify his soul. After all, his soul was very weak. Although it had not yet dissipated, it would need a period of nourishment to repair itself.

With the guidance of Venerable Tianhuo, Xiao Yan's understanding of the Five-Wheel Fire Technique deepened, and his fire control skills became increasingly terrifying.

.............

In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed in the spatial passage. Xiao Fan lay in an empty space on the spaceship, reached out and took a spiritual fruit from the table he had brought with him, then lay back down in his chair and withdrew his mind from the system panel.

"Sigh, the shop update this month is useless again..."

Xiao Fan shook his head helplessly. The items refreshed in the system shop were all tasteless to him at the moment, but he couldn't bear to throw them away. However, when he thought about how hard it was to obtain source coins, he could only make a painful choice.

For items he doesn't need at the moment, he can only choose to close the system shop to avoid seeing them and getting annoyed. Otherwise, if he runs out of source coins now and the items he needs appear later, it would be awkward if he didn't have enough source coins to exchange for them.

Lying on the chair, Xiao Fan munched on a spirit fruit, his heart aching as he looked at the storage ring in his hand, inlaid with a red gemstone.

That's right, this storage ring was the one he risked his life to snatch from Zhu Kun in the cave of the ancient Tuoshe Emperor. Originally, Xiao Fan thought that taking such a big risk to obtain the storage ring of a nine-star Dou Sheng late stage powerhouse was a very profitable deal.

Unfortunately, after obtaining it, Xiao Fan was severely injured and unable to use his soul power, so he couldn't even examine the storage ring.

After recovering, he immediately refined a seventh-grade pill and headed straight to Zhongzhou. Xiao Fan managed to explore the spatial passage, only to discover that he couldn't break through the defenses at all!

This caused Xiao Fan's defenses to be breached!

He risked his life to steal—or rather, borrow—the storage ring right under the nose of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, only to find that he couldn't even open it. This made Xiao Fan's expression extremely ugly.

During his time in the spatial passage, Xiao Fan had used every method he could think of. Even when he used Chaos Fire to refine the soul imprint on the storage ring, he was unable to damage it in the slightest.

Although he was somewhat unwilling, it was within Xiao Fan's expectations.

Although the Chaos Fire has a high rank, it is normal that it cannot harm the soul imprint of a top expert in the Dou Qi Continent.

"Hmph, once I'm stronger and the Chaos Flame has matured, even if my true form can't defeat you, I refuse to believe that a mere soul imprint can't obliterate you..."

Xiao Fan looked at the dazzling storage ring in front of him, a fierce expression appearing on his face.

Xiao Fan firmly believed that as long as his strength improved a little more, even if he couldn't deal with Zhu Kun's strength as a late-stage nine-star Dou Sheng, he could still completely erase the mark on the storage ring thanks to the special nature of the Chaos Fire.

"Strange, the barriers around this spatial passage seem a bit weak."

Just as Xiao Fan was deep in thought, Xiao Yan, who was in control of the spaceship, suddenly spoke, breaking Xiao Fan's train of thought.

Upon hearing Xiao Yan's words, Xiao Fan immediately looked up at the surrounding spatial barriers and was shocked to find that the originally extremely solid spatial barriers had become much weaker than before when they arrived here. In some places, the spatial barriers had even become completely ethereal, and the chaotic aura outside the spatial passage could be felt.

"It happened!"

Xinlan also stood up from the side, leaned over the edge of the spaceship, and looked out at the barrier of the space passage. Looking at the chaotic spatial turbulence outside the space barrier, a trace of panic appeared on Xinlan's face.

"We must have encountered a space storm!"

"Space storm?"

Listening to Xin Lan's words, although it was another unfamiliar term, Xiao Yan seemed to have realized what the so-called spatial storm that Xin Lan mentioned was.

"If the barriers within this spatial passage gradually become blurred, they will form voids. These voids will suck in anything inside the spatial passage, causing it to fall completely into the void outside the spatial passage."

"Once you enter the void, it's almost impossible to escape. This void caused by the blurring of spatial barriers is called a spatial storm. We just never expected our luck to be so bad..."

Hearing Xinlan's introduction, Xiao Yan's face also darkened.

