Chapter 1045: This is a Semi-Saint Rank, for You, Wish You Become a Saint Soon

In the Ancient Architecture Area, inside a dilapidated great hall.

Ye Xiaotian emerged from the hall, covered in dirt and grime, and finally saw the long-lost light of the outside world. A look of relief spread across his face.

"Maze?"

"What a joke—do they really think my space attribute is just for show? A maze can't trap me."

"It's just that..."

Remembering the time he spent trapped in the maze, where every turn brought an encounter with love in the form of a massive Void Shi, Ye Xiaotian still felt a lingering fear.

On Gu Yin Ya, after obtaining A Jie, he had planned to end his journey in the Yun Lun Shan Mai and return to Tian Sang Ling Gong to assist with the Qiao Qian experiments.

However, plans never survive contact with reality.

Sure enough, his trip to the deep sea hadn't drained him as a space mystery refiner, but on Kong Xu Dao, in the Zui Yi Dian great hall maze, those hordes of Void Shi had nearly cost him his life.

Glancing back at the plaque above the great hall's entrance, Ye Xiaotian wore an expression that said, "I knew it."

"Zui Yi Dian..."

"The foremost of the nine great forbidden zones on Kong Xu Dao—it's well-deserving of the name!"

"It's a great place, no doubt, but without Void Crystals, I couldn't exchange for any treasures, and I almost lost my life here."

"This wretched spot—I never want to come back!"

Ye Xiaotian didn't want to dwell on the painful experiences inside the hall anymore.

Now, he just wanted to wander around Kong Xu Dao and leave this cursed place as soon as possible to return to Tian Sang Ling Gong.

Others craved the Feng Sheng Dao Ji, but he looked down on it.

With his space mystery complete, Ye Xiaotian had already forged his own unique path.

He still had some time before achieving Tai Xu, and becoming a Ban Sheng was even further off.

But once he attained Tai Xu through the space mystery, who in the world could stand against him?

At that point, securing a Ban Sheng position would be as easy as saying the word.

In this vast world, which force wouldn't covet a treasure like Ye Xiaotian, who had mastered the space mystery?

"Time to relax..."

With a flip of his hand, Ye Xiaotian unfurled the space mystery array diagram beneath his feet.

After arriving on Kong Xu Dao, as the master of space, he hadn't even had a chance to properly explore the place.

Now that he finally had time, not observing the people and events here from a god-like perspective would be a disservice to his lifelong cultivation achievements.

"Shua shua shua."

With a wave of his hand through the void, numerous space mirrors appeared before him, reflecting scenes of figures in various states—some in distress, some joyful, some desperate.

Outside an ancient-looking forest, a sword-wielding elder with white hair and an immortal demeanor held two wooden swords. He fanned himself with a paper fan as he glanced around and stepped into the woods.

"Looks familiar..."

"This person—I think I've seen him somewhere before?"

Ye Xiaotian pondered, but after recalling, he realized he hadn't encountered this individual on Gu Yin Ya. Maybe it was after falling into the deep sea.

With another wave, the next mirror world appeared.

Still outside the ancient forest, a browless hero in black robes advanced cautiously, his expression vigilant.

Ye Xiaotian watched warily too, because the scene carried not only human presence but also rhythmic, massive booming sounds.

"Mu Lin?"

"Another forest?"

"Why is everyone ending up in the forest area? Was I the only unlucky one to end up in Zui Yi Dian?"

"And that booming sound—the previous scene had it too. Are they in the same place? That sound..." Ye Xiaotian grimaced. "It's explosive, just like Xu Xiaoshou!"

He didn't linger and waved again, switching to the next scene.

It was still the ancient dense forest, but this time, the figure in the space mirror shifted from running to stopping, even looking up toward the sky.

It was as if the gaze pierced through space, locking onto the spying Ye Xiaotian!

"Close it!"

Ye Xiaotian's hand trembled as he shut off the scene.

