Chapter 33

Before the hall, an ancient aura rushed toward him. That eternal, boundless desolation made even Zhou Jun, who had spent countless years in the chaos, feel insignificant before the passage of time.

He cautiously entered the great hall. Compared to the enormous ancient hall, Zhou Jun was like an ant that had always walked upon the earth. Even though his cultivation stood at the pinnacle of all chaos, his heart was still filled with reverence in a place that seemed like a divine miracle.

"This is absolutely ruins from before chaos!"

Zhou Jun's eyes burned with fervor.

Whether it was the mysterious ancient palace, the primitive and desolate runes on the surrounding murals, or

that incomparably mysterious Time Gemstone, none of these could possibly be things from the current age of chaos!

Every single thing here carried the aura of the ancient Primordial Era. These were relics left behind by the Primordial Era!

The Primordial Era was an age even more ancient than chaos. Something left behind from such a distant era that could still be preserved to this day—there was no need to think about it. This was absolutely something comparable to a Chaos Supreme Treasure, perhaps even more mysterious than one!

Moreover, the earlier deduction had revealed that this place contained an opportunity to attain the Dao!

Not the Heavenly Dao of the Saintly Position of the later Primordial World, but the Great Dao of the age of chaos!

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Jun suppressed the excitement in his heart and quickened his pace, soon arriving atop the stone platform.

A green gemstone quietly floated above the stone platform, noble and mysterious. When he closed his eyes and sensed it with his divine sense, there was nothing there, as though that space held nothing at all. Only by opening his eyes could he discover its presence.

"So this is the Time Gemstone?"

The Time Gemstone was imprisoned within the formation on the stone platform. That formation was profoundly mysterious; even if Zhou Jun exhausted all his strength to break it, it would take at least several kalpas.

But at this very moment, the formation had already been broken more than halfway, and the traces of its dismantling were filled with an icy, snowy aura.

Clearly, the one who had previously broken the formation was none other than Audhumla.

"Haha, but all of this has merely made a bridal gown for me!"

Zhou Jun smiled faintly, feeling that he had indeed arrived at just the right time.

Only the final portion of this formation remained before it could be broken. Had he arrived even a little later, the Time Gemstone would likely have already fallen into someone else's hands.

But now, all of their painstaking refinement over several kalpas had been helping him!

"Only the last bit remains. Let me break it!"

Glancing at the Time Gemstone within the formation, Zhou Jun smiled slightly and sent streams of mana toward the formation's final barrier.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Zhou Jun was originally the Time and Space Demon God and had profound attainments in the Law of Time. Facing a formation formed from the Power of Time, it naturally came as easily as taking something from his hand.

As several streams of Zhou Jun's mana struck out, the already fragile, teetering formation immediately collapsed with a roar.

Buzz!

The instant the formation shattered, green light surged throughout the great hall. The Time Gemstone atop the stone platform radiated endless brilliance, like a prisoner long suppressed who had finally escaped its shackles. A towering tide of energy rose violently, and the gemstone shot through the air, seeking to fly out of the hall.

"Hm? You still want to run?!"

Seeing the Time Gemstone flying outward, Zhou Jun immediately formed a hand seal, trapping it in a space-time barrier. No matter how it darted about or slammed into the barrier with ringing clangs, it could not escape.

"Though it contains the Way of Time and boundless Power of Time, it cannot release them on its own. Unless someone drives it, it is merely a stone containing immense energy!"

Zhou Jun saw through the Time Gemstone's true nature at a glance and relaxed. With a pinch of his hand seal, the gemstone flew over and landed in Zhou Jun's hand.

"Let me refine you and make you acknowledge me as your master. Then I'll see what exactly this treasure from the previous era is, and why it contains an opportunity to attain the Dao!"

After confining the Time Gemstone in his hand and casually setting up a formation at the entrance of the great hall, Zhou Jun sat down cross-legged and began refining the gemstone.

As the refinement progressed, the Time Gemstone gradually released wisps of green mist that gathered without dispersing.

The mist slowly moved, forming a profound trajectory around Zhou Jun, and time thus slowly passed...

One year... ten years... a hundred years... a thousand years!

For an entire thousand years, Zhou Jun remained utterly motionless, like a statue.

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Years went uncounted in chaos. Within this isolated Bronze Ancient Hall, time flowed swiftly.

One year passed... ten years passed... a hundred years... a thousand years...

Throughout that long stretch of time, there was not the slightest movement in the entire ancient hall, as though it had returned to those eternal days, to years quietly forgotten by all.

Who knew how much time had passed? In the silent, rippleless ancient hall, an unprecedented change finally arose. On this day, a massive vortex of energy suddenly poured down like a whirlwind, spinning madly and sweeping through the entire great hall!

At the same time, Zhou Jun's pair of eyes, closed for who knew how long, trembled slightly before finally opening slowly!

The instant his eyes opened, two streaks of green light flashed through his dark pupils. Carrying the power of endless time, they shot forth like lightning, accompanied by a series of crackling sounds in the surrounding air.