Chapter 5071: Three Years Editor: Misty Cloud Translations "Thank you, Master!" Mi’er snapped out of her daze, smiling happily as she quickly took it and tucked it away. "Inform Tie Song and Yueniang," Feng Jiu instructed. "Should they require any alchemical materials, have them send word for delivery or procure them themselves." "Understood. I’ll relay the message," Mi’er nodded in agreement. She didn’t ask how long her master would be gone or when she’d return. Mi’er trusted her master would come back once the matter was settled. If things went as usual, it would likely only be a few months. That day, Feng Jiu arrived at the forest within the Immortal Island. Here, she had established a teleportation array—an ancient formation. Complex patterns were woven by her spirit energy and Innate Heavenly Flame. As the array took shape and her spirit energy flowed along the patterns, flames erupted with a roar, igniting fiercely. A powerful radiance burst forth in that instant. She stepped into the array, crossed her legs, and sat down. Spirit energy surged within her, coalescing in her palms. At that instant, her soul power unleashed, locking onto the void before her. As she attempted to tear open the void with her soul force, a mouthful of blood surged up from her throat. "Pfft!" A sudden spurt of blood erupted from her mouth. As the blood spilled forth, the luminous patterns of the formation beneath her gradually dimmed. The flames flickered and died, and the pervasive aura of spirit energy dissipated in that instant. A sharp pain pierced her chest. She exhaled softly, easing the agony, then raised her hand to wipe the blood from her lips. Flipping her palm, a medicinal pill appeared in her hand, which she promptly tossed into her mouth and swallowed. The Blue Lotus energy within her body began to circulate slowly, repairing the damage inflicted by the backlash. After a long while, she exhaled softly and murmured, "No wonder the Azure Emperor used someone else’s body when he went to the Lower Immortal Realm. It really is this difficult." From preparation to now, she had spent nearly a year, yet she never imagined that merely attempting to open the void would result in such severe backlash from the powerful forces of heaven and earth. "Could it be that those who ascend truly cannot return to the Lower Immortal Realm? No, impossible! That ancient text clearly states: all things are possible!" With that, she closed her eyes to meditate. She must have made a mistake somewhere. She believed there had to be a way—she just needed to find it! What she hadn’t anticipated was that her calculations and experiments here would consume her entirely. Once she began, three years slipped by in an instant... Time flows swiftly in the mountains. For cultivators, three years passed in the blink of an eye. Especially for someone like Feng Jiu, who was almost possessed by her research and experiments, she lost all sense of time, day or night. Not only did outsiders have no idea she’d been stuck in the forest for three whole years, but even those on the same Immortal Island—like Mi’er, Tie Song, and Yueniang—were unaware. The master who had said she was going out had actually been in the island’s forest for three years. As for the contract beasts, they knew their master had gone to the forest. However, she had long instructed them to guard the Immortal Island. Thus, they never mentioned her forest seclusion to anyone, for they understood: their master was attempting to open a divine gate to the Upper Immortal Realm within the Nine Heavens. This endeavor had been attempted by no one in countless millennia.