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After the puppet had been refined, Lu Chen directly went to where the two worlds intersected.

At this moment on the vast sea, several huge immortal boats were floating, and there were also some floating islands. Seeing Lu Chen's immortal boat appear above the sea, the elders in charge of guarding the crack in the barrier and the generals of Great Sum immediately came to greet him.

"Your Majesty, long live the Emperor, may you live forever!"

Lu Chen said indifferently, "Dispense with the formalities."

As Lu Chen's words fell, the Great Elder Wei Jixing of the Wanxian Sect immediately came before Lu Chen, "Your Majesty, may I ask what brings you here this time?"

Lu Chen replied, "I am just casually looking around, you all don't need to mind me too much, go back to your respective duties."

Hearing this, the elders from other powers tactfully dispersed, except for Wei Jixing who, after all, was the main person in charge of guarding the barrier. With the Emperor's arrival, he naturally had to stay by his side the whole time.

Lu Chen then came to the crack in the barrier and, after glancing at the rock that had intruded into the Tianchen World, he asked, "There shouldn't be any anomalies at the crack, right?"

Wei Jixing answered, "Your Majesty, there aren't any. We don't know if the people from the other world have yet to discover this crack. Ever since we've been here, there hasn't been even the slightest spiritual power fluctuation at the crack."

Lu Chen said, "The other side is the cultivation world. They couldn't possibly fail to sense such a huge change, but perhaps they don't know they've collided with a lower world, so they dare not rashly send people to explore."

Wei Jixing agreed, "What Your Majesty says is true."

At this moment, Lu Chen looked at the crack and fell into thought. If he sent a puppet to the other side and there were people guarding the crack, wouldn't it be a direct confrontation?

The fact that no one from the other side had come to probe indicated they still had some wariness of the Tianchen World. Once they found out that he had sent over merely a puppet, they might believe that this world was of no great concern, which could lead to more people entering this world.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen started to hesitate on whether to send the puppet over.

After some time, Lu Chen convinced himself. If they never investigated the other side's situation, they could only remain in a stalemate.

After all, it was just a puppet. He didn't believe the other side could discern much from a puppet, and with this thought, Lu Chen directly took out the puppet.

Seeing someone who looked exactly like Lu Chen appear beside him, Elder Wei was stunned for a moment, but he quickly noticed that this "person" had only a trace of spiritual power fluctuation, nothing compared to Lu Chen's aura.

Still, Elder Wei misunderstood, thinking that the "person" beside Lu Chen was a clone of himself, as the two looked identical.

This shocked Elder Wei. He didn't expect that their Majesty had not yet reached the Divinity Transformation Realm and yet was already capable of creating a clone.

Under Elder Wei's gaze, Lu Chen sent the puppet into the crack and then employed the puppetry technique to share the puppet's vision.

After the puppet entered the crack, Lu Chen's vision was a vast expanse of white and saw nothing at first. After a while, the perspective of the puppet gradually became clear.

Beneath the puppet's feet lay a continuous mountain range, and the giant rock that crashed into the Tianchen World was one of the peaks.

The mountains had an endless forest, and it was incredibly quiet. Aside from the plants, nothing else seemed to be around.

This...

Lu Chen tried to sense the surroundings through the puppet but realized the puppet couldn't release much spiritual power, as it was only a product of the Primary Puppet Skill.

Lu Chen frowned; in this state, he could only rely on sight to glean information about this world.

No matter; finding people was the priority. He then controlled the puppet to walk down the mountain. However, after only a few steps, Lu Chen discovered he could no longer control the puppet to move forward.

What...

How far had he gotten?

Lu Chen then tried several more times, but it was no use. It seemed he could only control his puppet to walk that far.

Lu Chen then asked the system, "System, I was able to control a puppet across several counties in the Tianchen World, so why isn't it possible now?"

As soon as Lu Chen's words fell, the system's prompt sounded.

"Although the two worlds appear to have collided, they have not fused. The laws of the two worlds are different, so the distance over which you can control a puppet is also restricted by these laws."

This…

Did this mean that his plan to explore that world through controlling a puppet had failed?

At that moment, a line of small print appeared before Lu Chen's eyes.

[Ziyang World]

This appeared to be the name of this world, but apart from the name, Lu Chen still knew nothing about this world's circumstances.

Forget it. I might as well send people over directly.

Thinking this, Lu Chen recalled his puppet.

He always felt that there was something strange about that world, a large mountain surrounded by forests, yet without any animals or insects, as if it were a land of the dead.

No wonder that after the collision of the two worlds, the Ziyang World had not sent anyone over. There might be some problem with that mountain, and even if the people of the Ziyang World were aware of the collision, they probably wouldn't dare to send anyone into that mountain lightly.

In a short while, Lu Chen withdrew his puppet. Seeing that Lu Chen's puppet had returned so quickly, Grand Elder Wei Jixing curiously asked, "Your Majesty, did you encounter any enemies?"

Lu Chen said indifferently, "No, the place where the worlds collided is a large mountain. Inside the mountain, aside from plants, there seems to be no sign of life. It's extremely quiet and a bit eerie."

"I plan to send people over to explore in some time."

Having said this, Lu Chen then turned around and spoke, "Alright, Elder Wei, you continue to oversee here. I am going to head back."

As his words ended, Lu Chen and his puppet returned to the Feihong Immortal Boat, where Wei Jixing bowed and said, "I bid Your Majesty farewell!"

After returning to the Immortal Boat, Lu Chen went back to the Daxia Imperial Palace. He was now feeling a bit frustrated. He had thought he could control a puppet to clearly find out about the situation in that world, but there turned out to be nothing in that large mountain, and the range of puppet control had been limited.

Considering the strange circumstances of that mountain, he also didn't dare to directly send people in.

Forget it. This just gives me more time to prepare. After all, it will take a hundred years for the two worlds to fully fuse.

In the evening.

At the Daxia Yancheng Imperial Palace, Wind Cloud Palace.

At this time, Chu Yuqin, Mu Zixuan, and Yelv Nanyan were still in the great hall, as they were the three who would serve Lu Chen tonight.

At that moment, Lu Chen was controlling Yelv Nanyan's waist while busily attending to his own matters, speaking to Chu Yuqin on the side, "Madam Chu, today I controlled a puppet to go explore the neighboring Cultivation World."

Hearing these words, Chu Yuqin straightened up in her seat and looked at Lu Chen, asking, "Did you encounter any cultivators from that world?"

Lu Chen replied, "No, the place where it touches the Tianchen World is a large mountain, but apart from plants, there were no other living creatures."

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As his words ended, Lu Chen began to exert force on Yelv Nanyan, and after thinking a moment, Chu Yuqin responded, "Could it be that something is sealed beneath that mountain, which is why the animals and the cultivators from that world dare not approach?"