Today's first update: Chapter 3565! 1/4!
Back when Xu Kun was still among the human race, he had held an in-depth discussion with Brother Zheng when the Haotian Pagoda had been cut down to thirty floors.
From those conversations, he had confirmed a startling possibility: as long as all the "Haotian Shards" scattered across Blue Star could be recovered, restoring the Haotian Pagoda to its complete sixty-nine-floor form was not entirely impossible!
Every shard carried the laws and space of the original pagoda. They were indispensable "bricks" for rebuilding the divine pagoda.
As long as all the shards could be gathered like building blocks, repairing the divine pagoda would not be impossible!
Yet while this goal of "collecting" seemed clear enough, achieving it in reality was as difficult as ascending to the heavens!
First of all, how many shards had the scattered thirty-nine floors of the Haotian Pagoda actually broken into?
Their number, forms, and distribution were all utterly unknown mysteries.
They might have been as numerous as the sea, or they might have been relatively concentrated. There was no way to estimate them.
Even more troublesome was that over the countless years, innumerable powerful experts, factions, and even ancient races had already discovered these "Haotian Shards," which contained independent minor worlds, laws, and precious resources.
Whether through fortunate opportunities or sheer strength, they had claimed shard after shard for themselves—refining them into natal treasures, transforming them into blessed lands and grotto-heavens, or treating them as sacred heirlooms of their races.
Among these possessors were ancient beings standing at the pinnacle of all races, peerless old monsters who had secluded themselves from the world, and even the core foundations of certain powerful races.
Trying to reclaim these shards, which had already been treated as forbidden possessions, from their hands