Golden Ao Island, within Biyou Palace.
Tongtian sat quietly in the hall, his Spiritual Sense immersed in his Purple Mansion as he carefully examined the two newly acquired items. A faint smile touched his lips.
The Chaos Bead was no ordinary treasure.
Together with the Sky-Opening Axe, Primordial Azure Lotus, Jade Plate of Creation, and World-Destroying Mill, it was known as one of the five great Chaos Supreme Treasures. Its immense power was obvious at a glance.
Yet it was utterly different from the other four.
As the saying went: The Heavenly Dao had fifty, evolved forty-nine, and one escaped. That "one which escaped" was the source of all variables and the core of all opportunities.
And the Chaos Bead was precisely that "one which escaped," specializing in concealing heavenly secrets!
With it in hand, even if Dao Ancestor Hongjun came in person, he would find it difficult to deduce the slightest thing.
Unfortunately, he currently possessed only one-fifth of the complete bead.
If he held the entire bead, then he would truly be immune to all techniques and hidden from all calamities.
With this mere fragment, let alone concealing himself from Hongjun, he could only temporarily fool the Five Saints at best, buying perhaps a short while.
Its power had naturally been greatly diminished.
However, the Chaos Bead possessed another marvel: it could create a small Chaos realm of its own.
Even with only one-fifth of it, it could still condense an independent Chaos space, making up for the weakness of its insufficient concealing power.
Then there was the enhanced true-form version of the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Slaying Formation.
The original formation had already shaken the ages, but this version directly branded the entire set of formation patterns onto the body!
Without a sufficiently powerful physique, one could