While the battle raged in the Thunder Restricted Area, Jiang Qiu and Snow led Shangguan Yue through the interior of the Eight-direction Reversing Ship. They were searching for the core area and the ship's layout diagrams; finding Liu Zili in the process would be even better.
However, even with Shangguan Yue's help, finding the core area of the Eight-direction Reversing Ship took a considerable amount of time. The ship was simply too vast. Furthermore, Shangguan Yue was only at the Peak of Dao Entry Realm, meaning the power gap between her and the Harmonization Realm was immense. Even though she had mastered the Path of Returning to Simplicity, she couldn't utilize it to its full potential. She needed time to block the deeper levels of detection.
