"Run! Get away from here!"
Fang Chen activated the Time Bell, accelerating the Time Flow Rate around them as much as he could, and fled madly back the way they had come.
Only after they had put tens of millions of li between themselves and the collapsing region did the disturbance behind them gradually subside.
Fang Chen stopped on a relatively stable piece of Law-Sediment Rock and looked back, his heart still pounding.
The distant void remained in utter chaos, Spacetime Rifts spread across it like a spiderweb. It would likely take some time to settle.
"It's time to go back."
Fang Chen rushed out of the Sea of Laws and looked toward the Ancient Region. "The Time Herb Garden needs those extinct Spirit Medicines, and deciphering the Pill Soul Scroll has reached a critical stage. We've been gone a long time. Who knows how much time has passed outside!"
Inside that Time Amber, Fang Chen and the others had found it difficult to gauge how much time had passed outside.
Especially when Fang Chen had used the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb that mass of Destructive Will. Time had almost stood still in the area where he was.
"Let's go."
Fang Chen delayed no longer and set out for home with Myna bird and the others.
The return journey went much more smoothly than the trip there.
For one thing, Fang Chen had grown far stronger. The power of the Eleventh Sword let him deal easily with most Law Lifeforms.
For another, the collapse of that enormous Time Amber might have drawn the attention of certain beings deep within the Sea of Laws. They encountered far fewer powerful Law Lifeforms along the way.
Ten days later, they finally crossed the boundary of the Sea of Laws and once again