As for Xu Linglan’s earlier warning, Ye Haochuan had long since thrown it beyond the nine heavens as he went through several practiced sets of movements in an orderly way.

However, he had still underestimated the medicinal poison of the three Twin Dragons Binding Gold Pills; after all that tossing around, it actually went on for a full ten-plus hours.

The complete venting of the pill poison made Xu Linglan’s aura and complexion gradually return to normal; with deep exhaustion, she peacefully fell asleep.

He didn’t know what she ran into in her dreams, but every now and then, half consciously, she would call out Ye Haochuan’s name.

Only, Ye Haochuan at this moment clearly could not hear it.

Xu Linglan’s mature charm made him unable to stop, but ten hours of that kind of madness—even an elephant would probably be squeezed into a dried-up, skinny horse.

Luckily his Cultivation was not bad, and his own "Combat Ability" was very outstanding; only then did he survive those bouts of crazy fighting.

Only now, he just felt his legs weak under him and his whole body powerless, and he fell asleep leaning against Xu Linglan.

With the Heaven Escape Bead losing its controller, it slowly dropped down, stopping in a not-too-deadly place of deep mountains and a great river.

The great river roared and surged, the Heaven Escape Bead half-floating, half-sinking; with no one to control it, it could only drift with the current and flow along.

After drifting for several hours, a huge whirlpool suddenly appeared in the river and sucked the Heaven Escape Bead in whole.

No one knew how long had passed when Ye Haochuan slowly woke up; before he opened his eyes, he felt his whole body wrapped in a dense killing intent.

He shivered, hurriedly snapped his eyes open, and discovered that this killing intent actually came from Xu Linglan beside him.

"You bastard, I warned you not to take the chance to violate me, and you still had the face to do that, and even... I’m going to kill you!"

At this moment Xu Linglan had already put all her clothes back on; from her livid face, one could tell that her actions were not just to scare Ye Haochuan.

What the hell, how is this woman being unreasonable again?

Ye Haochuan’s heart jolted; he hurriedly stayed on guard while loudly protesting his innocence.

"Just now you were the one who took the initiative to offer yourself, how can you blame me?"

Hearing that, Xu Linglan grew even angrier; her willow brows shot up as she shouted furiously, "I’d already lost my rationality earlier, how would I know what I was doing? You damn bastard, it’s not like you don’t know the effect of that pill poison, and now you’re even trying to shift the responsibility onto me?"

"Offering yourself was the pill poison’s doing? Then that heartfelt confession was too?" Ye Haochuan said unhappily.

"Confession?" Xu Linglan’s expression froze when she heard that, as if she recalled something.

A moment later, her cheeks turned blood red; somewhat guilty, she asked, "What did I say?"

"Nothing much!"

Ye Haochuan thought for a bit, then said, "Roughly that you’d long been attracted by how outstanding I am, but didn’t want to fight Pan Muxiang over me, so you just wanted it once or something like that..."

"Oh my god, I actually said all that?" Xu Linglan was instantly overwhelmed with shame and wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

"Actually, you really don’t have to be so hung up about it, your lord here, I..."

Ye Haochuan was just about to comfort her when he heard Xu Linglan snap, "Shut up! All that ridiculous stuff was nonsense, you’d better forget it, otherwise don’t blame me for being rude to you!"

With that said, she also seemed to realize those words were on shaky ground; she forcibly activated the Heaven Escape Bead to open and leapt out.

The Heaven Escape Bead was a Flying Magical Treasure and didn’t have very strong defense; Ye Haochuan was afraid Xu Linglan’s violent methods would damage the Heaven Escape Bead, and was just about to curse at her, when he suddenly found that the clothes Xu Linglan had just put on were rapidly rotting away.

Not only the clothes—her skin all over was also being corroded at a rapid pace.

Only then did Ye Haochuan notice that all around them was actually a strange ink-black liquid.

"Crap, it’s the Nine Nether Earth Spring, get back in here!" Ye Haochuan quickly recognized the black liquid and shouted anxiously at Xu Linglan.

At this moment Xu Linglan had no time to care about the earlier awkwardness; she hurriedly jumped back into the Heaven Escape Bead.

In the instant she entered the outer light screen of the Heaven Escape Bead, the Nine Nether Earth Spring clinging to her was completely filtered away, leaving her whole body incomparably dry and comfortable.

"Huh? What’s going on?" Ye Haochuan looked at that thin layer of light screen in puzzlement.

He’d long since noticed this light screen, but it didn’t seem to have any effect, so he hadn’t paid much attention. Now it seemed this light screen was not that simple.

"The Nine Nether Earth Spring is said to be able to corrode all things. What grade is this ball of yours, that it isn’t damaged in the slightest?" Xu Linglan said in disbelief as well.

"Maybe it’s just the ten-thousand-and-first kind," Ye Haochuan couldn’t figure it out for the moment and made a quiet joke.

Xu Linglan’s pretty face remained cold as she said disdainfully, "Is that supposed to be funny?"

Ye Haochuan curled his lip and didn’t respond; he just opened his Heavenly Eye and looked around.

The more clearly he saw their surroundings, the more serious his expression became.

"It’s ten thousand meters up and still hasn’t reached the surface; I really don’t know what the Heaven Escape Bead went through to drop us this deep!"

Ye Haochuan let out a light sigh, then suddenly controlled the Heaven Escape Bead to thrust upward; it easily smashed through the rock wall above the spring and entered a pitch-black tunnel.

He cautiously probed in both directions of the tunnel; after confirming there was no danger, he slowly stepped out of the Heaven Escape Bead.

Xu Linglan had been silent the whole time and followed Ye Haochuan out of the Heaven Escape Bead.

"Huh? That is..." Ye Haochuan suddenly cried out, then his body abruptly accelerated, sprinting madly down the tunnel.

"Wait!" Xu Linglan was startled and wanted to remind Ye Haochuan to be careful; after all, the tunnel was pitch black, visibility was low, and who knew what danger might be lurking.

But Ye Haochuan acted as if he hadn’t heard her at all; instead of slowing down, he ran even faster.

Xu Linglan’s willow brows furrowed slightly; she thought to herself that Ye Haochuan was always very cautious, so why was he so impulsive today? 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Helpless, she could only follow at high speed.

After they had run nearly a hundred meters, she suddenly saw Ye Haochuan squatting on the ground, seemingly observing something carefully.

When she got close, she found that in front of Ye Haochuan there was a wisp of pale-cyan Spirit Mist, fluttering like a Flame, looking very beautiful.

"What is this?" Xu Linglan asked in confusion.

Ye Haochuan’s face was filled with joy as he said excitedly, "This is a Water Attribute Origin Source. I didn’t expect to find one here. It’s just still very thin and needs more time to nurture..."

"Water Attribute Origin Source?" There was still a trace of confusion on Xu Linglan’s face.

Ye Haochuan didn’t explain; he just stared at that Water Attribute Origin Source, unwilling to move his eyes away for even a moment.

This thing was what could save his son’s life.

"Right!"

Ye Haochuan suddenly remembered that the last time, his Spirit Gathering Vessel seemed to be condensing a Fire Attribute Origin; he didn’t know if it had succeeded after all this time.

At that thought, Ye Haochuan impatiently took out the Spirit Gathering Vessel.

"This... no way, right?" Looking at the situation inside the Spirit Gathering Vessel, Ye Haochuan was utterly astonished.