After the dragon skeleton disintegrated, the Floating Immortal Sword and Darkness Devouring God Domain greedily devoured every trace of Special Energy released from its shattered Time Law Fragment.
Boom.
Fang Chen's aura soared. Not only did his Cultivation grow more solid, but deep in his soul, he gained an unprecedented, direct understanding of the Time Law.
That Flowing Time Dragon Skeleton had become a rich source of nourishment on his path of cultivation.
The dust settled.
No trace of the dragon skeleton remained in the ruins, only drifting motes of Flowing Time.
Fang Chen stood with sword in hand, breathing lightly.
The Nine-Colored Light Waves around Little Crane, nestled against his chest, grew ever stronger.
Fang Chen looked back toward the Secret Hall, then at the Tear of Time he had just obtained. Finally, he considered the fragments of information about the Time Flow Rate in his Sea of Consciousness, and his eyes shone brighter and brighter.
The price in time might not be as terrible as he had imagined.
"Let's go."
Fang Chen put away the Floating Immortal Sword and became a streak of light, racing through the thinning Chaos Mist Sea toward the outskirts of the Heavenly Ruins.
Just as he was about to leave the most chaotic core and enter a relatively stable region, something changed.
An invisible force abruptly parted the Chaos ahead. A figure silently took shape, blocking his path.
The humanoid creature wore flowing dark-silver armor, with Runes twisting and streaming across it. Its face was blurred; only its whirlpool eyes remained, cold and lifeless.
Within the Gray-Black Force Field coiling around it, countless agonized faces seemed to rise and sink, wailing.
Its aura was vast and mighty, suffused with pure Destructive Will and Purification Will. It had unmistakably reached the Early Immortal Emperor