Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

Xia Jin had barely finished thinking those words when, to his astonishment, the two fragments began to slowly merge together.

He didn't stop them; instead, he watched expectantly.

A faint, dark golden light emanated from the seam, and after a few breaths, the two fragments fit together perfectly to form a complete circular jade pendant.

Even after the fusion, the originally dull gray surfaces lost their gloom, revealing the warm and smooth jade-like substance beneath.

Xia Jin's pupils contracted, and a hint of shock flashed in her eyes.

"What exactly is this thing?"

He reached out, intending to pick up the jade pendant and examine it closely. However, the instant his fingertips touched the surface of the jade pendant...

hum! ! !

The jade pendant trembled violently, and a blinding light shot out from the center of the pendant, instantly enveloping Xia Jin.

Xia Jin felt a blur before his eyes, and the throne beneath him seemed to vanish instantly. He was enveloped in light and disappeared from the hall.

......

A few breaths later.

Xia Jin looked at the chaotic void currents retreating wildly around her, a hint of doubt flashing in her eyes.

"Where is this jade pendant going to take me?"

He was somewhat curious, but not too worried, since with his current strength at the Mythical Realm, these void turbulences couldn't harm him at all.

But after a moment, Xia Jin couldn't help but frown.

"Hmm? That's not right."

His expression gradually became serious.

At the edge of the void ahead, an incredibly magnificent barrier suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

That barrier was like an invisible giant wall stretching between heaven and earth, with countless primordial cosmic forces flowing across it.

The cosmic barrier!!

Xia Jin recognized it almost instantly.

That was the edge of the universe he inhabited, a natural barrier separating the inside from the outside of the universe.

According to the ancient books he had seen, since ancient times, no living being has been able to penetrate this barrier and leave this universe. Even the most brilliant and powerful beings in ancient times could only wander and explore near the inner wall of the barrier at most, and no one has ever been able to cross that boundary.

However, according to Xia Jin's guess, penetrating the cosmic barrier is not absolutely impossible, but may require mastering some kind of rule power.

Although he has advanced to the Mythical Realm and stood at the pinnacle of this universe, he dares not say that he can leave this universe.

"Could it be... that this jade tablet can take me away from this universe?"

"If that's the case, wouldn't I have a chance to return to the universe I lived in in my previous life!?"

For the first time, a look of surprise appeared on Xia Jin's face.

After having that thought, his breathing became even more rapid.

As he expected, the light showed no sign of stopping.

It carried Xia Jin along, charging straight toward the cosmic barrier in an almost tyrannical manner.

"What the hell?! Slow down!! Don't run me over and kill me!!"

Xia Jin shouted, instinctively tensing her entire body to prepare for the impact. However, there was no sound of impact whatsoever.

The cosmic barrier before him rippled like water, then silently cracked open, creating a gap just wide enough for one person to pass through.

The light emanating from the jade tablet enveloped him as he passed through the gap.

Xia Jin turned around abruptly and saw the gap behind him rapidly close up, and the cosmic barrier was restored to its original state.

"What the heck?! This impenetrable cosmic barrier... I just got through like that?"

Xia Jin stared blankly behind her for a long time before she seemed to come to her senses.

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart, before curiously looking around.

The world beyond the universe was completely different from what he had imagined.

Here, there was nothingness, no starlight, and even the concept of time seemed to become blurred.

At first glance, it resembles the chaos before the creation of the world.

"Boring!" Xia Jin only glanced at it and began to feel bored, but soon he saw a scene that shocked him.

Three iron chains extended from the barrier of the universe behind them.

It stretches forward endlessly, with no end in sight.

Moreover, Xia Jin could clearly sense that the direction he was being carried forward by the jade tablet was the direction in which the three iron chains extended.

"Where do these three iron chains connect?! Could it be that mysterious Taoist temple?!"

The thought suddenly flashed through Xia Jin's mind. But no one could give him an answer.

"Forget it! Just wait and see, we'll know the answer sooner or later!!" In the end, he simply closed his eyes and stopped thinking about anything.

After an unknown amount of time, an outline finally appeared in the void ahead.

It was a small island.

An isolated island suspended in endless nothingness.

Xia Jin seemed to realize something at this moment and opened her eyes.

"Are we finally here?" His eyes were fixed on the isolated island ahead.

The island wasn't large, only a few dozen miles in circumference. But Xia Jin immediately noticed that four iron chains of the same thickness were connected to the island from different directions.

Three of them were iron chains that Xia Jin had followed all the way from the universe she inhabited.

The remaining chain stretched in the exact opposite direction, disappearing into the darkness on the other side, with no end in sight and no clue as to where its other end was connected.

"Four iron chains... three connect to our universe, and the last one... where does it lead?"

Xia Jin's gaze lingered on the fourth iron chain for a long time, and countless guesses flashed through her mind.

But before he could come up with the closest guess, the light had already enveloped him and was heading straight for the small island.

Standing on the island, Xia Jin's gaze involuntarily turned to the very center of the island, where a Taoist temple stood quietly on a raised hill.

The Taoist temple looked unremarkable, with its blue bricks and gray tiles. If it hadn't appeared on this isolated island outside the universe, Xia Jin wouldn't have even given it a second glance.

"When they were searching the memories of those three old ghosts, Xuanwei, the mysterious Taoist temple where they obtained a portion of the Three Pure Ones' inheritance was probably this very temple!"

Xia Jin narrowed her eyes. Many of the scenes in Lingyuan Venerable's memory matched the Taoist temple in front of her.

With a wave of his hand, he put the jade pendant, whose light had faded, into his pocket, but did not immediately head towards the Taoist temple.

Instead, he stood still, carefully observing everything around him.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Xia Jin's mind, and the vast power of the Mythical Realm within her surged wildly.

He raised his right palm, and a terrifying seven-colored light instantly condensed in his palm.

"go."

Xia Jin slapped her right palm directly in one direction.

However, a strange force instantly erased the seven-colored light, and the remaining palm wind only caused a crooked tree next to it to sway slightly.

A few withered yellow leaves drifted down from the branches, slowly twirling as they landed on the ground.

Xia Jin's expression changed. She looked up at the crooked tree and fell silent.

"They've even suppressed the power of a Mythical Realm expert this severely? This place is truly extraordinary!!"

However, Xia Jin did not see that after his attack was erased, a crack seemed to have appeared beneath the floating island.