Yvonne Ye raised her eyebrows when she heard Evan's words. "Did I hear that right?"
"You heard right. The Sun-Heaven Realm. Would senior be willing to help me locate it? I have urgent business," Evan said. Yvonne Ye glanced at him and replied, "Since you saved me, I'll treat this as repaying your favor. After this, I won't owe you anything."
Evan replied, "Senior, you're being too formal."
"Alright, enough chatter. Let me quiet down and help you search," Yvonne Ye scolded, then closed her eyes.
Evan waited curiously to the side, wondering whether she could really sense it just by sitting there.
Time passed bit by bit. Eventually, Evan saw Yvonne Ye come out. She looked at him and said, "Found it. The place isn't far from here."
"Oh? Really? That's great, thank you so much," Evan said with a smile.
After giving Evan the location, Yvonne Ye said, "That's all I'm telling you. Don't bother me again."
Evan acknowledged and left, but he couldn't help wondering why Yvonne Ye was so hard to get along with.
Watching Evan leave, Yvonne Ye thought suspiciously, "Who is this guy, anyway? He's really strange."
Evan departed for his destination, the Sun-Heaven Realm. He soon entered the realm and noticed that almost everyone here was female, with very few men around.
The items capable of generating yang qi were scattered across the planets of the realm. Evan traveled from planet to planet and found some eye-catching stones, each glowing deep red. He spotted them at a glance.
Evan wasn't sure how many stones would be enough, so he gathered as many as he could. For some reason, after he'd collected almost all he needed, the ground began to shake violently.
"What the—what's going on?" Evan exclaimed in shock.
"Damn human, you actually stripped the scales off my body!" came a strange voice. The mountain in front of Evan began to move, and he was stunned. "No way—these stones are your scales?"
"Obviously. Where else would you find such good stones in this world? Damn it." The creature shook a few times, glaring angrily at Evan.
Evan realized this creature was huge and radiated a powerful aura—at least eight hundred strands of Heavenly Dao Intent. But he couldn't figure out why such a mighty beast would just be lying here.
The creature didn't bother explaining. It lunged at Evan, aiming to bite him.
Evan cried out, "I don't want to fight you!"
"Fight? Who said anything about playing? You're driving me crazy!" The beast roared in fury, and Evan quickly retreated, unleashing Colorless Flame and his invisible Emperor's Barrier Domain to pin the creature in place, immobilizing it.
The creature roared, "Ridiculous! I'm an Earth-Flame Beast—do you think I'd be afraid of you?"
"Earth-Flame Beast?" Evan didn't know much about this species. Maybe if Brocade were here, he could figure something out.
"That's right. You'd better let me go. I'm an Earth-Flame Beast that coexists with heaven and earth," the beast said angrily.
"Sorry, I don't care what you are. If you want to attack me, I'll have to deal with you," Evan said.
"Roar! I'll bite you to death!" the Earth-Flame Beast raged, but with the barrier and flame holding it back, it couldn't break free.
Evan glanced at the stones he'd taken from its body and muttered, "Looks like I made a mistake. These aren't yang stones after all."
Now Evan understood these were actually from the beast itself. He needed to search elsewhere, but he couldn't just leave the creature here or it would attack him again.
So Evan said, "I'll give you a chance. If I let you go, can you promise not to cause me trouble? If so, I'll release you."
The beast retorted angrily, "I, an Earth-Flame Beast, will never beg for mercy! Even if you let me go, I'll still come after you."
"You're really stubborn," Evan sighed. Since the beast didn't appreciate his offer, he would have to seriously injure it before leaving.