Damn...

A Ban Sheng!

Had a Ban Sheng shown up on Kong Xu Dao?

"Good thing I reacted fast and closed it in time—otherwise, I'd be in big trouble!"

"Cloud attribute? Yun Lun Shan Mai... Is it that person?"

Ye Xiaotian thought deeply, but the more he considered, the more terrified he became. He didn't dare pursue the thought further.

"What's going on?"

"Everyone's heading toward the forest—is that Ji Ji Zhi Sen?"

Ye Xiaotian frowned.

Three scenes in a row involved the forest, all with booming sounds. He couldn't dismiss it as coincidence—it had to be something significant.

He waved his hand again.

This time, Ye Xiaotian saw the source of the booming.

A bare-chested burly man was fleeing with a fruit the size of a human head, pursued by a black, three-hundred-zhang Void Shi.

"Heh."

Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but laugh.

This guy was another unlucky soul.

But this unlucky one was a bit luckier—Ji Ji Zhi Sen only had one Void Shi chasing him.

Zui Yi Dian...

Ye Xiaotian glanced back at the great hall and let out a long breath, finally calming his racing heart.

The feeling of turning a corner and running into "love"—he never wanted to experience that again.

Zui Yi Dian wasn't a place for humans. Without his space mystery, he wouldn't have made it out alive.

Even a Ban Sheng with weak escape abilities might have perished under the feet of those countless Void Shi!

As he thought about it, Ye Xiaotian waved his hand again, switching the space mirror.

In the next second, his face froze, as if fixed in space, leaving him stunned for a long moment.

"I think I know why everyone's rushing to Ji Ji Zhi Sen..."

Ye Xiaotian murmured silently, and a red light flashed in his arms as the iron ball A Jie poked its head out.

"Mama..."

In the scene, atop a massive medicine garden, Xu Xiaoshou was desperately opening a space channel, trying to swallow everything.

"It's really you!"

"I knew it had to be you!"

"Wherever there's trouble, you're there. Are you the eye of the storm?"

Ye Xiaotian shook his head with a sigh, unable to believe what he was seeing.

Soon, he shifted his gaze from Xu Xiaoshou to the medicine garden.

Through the space mirror, the spiritual herbs inside looked small, and he couldn't smell their fragrance, so he couldn't tell their grade at first glance.

His mind flashed back to the bare-chested man holding the head-sized fruit and the Void Shi chasing him, and now linking it to Xu Xiaoshou's harvest in the Shen Nong Yao Yuan...

"No way?"

Ye Xiaotian's mouth dropped open as he tried to zoom in on the scene to see what treasures were in that garden.

Just then, the next space mirror transmitted even more terrifying booms.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom..."

Who was this explosion expert?

Ye Xiaotian was baffled and quickly waved his hand to see the next scene—an endless black void.

"What the hell?"

"Who has the power to turn space on Kong Xu Dao completely black?"

Suddenly, the scene flashed, and a massive stone foot stomped out, startling Ye Xiaotian.

After the shock, he realized it was just the foot's size and impact that made it seem real—it hadn't actually stepped into his mirror.

But...

"That fleeting glimpse of the great hall—why does it look familiar?"

Ye Xiaotian furrowed his brow in thought, and soon his mind stalled.

Wait!

A great hall?

He turned his head and saw Zui Yi Dian behind him.

Then he looked toward the distant sky, which had already turned black—like the endless void in the last mirror.

"No way?"

Ye Xiaotian's eyes widened instantly.

Before he could think more, a point of cold light pierced the darkness, followed by a spear thrusting like a dragon.

Wielding the Mo Shen Da Qiang, Xiao Kong Dong smashed down at the entrance of Zui Yi Dian and leaped down, gasping for breath.

"A person?"

Spotting the stunned white-haired boy ahead, Xiao Kong Dong paused, his mind racing through all the information about this individual.

