Before Mingyue's death, the apocalypse had already been significantly transformed by them.
With the augmentation of the Water of Life, looking down from the sky,
it was no longer a thousand miles of scorched earth, a vast expanse of crimson.
Instead, it was covered in vibrant green, and Tianlong Star had regained its vitality.
But this time, returning to Tianlong Star from Zixiao Palace,
even before landing, Mingyue and the other had already discovered.
The entire Tianlong Star was white.
It was frozen and buried in snow, and the whole planet was enveloped by elemental storms.
The climate was harsh, and there was a deathly silence.
They had gone through three lifetimes, accumulating nearly seventy to eighty years.
The two suspected if Tianlong Star had encountered an apocalypse for the second time.
They also wondered if Wen Qingtian and the others were still alive.
Thus, they were eager to return to the Yunmeng Mountain Mingyue Base to find out.
But at this moment, Mingyue suddenly felt a familiar fluctuation emanating from underground.
So she stopped Ji Shiyou from taking her higher and used her divine sense to investigate underground.
Her divine sense penetrated the thick snow and the ice layer as hard as steel.
It extended a hundred zhang below the ice layer before reaching the ground.
There was a large pit, ten thousand meters in diameter, seemingly formed by a massive explosion.
The ground was covered in rough sand and stones, suggesting it was originally a desert.
"So this is where I stopped Xuanming's self-detonation back then, this desert."
Mingyue controlled her divine sense, searching for the familiar fluctuation.
She murmured to herself, the scene of that time flashing in her mind.
"It's my bracelet! It wasn't destroyed by the force of my self-detonation."
Mingyue exclaimed excitedly. It turned out the fluctuation was from
her mother's spatial jade bracelet, lying quietly amidst the rubble.
The jade bracelet was recognized by Mingyue as its master. Perhaps it sensed its owner's return
and wanted to reunite with Mingyue, but it was trapped beneath a hundred zhang of solid ice.
Unable to break free, it could only emit a faint fluctuation to contact Mingyue.
Seeing her bracelet was still there, Mingyue was overjoyed.
This bracelet held immense significance for her, having accompanied her through the apocalypse.
She had developed an emotional attachment to it, so she impatiently waved her hand,
intending to melt the solid ice and retrieve the bracelet.
She had now recovered her Witch Clan bloodline and could mobilize the five elements at will.
Solid ice was another form of the water element, which she could completely control.
However, after waving her hand, the solid ice on the ground remained unchanged.
Not even a speck of snow on top had melted.
"What's going on? The elements here are uncontrollable.
They are also mixed and violent, with various elements intertwined.
There's no single form, this is too strange."
As a princess of the Witch Clan, possessing the witchcraft of the twelve Ancestral Witches,
she was astonished that she couldn't control the five elements.
Sensing the surrounding elements, she was surprised to find that
the elements currently filling Tianlong Star were vastly different from before.
They almost never existed in a single form. For example,
the solid ice on the ground, which appeared to be ice and should be a single water element,
was, in her perception, a fusion of the metal and earth elements within it.
And the elements drifting around her were also not of a single attribute; they were all fusions of several elements.
What she had used was the Water Control Art of Ancestral Witch Gonggong.
It targeted only the water element, so naturally, it couldn't control the solid ice and change its form.
"Let me!"
Ji Shiyou saw Mingyue frowning and reached out, a beam of moonlight condensing into a giant sword.
After Mingyue's attempt with the Water Control Art failed and she realized the surrounding elements were uncontrollable,
she intended to use other witchcraft that didn't rely on external elements to break the ice.
But seeing Ji Shiyou make a move, she stepped aside.
The heavy lifting should be left to the man!
Ji Shiyou controlled the moonlight sword and fiercely slashed at the solid ice beneath their feet.
Ice shards flew everywhere, and in an instant, a thousand-zhang gully was carved into the ground, splitting the hundred-zhang thick ice.
Mingyue beckoned, and the bracelet flew up, landing in her hand.
Before she could examine it closely, she felt the surrounding elements surge violently.
Then, over a dozen elemental storms appeared around them.
They stirred up wind and snow, like enormous tornadoes,
spinning and closing in on them.
It was likely Ji Shiyou's sword that had disrupted the elemental balance here,
triggering the elemental storms.
Mingyue pulled Ji Shiyou and flashed into the spatial dimension.
"It seems that self-detonation still damaged it!"
Standing in the spatial dimension, Mingyue sighed.
The scene before her was somewhat desolate.
The space, once like a paradise, a fairyland,
had transformed into something else. Its area had shrunk.
What was once boundless, like a small world,
was now only about ten li in size. The high mountains and forests were all gone.
Before them lay flat, barren land, with only black soil.
And a spring flowed with gurgling water. Scattered on the ground were supplies collected before the apocalypse,
as well as grains, vegetables, and fruits harvested from their cultivation in the spatial dimension during the environmental changes.
Everything else had vanished.
Including Qingying's jade pendant space, which had merged with this space, the palace filled with magical treasures and elixirs.
"It must be that when you self-detonated, the jade pendant space blocked the force of the explosion.
This spatial bracelet was not destroyed, though it was severely damaged.
But as long as it wasn't completely destroyed, there's hope for repair. Don't be sad."
Ji Shiyou saw Mingyue lost in thought and held her in his arms, comforting her.
"I'm not sad about the space. I'm just confused about some things.
Do you know why I pulled you into the space?
Because when the elemental storms appeared just now,
I suddenly realized my witchcraft was unusable.
The only thing I can use now is the immortal essence I cultivated
as a Pear Blossom Tree Demon in the Moonflower Realm.
It's barely enough for self-preservation. What happened to this world
to make it this way, where even the power of the five elements has become uncontrollable?"
Mingyue said slowly, her brow furrowed.
She had regained all her memories, from the Primordial Witch Clan to the apocalypse.
She had always been a powerful existence, and her witchcraft was her pride.
The sudden inability to use it was something she found hard to accept.
"Don't worry, I'm still here, and I'll protect you.
We'll set off now. As long as we find Wen Qingtian and the others,
we'll know what happened to this world after we left.
Once we know the cause, we can fundamentally solve the problem of elemental power.
And your witchcraft will be restored."
After comforting Mingyue, Ji Shiyou enveloped them both in moonlight.
Hand in hand, they exited the spatial dimension. The raging elemental storms had not yet subsided,
but protected by the moonlight, they were unharmed.
Ji Shiyou led Mingyue, flying through the air towards Yunmeng Mountain.
However, after circling in the air for two hours, they still hadn't seen Yunmeng Mountain,
nor had they found the Mingyue Base. Ji Shiyou began to suspect they had flown in the wrong direction.