Yang Che collected the Storage Pouch from the ground and, with a swift movement, chased after the black insect cloud.

These Black Armor Python Scale Insects, with the death of their master, and many having been poisoned by the smoke released from Yang Che's wooden fish Magic Treasure, after an initial period of confusion, suddenly became incredibly agitated.

Except for a very small number of larvae, almost all of the mature Black Armor Python Scale Insects chose to self-destruct.

The sounds of 'pop, pop' were incessant, and a bloody mist permeated the air.

Yang Che, who already had some 'insect rearing' experience, was not too surprised by this bloody and bizarre scene.

Spirit Beasts cultivated after being recognized as masters through the Control Spirit Art would mostly choose to self-destruct upon their master's death.

Soon, large areas of black insect corpses covered the ground again.

Yang Che stared at these black insect corpses, deep in thought.

After a while, Yang Che carefully collected the small number of larvae that hadn't self-destructed and the insect corpses on the ground, then quickly flew towards Sha Rou's direction.

From a distance, Yang Che saw that Sha Rou's yellow moon blade light had just cut off the head of Wan Chen, the horse-faced mustache old man.

However, after Wan Chen's Nascent Soul escaped, it was enveloped by a black light and, in the blink of an eye, had already fled several hundred feet away, catching Sha Rou off guard.

A cold glint flashed in Yang Che's eyes, and his figure flickered, disappearing from his original spot.

The next moment, he appeared above Wan Chen's disembodied Nascent Soul, and a crimson banner Ancient Treasure directly covered it.

Wan Chen's Nascent Soul, revealing a look of horror, was instantly sucked inside.

Sha Rou flew over.

The two looked at each other.

They both gained a new understanding of each other's strength.

"Let's rest for a bit."

Yang Che suggested.

Sha Rou nodded.

Subsequently, the two entered the depths of the canyon and established a temporary, simple Immortal Cave.

Sha Rou's consumption was clearly relatively greater; after the Immortal Cave was established, she immediately sat cross-legged to meditate and recover.

Yang Che, on the other hand, held the Sixteenth Mistress's Storage Pouch, looking somewhat troubled.

This Sixteenth Mistress's Storage Pouch was a high-grade Storage Pouch.

Although the Divine Sense imprint placed on it by the Sixteenth Mistress was slowly weakening with her death, Yang Che couldn't completely erase this imprint in a short time.

However, after an attempt, Yang Che was pleasantly surprised to feel that his Soul strength had finally significantly improved after taking a 'Soul Pill'.

Thinking of this, he immediately took another 'Soul Pill' and began to refine and absorb it.

With Sha Rou beside him, Yang Che naturally wouldn't enter the Magic Stone Space; instead, he issued a series of commands to the Ancient Blood Corpse 'Mie'...

A few days passed.

After Sha Rou had fully recovered, she saw Yang Che holding a high-grade Storage Pouch, deep in thought, and couldn't help but chuckle, "Can't you erase the Divine Sense imprint on it?"

Yang Che showed a wry smile and nodded, "Fellow Daoist Sha, do you have a method?"

"Mm. I have a way."

Saying this, she took out a Spirit Talisman.

Yang Che looked at it and found that it was actually a valuable 'Array Talisman'.

"Fellow Daoist Sha, let's forget it. It's a bit too costly to waste an Array Talisman just to open a Storage Pouch."

"It's fine. This is a high-grade Storage Pouch. After it's opened, couldn't you just pick a valuable item and give it to me?"

Sha Rou's voice was originally soft and gentle, and now it carried an indescribable sense of intimacy, making Yang Che feel extremely comfortable, while also a little surprised.

"Alright, then thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Sha."

Yang Che took the 'Array Talisman' and activated it, completely erasing the Divine Sense imprint on the Storage Pouch, and opened it.

As Yang Che had guessed, there were more than twenty 'stone pieces' inside the Storage Pouch.

