"No, I haven't seen them. It's just the two of us here," Luo Yingying shook her head at Ning Beichen.
"This is troublesome," Ning Beichen muttered to himself. However, finding Luo Yingying proved his method was correct, which at least gave him hope. The most pressing matter now was how to bring Luo Yingying and the others back. It was obvious they could only go back by traversing the void again, but the previous experience left him with lingering fear. Yet, Ning Beichen had no retreat. But how to take Luo Yingying and the others away became another difficult problem.
Finally, Ning Beichen came up with a method: holding both women's hands and leaving through a passage only he could see. To his surprise, it actually succeeded. For safety, Ning Beichen sent them out and back to the spacecraft, instructing them not to leave before his return. Only then did he continue searching for others. However, with the experience from the first time, Ning Beichen became adept at entering again.
Not long after, Ning Beichen successfully entered another dimensional space. In fact, his master, Luo Yingying, and Liu Yilin were all near the disc. He just didn't know why they were suddenly trapped in another dimensional space, or rather, another dimensional time. This time, Ning Beichen arrived in a space filled with water and saw his master, Chen Xingyun, battling a giant octopus in the seawater.
"Master!" Ning Beichen immediately drew his sword and joined forces with his master, Chen Xingyun, to fight the octopus.
"Ning Beichen, you finally found me. I knew you wouldn't disappoint me, so I never left this place, lest you couldn't find me." Chen Xingyun was very happy to see his disciple, Ning Beichen, arrive.
"Master, I'll take you back. Are you the only one here?" Ning Beichen asked after he and Chen Xingyun teamed up to deal with the octopus.
"I should be alone. I've been here for so long, and besides these sea monsters, I haven't seen any other humans," Chen Xingyun told Ning Beichen.
"Then I'll take you back first, and then I'll go look for the others," Ning Beichen said.
"You brat, do you think your master is crippled? Although I don't know how you found me, nor do I have your abilities, I'm still capable of dealing with demons and monsters," Chen Xingyun said indignantly.
"It's not like that, Master. My ability can only take two people away at a time. If I take you, I won't be able to save the others. Don't worry, your disciple isn't a pushover either." Ning Beichen explained to him for a long time before Chen Xingyun agreed to go back with him. After Ning Beichen sent him back to the spacecraft, he once again traveled back to the desolate void to search for the next person.
At this time, Liu Yilin and Ye Lanxin were in despair. Neither of them had high cultivation, nor did they have many options. They could only wander around this maze-like place like two fools.
"Hey, is anyone there? Is there anyone here?"
"Lanxin, stop shouting. We've been here for so many days and haven't seen a single ghost. How could there be anyone?" Liu Yilin said weakly, trying to dissuade her.
"I know, but if I don't do this, I feel very uneasy," Ye Lanxin replied unwillingly after she stopped shouting.
"By the way, Yilin, where do you think we are?" Ye Lanxin asked somewhat boredly. She wasn't really looking for an answer, just making conversation.
"I guess we're in another dimensional space right now," Liu Yilin said without hesitation. If there was anyone among these people who understood Ning Beichen the most, it would undoubtedly be Liu Yilin. Ning Beichen had talked to her extensively about dimensional spaces before, and coupled with her intelligent mind, it wasn't surprising she could deduce this.
"Then we're done for. We'll be trapped here forever. I don't want this," Ye Lanxin said with a look of near tears.
"Lanxin, don't be like this. Ning Beichen will definitely find a way to save us." Liu Yilin said this with a near-blind faith in Ning Beichen, believing deep down that he would find them.
"I wish that were the case, but what if he himself is trapped somewhere?" Ye Lanxin did not have Liu Yilin's blind faith in Ning Beichen.
Just as she finished speaking, she immediately heard a voice that was incredibly familiar to her.
"Ye Lanxin, it seems you don't trust me that much." Ning Beichen was descending from above her head. He had heard everything she had just said.
"Beichen, I knew you'd find a way." Liu Yilin, extremely excited, rushed into Ning Beichen's arms. Ning Beichen embraced her. Although in real time, they hadn't been separated for long, it felt like a year to them.
Ning Beichen's teasing made Ye Lanxin blush. Fortunately, she hadn't said anything bad about him. Next, Ning Beichen explained the situation to the two of them. Ye Lanxin glanced at Liu Yilin in surprise, as Liu Yilin's previous guess had been entirely correct.
"Alright, I need to take you two back as soon as possible because there are still others waiting for me to rescue." Ning Beichen concluded their conversation and left with Liu Yilin and Ye Lanxin.
After rescuing Liu Yilin and Ye Lanxin, Ning Beichen then found Haitang and Song Yuyan and safely brought them back. Now, only the black flood dragon Abu was missing. However, Abu had vanished as if he had disappeared. Ning Beichen searched for him for a long time but couldn't find him, forcing him to return to the spacecraft to rest. Little did Ning Beichen know that his unreliable black flood dragon was currently fast asleep somewhere, never once considering how to get out or how to return. It was a flood dragon, and its thinking was fundamentally different from humans. For an extremely long period of time, it was merely the duration of a nap for it.
Afterward, Ning Beichen searched for the black flood dragon multiple times but still couldn't find the creature. In fact, Ning Beichen didn't realize that he had already successfully located the black flood dragon's whereabouts, but it was hiding somewhere, fast asleep, causing Ning Beichen to miss it.
"Forget it, I'm not looking for that thing anymore." Ning Beichen was getting angry. No matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find the creature, making Ning Beichen suspect it had taken the opportunity to escape.