Mythical Luo, starting with the fox spirit

"Yes, you must take good care of these betrothal gifts. When our daughter gets married, we'll double the dowry. We can't let anyone look down on us." Dongfang Huaizhu's mother put away the gift list and instructed Dongfang Guyue again.

"Don't worry, everything has been arranged," Dongfang Guyue comforted her, putting his arm around her. "We will definitely give Huaizhu a grand and glorious wedding."

"No, those servants are too careless. I still need to check them myself," Dongfang Huaizhu's mother said worriedly.

Dongfang Guyue looked helplessly at his anxious wife. Whenever things involved their two daughters, she would always worry for a long time.

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At the Yang residence, after learning that he and Dongfang Huaizhu were engaged, Yang Ping'an felt relieved and no longer worried that rumors would bother Dongfang Huaizhu.

Yang Ping'an returned to his courtyard and looked out at the lush bamboo forest through the windows.

Yang Ping'an's cultivation had stagnated at the Qi Refining Perfection realm for nearly three years since his last breakthrough. Yang Ping'an felt an invisible and vast barrier preventing him from making further breakthroughs.

Through his divine sense, Yang Ping'an communicated with heaven and earth and comprehended the rules of this world. The circle outside the territories of each power both protected the beings within it and imprisoned them.

Within the inner world, the realm of the Great Demon Emperor is the ultimate goal for all living beings born on this land.

To break through this realm, one must leave the suppression of the inner circle's rules and venture into the unpredictable outer realm. Outside the circle, there is no constraint from heaven and earth on the realm of living beings.

Outside this world, everything is primitive, savage, bizarre, cruel, and chaotic. There, only one stark rule prevails: the strong prey on the weak, and only the fittest survive.

Yang Ping'an had to be wary of the strange abilities of the creatures outside the circle in his memory, and whenever he had the thought of going deeper into the circle, his divine sense would send waves of disgust through him, as if he was born with a hatred for the outside world.

This feeling of having one's cultivation level forcibly suppressed made Yang Ping'an very uncomfortable, but Yang Ping'an was wary of those outside the circle, even those as strong as the three young masters of Aolai Kingdom had failed outside the circle.

Before he could condense his Qi into a pill, Yang Ping'an lacked the confidence to venture beyond the circle and return safely. If Yang Ping'an had no ties in this world and was all alone, he would naturally venture beyond the circle in order to explore higher realms.

However, with the companionship of his relatives such as Yang Yitan, Yang Yan, and Grandpa Yang, as well as the concern of his gentle and virtuous fiancée, Yang Ping'an had to shoulder the responsibilities of various roles and could not irresponsibly leave.

The conflict arose because Yang Ping'an could not break through without leaving the circle, and without breaking through, he could not freely leave the circle's protection.

Yang Ping'an leaned against the windowsill, pondering how to break the deadlock.

To break through, one must either follow the rules within the circle and evade the suppression of heaven and earth to enter the outside; or rely on immense magical power to break the barrier and forcibly overcome the restrictions of the rules.

Yang Ping'an recalled his experience of transmigrating to this world, and the mysterious Dao Fruit in his Purple Mansion Sea of ​​Consciousness. If he could once again enter that ascension-like state, he could, while protecting himself, divert his consciousness to infiltrate the myriad realms.

By relying on the resources of all the heavens and myriad realms to enhance the cultivation of one's avatar, and then feeding back to the main body, one can both bypass the rules within the circle and secretly improve one's cultivation.

With this in mind, Yang Ping'an immediately took action.

Yang Ping'an sat cross-legged back on the bed, calmed his mind, and entered his sea of ​​consciousness with practiced ease.

The mysterious Dao Fruit seed at the center of the sea of ​​consciousness floated up and down in the purple ocean of Daoist energy, slowly absorbing the nutrients for growth.

Yang Ping'an's divine sense surged through his sea of ​​consciousness like a tidal wave, stirring up waves of purple light as he explored the connection between divine sense and soul, as well as the secrets of the Dao Fruit Seed.

