Fang Chen solemnly handed the Time Bell to Immortal Emperor Yun Yi before everyone, entrusting him with its safekeeping and with overseeing the visible construction of the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array and the bell's repair.
Of course, the so-called repair was only for show. Truly restoring the Time Bell would be no easy task; it required specific materials and the right opportunity. For now, it was merely a pretext.
Fang Chen, meanwhile, announced that he needed to enter seclusion to steady his condition in case of unforeseen trouble. He chose a hidden cave deep in the gorge, enclosed by Spatial Folds and Earth Veins energy.
In secret, he had already begun laying his true killing move: the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array.
Deep within the cave, Fang Chen sat cross-legged as the Innate Eight Trigrams Array Diagram slowly turned beneath him.
He closed his eyes and focused. His Soul Power resonated with the diagram's spirit as he used his divine sense to reach into the complex Earth Veins, space, and energies of Heavenly Chasm Gorge.
Earth Veins for bones, space for sinews, energy for blood, laws for the soul...
He recited the words silently, his hands forming one profound, intricate seal after another.
Fusion Source Power flowed from his fingertips and became an invisible carving knife. Deep within the Earth Veins, the layers of space, and the energy nodes, he quietly inscribed the most fundamental and deeply concealed Formation Runes of the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array.
These runes had no physical form. They were Dao Patterns condensed from laws and energy, perfectly merged with their surroundings. Ordinary means could never detect them. Only when the Grand Array was finally unleashed would they reveal their world-destroying might.
The work was tedious and grueling, draining Fang Chen's mind and strength.
But the Floating Immortal