The Mirage Sea was as wide as the ocean and thirty-three stories high. Ten thousand people crossed the sea, surging forward like a sky-covering tide.
Ming Zhi Tian and Yan Ran Qing Cheng were at the forefront, an arrow shot through the clouds, heralding the arrival of a thousand armies.
After boarding and eliminating some guards, Ming Zhi Tian grabbed one and asked, "Where is Ouyang Ni Feng?"
The guard, seeing the approaching army, could only tell the truth, "Ouyang Ni Feng... is on the negative third floor..."
Ming Zhi Tian threw him into the sea and said to Yan Ran Qing Cheng, "You all go up first, I'll be there soon."
Yan Ran Qing Cheng nodded, "Be careful. I'm still waiting to kill Liu Li Qian Suo with you."
Ming Zhi Tian nodded, "You be careful too. Wait for me."
Ming Zhi Tian descended to the negative first floor and fought his way to the negative third floor. Here, he encountered only the most vicious of criminals. With a move, "Star Dragon Jade Flower Halberd Technique!" he shattered the heavens.
After defeating over a dozen cultivators at the tenth level of the Heaven Sealing Realm, he absorbed their cultivation.
He approached a woman adorned in golden silk, with hair cascading to her waist and captivating eyes that blinked with soul-piercing charm. She was bound to a transparent rune-engraved wooden stake, her spirit lively as she looked at Ming Zhi Tian.
Ming Zhi Tian walked slowly forward. Neither spoke. Ming Zhi Tian could discern her cultivation as the fifth level of the God Sealing Realm.
"Do you know a woman named Ouyang Ni Feng?" Ming Zhi Tian suddenly asked.
The woman looked up at Ming Zhi Tian. "I am she."
Ming Zhi Tian stepped forward and found a transparent barrier blocking his path. Ouyang Ni Feng said with little hope, "This is the Illusory Form Great Array. With your mere fifth level of the Heaven Sealing Realm, you should leave."
Ming Zhi Tian punched the barrier! It only vibrated slightly, unmoved.
"Star Dragon Jade Flower Halberd Technique!"
Ming Zhi Tian punched the barrier again. It felt like hitting cotton, and a suction force threatened to pull him into a spatial rift.
Ming Zhi Tian frowned slightly, "What a powerful formation."
"Absorb!"
Ming Zhi Tian did the opposite. Running his Heaven Devouring Divine Skill, he absorbed the entire formation into his body to refine and increase his cultivation.
Ouyang Ni Feng was stunned. It wasn't because Ming Zhi Tian broke the barrier formation, but because he used the "Star Dragon Jade Flower Halberd Technique."
Her father, Ouyang Yuan Xia, had once told her, "Someone will come to save you then. I will teach him the Star Dragon Jade Flower Halberd Technique. That person will be your future husband."
Thinking of this, Ouyang Ni Feng's face flushed red. "What... what is your name?"
"Ming Zhi Tian. What's wrong?"
After helping Ouyang Ni Feng open her shackles, he saw her standing there in a daze, thinking she might have been poisoned.
Little did Ming Zhi Tian know, Ouyang Ni Feng was currently conjuring images of their future life together in her mind – raising children, a life of happiness.
It wasn't until Ming Zhi Tian took out bottles and jars from his storage bag and offered them to her that her daydreams were broken. "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Ouyang Ni Feng shyly shook her head. "No... no. From now on, you are my husband... Please guide me in the future."
Ming Zhi Tian frowned. "What? What nonsense is this? Let's go, we need to leave here."
"Wait, who is your father?"
Ouyang Ni Feng replied, "Ouyang Yuan Xia."
Ming Zhi Tian sized her up, confirming she was unharmed. "That makes sense. Let's go."
They arrived at the first floor to find several corpses. It seemed they had already fought their way up.
Ming Zhi Tian said, "You wait here for me to return, okay?"
Ouyang Ni Feng knew what he was worried about. "You look down on me? I'm a supreme expert of the fifth level of the God Sealing Realm, after all."
She immediately summoned a Divine Moon Halberd imbued with aurora. Ming Zhi Tian's eyes brightened. "This artifact... what level is it?"
Ouyang Ni Feng said, "Given the heritage of my Ouyang family, it is naturally God-grade!"
Ming Zhi Tian mused, "Then it's the same level as Yan Ran Qing Cheng's Mo Li Divine Bow?"
He then asked, "How does God-grade compare to Star-grade?"