The three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Liz had returned to the farm a day later and spent some time with the old Alex and Emily. The two old people felt very youthful not only with their elders around them but also because of the pill they ate.
While the True Rejuvenating pill didn't give them back their youth in terms of appearance, it did make them way more physically capable than they were last time around.
Alex explained to them that their life had improved by a thousand years or so, and the only way it would decrease was if they got sick and needed healing. Although, that wasn't possible as far as Alex was around.
The group enjoyed their time around each other, with even Hao Ya acting like she was family for the rest of the days.
Then, after the third day, everyone got ready to leave, including the older Alex. He had wanted to go back to the Crimson Empire his whole life, and Alex accepted his request when he made it.
Only Emily was left behind on the farm, but with so many workers there, she wouldn't be lonely at all.
With the older Alex coming, they had to take a train ride to the senior's place, where they arrived a few hours later.
The senior looked at everyone that had come and was quite surprised. "Oh, are you planning on going too?" he asked older Alex.
"Yes, senior," the older Alex answered.
"Papa wants to go see his old sect and friends," Ronron answered from the side.
"Ah, I see," the senior said. He looked around until his eyes fell on Liz. "Are you Alex's aunt?"
"I am, senior," Liz bowed a little. "Greetings."
The senior nodded in greeting as well. "I hear you have learned Time Dao. Can you show me?" he asked.
"Uh... sure," Liz said and used her time powers a little. The senior didn't move at all and only felt what was happening. From the outside, it looked like he sometimes moved very quickly and sometimes he didn't move at all.
Liz stopped. "Is that enough?" she asked.
"That's... amazing," the senior couldn't help but say. "Alex said that your time power has to do with your body, is that true?"
Liz nodded. "I believe so. It's called the Profound Temporal Celestial body," he said.
"CELESTIAL?!" the senior's voice jumped a few octaves in surprise since he couldn't believe that the girl in front of him held a Celestial body.
"Wait, it's your daughter that holds a Celestial body too, right?" the senior asked.
"I've heard so," Liz said, and the others confirmed.
"H-how does your family keep doing this?" the senior couldn't help but ask. He breathed in and out a bit before calming down. "Please come with me, I have to test a few things with your powers."
Liz nodded and walked away with the senior as well as Hao Ya who had heard about it as well. As for the rest, they waited around in the backyard for it to be all done.
It took them about half an hour for their talk to be over before they walked out.
"It's time to leave," the senior finally said.
The group felt a bit anxious when they heard him. After all, unlike the Northern Continent, the Western Continent held an entirely different grade of importance in the heart of most of these people.
To the two Alex, it was the place they thought of as their home. It was a place where they could help Pearl, and it was the place where their mother was currently at.
The rest were also anxious because of Helen as well as the fact that the only sects Alex ever joined remained there.
They all followed the senior back to the room where the teleportation formation was and stood on top of it.
The group included two Alex, Graham, Ronron, Pearl, Liz, Hao Ya, and surprisingly, Scarlet. Alex didn't notice her at first but when he realized she was there, he was a little confused.
"Scarlet, you should leave the platform," Alex said.
"Why? I am going too," she said.
"But... you can't go," Alex said. "Isn't that part of the oath?"
"Don't worry about me," Scarlet said with a serious expression. "I know what I am doing."
Alex was still a little worried, but her words helped him calm down a little. 'If she knows what she's doing then, she must know she can go,' he thought. 'Then... is she bypassing the oath somehow?'
"Okay, everything except the destination is ready," the senior said. "Tell me where I should send you. I can do anywhere aside from the secret realms."
"Oh... uh..." Alex was about to answer, but he couldn't come up with a destination at all. "Where should we go first?" he asked the rest of the people there.
"What does it matter, father?" Ronron asked. "Aren't we going to go everywhere in the end anyhow?"
"It matters because we have two choices and either choice will delay the other destination by a lot," Alex said. "My sect lies in the Crimson Empire while Mother should be in the Flowing Brush sect of the Luminance Empire."
"Whichever place we go first, we will have to go through the Beast realm," Alex explained. "But because Pearl will have to be treated in the Beast Realm, it will take some time to go to the other place."
"Hao Ya and I will have to go to the Beast realm quickly either way, so I won't matter to us," Liz said. "We have to deal with the Teleportation formations there."
"Oh," Alex thought. "Then... let's go to the Crimson Empire first. I can't delay Pearl's evolution either, so I will go to the Beast realm and immediately leave for mother as soon as I can from there. We can meet back in the sect."
Since it was settled, the senior put in the destination as the Crimson Empire. "Be ready, I will activate it now," he said.
Alex nodded. He used his Space dao and separated a chunk of space from the rest of the space around him. The chunk of space was large and fit everyone inside of it.
Alex hoped that the teleportation saw this space as a single entity so that when it randomly teleported everyone around, it randomly teleported the single large space and not everyone it in.
The teleportation aura filled the platform in an instant, and just as Alex expected, it accepted the large chunk of space as a single entity.
Alex had done this before back when he was teleported from the Northern Continent to the Southern Continent. He had expanded his space so he could teleport away with everyone and everything around him.
With his space bubble working as intended, he let the teleportation aura capture their bubble and send them away.
In a flash of light, the group disappeared and reappeared somewhere inside a forest. Water dripped from the dense trees as a result of the rain that seemed to be falling right now.
The bubble Alex had created was still around so the water never got to them. He looked around and checked the people he had come with.
"No one separated right?" Alex asked.
The group counted themselves and they were all here.
"Where are we?" Ronron asked. "This looks like a forest."
"We must be in the Southern forest," Alex explained. "It's part of the beast realm, but outside of their secret realm."
"Where do we go now then?" one of them asked.
Alex pulled out a compass and checked the direction. "Let's go south for now and see where we are exactly. Once we know, we will know where to go," he said.
The group followed the compass south until they came to a road that was clearly used daily. Alex spread his spiritual sense around and found a few carriages that were going away and coming in their direction.
"We will know in a bit," he said.
The carriages and caravans were afraid of bandits, so when they saw a group of people waiting for them next to the road, just outside of the forest, they immediately walked out with weapons and techniques ready to be used whenever needed.
"Please relax, we're not bandits," Alex explained. "We just want to know which direction the Cardinal City is."
The guards didn't trust the lot at all and didn't answer for a moment, waiting for their leader to answer instead.
The carriage door opened and a figure walked out from inside. He had long, flaming red hair and looked a few years older than Alex did right now.
He looked at the group with narrowed eyes, which landed on Alex for a few seconds too long. "You look familiar," the man said. "Are you... Yu Ming?"
"Oh, I didn't expect to see you here, brother Yang. How's everything going?" Alex asked with a bright smile.
"Oh," the older Alex recognized the young man as well. "Is that... Yang Ma?"
"He is," Alex said. "I heard you left the sect after you graduated, brother Yang. I'm glad to see you're doing quite well."
"So... It really is you," Yang Ma said with a weird look on his face. "Stand down, he's not a bandit."
The guards put down their weapons and waited for more orders.
"What are you doing by the forest?" Yang Ma asked.
"Oh, we just came to the Crimson Empire and arrived in the forest," Alex explained. "Would you mind telling me the direction of the Cardinal City, brother Yang?"
"Get in," Yang Ma spoke. "I'm on my way to the city right now. I'll take you there."
