While I'm at the martial arts academy, my wife is cultivating while I enjoy life.

Ye Ke leaped into the air, his left hand gripping the dragon scales, his right leg bracing against the Ironblood Bow, and his left hand holding an Ironblood arrowhead, aiming at the Beast King's left eye at close range.

With a roar, the Beast King bit off the neck of the East Sea Flood Dragon, its mouth full of blood as it prepared to taunt Yang Ding.

Ye Ke seized the opportunity and unleashed all his power to shoot an arrow.

The arrow finally pierced the Beast King's eye membrane.

The intense pain caused its body to erupt with high temperatures once again.

Fortunately, Ye Ke was already enveloped by Yang Ding's ice shield and was dragged back.

But the strange beasts that gathered underwater weren't so lucky; they were all scalded to death by the high temperature.

The water in the entire East China Sea began to boil.

Zhou Ruoxi quickly protected Mu Qingyao and Fang Jing.

Yang Ding handed Ye Ke over to her as well, and then froze time.

If time stood still, the wives wouldn't be burned to death, and the people of Donghai City wouldn't die from the heat.

He stood atop the Frost Dragon, channeling five times his mental power, and rammed into the Flame-Toe Beast King.

The Beast King stumbled and fell into the seawater, but immediately got up again.

boom!

Another gravitational impact.

The Beast King was sent flying by the impact, howling as it landed in the water.

Water is Yang Ding's territory, and he has five times the cultivation level of water-based primal force.

Before the Beast King could even get up, the seawater tightly bound his limbs and pulled him to the surface.

A towering ice dragon, thousands of meters tall, swooped down from the sky and struck its chest like a pile driver.

"┗|｀O′|┛ Aww~~"

boom!

boom! boom! boom!

After being struck several times in succession, the Beast King knew that if he didn't use his ultimate move, he would never have a chance to return home.

Just as Yang Ding was about to launch another heavy attack, a vortex suddenly appeared in front of him.

This vortex was a void, with no end in sight; it wasn't some kind of technique like a void rift.

Moreover, Yang Ding felt for the first time that time was being swallowed up.

The seawater began to flow freely.

"husband!"

Seeing Yang Ding being swept into the whirlpool, Zhou Ruoxi was very anxious and rushed over on the waves without regard for anything else.

"Holy crap, it's a time tunnel! Don't come any closer, Sister Ruoxi..."

Unfortunately, it was all too late.

The Flame-Toe Beast flew ahead.

Yang Ding flew behind, and Zhou Ruoxi was also sucked in.

Zhou Ruoxi reached out her hand, trying to pull her along, but she couldn't reach her no matter what she did.

Yang Ding looked at the swirling airflow and began to use his mental power to counteract it.

Since it is a time tunnel, it must be driven by time and space capabilities.

Sure enough, his resistance worked.

Zhou Ruoxi actually caught up with him, and the two held hands, vowing to die together even if it meant death.

This scene is familiar; the last time Yang Ding was trapped underwater, she chased after him at all costs.

Encouraged, Yang Ding continued to use the reaction force.

When the Flame-Toe Beast King saw the airflow begin to slow down, or even fluctuate violently, it became clearly anxious.

"Brother Yang!"

An unfamiliar voice came from the black hole behind.

"Whose voice is that?" Zhou Ruoxi asked hurriedly.

"It looks like Little Silver."

As soon as they finished speaking, all three of them fell into the water.

The water was endless, and no matter what I did, I couldn't reach the surface or touch the ground. It felt like I was sinking deeper and deeper, never reaching the bottom.

It's even difficult to determine which is up and which is down.

Yang Ding held Zhou Ruoxi tightly around the waist, as if afraid she would suddenly disappear.

The two could breathe in the water, but after a while they felt suffocated and scared.

Humans will eventually need to see the sunlight, but there is no light here.

No light means we are still far from the water.

The Flame-Toe Beast King was even more terrified. It was a fire-type beast and naturally abhorred water, making it impossible for it to breathe.

It wanted to restart the time tunnel, but it was clear that its mental energy was too depleted.

It panicked and started hitting the ground with brute force.

They even tried to escape through various spaces, hoping to break free from this suffocating environment.

But no matter how it tries to escape, it's always in the water.

Yang Ding and Zhou Ruoxi at least had each other's company, which was much calmer than the Flame-Toe Beast King, and they followed it as it fled.

It's like walking a dog; you can wait until it's too tired to resist before taking action.

"Honey, is this an alien planet?"

"Definitely, the seas on Earth aren't that deep."

"Besides, the seawater is salty. The fact that we can breathe means there is air, so there must be life here too."

After following for an unknown amount of time, the Flame-Toe Beast was exhausted and on the verge of death, its belly swollen like a ball, filled with the seawater it had drunk.

It was completely terrified and turned to look at Yang Ding and Zhou Ruoxi.

