"If you want to go with me, you must know I'll be going to h.e.l.l," Yan Zaizen warned.

Shockingly, Yri jumped in fright with complete disbelief. When Yan Zaizen watched her reaction to the word 'h.e.l.l,' he could see the traces of fear within her eyes. It lingered there like a wisp of flame in the darkness, visible and apparent for all to see.

"H-h.e.l.l? Infernal h.e.l.lverse?" Yri hesitantly asked, her fingers tremblings slightly.

"h.e.l.lverse? Infernal…?" Yan Zaizen was snapped out of his shock at Yri's reaction and became curious. h.e.l.lverse indicated that h.e.l.l was a universe? Like the Non-Verse? Could h.e.l.l be a Universe?

The Infernal Altars was something he was familiar with. A cultivator with this cultivation path nearly took his life via soul manipulation, even with the Black Hole residing within his soul. At the time, his Black Hole wasn't an integrated soul bloodline, and he had no control over it, but it was capable of bypa.s.sing it nonetheless.

His time in the Asura Phantom Realm would still haunt him slightly. It was the closest he'd ever touched upon death in his entire life. The closest he'd ever felt death was the Meteor of Ezekiel, but the Asura Phantom Realm events lingered deeply within his heart.

Ma Xiuren…

He couldn't help but also recall that girl…

"Haaaa…" Lost in thought, he forgot to respond to Yri.

"You're going to the h.e.l.lverse?!"

Yan Zaizen finally replied, "I don't know about this h.e.l.lverse, but I'll be going to a place called h.e.l.l in the Thirty-Three Heavens. It governs the souls and reincarnation cycle of the entire heavens."

Yri's jade-like palms clenched into a tight fist, her teeth biting into her bottom lip, and her eyes closed. It seemed the h.e.l.lverse held some insidious scar in her heart.

"I hope it's not h.e.l.l, but even if it was," she slowly said, her eyes glowing with light filled with obsession, "I won't let you out of my sight, even if you wanted to go to The Dark." Yri was determination. There was no need to say further words, either she would go or she wouldn't.

Yan Zaizen shrugged. He didn't know what 'The Dark' was, but he didn't care. "Fine, I won't be responsible for you if you die." With that, he took out a silver directional arrow. Using the profound techniques given to him by Ezekiel, he attempted to seek out a direction for the compa.s.s once more. Before, the signal was far too weak, and he couldn't get a clear indication.

Now, he was going to check to see if the arrow's signal to the compa.s.s was weaker or stronger after traveling a considerable distance. Regardless of which, he would have a clue as to which direction to go.

Yri saw the directional arrow and furrowed her brows slightly. Her eyes seemed to hold some confusion, but then realization. However, that light of recognition didn't spark her intent to speak. She remained silent and observed Yan Zaizen.

"It's stronger, albeit very slightly. We're going in the right direction at least," inspecting the arrow, Yan Zaizen once more turned into a beam of light. Yri glowed with a grey brilliance before appearing beside him.

"If possible, we should find a skys.h.i.+p. This consumes far too much heavenly energy…" After realizing the inefficient manner of his travel, he once more regretted not having a fast skys.h.i.+p. Even the Sense Ring, the ring of the Prince of the Oneuli Empire, didn't have a skys.h.i.+p within it. It frustrated him deeply.

After several days of travel, Yan Zaizen saw several colorful dots a vast distance away. As he squinted his eyes in inspection, he couldn't help but be shocked.

There were tens of thousands of skys.h.i.+ps!