Before the barrier gaps appeared, the great families could still use the teleportation stations of the Great Cave Heaven to hold up their necks.

Now, cracks leading to the Great Cave Heaven are everywhere, and it’s not so easy to hold up the neck anymore.

However, these cracks randomly send people to different locations, no longer limited to relatively safe areas.

It might even teleport you to areas where top-level Secret Spirits roam, which is extremely dangerous.

After all, these cracks are not formal paths, so it’s normal for them to have risks.

Chen Guan defeated the Celestial Void Palace’s branch in the grotto heaven and then went to disrupt the Ancestral Court’s establishment within the grotto heaven. After completing all this, he was preparing to return to the Great Cave Heaven.

Previously, when he went to the Great Cave Heaven, he had to worry about whether he would be discovered by others.

Now, however, he has no such concerns and doesn’t need to use the teleportation points of the great families. He can just use the cracks.

Of course, there are risks, but Chen Guan changed his Secret Law to be Invulnerable to All Techniques. Upon entering the Great Cave Heaven, if there’s danger, he can just escape.

With the quality and quantity of his Primordial Energy, even the Ninth Awakening Spirits would find it difficult to catch up with him.

His level has now reached 64, having already gathered some energy before and then using the Creation World to directly decompose the energy obtained from the hundred thousand allied forces, advancing him another level.

However, he still has a very distant way to go to reach level 70.

He actually doesn’t quite want to go over to the Tear Luo Desert, mainly due to the poor resources, offering no opportunity for him to upgrade.

In the Herb Valley, Chen Guan hasn’t figured out the background of the Hundred Herbs Monk and doesn’t dare to provoke him easily.

If he can find a normal place within the Great Cave Heaven, his upgrade speed will definitely be faster than now.

But Chen Guan still has to first return to the Tear Luo Desert; he has to go and bring Ming Fei over.

Using Ming Fei as a decoy, he led the Ninth Awakening Powerhouse hunting him to believe he was still inside Ji Family’s Great Cave Heaven and directed them towards the Grand Saint to let the Grand Saint resolve them.

In terms of battle strength, the Grand Saint should now be comparable to the Evil Luo King.

Although not the top tier of the Great Cave Heaven, it could be considered a sub-top level Secret Spirit. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Chen Guan picked a crack leading to the Ji Family’s Great Cave Heaven, and after preparing himself, he entered it.

Every cell in Chen Guan’s body was ready at all times to flee.

But as the scene became clear before him, Chen Guan didn’t make any move.

In front of him were two mountains, whose height was unknown to Chen Guan because he could only see the parts of these mountains protruding above the Cloud Sea.

Below the Cloud Sea, these two mountains could have more parts unseen by Chen Guan, but the parts above the Cloud Sea thrust straight into the sky like heavenly pillars.

The peaks of these two mountains were at least several hundred miles apart, but from a distance, they appeared like two gateposts standing one on each side above the Cloud Sea.

Strangely enough, a massive vine was wrapped around each of these mountains, like a giant dragon coiling across the heavens.

Chen Guan had never seen such a huge vine before, just the part suspended between the two mountains was hundreds of miles long.

On that vine, some gigantic fruits were hanging.

These fruits looked extremely odd, shaped like giant Beibei watermelons, with a dark green color, each possibly as huge as a hundred-story tall building.

Strangely, these pumpkin-like fruits had face-shaped patterns on them.

The entire pumpkin surface was covered with countless face-shaped patterns without eyes.

Those face patterns had varied expressions, but because they lacked eyes, they appeared stiff, with all expressions looking eerily strange, making one feel very uncomfortable.

Suspended over the Cloud Sea, Chen Guan looked at the two giant mountains and the eerie pumpkin vine, feeling somewhat confused, not knowing what this was.

In his learned knowledge of Secret Realm botany, there was no such knowledge stored.

Towards such unknown things, Chen Guan has always remained respectfully distant, not approaching them lightly.

However, there was a suspicion that this monstrous pumpkin might be some kind of Heavenly and Earthly Treasure.

If it truly were a Heavenly and Earthly Treasure, such a huge size must contain incredibly terrifying energy, and if refined and absorbed might allow him to advance another level.

Yet, before figuring out whether this thing has any inherent dangers, Chen Guan won’t lightly approach it.

As he was pondering and observing, he saw a figure coming over the distant Cloud Sea.

Chen Guan quickly hid within the clouds, concealing his form.

Earlier, he had been observing with farsight, and the distance was quite far, so he assumed the figure shouldn’t have seen him, considering his Pupil Light skills didn’t react at all.

Now, due to the obstruction of the two mountains, Chen Guan couldn’t see the figure anymore.

Before long, the figure emerged from behind the mountain, heading towards the giant vine.

Cautiously observing, Chen Guan discovered that the figure was actually a Secret Spirit resembling an extremely beautiful woman.

He identified her as a Secret Spirit rather than a human because, despite her incredible beauty, her lower half had a snake tail instead of human legs.

Along with that white dress, Chen Guan couldn’t help but recall the stories he heard since childhood, where the protagonist White Snake Lady seemed to have this appearance.

Seeing the Secret Spirit riding the clouds as an exceptionally graceful Fairy, if not for the snake tail, she could be mistaken for such.

The White Snake Woman rode the clouds close to the giant vine, her gaze scanning over the enormous pumpkins.

There were seventeen giant pumpkin-like melons on the vine, varying in size, but even the smallest was as colossal as dozens of floors in a skyscraper.

"Could it be that this Snake Woman is here to pick pumpkins?" Chen Guan surmised inwardly.

Indeed, the Snake Woman flew towards one of the pumpkins, stepping on clouds and circling the pumpkin, studying it carefully.

After observing for a while, she left the pumpkin and went to another one, still carefully examining it.

Just when Chen Guan thought she would evaluate all of the pumpkins, the Snake Woman stopped in front of one of them.

"This is the one," she seemed pleased, said with a smile, and reached out to touch the pumpkin.

Watching the Snake Woman’s actions, Chen Guan saw her fingers touch the pumpkin’s skin, peeling off one of the face-shaped patterns.

As Chen Guan wondered what she intended to do, he saw the Snake Woman apply the pumpkin face pattern she peeled off to her own face.

In the next moment, Chen Guan witnessed a strange scene.

The pumpkin face skin gradually merged with the Snake Woman’s face and started to alter her appearance.

The Snake Woman, originally with an oval face, became round-faced after merging with the pumpkin face skin.

And as her face shape changed, her figure turned from slender to chubby like a plump girl.

Though still garbed in white, her aura differed by many miles.

Even stranger, the tail beneath the Snake Woman vanished, replaced by a pair of long white legs, with bare white feet appearing tender and fair, albeit a bit chubby.