Although it is invisible, its divine cultivation level can be fully sensed.

Yang Ding didn't intend to hide.

"Honey, should we destroy it first, or wait for it to recover and send us back to Earth?"

"It can't breathe here, and it probably won't be able to recover its mental strength."

The Flame-Toe Beast King is still the Beast King; it ignites the last reserves of spiritual power within its body.

The surrounding seawater began to boil again.

The Beast King used his spatial abilities to teleport towards Yang Ding, intending to perish together with the two of them and burn them alive.

Yang Ding had no choice but to use spatial teleportation to evade, and the cat-and-mouse game was back on.

He doesn't need to waste time fighting it.

On this strange alien planet, he needs to maintain enough mental strength to face the unknown creatures that are about to appear.

Suddenly, the Flame-Toe Beast King froze in the water, unable to move.

It naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait to die; it burned its last bit of spiritual energy in resistance.

The firepower illuminated the entire underwater area.

Soon, thousands upon thousands of densely packed blue eyes appeared around them.

"Mermaid Planet?"

Little Silver led several mermaids towards Yangding.

Her people are fighting against the Flame-Toe Beast King.

The ice encasing the Beast King melted and reformed repeatedly.

Zhou Ruoxi and Yang Ding wanted to help, but Xiao Yin shook her head.

"You should conserve your mental energy; you've almost completely depleted it."

Ten thousand mermaids weren't enough, so one hundred thousand pairs of eyes appeared, then a million pairs of eyes.

The entire seabed was glowing with blue light.

Soon the flames on the Flame-Toe Beast King gradually disappeared, and its corpse was completely frozen and preserved.

The God of Flame Star has fallen.

A golden-haired mermaid beast, more than three times the size of its people, floated down from the sky and landed in front of Yang Ding.

Like its kind, it has no clothing to cover its body, and its golden hair, which is hundreds of meters long, is mysterious, stunning, and magnificent under the dim blue light.

It perfectly matches human understanding of the elven race.

Yang Ding and Zhou Ruoxi were only the size of her eyeballs.

"Brother Yang, this is our Mermaid Clan Chief. She has lived for a billion years and possesses both spatial and water-based superpowers," Xiao Yin introduced.

Yang Ding couldn't understand what the mermaid chieftain was saying, but Xiao Yin could translate it.

"Humans, welcome to Neptune."

"Our home is entirely made of water; there is no land. In the entire universe, we and you humans should be of the same kind. Water is the source of our life and the source of our power."

"You didn't go to Flame Star, but landed on Neptune. You must have used your spacetime abilities to reverse the distance of the spacetime tunnel. Now you just need to reverse it to track your way back to Earth."

"What do you mean? I've awakened the ability to manipulate time and space?"

The merfolk chieftain nodded. "Otherwise, you wouldn't have come here. Take the Flame-Toe Beast King back with you; we can't absorb fire-based abilities."

"OK, thanks!"

Then the clan leader looked at Zhou Ruoxi, opened his huge palm, and pushed three crystal-clear blue eyeballs towards her.

"You possess the water elemental power of our young clan leader, making you our family. These water elemental beast crystals were left behind after our young clan leader passed away. Each crystal has an energy level roughly equivalent to yours. They are both a reward for protecting the mermaid beast race and a gift to mark the beginning of our friendship. Please accept them."

This is equivalent to having three more Grandmasters of Water-based Force at once.

If Zhou Ruoxi absorbed it all by herself, her water element cultivation would be similar to Yang Ding's, while Yang Ding's water element cultivation would directly soar to the level of a Grandmaster of Water Element Force with eight times the power.

Zhou Ruoxi quickly accepted the beast crystal and clasped her hands in thanks.

"Thank you, Clan Chief. In this vast universe where the strong prey on the weak, the two clans' generations of friendship can indeed help us resist many enemies."

Under the watchful eyes of the merfolk, Yang Ding began testing his spacetime tunneling ability.

Sure enough, after three or five attempts, a reverse black vortex appeared in the water.

Yang Ding didn't know the direction of Blue Star, but by tracing the trail in the opposite direction, he quickly connected with the East China Sea.

"Honey, you've finally woken up!" Zhou Ruoxi exclaimed excitedly.

With this ability, Yang Ding can first randomly travel to any planet, and then trace back to establish a two-way passage.

From then on, humanity began interstellar communication activities, searching for the abducted children, and directly attacking colonies when communication failed.

Yang Ding threw the corpse of the Flame-Toe Beast King into his personal space, put his arm around Zhou Ruoxi's waist, and prepared to enter the time tunnel.

Xiao Yin and her sisters bid him a reluctant farewell.

She never imagined she would have the chance to return to her hometown in her lifetime.

"Brother Yang, I hope we can meet again in the future."

"Of course, I will regularly establish connections with Neptune, cultivate diligently, and one day accompany me on expeditions to establish order in the universe!"