After taking out the stone pieces, Yang Che's Divine Sense moved, and he found that there was also a very good defensive silk soft armor Magic Treasure inside the Storage Pouch.

"Fellow Daoist Sha, your Ancient Treasure armor is greatly damaged. This Nascent Soul-grade silk soft armor will be of great use to you. Here, take it."

Yang Che tossed the silk soft armor to Sha Rou.

Sha Rou took it and immediately put it on.

Similar to Yang Che's Black Feather Cape, the silk soft armor shimmered and seemed to merge into Sha Rou's body.

Then Sha Rou also gave Yang Che several stone pieces she had obtained from Wan Chen's Storage Pouch.

As a result, Yang Che now had almost a hundred stone pieces in his hand.

Next, Yang Che dedicated half a month to studying these stone pieces, and only then did the two of them resume their journey to find the 'Contemplation Palace'.

With more information from the stone pieces, Yang Che and Sha Rou's speed was noticeably faster.

More than ten days later, the two arrived at the final location indicated on the stone pieces.

This was a yellow earth wilderness.

Desert and land coexisted.

Sparse vegetation was scattered across this yellow earth wilderness.

The raging sandstorm seemed to want to overturn the earth mountains, but it was stubbornly blocked by the resilient wilderness vegetation.

After observing carefully for a long time, Yang Che said, "There truly is an extremely complex grand array here."

He also discovered that this complex grand array had also been eroded by time, and its power had already been slowly weakening day by day.

With a thought, Yang Che released the Winged Fire Dragonflies.

After further mutual consumption and evolution, there were now about six thousand Winged Fire Dragonflies.

The blade-like wings on the backs of these Winged Fire Dragonflies subtly showed faint golden patterns.

After these golden patterns appeared, Yang Che noticed that the Winged Fire Dragonflies spent their entire days resting on the Spiritual Vein, completely motionless.

It seemed that Immortal Plants like the nine-leaf dark yang fruit were no longer enough to excite them.

And without the excitement and stimulation, it became difficult for the Winged Fire Dragonflies to evolve again.

Yang Che controlled these Winged Fire Dragonflies with his mind, slowly covering and 'gnawing' at the wilderness.

Finally, after more than two hours, Yang Che completely found the 'Array Eye' of the grand array in this place.

Recalling the Winged Fire Dragonflies, which had performed a great service, Yang Che immediately struck out golden array-breaking runes onto these Array Eyes.

Another two hours passed, and the first Array Eye was broken.

Then came the second, the third...

There were nine Array Eyes in total, and when all of them were broken, the wilderness, which had been plagued by sandstorms, suddenly emitted a brilliant, dazzling yellow light.

These yellow lights appeared, continuously spread, and shot straight into the sky.

Subsequently, a strangely shaped building appeared.

The main body of the building resembled a coiled snake's body stacked in circles, with two enormous wings appearing above it.

These giant wings, interspersed with earthy yellow and white, were lifelike, as if they were about to carry the building into flight at any moment.

At the highest point of the building was a snake's head embedded with a pair of enormous blood-red snake eyes.

"There's no mistake. This is the Earth Domain Contemplation Palace, and its guardian beast is the Spirit Beast Teng Snake."

Yang Che said with a hint of excitement.

Sha Rou secretly cast a glance at Yang Che, her gaze containing a hidden touch of tenderness and indescribable admiration.

However, just as the two had made preparations and were about to step into the Contemplation Palace, several rays of light of different colors suddenly flashed across the distant sky, shooting straight towards the Contemplation Palace.

Sha Rou's expression suddenly changed, and she said urgently, "Oh no, it's Huo Qingxin and them."

Yang Che had already sensed them.

Five streaks of light quickly arrived before them.

It was indeed Shui Tianxin in the black dress, Jin Wuxin in the white dress, Mu Wanxin in the green dress, Huo Qingxin in the crimson dress, and Yang Xiaoqian.