Battle in the River of Time Against a Mysterious Hand, Seizing a Damaged Supreme Treasure, Five Saints Plan for Alliance Under Heaven

Within the phantom of the River of Time, Qingyuan stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze fixed on the slowly bobbing tip of an axe handle at the end of the fishing line.

Chaos energy churned around him like boiling water. Countless fragments of time splashed from the river's surface before falling back down, making half his face flicker between light and shadow.

The tip of the axe handle was pitch-black throughout, its surface mottled as though it had been repeatedly carved by the wind and frost of countless eras. A faint layer of dark-red markings remained upon it, as if it had once been soaked in something indelible many Tribulations of Calamity ago.

It lay quietly beneath the fishing line, utterly out of place amid the violent currents of Chaos around it, yet those Chaos energies did not dare approach it in the slightest.

"The tail end of the Creation Axe." Qingyuan spoke softly, a trace of surprise in his voice.

Back when Pangu opened the heavens, the Creation Axe could not withstand the backlash of creating heaven and earth and split into three. Its blade became the Taiji Diagram, part of its handle became the Pangu Banner, and its axe core became the Chaos Bell.

The three Innate Supreme Treasures had fallen into the hands of different Saints and great powers, yet no one had ever mentioned the whereabouts of the axe tip.

Qingyuan had assumed that the axe handle had long since completely collapsed in the aftermath of the Heaven-Opening and dispersed into Chaos. He had never expected it to sink into the deepest part of the River of Time while retaining the shape of its tail end.

Even as a damaged Chaos Supreme Treasure, its significance was no small matter.

He reached out and