“Then you must be careful!” Wu Qingyan said, her tone gentle.

"Stay safe, I will wait for you," Qiao Rong said, her eyes glistening with tears.

Xiao Fan nodded, intending to offer a few more words of advice, but at that moment, the Black-robed Woman in mid-air spoke.

"It's not like you're being separated by life and death, why are you dawdling here?" The Black-robed Woman's voice sounded somewhat impatient.

She wasn't trying to kill Xiao Fan; she only wanted him to help her with something.

Xiao Fan smiled bitterly. The Black-robed Woman had no grudge against him; she simply wanted to utilize his ability to decipher these mysterious symbols, which was why she wanted his help.

Furthermore, Xiao Fan felt that this Black-robed Woman would not kill him.

Even after leaving this underground palace, she wouldn't take action against him.

This was just his intuition.

"Follow me," the Black-robed Woman said, slowly flying ahead to lead the way.

Xiao Fan and the others followed.

The Black-robed Woman flew to the giant bronze gate, landed, and stood more than a dozen zhang in front of Xiao Fan and the others.

"Follow," the Black-robed Woman said without turning around, though her voice carried over to them.

She waved her right hand, and a small, archaic pagoda appeared in her palm.

The small pagoda was bronze-colored and looked extremely dilapidated on the outside, with even a small corner missing from its top.

The Black-robed Woman whispered, activating the small pagoda.

The mysterious small pagoda emitted a faint light, which then shone onto the giant bronze gate ahead.

A passageway appeared out of thin air in the massive bronze gate.

Looking through the passageway, one could see the garden outside the palace.

"This…" Xiao Fan and the others were shocked. What kind of supreme treasure must this be to possess such power!

At this moment, the Wanxiang in Xiao Fan's mind suddenly jolted.

It appeared extremely excited.

Xiao Fan understood instantly that this small pagoda must be a supreme treasure of the Formation Branch!

That was why it could make the Wanxiang so excited.

The Black-robed Woman ignored Xiao Fan and the others and stepped into the passageway.

"Let's go!" Xiao Fan said, taking the first step!

Wu Qingyan, Qiao Rong, and the others hurried to follow.

This passageway was very long, at least several hundred zhang in length.

This length was exactly the thickness of the bronze gate.

This small bronze pagoda had carved out a path without damaging or triggering the bronze gate.

Emerging from the palace and entering the garden, the scene was the same as before.

The Black-robed Woman took to the air and flew into the distance.

Xiao Fan mounted Xiao Jin and called for Wu Qingyan and Qiao Rong to climb up as well.

The group gave chase.

The Black-robed Woman tried her best to slow down.

"Woo-ao… tired… tired…" Xiao Jin ran for its life, its legs trembling from exhaustion, yet it showed no signs of stopping.

The three people from the Treasure Pavilion were the same, running with all their might.

But they had already deeply experienced just how large this garden was.

Even so, with Xiao Fan and the others pushing themselves to the limit, it still took them several days of traveling before they finally reached the location where they had entered.

The Black-robed Woman watched them gasping for breath, ignored them, and proceeded to activate the small bronze pagoda on her own.

Another passageway appeared.

The Black-robed Woman stepped inside directly, not even saying a word this time.

Xiao Fan and the others did not hesitate and entered immediately.

After walking through this passageway for a quarter of an hour, they were surprised to discover that it had transformed into the appearance of the passageway they had first entered through.

The group moved forward, and halfway there, they even saw the corpses of the two people from the Treasure Pavilion.

In this kind of environment, survival was the only thing that mattered.

No one paid them any mind.

Half a day later.

The Black-robed Woman led Xiao Fan and the others back to that massive stone gate.

She activated the small bronze pagoda to create a passageway.

"Go on through."

The Black-robed Woman said calmly; sending Wu Qingyan and the others away had wasted several more days of her time.

Qiao Rong and Wu Qingyan looked at Xiao Fan, their expressions complex.

Formation Master Cong Wen and the other two were filled with excitement; they could finally leave.

"Go, don't worry," Xiao Fan said. "I'll be fine."

"Take care."

Both women knew that this was not the time to be sentimental.

Xiao Fan had gone to great lengths to secure this opportunity for them to leave, and they could not let him down.

Xiao Jin widened its lion eyes, looked at Wu Qingyan and the others, and then glanced at Xiao Fan.

Its gaze was full of complexity.

It was timid and wanted to run, but it couldn't bear to leave its boss… it was conflicted.

"Get lost too!" Xiao Fan kicked Xiao Jin in the butt. "I'll come find you after I get out."

"Woo-ao… be… careful…" Xiao Jin stammered, its expression full of emotion.

"Get lost already!" Xiao Fan kicked the lion's butt again!

Wu Qingyan, Qiao Rong, and the others left, and the passageway on the stone gate vanished.

Xiao Fan let out a breath and looked at the Black-robed Woman: "Thank you."

"No need to thank me, this was just one of the conditions," the Black-robed Woman replied.

"Speak then, what do you need my help with?" Xiao Fan asked.

"Help me translate some symbols," the Black-robed Woman said, waving her hand casually, and a stream of light enveloped Xiao Fan.

"Huh?!" Xiao Fan was stunned, and then the Black-robed Woman carried him off as she flew away.

And at an extremely fast speed.

Damn it!

Why didn't she carry them while flying earlier if she could fly?

Why did they have to run?

In fact, Xiao Fan did not know that in this Secret Realm, the Black-robed Woman was also subject to many restrictions.