Xiao Fei had successfully dealt with the two demonic dragons, avenging the human race of the Eastern Continent. However, his mood grew heavier.
Firstly, he now understood the true strength of the Demon Realm, which was far beyond his imagination.
They possessed a large number of Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation cultivators.
The Dragon Wei he had killed was in the Void Refining realm, a level never heard of by cultivators of the Eastern Continent. With a single palm strike, he could kill several Soul Transformation cultivators.
If not for his good fortune this time, encountering the opponent at his weakest, Dragon Wei alone could have annihilated all humans on the Eastern Continent.
And in the Demon Realm, there were quite a few such Void Refining experts. The Dragon Clan even possessed peerless experts surpassing the Void Refining realm.
The strength of the Demon Realm filled Xiao Fei with despair. No matter how much the Eastern Continent developed, it could not contend with them.
The gap between them was simply too vast.
Secondly, he learned from Long Xiao Chong that the world he was in was called the Tian Yuan Realm.
The Demon Race was currently seeking a treasure and was very interested in the Tian Yuan Realm, determined to obtain it.
Even if he was lucky enough to kill Dragon Wei this time, more powerful beings would inevitably descend in the future.
Finally, he did receive some good news.
The so-called end of the world they perceived was actually a grand formation, a cage that enclosed the Eastern Continent and the Eastern Sea.
The true Tian Yuan Realm should be extremely vast and possess a large number of powerful individuals.
This piece of information was crucial for Xiao Fei. He had been unsure where the ancient teleportation array in the Turtle Island ruins led.
He had come this time intending to investigate it further, perhaps to deduce the general direction of the teleportation.
Now, he had a high degree of confidence that this ancient teleportation array should lead to the Tian Yuan Realm.
The location of this teleportation array was extremely hidden, perhaps a secret passage left by ancient human cultivators for the cage formation.
Xiao Fei had already decided in his heart to activate the ancient teleportation array and see what lay on the other side.
If it led to the Tian Yuan Realm, at least he would have a source for the spirit stones needed to advance to the Soul Transformation stage.
Perhaps he could also find external help from the Tian Yuan Realm to resist the Demon Race invasion of the Eastern Continent.
The natural formation in the ancient ruins was set to open in about two years. He no longer had time to return and inform Huang Feifei and the others.
Since the journey would not take too long, he could return the next time the natural formation in the ruins opened.
For cultivators at the Soul Transformation stage, even a single period of closed-door cultivation could last decades or even a century.
Thus, Xiao Fei, along with Fei Yu, continued to wait on Turtle Island. Two years quickly passed.
This time, with no one else interfering, Xiao Fei followed his previous footprints alone and successfully entered the ruins.
The ruins were still the same, indicating that no other cultivators had visited during its recent openings.
Xiao Fei jumped into the underground lava river and successfully found the stone chamber where the ancient teleportation array was hidden.
He cleared the dust accumulated in the stone chamber hall, revealing the densely inscribed formation runes on the ground.
After carefully inspecting the formation runes three times, he found nothing amiss.
He then took out a small wooden box from his spatial artifact, which was filled with spirit stones, each about an inch square.
Ordinary spirit stones were only the size of a finger, but these inch-sized spirit stones were all high-grade spirit stones Xiao Fei had accumulated over the years.
A single high-grade spirit stone contained as much spiritual energy as ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.
Xiao Fei took out a total of 360 high-grade spirit stones from the wooden box and inserted them into the grooves on the teleportation array.
As he stepped onto the circular platform in the center of the teleportation array, even after living for over a thousand years, he felt a bit nervous and apprehensive.
This was an unknown adventure. The situation on the other side of the teleportation array was unknown, and whether there was danger was also unpredictable.
As he cast spell after spell with his hands, his heart gradually calmed down, and then a dazzling white light erupted, enveloping him.
After being enveloped by the white light, Xiao Fei felt dizzy and lost control of himself. The surrounding seven-colored lights seemed to shift and change.
At the same time, various forces were compressing and pulling at his body.
Fortunately, his body cultivation was already proficient, and by fully circulating his mana, he could barely withstand it.
After an unknown period, all the strange sensations disappeared.
Xiao Fei shook his head, managed to stand steady, and looked around. He was in a mountain cave stone chamber, with a lava lake beside him.
If not for a fiery red spirit grass growing by the lake, he might have suspected he was still in the original stone chamber and had not successfully teleported.
However, Xiao Fei's attention was now completely drawn to the fiery red spirit grass before him.
This spirit grass was about 1.5 feet tall, entirely crimson, and seemed to flicker like flames.
"Crimson Flame Core!"
Xiao Fei exclaimed upon seeing this spirit grass.
Crimson Flame Core was a spirit medicine that had become extinct on the Eastern Continent, having not appeared for at least tens of thousands of years.
He had not expected to find a rare spirit grass, extinct for tens of thousands of years, right after stepping out of the teleportation array.
However, Xiao Fei glanced around and, finding no danger, cautiously approached the Crimson Flame Core.
This place was not home to just one Crimson Flame Core. Beside the mother plant, several seedlings were growing.
The larger ones were about five inches tall, while some smaller seedlings were less than an inch.
Xiao Fei did not immediately dig up the largest mother plant. Instead, he dug out two seedlings less than an inch tall from the side and transplanted them into his spatial artifact.
He did not know where he was yet, nor if this place was inhabited.
If he rashly dug up the largest Crimson Flame Core, he would offend the owner of this place upon arrival, making it difficult to establish himself later.
As for the newly grown seedlings, their survival rate was high, and they often looked fine today only to die tomorrow.
Losing two small seedlings would generally not cause major trouble.
Crimson Flame Core was the main or auxiliary ingredient for refining several fire-attribute pills. Currently, on the Eastern Continent, this spirit medicine could not be found, and substitutes had to be used.
However, the medicinal effects of pills refined with substitutes were naturally greatly reduced.
After transplanting the two seedlings into his spatial artifact, Xiao Fei searched the stone chamber again. He found no exit to the outside, so he had no choice but to jump into the lava lake.
When he emerged from a cave after passing through the lava lake, he found that it was pitch black outside.
It startled him greatly. It turned out it was already night.