"Don't worry, just be careful. The space storm hasn't erupted yet, it's just a sign of it. We'll be able to get out."

Just then, Xiao Fan's calm voice rang out. He then landed at the bow of the ship and said to Xiao Yan, "Junior brother, you can rest assured to control the space ship. Leave these things to me."

Then, Xiao Fan used his soul power to probe the location of these spatial storms.

Having experienced the magma world and repaired the space wormhole twice, Xiao Fan's mastery of spatial power, while not yet proficient, has reached a basic level.

If this were a space storm that had already erupted, he might not have been able to do anything about it, but right now, as long as he could just block these broken barriers and allow them to pass through, it wouldn't be a problem.

Then, to everyone's astonishment, as Xiao Fan's mental energy swept across the area, the previously illusory spatial barrier and the wandering spatial energy around it were reorganized by Xiao Fan, quickly filling in the spaceship's path.

Chapter 88 Leaving the Passage

"Great."

Xinlan looked at the spatial black hole that had been briefly filled after Xiao Fan had sorted it out, and a look of excitement appeared on her face.

"Brother Xiao Fan, I didn't expect that you, at only the Dou Zong realm, would already have mastered the power of space!"

Xinlan's eyes were filled with excitement. She clenched her fists and waved them excitedly in front of her chest. Her voice trembled with excitement.

Hearing Xinlan's words, Xiao Fan shook his head and explained to her, "Hehe, it's not that simple. I can only manage the spatial power in a small area right now. These black holes that I filled won't last long before they become ethereal again. So, we need to hurry up and leave this spatial passage. Otherwise, if we encounter a large-scale spatial storm, it will be much more difficult to get out."

Hearing Xiao Fan's words, Xin Lan also knew the terror of the spatial storm and nodded.

Immediately, under Xiao Yan's control, the spaceship transformed into a streak of silver light and swiftly traversed the spatial passage.

During this time, whenever they encountered a spatial black hole, Xiao Yan would maneuver the spaceship to constantly dodge the pulling force of the black hole around the spatial passage, while Xiao Fan would also take action to constantly manage the spatial power, narrowly avoiding these crises several times.

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Inside the dark spatial passage, Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan stood at the bow of the spaceship. Xiao Yan steered the spaceship, while Xiao Fan continuously repaired and filled the cracks that appeared in the spatial passage, allowing the spaceship to travel quickly.

After several days, the two had become extremely proficient in this method, constantly working to refine the power of space. Xiao Fan had also gained a deeper understanding of the power of space. If the current situation didn't prevent it, Xiao Fan would have planned to thoroughly comprehend it within this spatial passage.

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"Based on our calculations, we should only need about a day to leave this spatial passage."

Xinlan counted the time on her fingers to enter the spatial passage and spoke to Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan at the bow of the ship.

The tension that had been building in her mind for the past few days suddenly eased as she prepared to leave the spatial passage.

"Don't let your guard down. There's still one day left. Be careful that nothing unexpected happens in these final moments."

On the contrary, upon hearing Xin Lan's words, Xiao Fan's heart did not relax; instead, it grew even more solemn. Knowing the plot well, he naturally understood that it was on the last day within this spatial passage that the spatial storm erupted, causing Xiao Yan and Xin Lan's group to become separated...

However, Xiao Fan had previously relied on his familiarity with some spatial power, and the fact that the Heavenly Flame Venerable in Xiao Yan's storage ring had not fallen into a deep sleep, which was why he dared to continue entering the spatial passage. If Xiao Fan was only 50% confident in blocking the spatial storm before, after these few days of familiarizing himself with spatial power, he is now 80% confident.

Even if a spatial storm does break out, I can use my understanding of spatial power to briefly intercept it, giving the spaceship time to escape.

Xiao Yan listened to Xiao Fan's words without saying anything, but nodded slightly. He also knew that the darkest night is the night before dawn.

Just as everyone was on high alert, a huge black vortex appeared in their sight ahead of the spatial passage.

"It's the exit!"

Xinlan looked at the exit in the distance, a hint of excitement on her face.

Having spent twenty days in the space passage, and with problems arising within it, Xinlan was naturally overjoyed to be able to leave smoothly. She hugged Ziyan beside her and jumped up and down on the space ship.

"boom!"