Ye Xiaotian, inner court dean of Tian Sang Ling Gong, space attribute, former Sheng Gong disciple, friend of Wu Xiu, and someone who had crossed paths with Teacher Ba Zun An. He had lost an arm at Tian Sang Ling Gong.

"Ye Xiaotian?" Xiao Kong Dong straightened his clothes, ignoring the darkness in the sky behind him, and asked calmly.

Ye Xiaotian: ???

This can't be right—how is it you again!

Are you Ba Zun An?

He sized up this disheveled man, who had Ba Zun An's features—a scar on his neck and only eight fingers—but from his exhausted appearance, Ye Xiaotian seriously doubted his identity.

How could Ba Zun An be this wretched?

As his thoughts reached that point, Ye Xiaotian nodded woodenly, but his mind quickly collapsed again.

"What do you mean, 'again'?"

He was speechless.

Weren't masters of mysteries supposed to live lives of luxury? Ever since achieving the space mystery, Ye Xiaotian hadn't enjoyed any of the pleasures that someone like Yu Ling Di, the water mystery controller, had.

Instead, he'd endured all the hardships Yu Ling Di never had!

Before even starting his journey, he lost an arm to this guy at Tian Sang Ling Gong.

After mastering the space mystery and setting out, his first battle in Yun Lun Shan Mai ended in defeat, beaten half to death by the time-space attribute Huang Quan.

Luckily, Xu Xiaoshou showed up and saved him from the brink, but then he entered Kong Xu Dao and got chased by a swarm of Void Shi in Zui Yi Dian.

He had just escaped with his life, and now Ba Zun An was on him again?

What was this—a life full of twists and turns?

This was a life full of twists and turns!

"What do you want?"

Ye Xiaotian's face darkened as he thought about all this.

He had already decided not to tangle with these monsters for now. If things went south, he'd teleport away instantly.

The world is vast—surely he could find some ordinary Tai Xu to pick on?

"Not much time left, so I'll keep it short."

Xiao Kong Dong didn't explain his identity further. He glanced at the darkness behind him, sensing the stone giants closing in, and said directly:

"Ye Xiaotian, you're Wu Xiu's friend, and after that battle at Tian Sang Ling Gong, we can call it not enemies but acquaintances. In three words, you're basically my friend too..."

Ye Xiaotian: ???

The more he heard, the wronger it sounded.

The space mystery array diagram spun under his feet, and he felt the urge to leave.

"Hold on."

Xiao Kong Dong reached out to stop him and said seriously: "Dean Ye, as a junior in Sheng Nu, Xu Xiaoshou caused a lot of trouble at your Tian Sang Ling Gong. Thanks to your help, he grew as he did. Please allow me to express my gratitude... Thank you!" He bowed.

Ye Xiaotian paused.

His first reaction was, "Finally, someone gets it."

His second was utter confusion—this was Ba Zun An? Could Ba Zun An say something like this? Something's off!

"If you have something to say... What exactly are you getting at?"

Ye Xiaotian forcibly suppressed his temper. Better not provoke this one if he could help it—the pain of a lost arm was etched in his memory.

"As thanks, I want to give you a treasure."

Xiao Kong Dong straightened up and patted the Mo Shen Da Qiang beside him, about to ask this space attribute refiner to share the burden.

"Not interested." Ye Xiaotian swept his gaze over it and refused outright, his body starting to fade.

"Don't! Wait!" Xiao Kong Dong panicked. He had finally found someone to share the heat—you can't run!

He grabbed Ye Xiaotian and thought for a moment before gritting his teeth: "Dean Ye, I assume you've perfected your space mystery by now?"

Ye Xiaotian stopped again, his lips twitching slightly. "Spit it out if you have something to say!"

Xiao Kong Dong didn't mind the disrespectful tone toward his teacher and chuckled: "Space mystery perfected—next up is probably Feng Sheng. To thank you for mentoring Xu Xiaoshou, I want to give you a treasure. It's not much, but it's the thought that counts. Please don't refuse."

