Years Flow On

Time passed, and after Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu got married, they could still be seen together at first, but a few years later, no one in the universe ever saw him again.

"His Hegemon Body is nowhere to be seen in the starry sky. It seems that the battle during the Dark Turmoil had a significant impact on him!"

"Hehe, the Overlord's cultivation speed was too fast, and now it has finally backfired. Although his realm may be a little higher, he is definitely like that God Race Du Mu, his cultivation is stuck and he can't make any more progress!"

"How could one's body remain unaffected after a battle with a Supreme Being? In this Lifetime, we are born ten thousand years after the Azure Emperor's passing, and there is no longer any Great Dao suppressing us, hence the struggle for the Emperor's Path. But this battle, Overlord, is equivalent to re-imprinting a Supreme Great Dao upon himself."

"Indeed, we are not suppressed by the Supreme Dao, but the Overlord is under a suppression, making it impossible for him to attain the Dao. This world is ultimately our era!!"

After years of not hearing any news about Zhou Tong, countless people made malicious speculations, especially the geniuses on the Emperor's Path, who wished Zhou Tong would never appear again.

Moreover, after these comments appeared, not a single person came forward to refute them, and not even anyone from the Hegemon Body Lineage said anything. It was as if these speculations had been confirmed.

"What a pity..." Many people were also grateful for Zhou Tong's actions and secretly felt sorry for him.

Some people wished for Zhou Tong's demise, while others hoped he could reach the pinnacle and achieve mastery of the Hegemon Body.

Regardless, the clashes on the Emperor's Path continued unabated. The Ancient Starry Road once again became bustling with activity, as countless prodigies fought fiercely, blood splattering on the Emperor's Path. As the prodigies' cultivation levels rose, the battles became increasingly terrifying and brutal.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

In the Divine Domain, in the back garden of the temple.

The scenery here is beautiful, with floating islands in the sky, birds singing and flowers blooming, waterfalls cascading down, and streaks of silver light falling from the floating islands. In the distance, there are also many palaces.

This is a sacred area of Divine Domain, and only the gods of the Divine Domain have been allowed to enter this region throughout history.

At the very core of the floating island, Zhou Tong sat quietly cross-legged on a Dao Platform. Above his head floated a large bell. Although the white, green, and cyan colors appeared rather dim, this bell was indeed a genuine mixture of Nine-Colored Immortal Gold. Chaotic mist swirled around the bell, and Profound Yellow Mother Qi descended from it.

Especially within the bell mouth, a vast and boundless aura surges forth, with countless wisps of mist rising from it like waterfalls, each one as heavy and boundless as the Milky Way in the heavens—this is the Power of Faith.

Zhou Tong quelled the Dark Turmoil, and swept away the Undying Mountain, accumulating great merit. People are grateful for his kindness and often recite his name, naturally gathering a massive amount of Power of Faith.

"When!!"

The great bell resonated gently, and a sense of the beginning of all things and the creation of chaos spread like ripples on water, resonating throughout the entire back garden. In an instant, various scenes appeared in the garden.

The fresh air from the plants blows in your face; the spray from the waterfall falls like raindrops; and deep within, the sounds of Tiger Roar and monkeys howling fill the entire garden and backyard with a natural and refreshing atmosphere.

"Man follows the earth, the earth follows heaven, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature!" Zhou Tong opened his eyes leisurely.

After his wedding to Yan Ruyu, he spent three years traveling and relaxing with her across the starry sky, visiting countless star regions they had never been before and witnessing countless traces of the Great Dao. During this time, the two also visited the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star, where Zhou Tong once again met the three Great Accomplishment Hegemon Body and gave them a general account of the situation.

Afterwards, the two returned to the Divine Domain, where Zhou Tong remained seated, comprehending the Great Dao.

It has been 120 years now.

For the past 120 years, he has not deliberately tried to resolve the various Imperial Dao Laws within his body, but has instead been sitting cross-legged, constantly refining his bell.

On one hand, he was slowly refining the Imperial Dao Laws within the Hegemonic Bell, and on the other hand, he was reorganizing the various Daos and Laws recorded on the Hegemonic Bell.

It has to be said that the immortal Immortal Gold Profound Meaning of the Divine Mark Purple Gold is truly too heaven-defying. Zhou Tong obtained various scriptures and profound meanings with this Immortal Gold Profound Meaning.

Among them, there are at least a million scriptures at the Saint Level, more than 100,000 scriptures at the Saint King level, tens of thousands of Great Sage Scriptures, thousands of Quasi-Emperor Scriptures, and hundreds of Great Emperor Ancient Emperor Scripture.

It's almost fair to say that he has taken away seven or eight tenths of the world's scriptures and mysteries.

Zhou Tong has always been on his own path, because his Battle Immortal Path requires the most battles; but now that the universe has become relatively peaceful, Zhou Tong has time to understand and comprehend the various Great Daos recorded on the bell.

Over the past 120 years, even though he did not deliberately try to eliminate the Imperial Dao Laws of those Ancient Emperor Great Emperor, these Imperial Dao Laws were gradually and spontaneously disintegrating during the process of comprehending the scriptures.

At the same time, his flawed Hegemon Body Ancestral Form and Battle Intent Furnace were gradually perfected in the process.

Yan Ruyu also sat cross-legged on a Dao Platform next to Zhou Tong. She looked at Zhou Tong and thought to herself, "Is it the Natural Great Dao again this time?"

For the past 120 years, she has been here accompanying Zhou Tong.

Of course, her main reason for wanting to hear Zhou Tong's extremely strange and wondrous bell sound was also to hear it.

Because that bell was too extraordinary; with just a slight tremor, the sound of ancient scriptures would emanate, as if someone were chanting sutras, expounding the most profound and mysterious principles of the universe, mysterious and extraordinary.

Moreover, Yan Ruyu also discovered that Zhou Tong didn't need to speak at all, or even the bell needed to ring. Just by looking at the bell, she seemed to see the most fundamental Dao in the world, which made her mind and body feel empty and she entered a state of enlightenment.

For 120 years, this bell has been struck 108 times every day, each strike representing a profound truth.

Some powerful paths, such as those of Ancient Emperor Great Emperor, may require more than ten days of chanting; as for the weaker paths of sages, they may require chanting hundreds of times a day.

"This bell is the most precious treasure for enlightenment in the world. Even the Azure Lotus of our ancestors and the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet of the Wu Shi the Great are far inferior to it!" Yan Ruyu sighed softly.

As Zhou Tong's wife, she had naturally seen the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet that inspired enlightenment.

"One hundred and twenty years of secluded cultivation, I wonder what realm you have reached!" Yan Ruyu looked at Zhou Tong and sighed inwardly.

Those remnants of supreme power seemed completely unable to stop him. Over the past 120 years, Zhou Tong's aura has become increasingly unfathomable, especially since 20 years ago, when she could hardly fathom it anymore.

"Could it be that he's about to achieve great success?" Yan Ruyu wondered. This aura might actually be that of the Ninth Heaven. However, due to the remnants of the Supreme Being, his power was completely locked within his body, preventing the manifestation of Heavenly Tribulation.