"My power won't recover anytime soon. Are you sure you want to waste it on that girl? This is your life-saving trump card," the Divine Deer asked.
"Senior, Xiao Yu'er is a very important friend to me. Using it on her is absolutely not a waste." Chu Feng had already thought this through carefully.
He knew that the Prison Sect had surely made preparations after capturing Xiao Yu'er. His own abilities were truly limited right now.
The Divine Deer was his only chance to rescue Xiao Yu'er.
"Since you've made your decision, I will help you."
"However, I suggest you go take a look first. See whether, with your own abilities, there's any chance of rescuing that little girl from the Immortal Sea Fish Clan."
"If it really doesn't work out, I can still step in at that point," the Divine Deer said.
"Alright." Chu Feng exerted his full power and hurried onward at top speed.
But soon another thought occurred to him. "Senior, I have one more question. Please don't get angry when I ask."
"If you've got something to say, just spit it out."
"Or don't ask at all."
"You already know I might get angry, and you're still asking?"
"I really don't know where your brain finds so many beautiful women."
"Is it through sheer passion and selfless devotion?" the Divine Deer said.
"Because sincerity is the ultimate weapon," Chu Feng replied.
"......" The Divine Deer fell silent.
"Haha, just kidding. They're all just friends of mine, not beautiful confidantes," Chu Feng said with a grin.
"Hurry up and ask," the Divine Deer said impatiently.
"If Senior were to intervene, how confident would you be?" Chu Feng asked.
"In a place like this, I have absolute confidence," the Divine Deer said.
"That's good to hear." Hearing that answer, Chu Feng let out a sigh of relief.
He had naturally witnessed the Divine Deer's power long ago.
But back then, not only was Chu Feng himself weak, the opponents he had faced were weak too. What he was up against now was incomparable to those days — especially this Prison Sect, which was unfathomably mysterious.
So Chu Feng wasn't sure whether, against an opponent like the current Prison Sect, the Divine Deer could still display that same unstoppable power from before.
Following the map made things far easier, and because Chu Feng feared something unexpected might happen, he pushed himself to near his limits while traveling. It didn't take long before he arrived at the place Song Yun had described.
But upon reaching it, before he could even see what the place truly looked like, Chu Feng realized it was no simple matter.
The Prison Sect had clearly deployed extremely powerful measures here — highly sensitive detection formations.
Chu Feng didn't dare advance any further. He felt that if he took even one more step, he would be discovered, let alone try to infiltrate.
"The Prison Sect possesses barrier formations this powerful?"
"It seems what Song Yun said was true — the Prison Sect's hidden depths are truly unfathomable."
Chu Feng had only ever encountered formations of this caliber at the Seven Realms Sacred Palace.
In theory, the Prison Sect specialized in heterodox paths and shouldn't possess such formidable techniques.
"Senior, I need your help," Chu Feng could only turn to the Divine Deer.
"Show me the map one more time," the Divine Deer said.
Chu Feng opened the map.
"Put it away. Also… brace yourself." With that, a radiant light bloomed from within Chu Feng's body — but it wasn't Chu Feng's doing. It was the Divine Deer's.
The Divine Deer materialized its form right beneath Chu Feng.
In the next instant, it carried Chu Feng forward at tremendous speed.
Fast. Incredibly fast.
Even though Chu Feng's cultivation had improved enormously since those early days, the Divine Deer's speed was still something he could never hope to match.
The Divine Deer moved far, far faster than any expert who had ever carried Chu Feng before.
Most importantly, the Divine Deer possessed a special ability.
At speeds vastly exceeding what should have been possible, normally all the surrounding scenery would become a meaningless blur, making it impossible for Chu Feng to see anything clearly.
Yet despite the Divine Deer moving even faster than all those others, Chu Feng could still see the surrounding landscape perfectly clearly.
The Divine Deer plunged straight underground.
Precisely because he could see clearly even at such speed, Chu Feng was able to observe that the area was not only swarming with Prison Sect experts, but their robes bore the title of Prison General rather than Hell Messenger — and there were vast numbers of them.
Beyond the sheer manpower, there were ambush formations, offensive formations, sealing formations, and numerous other grand arrays, all powered by supreme treasures from the ancient era.
This layout was airtight. For any martial cultivator, it was a true fortress of bronze walls and iron gates.
Without the Divine Deer, there was absolutely no way Chu Feng could have entered this place to rescue Xiao Yu'er at his current level of cultivation.
But apart from letting Chu Feng see clearly, the Divine Deer possessed one more terrifying ability.
It could ignore barriers. Ignore physical matter entirely.