With that, he pulled out a crystal gem and, under Ye Xiaotian's stunned gaze, said calmly: "This is a Ban Sheng position. I'm giving it to you—may you achieve Feng Sheng soon."

Smack.

Without giving Ye Xiaotian a chance to refuse, Xiao Kong Dong slapped the hot potato into his hands.

He wasn't like Shuang Dai or Hong Dang, unable to let go once they had something.

For this item, three or four hundred stone giants had chased him from Shen Mian Valley across hundreds of thousands of miles to Zui Yi Dian.

Kong Xu Dao was only so big.

Xiao Kong Dong was tired of running and didn't want to run anymore.

The main issue was that "time-space leap" was something others used as a trump card to kill, but he was using it to flee... It was laughable and drained him too much. He was nearly spent.

But throwing away a Ban Sheng position just like that? Impossible!

It wasn't something you could toss on the street.

So, finding someone who could run even better, and who was sort of an ally, Xiao Kong Dong naturally passed it on.

He believed Ye Xiaotian would think the same.

Once Ye Xiaotian took the Ban Sheng position, he'd realize it was a hot potato but wouldn't throw it away carelessly. Instead, he'd run like mad with the treasure.

Because you really couldn't just toss it.

As for whether it ended up with someone else or if Ye Xiaotian escaped and enjoyed it...

It didn't matter to him anymore.

Xiao Kong Dong had no interest in following up.

He knew that if he didn't get rid of the Ban Sheng position, he'd be the one done for on Kong Xu Dao!

Teacher probably doesn't lack this—whatever I lose, I'll get back in another way. That's it.

Ye Xiaotian, holding the crystal gem: ???

"You said this... is a Ban Sheng position?"

He was truly shocked.

This thing...

Am I dreaming?

So, what's the situation now... Has my luck finally turned? All those twists in my life, and now heaven's dropping me a meal—I don't have to grind anymore?

"Take care, Ye Xiaotian."

Xiao Kong Dong reluctantly glanced at the crystal gem one last time, patted his Mo Shen Da Qiang, and vanished without a second thought.

Good.

Now, he just had the Mo Shen Da Qiang left to give away.

Once he found someone else to take the heat, he could step back into the shadows. That's what being "Ba Zun An" is all about!

As he thought this, Xiao Kong Dong suddenly felt like he had become a treasure-scattering child.

Others on Kong Xu Dao fought desperately to hide their opportunities, but he was desperately giving them away...

The problem was, if he didn't, he'd die!

Watching this hurried arrival and even quicker departure of "Ba Zun An," Ye Xiaotian once again doubted if he was daydreaming.

How had this day turned so surreal?

He slapped his face to snap out of it, then calmly examined the crystal gem in his hand.

"The core of saintly power..."

"It's from the same source as the 'Ban Sheng position' I encountered in Sheng Gong—doesn't seem fake..."

Ye Xiaotian was dumbfounded.

He was overjoyed, yet terrified.

This kind of treasure, and from someone who wasn't even a friend—just a stranger met at Zui Yi Dian—was being given away for free?

A Ban Sheng position—that's not an apple!

Holding the crystal gem, Ye Xiaotian pinched his thigh hard.

"Hiss."

"It hurts! Not a dream!"

He finally turned all his doubts into joy, realizing he had truly been hit by a windfall pie from the sky.

The happiness lasted only a second.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom..."

Suddenly, the distant sky shattered, and countless massive stone feet stepped out of space, bringing three or four hundred stone giants—each towering several times taller than the Void Shi in Zui Yi Dian—and they landed at the great hall's entrance.

Clang.

Ye Xiaotian looked up, and his hand shook, dropping the Ban Sheng position to the ground.

Staring at this mad scene, he felt his world darken. His entire body twitched uncontrollably, and in a rage, his white hair stood on end.

"Ba Zun An, you son of a—take this crap back!"

"Take it back!"