No matter how much Yang Ping'an studied it, he was never able to delve into its secrets.

Looking at the turbulent sea of ​​consciousness, Yang Ping'an recalled the scene when he transmigrated, the Dao sound that resounded through the heavens and the ethereal feeling of breaking free from the cage.

Yang Ping'an changed his research focus, steadfastly maintaining stillness and achieving utmost emptiness, actively entering a deep state of cultivation.

Persistence pays off. As Yang Ping'an's consciousness entered an indescribable state, various dreamlike and magnificent forms manifested in the bizarre universe. He opened his mind and merged into the unknowable realm, grasping a glimmer of light in that vast universe.

Excitement instantly filled Yang Ping'an's mind, disturbing his calm and composed state of mind, and forcing him to exit his cultivation state.

Yang Ping'an's gains were enormous, although he did not know what kind of unimaginable world he was in while cultivating. With his current level of cultivation, he could not comprehend or even understand the Dao principles represented by those manifested images.

But even an unformed creation is an incredible existence for Yang Ping'an.

Yang Ping'an learned from that spiritual light how he had traveled here. His consciousness transformed into a swimming fish, enveloped in mysterious Daoist energy, merging with heaven and earth. Following the Daoist energy, the fish leaped out of the narrow river and into the vast ocean.

In this vast ocean, countless undercurrents surged, and the fish he had transformed into was swept into one of them.

Yang Ping'an understood the basic principle of his time travel: Yang Ping'an's time travel was simply leaping from one river into another.

Theoretically, Yang Ping'an could enter the ocean if he could leap out of the river again. He could then use the undercurrents to enter another world, continue his cultivation and growth, and finally return to integrate the results of his cultivation into himself.

Over the years, through the immersion in Daoist principles and the refinement of his divine sense, Yang Ping'an has been imprinted with an indelible mark. He has also gradually received the spiritual light of that golden lotus platform and gained a comprehensive understanding of it.

The Twenty-Four Petals of Chaos Golden Lotus is the true name of this lotus platform.

It is not a product of the fox spirit world. A mysterious being casually waved a duster that pierced through the chaos, performing the act of creating heaven and earth. The Saha world was created as the duster swept through the chaos, turning into countless rivers that flowed into the sea.

One of the thirty-six-petaled blue lotuses in the chaos was swept away, its leaves and seeds scattered into the world formed from that chaos. The lotus platform absorbed a portion of the primordial merits of creation and fell into the vast ocean, eventually drifting down to this world.

Under the protection of this lotus platform, Yang Ping'an can traverse the dangers of the deep ocean and wander in search of a new world.

This Chaos Golden Lotus has an extremely high status, capable of simultaneously creating images from different times and spaces, with almost no difference in power.

Protected by the Chaos Golden Lotus, his divine sense could withstand the erosion of the world's undercurrents. As long as Yang Ping'an's true spirit and the seed of the Dao Fruit remained intact, he could locate the Fox Demon World at any time through the mysterious connection of the Dao Fruit.

Because divine consciousness does not have a physical form, and the Chaos Golden Lotus is not a physical object in the conventional sense, Yang Ping'an was able to retrieve the lotus platform and divine consciousness with a single thought by refining the clone's cultivation through the Chaos Golden Lotus and imprinting it.

Yang Ping'an pondered and perfected the entire process of cross-dimensional cultivation. He integrated Daoist essence and divine consciousness into a fish, carried the Chaos Golden Lotus, and leaped into the ocean. Under the protection of the Golden Lotus, he swam into the dark currents, entered other worlds, cultivated, and returned.

Yang Ping'an repeatedly watched the time travel scene and checked the process again and again. After comparison, Yang Ping'an did not find any obvious errors or omissions.

Now, the only uncertainty is the rate of time flow between different worlds. If his divine sense spends a few days in a new world but several years pass in his own, this would not be in line with Yang Ping'an's original intention.